He kept calling them up at 4:56pm, saying "Beanis" and giggling before hanging up

This is a good take about any large project. If you get too into the weeds too early it just leads to stagnation. Everything is possible so anyone can have an opinion and things go nowhere. Once you have a vision and you have a mandate then you have something you have to work backwards from and the eggheads and lawyers can come in and their work will bear fruit. Before that it's a futile, masturbatory exercise.

i'm gonna go with no.

Pretty sure Popeyes has been halal for years, surprised KFC took this long.

oreos

there is an effort over there to revive the irish language. i managed to attend a poetry reading with gaelic poets speaking irish in west ireland some years ago, it's a very beautiful language.

I think it's actually impossible for anything vaguely resembling meritocracy to exist without socialism. So many of the factors that come into play when people talk about "meritocracy" come down to your circumstances in childhood into early adulthood. People who talk about meritocracy are lying to you and they're lying to themselves.

Lies of P is pretty good. I find it more difficult in general than the official product line but only really because the basic enemies and elites are more difficult. The bosses are similar in difficulty to elden ring.

There's Another Crab's Treasure that people have been calling crab souls. I havent played it, definitely much more lighthearted than typical souls games.

Italy Souls (Enotria) is coming out in September. I'll probably give it a shot when it does. Black Myth: Wukong is coming out in August, it also looks really fun.

Data-driven Understanding

Zero data

very good paper, well done

i had the opposite experience, my family with no coherent political beliefs hates cops and landlords and my dad was like the only time ill drink and drive is to run over cops. also they seem to hate israel.

Pleasently surprised this christmas lmao

wow guys we'd better go to war with the wrold's manufacturing base that is 6500 miles away over an island 50 miles off its coast. This is going to go really well for us I can feel it.

Sure they are. Remember when Reddit found all those "russian bots" and it turned out to be like 6 accounts with a combined 200 karma?