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  I'm annoyed by something in the literary world that's a kind of expression of this, when wannabe writers get caught up with "worldbuilding" some fictional setting of theirs. They spend hundreds of hours ensuring all the maps of their fantasy kingdoms make sense--named rivers, population numbers, tax policies. They'll devote as long to constructed languages no one will ever speak. It's all forms of procrastination, as if explaining enough easy mechanistic Hows will pr...

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  Cool new hypothetical: you can get a bomb strapped to your chest. Your bomb will explode and kill you unless most adults in the world also agree to get bombs strapped to their chests. If you don't strap the bomb to your chest, nothing happens.

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  Ahab to Moby Dick:

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  I'd only heard it referred to in our circles as "the 1965 immigration act" without realizing it was also known as the Hart-Celler Act, being sponsored by Philip Hart and Emmanuel Celler. We got unchecked third world immigration and lost our identity to a bill called the Heart-Seller Act? Is this a joke?

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  >I'm so tired of those low salivary amylase chuds who can't digest potatoes efficiently Anime women lusting over you is such a hilarious medium to describe mutations.

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  Fuentes pretending to gloat about his battery case being "dismissed" is funny when the truth is he accepted a plea deal to pick up garbage for weeks, attend an anger management class, and pay her hundreds of dollars.

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  Uhm, if it's not for white people, why is it called Honky Star Rail?

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  This ADL stat everyone's cited the past year about "far-right violence" is from an NIJ review which literally doesn't acknowledge the existence of left-wing violence. They just use vegan/eco-terrorism as a proxy, so of course that makes it look nonexistent. The blackest race riots and queerest terror attacks still aren't considered ideologically left-wing. It's that bullshit.