Stoatmilk

Having speaking exercises in your language learning app is a good idea in theory, but I fear if they heard me speaking Chinese on my suspiciously long toilet break at work they would arrest me for espionage

That first quote is incredible

I think the Disco Elysium witch in the Alps tweets are fine and should not have been dunked on. If you can't wrangle a good point out of them you should go study more dialectics.

The worst part is how it forces you to do a goofy little dance, like at least other minor things like getting an eyelash in your eye don't actively try to humiliate you

I'm glad that Dungeon Meshi is becoming a Popular Anime, but it does annoy me to see people having slightly different interpretations of the characters and their relations than me

Capitalism inherently causes large wealth gaps, with some people living in poverty while others waste resources that could have helped them. For capitalism to be a stable system, there needs to be something that solves this contradiction, and currently, a large part of the solution is individualist ideology. You can be fine with fellow humans living on the street if you believe everyone is in the end only responsible for themselves.

Furthermore, the good sides of individualism contradict the interests of capital, like strict hierarchies versus the value of individual expression. Here we can see how material interests are stronger than ideology. Liberals should as individualists believe in a person's right to freedom from police violence, but it can easily be justified with simple dehumanization. They should believe in freedom of gender expression and sexuality, but those can be opposed by being obsessed with children's "safety", because they are not yet full persons so the freedom of the individual does not extend to them.

So individualism is not bad in and of itself, but it is currently a tool of capitalist order, and also not very useful as a tool for liberation under capitalism.

I've seen multiple people respond to the protest with "if you care about the war so much you should go there to fight instead of protesting", which is such nonsense on so many levels that it is really testing my rule of assuming people generally believe what they are saying even if it is dumb

There is a reason they keep painting tits

Most master blenders add a couple of drops of holy water into their glass of brandy, to appease the spirits. Catholic holy water gives it a subtly nutty flavor while the protestant variety makes it taste smoky.

A Bones type TV show but all the crimes are somehow butt-related

Me writing citations: the styles are just a guideline, this is good enough.

Me reading citations: has this piece of shit never heard of citation styles??

this is how it actually happened