My experience (USA) mirrors yours until high school, which is when we were allowed to just stand up and walk out when we needed to. Kids who abused the privilege were dealt with on a case by case basis.

The pressure-bearing components usually aren’t 3D-printed, but it turns out those aren’t hard to make from innocuous stuff found at any hardware store (or if you’re in America just buy “spare parts” lmao).

took me to this site, very neat.

Needs background music.

Surprised I haven’t heard Lisa! The humor is super dark so I wouldn’t recommend it to everyone, but it’s one of the best RPGs ever made.

I think the fact that Stitch is a lab experiment who would otherwise face life imprisonment simply for existing means that he can credibly claim not to be a colonizer. His arc struck me as more of a personal growth “caring about others” thing.

They’re going to shove in an advertisement for the Disney Hawaiian Resort ™

There’s a deleted scene that turns the subtext into a blinking neon sign that I wish made it in, where like ten white people all ask Lilo where the beach is when she’s tryna walk home.

Somewhere in the Federation there has to be, like, an alt community that’s super into using biomods to make themselves into furries and other exotic stuff, right? I mean they had that shit in Batman Beyond, no way they don’t have it in Star Trek.

Probably the floor of an airport. Everything was closed and the chairs weren’t an option, so I just picked a spot on the floor and used my bag as a pillow for about six hours before I got woken up by the morning cleaning people.

The traditional conception is that ghosts aren’t really sentient creatures, but a phenomenon that souls can get stuck in instead of going to the afterlife. There’s symbolism there - a ghost is an echo of a person, much like memories of them or the effects they had on the world. There’s also a bit of Christian moralizing - a “good” person doesn’t stick around because they are eager to join God in heaven, while a “bad” person clings to their earthly life and possessions even if they are only capably of doing so in a greatly diminished state.

The modern conception of a ghost where it’s a fully realized person who can just kinda go through walls is an anthropomorphized and secular version of the ghosts that were invented by the Victorians.

The only thing I know about The Boys is that, as it went on, the writers didn’t like chuds latching onto Homelander in a “Tyler Durden” kind of way, so the longer the series goes the more overt and explicit the politics get until I think Season 4 where they finally reached the point at which chuds realized they were the ones being made fun of.

Damn, just after it gets added to the BDS list.

holy shit. So a big part of the ceasefire deal is for the Lebanese Army to move into southern Lebanon and take over from Hezbollah - is Israel’s goal to get the Lebanese Army to move into range of their artillery so that they can shoot them and escalate the war further?

THE INK ISN’T EVEN DRY

Wayland and audio is fixed, but only on the canary branch

I’ve been using the canary branch exclusively for about a year because of audio issues on the main one, I would genuinely be ecstatic if they finally ported over the fix because for some reason the canary branch refuses to auto upgrade and I have to do it manually every time.

What sucks is that we know from the IDF that this shit will be adopted as a means of approving targets (because it will approve every single suggested target).

boutta VPN to China and get a Chinese phone number so I can use their superior websites.

We literally impeached him for threatening to not send weapons there for the civil war that ended up exploding into the full scale invasion.

Ah yes, the impeachment that accomplished so much and is extremely relevant.

I don’t care what Trump said or would have preferred, under his administration our government continued to fuel and escalate tensions in the region when we should have been pushing Ukraine to implement Minsk II and end the civil war. Maybe you could classify it as a mistake on his part instead of malice that he didn’t stop the arms shipments even though he really wanted to, but people are still liable for mistakes.

you know we genocided an entire continent of people, right? And continue to?

I literally cited an episode from that genocide as my reasoning for Jackson being the worst president.

wtf is bad about anti-Soviet foreign policy

The Soviets wanted deescalation after WW2, and supported self determination for liberated countries including Korea, Vietnam, Greece and Italy. Whatever you think of communism, the American policy of “containment” is directly and indisputably responsible for the suppression of democracy in dozens of countries and wars which killed tens of millions of people all because some of those people would have elected communist and socialist leaders we didn’t like.