Don’t forget the conglomerate names:

Microsoft-Activision-Blizzard

He’s a big guy

Thank you for making me feel better

CPR and how to operate a Javelin, I played that game a lot as a kid

Oh, you mean the part where they almost completely undid the Mando S2 finale?

Then Mando S3 undid the rest

They fly now!

Sometimes I describe Andor as a 10/10 show that’s a 9/10 because it’s Star Wars

And I love Star Wars

The Kessel run might fit the lore, but the lore was clearly added after the fact and it’s so much of a stretch that the black holes look like silhouettes that were made for me on the other side

And I think that Club Penguin’s block on news is keeping word from getting out

There was a moon in the way

Nice excuses

It’s like the pain makes you really concentrate on the food

I have 5-20 minutes between calls at my work, so I’ve had plenty of time to sneak in some books on the clock.

I’ve been rereading through the Cosmere, so Mistborn eras 1+2, Warbreaker, and I’m currently reading Elantris.

To-read is Tress of the Emerald sea, then I probably should go for a non-fiction book to feel more enightened

I just finished Lost Metal myself, it was good stuff

"Like a viper slithering around its prey, the CCP [Chinese Communist party] is coiling around Solomon Islands in hopes of tightening their grip on the Indo-Pacific region,” Dunn said.

First impression is that the quote is unnecessarily dramatic.

Second is that no, I think politicians should use dramatic comparisons like that, it’s fun.

Third was “Wait, vipers use venom to hunt, not constriction”

That sounds like an incredibly shallow reason to stop contributing

Nobody outside of your own circlejerk will take your politics seriously if you define the center as the abolition of capital

Bakhmut was a unequivocal Ukranian victory, what are you talking about?

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The number of times where it becomes clear that a Marxist is arguing from a conclusion is too high to be ignored.

That’s just how Marxism is, he claimed that our course of economic history is the only way it could have gone with a single data point then concluded that the current system (in 1850) would imminently collapse.

I don’t know why anyone lends credence to his theories