Yeah--AMAZON!
This is near peak clown world.
Joss is gay when he fucks a vagina.
His "husband" has a vagina and chin pubes and is a totally valid man.
His neighbor (hispanic) can't stand seeing two men together, and he kills out of homophobia and hatred of native americans.
Joss burned down his house (that was disconnected from gas and electricity) by leaving a grill ignited inside. Oh the irony if it was propane...Hank Hill would be shaking his head.
Anyway, Joss burned down his house, killed his dogs, apparently left their bodies just laying around, admitted all of this to the newspaper, but because his pooner girlfriend claims the neighbors committed hatecrimes, now it's not their fault.
It's just so fucking crazy.
100% pooner. Check the farms. As usual, they’ve cut through all the crap.
Certainly does give pooner vibes (and the chin pubes are pretty strong evidence), but hard to tell from just the one picture.
Edit: archive didn’t work. https://consequence.net/2025/06/king-of-the-hill-voice-actor-jonathan-joss-was-victim-of-hate-crime-husband-says/
Phwew--I was worried about who you've been hanging out with Smith!
I'll be hoping for a Chuck Mangione and Feels So Good cameo.
This one fan of the show (who didn't read the books) asked me why I was happy about the show getting canceled and people losing their jobs.
Woaaaa, hold up. You met an actual FAN of the tv show? I've never even met anyone who's seen it. The TV show, despite being made from some of the most popular fantasy books of all time, totally flew under the radar.
Still have mine! It holds up very well still.
Dimetrodon! Mosasaurus!
My favorite is Pachycephalosaurus (literally "Thick headed lizard") and its related species, Stygimoloch, literally "Hell demon" -- like Ultima the Stygian Abyss, having to do with the river Styx.
Haha, wasn't that on the AI video thread the other day? Still genius.
For sure!
Funnily enough, my dad's family has always considered itself German. After doing some DNA tests, it turns out that other than our last name (and thus direct paternal line), pretty much the entire family lineage is English. I was able to track that lineage back to Germany and even back to a small village in the 1500s. They came over in the 1720, part of some huge waves of Palatinate German migrations.
My maternal family line lore has always had some of the original ancestors in America as Hessians who got left behind. Hard to know for sure, but it seems plausible.
I just love oldies.
Spare me, the most widely subscribed theory of history is that Europeans made Africa poor and prevented them from developing by extracting their natural resource wealth through colonialism. It is entirely false and heavily supported by enormous efforts of academic bias, rhetorical warfare, and straight up making shit up.
As I referenced earlier, check out Wittfogel and the hydraulic empires. It's a great read.
European colonialism in Africa is largely a 19th century phenomenon and lasted for less than a hundred years. Extractive colonialism was, no doubt, damaging. That does nothing to explain the thousands of years of pre-European contact history.
There are zero domesticatable species in Africa.
Strong disagree.
Egypt, Mesopatamia, and the Indus valley were explicitly hospitable at the time of their development, and had extremely regular river flows which made civilization possible.
You think the river flows of the Nile, Tigris, Euphrates, Indus, etc., were reliable and regular? You just have to check out the pantheon of ancient Egyptian and Sumerian gods to get an idea of just how regular the waters were. Or, you know, the Noah myth... (Gilgamesh)
Your argument is just not grounded in reality.
Rome wouldn't exist, with or without sewage and drainage, with Malaria being as prevalent and perpetual as it is in Africa.
Another argument with no grounding in reality. Malaria is or was endemic in the Mediterranean basin, in South America, in India, in Southeast Asia, in parts of China, etc. Malaria was a major issue in ancient Rome, for instance. Why is it uniquely only sub-Saharan African peoples who were so impacted by malaria?
Plus, your arguments make the false assumption that all of sub-Saharan Africa is of a similar clime. This is false. South Africa (and much of southern Africa more generally, for instance), is totally different.
Check your white privilege with this stunning piece of "journalism." https://archive.is/rvddu
"WHY DO RICH PEOPLE LOVE QUIET? The sound of gentrification is silence."
And do you think that's because "they don't care", or do you think it might be one of the most aggressively inhospitable regions on earth for civilization because of poor soil quality, no cash crops, rampant malaria (preventing any significant population density near water), rivers that only flow days out of the year, no domestic animals, and mega-fauna in direct competition with human settlements.
While some parts of your description individually describe some parts of Africa, Africa is huge and highly varied. Additionally, your argument goes counter to the most widely subscribed (and imho, supported) theories of history. Your description is not remotely accurate for most of the Africa.
You raise another very good example of how unique sub-Saharan peoples are. Sub-Saharan African peoples never domesticated any animals. We have dozens of examples of domestication across Europe, the Middle East, India, Asia, and even the Americas. Zero in Africa.
Where did the earliest civilizations arrive? Inhospitable places like Egypt, the arid areas of Mesopotamia, the arid Indus, etc. These were areas that were very hard to live in and required civilization to make a go of it. See, e.g., the "hydraulic empires" theory. Difficult climates across the globe require civilizations, social structures, hierarchies, and working together. That almost never happened in sub-Saharan Africa.
There are many factors for why sub-Saharan Africa is uniquely alone in the world in never developing a written language or any substantial civilization. It's interesting that if you compare to, e.g., North and South America, we do see many examples of complex civilizations in the Americas, examples of written language, etc., and those were all developed in isolation from the greater Afro-Euroasian world. Large parts of North America are basically a paradise for civilization building (e.g. the East Coast).
Malaria? Rome was a mosquito-infested malarial swamp...until the Romans built a sewage and drainage system in 600BC.
North Africa bears no relationship, civilizationally, culturally, and genetically to sub-Saharan Africa. Before the Arab invasion the people of North Africa were basically historically Mediterranean peoples (think Sardinians, Phoenicians, Greeks, Berbers, etc). The Arab invasion brought other genetic lines, and Islamic civilization has brought a persistent genetic flow from sub-Saharan Africa due to the slave trade.
There have been some notable sub-Saharan and Saharan civilizations. Most prominently in Ethiopia and the horn of Africa, but also some in Nigeria, an older civilization in Zimbabwe about which very little is known, etc.
It is true that sub-Saharan Africa is one of the few parts of the world in which no people ever invented a written language (once again, the closest being Ethiopian which was borrowed from Arabian scripts).
And Harris Teeters (which has majorly declined in quality since the Krogers takeover).
And Fred Meyer.
And more.
Lizzo went full ozempic.
I've forgotten so much of this. I read the first books multiple times--maybe through Lord of Chaos or Path of Daggers. I've only read the later books once, and years ago.
My overarching memory of the series is that Elayne is a dumbass.
You're right, Min is kind of bestgirl by default. She's the only one who's not a total bitch to Rand 24/7.
Nice. The "Min again but a different artist" is pretty damn close to my image of Min.
Min is bestgirl.
I think you're largely spot on, but at the same time...give it a few more years.
I got in really good shape in my early 30s. I took up lifting (for the first time), upped my running, and I lost weight.
Then, in my late 30s, I got a knee injury, and I'm still trying to get my distances back up. I don't squat too heavy anymore either as I get persistently sores knees with more weight. I still lift regularly, walk a lot, bike sometimes, run occasionally. I honestly need to be in better aerobic shape.
The first time I ever had a (passing) moment of feeling "old" was probably at age ~41-42.
I don't drink as much as I did in my 20s. Hangovers feel more like--why would I put myself through this yet again? I inadvertently got blitzed a few weeks ago going to a fancy wine tasting dinner with the wife. Oops. I did regret that the next morning.
I do think I'm getting more set in my ways. I used to be a real foodie, always wanting to try new restaurants, new cuisines, etc. Now, between kids, price of restaurants, and 10+ years of me cooking at home--I just don't want to eat out that much anymore.
I don't take any medicines. I have a few grays in my beard. Dick's still working fine. Sleeping is fine (though wife has the "pain from sleeping wrong" thing).
If you're not doing it now, take up stretching. I think stretching and weight work are about the two best things people can do as they age.
My dad is still active in his 80s. He has friends in their 90s who still play tennis multiple times a week. It's very possible.
I just assumed many of the based vtubers were male. Am I wrong?
That’s a bit of an overstatement.
Nintendo apparently shipped using a version of Webkit from 2015. Hackers had a decade to shred that thing to pieces. The actual vulnerability seems to be this:
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4657
Patched 9 years ago!