Let Lisa live like Lisa likes, lookitsjustin!

They must have used frame stacking to get everything into focus like this, I imagine…

That’s true. In the end nothing lasts, not even the greatest achievement magnified one thousand or one billion times. Time and the vast universe will wash away and dilute it all into background noise on any scale you can imagine.

One can only have their time and their space, and no more.

The fable of Ozymandias is doubly meaningful. Because Ozymandias was the Greek name for Ramses II, who happened to be

commonly known as Ramesses the Great, was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Ramesses II is often regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the New Kingdom, which itself was the most powerful period of ancient Egypt. He is also widely considered one of ancient Egypt’s most successful warrior pharaohs, conducting no fewer than 15 military campaigns, all resulting in victories, excluding the Battle of Kadesh, which is generally considered a stalemate. His 66-year rule was also the longest recorded reign of any pharaoh.

He was the epitome of ancient Egypt, which is itself the epitome of ancient civilizations. The dude was fully right to boast after all!

Make the biggest threats, buy on the dip; tout great progress, sell on the rise. It’s a perfectly reasonable activity for a president.

It’s a reverse nazi, so it cancels out the previous nazi, you see.

Both are admirable aspirations! And remember, if one doesn’t work out, you can always try the other.

But he plays one on TV in government!

He sounds worse now…

It’s more complicated:

In his song “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That),” songwriter Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf explicitly name several things the singer will never do.

Lie to you
Forget the way you feel right now
Forgive myself if we don't go all the way tonight
Do it better than I do it with you
Stop dreaming of you every night of my life
See that it's time to move on
Be screwing around 

Meat Loaf explained in interviews that because the line “I’d do anything for love” is repeated several times right before the final refrain, listeners simply forget the specific preceding line (“I’ll never stop dreaming of you”) that defines “that”.

Was it a Birkin bag? They all look the same. I just found out about their existence recently.

That description is apt… what a timeline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td_PcUjXnjE

I think this is a big part: it’s not (just) that every day republicans can’t let old themes go. It’s also that their handlers know “this one was a big hit, let’s make a remix, that’ll fire the old morons up”.

Bang stick harder. Ooga booga let go of balls now.

It’s not lost somewhere near you…You’re lost anywhere near it.

DSA

What is this DSA that everyone here is mentioning?

And then seances.

a MAMIL

WTH, there’s an initialism to make everyone feel bad these days*… Leave them Lycra daddies alone! I can hardly think of a more wholesome hobby!

(* no offense meant to acronym & initialism smiths. Your work is valued.)

It’s a Motorola Edge 40. It’s an unusual bug, but harmless so far.

I think it’s a hardware issue with my phone… I’m not seeing the “scratches” anymore. I noticed a while ago that images of high frequency digital noise cause flickering lines on my phone. Like this one: https://onlinepngtools.com/images/examples-onlinepngtools/multicolor-white-noise.png