Some parts of the internet which are moderated may remove content that they believe is bigoted towards certain groups. Moderators may not always have the luxury of taking the time to understand exactly why a word that is normally inappropriate might be appropriate in a specific situation.
Imagine you were being punished because you were living in my hell.
Hey guys! I found the giant asshole who is behind both Elon Musk and Donald Trump!
Kash is the one who smells like a liquor cabinet. Trump is the one who smells like feces.
They probably want it to just barely get you exactly what you need to keep you on the edge.
Phrasing!
There was an episode of South Park where the kids claimed that a word that we view as a bigoted slur against gay men actually referred to people who loudly ride motorcycles at night.
If reason doesn’t work for flat earthers, maybe we should use one of the well-known euphemisms that we no longer use for people whose mental abilities are far below average. You know, like, “special”.
I one time made a noise like that guy made when he saw the bear. In my case, a car sped through a crosswalk while I was walking through it. (The car did not end up hitting and killing me.)
Where’s his money coming from? Is it from his Tesla stock? Somebody said that he moved his company headquarters to Texas mainly because it’s harder for shareholders to sue him for his corrupt deals with the Tesla board if the headquarters are in Texas.
People have already challenged Trump to all sorts of things, so I think he should have to cowardly refuse them in order. I seem to recall that Jimmy Kimmel offered to have Trump and Jasmine Crockett to both take an IQ test and see who wins.
Hell, I’ll challenge Trump right here to a spelling competition.
A few days ago, I did something that I thought would 100% keep me from sleeping. It wasn’t cringey this time, just a big mistake that I should have known better than to make.
But I had a plan and I carried it out. During that day, every time I thought about the mistake, I just tried to let it go, similar to what I practiced in mindfulness meditation. But I was having a problem doing that while just doing my normal thing, so I tried listening to an audiobook. I thought that would engage my mind enough so that I couldn’t make such a strong memory of my mistake, and it all seemed to work.
Anyways, for most people who don’t have serious trauma, I think this is a problem you can work at and improve your sleep.
In Japanese, the common word for star, “hoshi” also refers to planets. So, clearly, this comic was translated from Japanese.
One reason this anime is interesting is that it doesn’t have a completely precise genre.
Like, obviously it’s the isekai otome game genre, but beyond that, it’s closest to a mystery. The mystery being that the MC, Cecil is trying to figure out what Bertia knows. But at the same time, Bertia is a main character herself, and we in the audience sort of know what sort of things she must know, generally, if not specifically. So, is it more of a how-done-it like Columbo?
But either way, it still seems unusual for a mystery, and we saw that in this episode. They completely explained the mystery, and unless they have an unusual season of 11 episodes, there are two more episodes left. That’s quite a lot of time to spend after the mystery has been explained.
Amazon Prime Music already had a major enshittification in its past. It used to be that it was essentially a catalog of music that you could listen to and make playlists and such. Then they changed it so that you couldn’t exactly listen to the songs you wanted to, and instead you had to listen to the Amazon playlists or stations and your only real controls were the shuffle button, as I doubt the “like” button really did anything.
What if they had a social media site? Would it be called troth social?
Looking at that list, there are many that I’m not familiar with, but Wicca is definitely a religion, isn’t it? Maybe they left “Wicca” in the list and removed specific types of Wicca? It’s not completely clear, but anyways, if they completely removed Wicca, then a Wiccan wouldn’t have a way to answer.
This restructuring of faith codes, which help identity service members as well as the military in planning for appropriated religious coverage to include them, has now excluded minority faith/worldview groups including Atheists, Asatru, Deists, Druids, Eckankar, Heathens, Humanists, Magick, New Age churches, Pagan, Rosicrucianism, Shaman, Spiritualists, Troth, Unitarian Universalists and various Wiccans.
To be fair, there are problems with speed cameras that we’ve seen in the US, so probably similar problems exist in Canada. For example, they’re often outsourced to private companies, and there are privacy and accuracy concerns. Local governments with access to speed cameras can make a lot of money from speed traps, and so they have a financial incentive to make the road harder to drive on, when they should be making roads easier to drive on. People sometimes see speed cameras and slam their brakes, which can cause all sorts of problems.
Usually, the better way to control speed is to design your roads to naturally be a certain speed. Some ways you can do this is by controlling the width of the lanes, the length of the lines in the lane dividers, and the curve of the road.
I just saw this yesterday, and that article had an estimated yearly impact of how much money farmers/ranchers would lose every year if screwworm comes back to the US, and IIRC, it was something like $900 million.
The exit polls showed that Beto won the vote for the Senate race among native born Texans. So despite all the bad stuff people say about Texas, it’s really all of those immigrants from other states that are ruining Texas.
And Ken Paxton is one of the most corrupt politicians in Texas. There’s a good chance that if he leaves office, he’ll be arrested by federal authorities soon afterwards, you know, if there’s not a corrupt person in the White House. Paxton was impeached by the Texas legislature unanimously.
So, Paxton has kind of shot himself in the foot by being so openly corrupt. Hopefully it will be enough.
This episode lacked the punch I was expecting. I think partially because they’re forced to rush through the story, and partially just some bad storytelling choices.
We’re told a couple of things about Veronica, but not in a way that sinks in. If they don’t show us clearly how Veronica is different from other nobles, and specifically in how she treats different people differently, the story is going to lose a lot of its emotional bite. She was cruel to Ferdinand, and we only get like one sentence about that so far.
We don’t really understand what it means if Wilfried fails at his winter debut, as we’ve never seen a winter debut, and I don’t think we’re even specifically told how much time he has. We don’t understand the extent of Wilfried’s running away at a basic level. It must be extreme if he’s not even learned his letters, but if you tell the audience that he’s been receiving private tutoring for a long time and he’s still at exactly zero, it’s just so absurd that there’s no way for us to comprehend.
We’re told that Wilfried’s attendants aren’t raising him properly, but we’re not really shown it. The only time we’ve been shown Wilfried running away was a long time ago in the episode about Rozemyne’s baptism, and it’s not clear that this is what Wilfried does all day, every day.
Instead, we’re given a sort of heartwarming scene at the end where Wilfried and his attendant… was that Oswald?.. nod at each other like everything is better. No, everything has not been fixed. Wilfried’s attendants are utter failures at their primary job.
By the end of the episode, you know that this is a critical event for the future of the duchy, an event where the fate of the next archduke is in the balance. I mean, what happens if a complete failure becomes archduke? What happens if Wilfried is disinherited? Would he be sent to the temple as a blue priest? I had hoped this episode would have a similar amount of impact as the harspiel concert episode.