I thought fight club was incredibly cool when I was 14 and definitely wanted to be the narrator lol. Look at how many friends he had!

One of my friends’ grandmothers is a pentecostal, which is one of the sects that does the “speaks in tongues” thing. Apparently her favorite riff is to go “RRRRRRUUMBA” with very rolled r’s. Now I go “RRRRRUMBA” to myself sometimes when I am alone lmao.

oh my god am I going to become this hilariously out of touch some day? oh nooooooooooooooooooooo

climate change take me

Word games in general are massively popular on mobile these days, not just wordle. These are all basically some variant of the core challenge of scrabble so they’re probably trying to figure out how to surf this wave.

the youths like bananagrams anyway

It’s always a bit more difficult with communities that run on volunteer labor. I’ve also experienced this IRL with some outdoor volunteering groups. If someone is volunteering a lot of labor for free it makes it more difficult to bring down the banhammer for things that they say. You hope to volunteer your own labor engaging with them and so maintain the benefits of their undeniable contributions to the community without having to deal with the downsides of them potentially driving other volunteers away.

While a lot of this manifests as having to deal with reddit debate bros these volunteer communities do also work well as places for neuroatypicals, since people are willing to forgive quite a lot of social awkwardness if you’re just putting in the work.

That guy is such a fucking reddit debate bro holy shit. The people engaging with him are saints for putting up with his bullshit.

yer doin great bud

it might work if the hoses were drawing from a tank of pure chlorhexidine but that has safety issues

The thing is they don’t necessarily smell noticeably rank unless you sniff right up near the actual parts of them that are stinky. Instead their odour slowly percolates and builds up through the entire event space, like a durian. And it’s usually multiple peoples’ odour all working together.

This is one stereotype about gamers & tabletop/card gamers especially that is just so thoroughly true and highly cross-cultural. Any in-person events within the “nerd culture” halo exhibit this phenomenon as well. You’d think “oh just do a smell test on people entering the venue and bar smelly people from entering” but it doesn’t work like that. Their smell develops over time as they sweat and the bacterial colonies on their bodies & clothing activate. Hygiene can’t be a one-day thing, you have to keep those clothes from getting smelly for as long as you own them. Barring actually forcing people to take a supervised shower to ensure they soap their ass, put on deodorant & issuing them a clean set of clothing on entry this will always be a problem.

hahahahahah oh my god I won’t be able to unsee this now. The comparison is perfect. Fake ass affected accent and everything.

the rename effort is going well

I wonder how many spiritual or cultural traditions got their start as a bit before the origins were lost to the mists of time

Nah, it’s a real thing though even if you take the precautions. Happened to me back in 2017 too; even if you use real eclipse glasses on top of regular sunglasses, after looking at the eclipsed sun too much (probably cumulatively less than a few minutes) my eyes hurt. I limited looking to less than a minute this time, eyes still felt slightly bad but not as bad as last time.

imo the real mass damage this time around will be the phone cameras. I saw 10 different people trying to look at the sun through their phone camera for a long ass time.

“The workers must emancipate themselves beg for table scraps from the government”

• Karl Marx

coming around with “pushing the dems left” rhetoric after four years where that specific tactic did jack shit fuck

I hope you didn’t waste time typing all that garbage from scratch personally instead of just copying & pasting it from somewhere.

Naim expressed interest in nuances of U.S. politics, asking HuffPost whether newly widespread pro-Palestinian sentiment seemed likely to last or to fade away. He viewed Biden’s reelection bid as partially shaping U.S. policy. “Maybe they are still trying in the year of the election to balance the internal pressure because of Muslims, Arabs and leftists, and on the other side, the Jewish lobbies,” Naim said.

senpai noticed us!

god conservative leafs are the fucking worst. the little brother syndrome combined with their geopolitical irrelevance makes them utterly obnoxious.

is bluesky just the twitter-style “everyone posts their riff on $currentevent” but without any funny people