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AS PER MY LAST TABLET
Ea-nasir coming to be regarded as the new god of amusingly dishonest business practices is such a glorious illustration of human nature. I love it!
the thing is you are going to get older and you are going to die. you don't have unlimited time on earth. you have to spend all your time on your phone now
doing important research on this fine sunday morning
This is exactly what spiders want you to believe. Stay vigilant.
Spot on 😆
I had to find a picture of this 2017 article again because it's just so iconic.
I can see why they cast him as the token dwarf ngl
The days are getting longer.
The most impressive flair of completely worthless coding on this website is how if you click the like button there's an animation of a heart rising from it, and if you manage to click THAT heart it unlikes the post. No one would ever attempt this maneuver on purpose. I have done it by mistake 5000 times because the rising heart floats directly above the button to expand the tags on a post when I'm on my phone. ...Actually, I have yet to catch the broken heart animation that falls down when you slaughter the rising heart. Would... Would that re-like the post...?
Many brave scientists in the notes have now confirmed it DOES re-like the post! Most of them have also politely apologized for spamming me with notifications by testing it, which is how I learned that if you like and unlike the same post twenty times op still only gets one notification tops on the current activity page. :( I want to see the same name fifty times in a row and know they're doing science. :( (For the record this seems to be the same whether you have notes bundled or not.)
⬆️ Carolyn Gennez is the Belgium Minister of Development Cooperation
I really enjoy just existing in hotels. The long identical hallways. The soulless abstract art. The weird noises the air-conditioner makes. Strange city lights in the window. Six stories off the ground. Strangers chatting in the hall. Nothing in the dresser. No past, but an infinite present.
OOH BABY BABY
I think the reason so many LOTR ripoffs fail is because they make their Aragorn analogue the main character, when the entire point of Aragorn is that he’s “the person the villains think is the main character, but is Not.”
Aragorn seems like a traditional King Arthur style hero— he has huge Main Character Energy because he’s supported by destiny, by bloodline, by all these magic artifacts and prophecies, and etc etc. Frodo and Sam are Just Some Guys. Aragorn recognizes that Sauron understandably thinks he’s the main hero of this story ….and he pretends to believe it too, spending the entire series using himself as a diversion to prevent Sauron from seeing Frodo and Sam.
Aragorn’s whole thing is that knows he seems like the Main Hero of this legend to people who don’t know better —- but he also knows that he isn’t, and that his role is just to keep Sauron’s eye on him in order to protect the people around him.
And it works! Sauron is so fixated on defeating his Legendary Destined Archenemy with Extreme Main Character Energy that he completely overlooks the two ordinary little guys who were the real threat to him all along.
@tiny-steve sksjslslsk you are SO right
Translation request by @unbridled. English added by me :)
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This is some cold-ass shit. As President, Biden has to say something. But he can say it in a way that says nothing and everything.
I want to shake the hand of the staffer that wrote this because this is absolutely fucking superb.
I know we (in general but especially neuroatypicals) prefer things to be clear and straightforward. But occasionally, you can do things in full view of the world like this. And that's kind of incredible.
If you're not clear why this message is so cold -
Biden (and/or the staffer who composed this) is using a technique called "damning with faint praise," which is the rhetorical equivalent of "if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." Nothing he says is untrue, he just ... doesn't say much.
"I'll never forget the first time I met Dr. Kissinger..." A statement like this would normally be followed by a personal anecdote of some kind. But here it just stands alone.
"Throughout our careers, we often disagreed....." One would expect a but to follow this part, some way of softening such a statement by complimenting Kissinger. There isn't one.
"...his fierce intellect and profound strategic focus..." These are the nicest things the statement says about Kissinger, and the second one is a bit backhanded - "strategic focus" could be restated as "ruthlessness" or "knack for scheming" if they were willing to be rude.
"...he continued to offer his views..." This could be restated more positively if Biden meant it to be positive - "contribute his insights" or "share his wisdom." By using the very neutral "offer his views," the statement implies that's neutral is the best they could do.
"...and all those who loved him." This final sentence is brief and direct, and again, the absolute minimum Biden could say to be polite. It also delicately implies that the Bidens are not among those who loved him.
The whole thing avoids mentioning Kissinger's legacy, or even his actual government role. It's barely more than a form letter, and for someone so historically consequential as Kissinger, that implies Biden couldn't say more without being openly rude.
Knowing the story of the first time they met seals the viciousness. Biden ran into a meeting late. Kissinger thought he was a staffer, rather than a damn Senator (there's only 100, they aren't hard to keep track of), then mispronounced his name when an assistant slid him a note correcting him. In return, Biden called him the name of the previous Secretary of State, who was already fucking dead.
Thus began a 45 year feud.
"...he continued to offer his views..." goes even harder because it's a polite and backhanded way to say "...the dude never shut the fuck up."
"if you see someone shoplifting, no you didn't" no but like. i really didn't. i have never in my life seen someone shoplifting because i'm not watching anyone else in the grocery store..? how are y'all noticing things like that. my only goals are enter the store, survive, exit the store
What a year this week has been.
It’s Monday.
It sure as hell is.
The earlier in the day Monday you reblog the funnier this gets
how have you been?
Update:
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