Yeah. It’s not my favorite. Still, most people can talk and listen faster than than a stenographer can type. There’s also the added layer of nonverbal information in oral communication that isn’t in text. Calls are still more effective for most matters that are both urgent and important. I don’t like them, but I’ll resort to them if I need to.

Agreed. It’s also probably just another part of the political kayfabe they use to maintain the support of their base.

Hey, now, that’s not really fair. It exists for exploitation, too!

Behold, the master race:

I can dig that, daddio. Youz still a hep cat.

Sí. Ellos quieren Taco Bell.

Ha ha ha ha. “El Niño is Spanish for… ‘The Niño!’”

Thanks for sharing that. It makes my hearts ache, but I needed a good cry. Even now, looking down at the scars on my tentacles, I realize that everything reminds me of her, but if I could go back in time, which I very much can, I wouldn’t change a thing. I still look up at the glittering surface when a sleek, white ship glides through the water so gracefully and casts her gentle shadow over me and wonder, what if?

Either that or they’re keeping her well fed with a supply of bivalve mollusks.

“BE NOT AFR-- is that whole grain, seeded pumpernickel?!” [Munching noises]

I hope you’re wrong. There’s no way that officer knew her name at that point, much less her orientation. He was fully willing to, even if unknowingly, kill a heterosexual, Anglo-Saxon, Evangelical, stay-at-home mom as long as she was anything but politically right of center. Again, none of that demography should matter, but for those to whom is does, I hope they have or develop the common sense to know that this means they are and have been on the menu for quite some time now.

I unironically find skibidi toilet hilarious. It’s even funnier after watching many of them and discovering all the world building and lore built into the silly concept.

Isn’t skibidi, rizz etc. More gen z than alpha? I feel like 6-7 is more of a gen alpha thing.

If you believe the exit polls, they very much do not want to murder wine moms. While more women voted for Harris than Trump, more white women voted for Trump than Harris. They just shot a white lady in broad daylight. Of the 53% that may have voted for Trump and have seen that video, I imagine a significant amount will think about their choices the next time they see their own glove compartment overflowing with stuffed animals and imagine what it might look like spattered in the blood of a parent to a newly motherless child.

I think the administration understands that and is resorting to damage control after flat denial didn’t work. That’s why the rhetoric is focused so hard on painting her as some kind of outlier. They just realized it could cost them the midterms and subsequently, impeachment or worse.

It’s become cliche with non-MAGAs, but we knew it was never going to stop with arresting Hispanic and Latino people, not that it would have been acceptable. It never stops with just one little infringement on the human rights of just one group. It’ll be the communists, then the socialists, then the trade unionists then Jewish people, then Catholic people, etc. as the poem goes.

But now, they’ve let the mask slip a little early. They’ve demonstrated to millions of voters who thought they were too privileged to be affected that those privileges no longer apply. I wish it were empathy and ethics that were going to change conservative minds, but self-preservation at least works in the short term.

Right? Police executing criminals is bad, too. This is some weird, authoritarian, Judge Dredd fantasy.

I hear tell from the youths that it’s six seven.

By using my freakishly long, hairless, digits, including my opposable thumbs, just like every other human person. I’m definitely not a wolf using howl-to-text.

That is the worst curse you could put on me. It’s the most succinct way to tell me that you hope my teeth fall out, I get into fights in slow motion with really weak punches, I get sucked below the waves by the undertow at the beach, I get buried alive, I fall from a great height, etc.

It still wouldn’t be the weirdest or worst part of that film. Off topic, but I’m convinced the movie is the dramatization of the narrative that Wonka presented to his company lawyers. For half of that stuff to exist and work as it does, there’s got to be a real horror story running behind the scenes.