arctanthrope

ok since it makes sense to everyone else, someone explain it to me

• event happens
• time passes (pt. 1)
• record is made detailing the event and its effects
• time passes (pt. 2)
• present

how does merely the length of time period 1 determine which events occur in time period 2?

how does publishing an article saying that something has not happened yet prevent that thing from happening after the article is published?

what is this even supposed to mean?

“the gap between the Battle of Hastings and the completion of the Bayeux Tapestry is likely a few years apart. I highly doubt the government of England has changed since then”

the question was, is it still true that no acts is terrorism have been prevented in the last 11 years

he has to apologize for being aligned with what voters want? isn’t that, as political scientists call it, the whole fucking point of democracy?

imagine a 5-year-old with enough money, that every time a normal 5-year-old would be denied and throw a tantrum, he can instead pay someone enough to do whatever he wants. do you think that kid would ever meaningfully change his desires or behaviors, and grow into a socially and emotionally healthy adult?

by his own admission, he acts the same now as he did when he was 5, and I see no reason to doubt that assessment. so it apparently takes more than 75 years to teach him anything

I think you’re the one who’s got it backwards. you think $174,000/yr isn’t enough to motivate the average Joe? you think someone making a million a year is gonna take an 83% pay cut if they can’t take bribes and do insider trading on the side? closing the loopholes and leaving ordinary pay as-is seems like a great way to get rich people out and ordinary people in

apparently that’s what happened with Teddy Roosevelt. party leadership didn’t like him as the governor of New York because he was too progressive, so they “promoted” him to McKinley’s VP, a position where he would have less influence. but then someone shot McKinley, and suddenly Roosevelt had a lot of influence

I don’t understand how anyone is still pushing coal. shifting to renewable energy sources has been a national conversation for decades at this point, anyone who was heavily invested in fossil fuels has had plenty of time to diversify into clean energy and come out ahead through the transition. I could understand twenty years ago someone saying “no, we can’t switch to solar, I only own coal mines, I’ll lose so much money!” (I don’t endorse it, I think people who think like that are morally disgusting and the world would be better without them, but I understand why that would motivate their opinion). but if they haven’t seen which way the wind is blowing and invested in wind in all that time, they deserve whatever they get

for a decade before they elected him, they did nothing but complain about “coastal elites” controlling everything. for the decade since, it’s “we love our coastal elite who controls everything”

Seattle suburbs

the surname Homan is sometimes derived from old German “hoh mann” which is literally “tall man” (hoh is related to high)

hope they have simultaneous heart attacks on stage

are they gonna fix the bug where it didn’t turn everyone gay?

no, because it’s 40 proof

no, the mastermind of the regime is genuinely essentially just saying “ur gay” like a middle schooler in 2003. that’s the best he could come up with. and it will work with their voter base

also it’s false advertising, they don’t even transport you into an MMORPG world

I really gotta stock a bottle of champagne, or one of these days I’ll be caught unprepared

they don’t want to be more educated than they already are, they want to be more educated than us. they’re doing it by destroying the public school system, keeping tertiary education prohibitively expensive, eroding trust in experts through anti-intellectualism, and promoting the spread of misinformation

looks like an ai render of a Minecraft character