The poisonwood bible. I loved it in high school, because I was an oppressed little atheist/agnostic with hyper religious parents at a christian school. It was brilliant, vivid, groundbreaking, and wild in its defiance of cultural norms…
and now it’s just a sort of sad story of how the christian mindset mirrors colonial/empire ambitions and everyone gets hurt.
Oh my god. I never even thought about black beauty influencing me. I always chalked it up to robin hood, star fox and some weird fusion of the dragonriders of pern and the heralds of valdemar.
The books are good for what they are: children’s books that take you from ~8-13 years old. I loved them when I was a kid, and now it’s just hard to get through them because the writing is just average at best, and the plots are so basic they undermine the actually interesting setting and prevent it from being as mindblowing as they could have been.
He seems almost entirely complacent about the other aspects of his and everyone else’s oppression. He even scoffs at the rumors of rebellions and mocks those who would try. The one thing he cares about is his lack of sex.
gestures wildly around at america
I think that’s the most humanizing and realistic part of the writing, honestly.
That’s odd; I’m almost the opposite. I definitely enjoyed lord of the rings more as a teenager, and struggle to really even appreciate them now. I still like the world, but the writing just seems off.
Meanwhile the ‘small town’ has everything bad about cities, but they simply gloss over it.
Was this an ad? Then yes. Is it a crappy phone picture ad? Then maybe. Is this a crappy phone picture of someone’s measly deep dish? Then no.
It’s a no pasta lasagna.
Look, I would happily pull the trigger on the execution of a convicted ice, but defense attorneys exist for a reason. Yes, they’re often scum. Yes, they often ‘know’ that their client is guilty (paraphrasing one, don’t tell them you did the crime if you actually did it, it does make their job harder because they do have a duty to not lie in court) yet defend them as rabidly as a junkyard dog with a cat wandering in. Yes, they often posit logic or reasoning that makes the average person want to spit at them for their sheer gall. Yes! THEY GET SOME FUCKING SICK FUCKS LIGHTER SENTENCES OR EVEN ‘OFF…’
But they are critical in a sane world where the law matters not just as a set of rules but also where there are people dedicated to truth, justice, and ensuring a short-lived tyrannical government cannot just throw people it doesn’t like into jail based on allegations of crimes and get convictions based on whimsy.
John adams may have helped those six get off, and done it in a manner so similar to modern law enforcement court strategy that it assaults the nose with its stench, but don’t smear him because he did that. Smear him for his presidential actions enforcing the class war.
Just let me be clear, it incenses me just as much as you, lol, but here’s the thing, run on sentences are much worse for us in the interim and we need to circle back around so that that issue becomes a lesser thing, lest we forget the true horrors of english perpetuating themselves through a normalization of nominalization that makes a trivialization of our original lines in the sand aaaaand now I’m just getting into the weeds with my niche micro-interests and brought in too many limes.
Guess it’s time to go start up that computer game I’ve been putting off.
“Exceeds expectations”
“Exceeds expectations”
“Exceeds expectations”
“Exceeds expectations”
‘Well, nanner, you got one write up, which is lower than 95% of the company, so looks like you’ll only be getting 1.5% instead of the 3% for average, and I don’t personally give out the 6% raise I’m allowed to.’ - my fucking supervisor, while other supervisors hand out everything like candy (not really, they just shower their favorite)
Poor brazil. They have gone up against germany since then, and definitely cleared away the poor results from that one match.
I have a friend who is an engineering professor, and he constantly moans about the worst part of teaching being the reports that his students write… and that was before this LLM craze took off. I should ask him about how it’s going now.
Because selling sex is much more about the teasing than the actual presentation. I’m convinced that the reason we don’t have nude models selling you stuff on billboards is that the lingerie/just-before-the-bedroom clothes are more effective, so advertising companies don’t care to get case law or actual legislation allowing nude advertisements.
Are they the ‘touch the handle, gentle arc across’ kind, or the ‘sensor begins smooth laminar flow stream into bottle’ kind? Because the first should be banned, ugh (I mean, not really, I still use the ones at the park), and the second is amazing.
They’ve already ‘successfully’ got one judge with ice. Do you really think he wouldn’t, one, ignore anything a judge says with full support of all his minions, and, two, not simply get rid of the judge by that point? He’s had one year for his lickspittles behind the scenes to set the stage, and now we are seeing constant escalation by ice.
The military complied with orders to commit war crimes, from top brass to the lowest grunt. We. Are. Fucked. They would absolutely shut down elections, especially if it’s claimed that they are ‘protecting from fraud.’ Talking about who to elect is good, we shouldn’t stop, but we also need to be seriously considering what to do at each other point as we descend fully into our hell made of fascism, and not bury our heads in the sand about elections being the only (or most likely) win.
It’s silk, because apparently it’s the least likely material to rip out fine hair when sleeping. As for the pillow being trash, it’s what I like. I can fold it, double it, squash it, twist it into a bowtie inside of the pillowcase, and it works great and I don’t have to feel like I’m messing it up.
I wouldn’t be pulling out the fucking receipt… that’s something that only epstein had.
The economics of the red states will pale in comparison to the question of where the weapons end up. There are a lot of nuclear weapons in deep red areas.