I was thinking about your question, and the more I thought about it, the more a particular name started to climb to the top of the pile. And it may be a name you won't expect.
That name? Vonnegut.
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I think we're all familiar with Harrison Bergeron (especially lately), but if you haven't read Cat's Cradle, do yourself a big favor and run on down and grab a copy.
"It's wampeters and karases all the way down!"
There's another one where the protagonist keeps finding himself on Jupiter, but I'm having trouble remembering it. Maybe I'll take my own advice. I mean, most of his books you can read in an afternoon.
Update: Sirens of Titan, and I was way off.
The Sirens of Titan is a comic science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., first published in 1959. His second novel, it involves issues of free will, omniscience, and the overall purpose of human history. Much of the story revolves around a Martian invasion of Earth.
Would've been better with a link, but still upvoted for the TIL (emphasis added):
Standpoint theory, or standpoint epistemology, is a theory for analyzing inter-subjective discourses. Standpoint theory proposes that authority is rooted in individuals' personal knowledge and perspectives and the power that such authority exerts.
I've seen more than enough movies to know that when a town is evacuated completely, and there's all kinds of special effects and news reports showing how "dangerous" it is to even approach , that means there's either aliens there or a zombie outbreak.
But it's never what they say it is.
<taps head>
Me: so I can't say "Cracker?"
ChatNPC™: "Oh! Carry on, then!"
You clearly don't need as much guitar practice as I do.
You might need that fake persona if the enemy's plan succeeds.
You're sounding like someone who speaks from experience. Let's see yours. I'm assuming you did take the wise precaution of using a fake name?
Crowd: link it! link it! link it! link IT!
I just didn't have the stomach to go through with it.
It's what I think of me.
Besides, which sounds like a more fulfilling use of my time -- spending an hour making a phony LinkedIn account nobody will see, or spending that same hour noodling around on my guitar and watching zombie movies?
There is a right answer.
I was going to doctor up a fake LinkedIn account, complete with pronouns, ukraine and trans flags -- all the "woke" bells-n-whistles. Maybe throw in a picture of me holding up a phony vax card for that extra virtue.
But in the end, I just didn't have the stomach to go through with it.
Nah, she's got a point. If it hadn't been for green chicks, Captain Kirk would've hardly ever gotten laid.
^ this guy sciences!
They're slowly inching that "P" into LGBT+ little by little, like a cat reaching for your slice of bacon and trying to be sly about it.
On the one hand, people are pointing out that it's "They slash Them," which is kind of applicable, since Blumhouse has been known to make some pretty spooky movies (I just watched The Visit this morning).
But then I looked at the Wikipedia entry for the movie, and it's described as:
The film is described as "a queer empowerment story set at a gay conversion camp".[2]
So it's probably gonna be a "no" from me, dawg.
In this month's action-packed issue, Doc Transphibius smells Escapade's infected lower region coming from a mile away.
Here we go. That was an ordeal. Weird thing not to include in the post.
But on the bright side, I did just play 130,000pts on the original until my first guy died. Boy that incredible game we all loved so much really sucks. You just can't go back.
I went and looked up the tweet so I could see the responses.
Probably unsurprisingly to most people here, the Chinese state media's official statement about the same period paints a completely different picture.
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Is that one of the monsters in Silent Hill?
I've got an account there with 2 million karma from 10 years or so. I've basically stopped going altogether because it's pretty well turned into a gay propaganda website and I'm just too normal.
Here she is in her natural habitat. The amount of support she gets from other vitriolic weirdos reminds me of a TwoXChromosomes pep rally.
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From the article:
A report by the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Avenel concluded Volz was not a sexually violent predator, Cowell said. "She's not a monster," he said. "She's not an animal."
Just how "supportive" is too supportive?
I looked around a little bit, and it seems like that clip was filmed in 2019, just before this covid thing.
A Florida teacher claims she was fired for discussing her pansexual status with middle school students whom she then asked to draw pictures representing their own sexual orientations.
Middle-school kids used to get in trouble for drawing dicks on everything
It sounds like they're trying to normalize polygamy.
I was a convenience store clerk in the late 90s, and I can tell you from experience that Frank Sinatra works, too.
The week he died, the local "public" radio station played only his music nonstop, and the only people that felt comfortable hanging around my store were oldies and the cultured.