I just want more time to finish my Steam backlog.

Adult Calvin would be exactly like his dad and have a kid exactly like he used to be.

Such is the cycle of fictional life; it cannot break free from the clutches of narrativium.

I really hope that if there’s an afterlife, it isn’t anything like in the bible. It sounds like pure torture.

I would prefer the afterlife to be something like a super-advanced future civilization scanning people’s minds from the past and putting them in a simulation modeled after how The Good Place was after they fixed it in the show.

House centipedes will eat any intruders in your house, even spiders.
They do not leave noticeable poop either, so they are very clean. They may leave less tasty parts of their prey if they are full, tho.
They prefer darker and damper places than spiders, so if you keep dark and damp corner spots near the floor, like plant pots with humid soil in a corner, or a cool basement, you can reduce the chances of them eating your house spiders that prefer higher locations.
That way, your spiders will be safer, letting them eat the moths, flies, and mosquitoes that house centipedes have a harder time catching, while house centipedes will be more likely to stick to to silverfish, cockroaches, ants, termites, and the like.

I would have brought a metal saw and a welder and turned that hand into the gesture he would have actually wanted to do.

And mixed baths exist in Japan, but women don’t really go there anymore.

She was polite enough not to storm out when a dude entered the women’s sauna.

When some rights you should have aren’t given to you, you need to do something to make sure you take them.

Better than nothing is something, but not the thing. Calling it the thing doesn’t make it the thing, when it isn’t enough to deserve to be called the thing.

Calling that reparations would be like calling “car” to something that has just 1 wheel, and I don’t mean a car after losing 4 wheels it used to have. I mean just graving a well, plopping it on the ground, and going: “here, have a car”.

Just taxing a middling billionaire the way they should be taxed would get enough budget to enact actual reparations.
There’s just no will for that.

It is usually because whoever grabbed power in that place fooled the people to garner their support, telling them that they would actually become a democracy, socialist, or communist, and then, once they are in power, they mask off and never relinquish that power. Sometimes they may excuse that as a “transitional period” before moving on to the promised state. But those are obvious lies.

There are other reasons, tho, like confusing voters and muddying the waters so the people can’t really know who is actually working for them, or just mockery, like the nazi.

This is why the way countries do elections is very wrong. Votes should not be for parties; they should be for policies and objectives. Then get in power people who claimed to aim for the same policies and objectives, and heavily punish them if they don’t really work towards them once in power.

You mean these?

Not even close to what this man got from his employer and the bank.

Have you seen the show “Happy!” before it was mysteriously cancelled due to “poor performance”? The villains’ scheme in that show is likely what happened, except that the only imaginary friend in the real-life version is god.

The most realistic possible future of the French language can be seen in shows like Star Trek and Futurama.

Yeah. Not falling for that.

That is the closest to reparations that a black person will ever get in the US.

US law can be so stupid sometimes, depending so much on having an adult in the room because of all the focus in tradition and precedent and so little on expertise, which makes it so vulnerable to personal biases.

The original owners are saying they want to relaunch MySpace, but they will likely fill it with LLM slop and drivel and create profit-making algorithms while saying they are going to do otherwise.

If they don’t make it a federated platform, it will inevitably enshitify.

They want a future in which only they own property, and everyone else has to rent even the freaking air.

More people need to learn that there are federated alternatives to speed up their downfall.

That would require anyone looking at them.

Wit the AI bubble, nobody can buy better PCs, and have to run their games in lowest settings that hide other players.

Nobody is looking at aynone. It’s all floating names.