I think it’s a very interesting point. The whole concept of how fiction affects us is fascinating to me. Our idea of what it meant to be human used to come entirely from watching real people around us. Now we’re exposed to hundreds of fictional characters, and we get to know some of them better than we know our actual friends. Despite objectively knowing they’re fictional, they still influence our picture of what being a person means, because that’s just how our brains work. I think most modern people have the feeling their own lives aren’t as exciting or interesting or hilarious as they should be.

Paranoia can tell you anything you don’t control is a threat - whether it’s another country, a race, a personality type, lack of web privacy, whatever. The MAGA leaders are so drenched in that paranoia, there’s really no limit to what they might do to squash anyone and anything they see as a possible threat to them.

The worst decisions make the best stories. - Unknown

You can’t leave the party if you can’t find the door. Randall Jacobs, aka Uncle Bunky

obituary, worth reading

You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago. - Alan Watts

I agree it’s good to credit a writer, but the attribution should also include the character so the quote has context. For example, I would want there to be a distinction between a comment I made in real life and a line I wrote for a psychotic character to say.

Steve Allen on his TV show in the 60s used to occasionally get into bathtubs full of weird stuff. The one I remember offhand was oatmeal.

To me a beer bath would be about as appealing as a toothpaste enema - and there’s probably a spa where you can get those too - but to each their own.

Seems like a criminal waste of beer. Unless that’s Bud Light.

Y tho

Not breaking news, slicing news.

Kitchen sinks. Instead of doing the dishes they just let them accumulate!

Legend says it started with Trump getting a dirty sanchez in a Moscow brothel.

Neither proves anything. Surprisingly, people are more complicated than memes.

I think the issue, although it’s being raised in meme-style rather than with a straightforward argument, is that asking somebody with ADHD to fill out a long, complex form is as reasonable as asking somebody on crutches to sashay up the stairs to the tenth floor to file their claim.

Seems weird that they’re willing to pay for a lawyer to help you but not to pay their own employees to help you, which is why you need the lawyer.

So draining it barely leaves energy for posting about it.

My guess is they expected a filled out form. But I see the Catch 22.

TBH I have been avoiding most Trump coverage, but if Zelensky does better at playing him than Putin has, bravo! What a clown show.

Putin is confidently planning on the Trump Clownshow administration pulling US support, which will be very bad for Ukraine and later for Europe.