80s/90s kid. I 'member when Bart saying "sucks" was shocking.
My best friend had to play D&D in secret because his mother and grandmother thought it was Satanic.
My sister's Christian school banned Harry Potter for witchcraft.
Before 2019-20, I had never seen pronouns listed in email signature lines. Before 2015 gay marriage was only allowed in certain places, and only for a few years. Until 2011, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was official policy in the military. In both my southern and midwestern families' hometowns, most stores and restaurants were closed on Sundays and all had reduced hours.
This has to be amongst the fastest societal change in history.
Haha.. a little too close!
Yes, Polynesians widely and commonly practiced cannibalism in all of their territories. It was one of the things that most appalled the Europeans and let to such a missionary influx into the area.
Maori were good foes. They came up with forts and methods of fighting the British that were hard for the Brits to adapt to. The Polynesians in general were great navigators and explorers.The Brits won because of superior technology and supply lines that stretched across the world.
Today the New Zealanders are cucking themselves silly over cultural guilt because bad things happened in the past.
I mostly find it ironic that New Zealand is, and will forever be MAORI land, as the indigenous people who are the rightful stewards of the islands....who got there LITERALLY 300 years before Europeans.
That 300 years mean the Maori have eternal rights.
My god, I love this so much.
"God I need this one--she fucks her uncle AND both of his kids." ... "Didn't you read that already one Kindle Unlimited?" ... "Yeah, but I need the hardcopy."
Look it up on Amazon. "Credence."
107,625 ratings, 4.5 stars
The first review:
Ignore the negative reviews. The love story is unbelievably good. The spice is SPICY. It takes a while to finally get to the spice, but once it starts, it’s unstoppably hot. The taboo component is not for everyone so read the trigger warning beforehand. If you’re open minded, you’ll love it. I love this book. I cried when it was over. The epilogue healed my heart. It is sexy, suspenseful, unique, and captivating. This story stayed with me for weeks. I still have not recovered. I doubt I will ever find a book like this one. It is that good. Stop what you are doing and buy it.
My favorite part of the tiktok.
"In this one, he's giving her back shots, while drowning her in shark infested waters!" ... "Why do you look so excited?" .... "I'm not.." furtively grasps at book while walking away
Ok, first I had to look up "back shots". Ok, got it.
Next, look up the book on Amazon. "Does it Hurt"
Holy shit, 61,492 reviews, 4.5 stars.
61,492 reviews.
I liked the girls' tiktok and it was tongue in cheek with more than a little actual enjoyment.
The rest--the twitter shitstorm--is just bitches being bitches to other women and white knights simping.
I'm a member of the third group, but I wouldn't call myself "former" leftists. I'm still a left-of-center libertarian.
I used to be a pretty hardcore libertarian. It was pretty easy in the 90s and early 2000s. Most of us were anti-war, pro-economic freedom, and "live and let live" socially. To this day, I think the Dobbs abortion decision is perfect. Remove it from the feds, and let the people at the state level have a choice.
I've been completely radicalized by leftists who hate me. They hate any devolution of authority from the central government to the people. They hate any kind of "live and let live" philosophy that isn't screaming praise for every perversion and degeneracy out there. They hate any economic freedom as anti-progressive, dogwhistles for fascism, and killing the planet. Leftists hate free speech and view proponents of free speech as nazis. Ironic. And, shockingly, leftists have somehow become the more bloodthirsty and interventionist party.
So, no. I am not a libertarian any more. I am, more than anything else, an anti-leftist.
Correct response to this level of insanity is always “k”
It is too bad, and some strange vote splitting, but strange things do happen sometimes.
When I went to sleep on election night, somewhere around 3:30am EST (Asmongold still have like 180k viewer on twitch), Republicans were leading:
PA MI WI NV
That would have been a massive swing of +7! MI, WI, NV will all go blue now. PA I think still has a chance for a R win.
There's no chance the senate stays blue. Republicans picked up OH, WV, and MT for sure.
Phwew. A night to remember.
What are you going to tell me next? That water's wet?
The best part is the Cybertruck.
Also balding. I’m old.
When did it hit you? 42 and for me, the trendline is moving in the wrong direction!
A Montanan was telling me the other day that some recent local polling had just come out showing that Tester and Sheehy were now tied, after the Sheehy stolen valor / accidental shooting in a national park, whatever it is thing. Who knows.
I would bet on Montana and WV as flips.
I think Kari Lake probably loses again in AZ.
I'm surprised there hasn't been more focus on flipping the dem in OH.
Wisconsin I think stays dem, but depends on Trump coattails.
Shadowlands...I had almost managed to repress it. I actually didn't hate BfA. Drustvar remains one of my favorite zones.
I didn't enjoy Dragonflight very much and I only played during the beginning.
I came back recently for the 20th anniversary stuff. Not bad so far, but I haven't done much.
Hmm, no wikipedia page. She could be legit.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/betting-odds/2024/president
Betting odds tanking?
My biggest fear is that that pollsters have overcompensated with the "hard to reach Trump voter" and that polling results will be more like 2022 than 2016 or 2020.
2020 is almost impossible to compare to due to Covid shenanigans.
I'm not convinced betting markets mean much. I'm not much of a degen gambler, but I've been tempted to put some $ on Harris as an emotional hedge.
In 2016, I was playing World of Warcraft, enjoying an adult beverage, and very assiduously not watching the news. All of a sudden, people in chat started going nuts ("WE DID IT BOYS, THE MAD LAD IS IN" -- the mood was extremely positive).
In 2020, I was not playing Warcraft.
So, on Tuesday, I will once again be logged into classic WoW with an adult beverage and/or an adult edible.
(I'm a pessimist, I think he will lose, but we'll see.)
C.S. Friedman. Awesome books.
Agree 100% with the rest of your post.
I really hope his reply was "k"
“The idea of [the card] is a deal with the devil, right? You’re selling your soul for power… It’s power at any cost, and that seems to be what he’s into,” Kunce added
What a kunce.
Kilrathi?