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Fillory and Further by Christopher Plover

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The Magicians by Lev Grossman

what’s easier? Convincing everyone you know to download signal or whatsapp or matrix or whatever or having that built into the text app [convincing everyone to buy the same phone].

FTFY

When presented this way, the choice is very different.

Harris is a common name for Americans. Sarah is too. Her name isn’t Kalama. The error shows how exotic it is to you and your autocorrect.

I hear female supporters refer to her as Kamala. I think it might have more to do with the uniqueness of the name. I don’t know of anyone who referred to Sarah Palin as Sarah.

You’re right.

https://www.theonion.com/6-year-old-didn-t-cause-parents-divorce-but-didn-t-exa-1849586809

there were enough checks on his power that he mostly managed to simply be incompetent and chaotic

There were no real checks. He had way too many Republicans in Congress for there to be. Most of what protects America is gentleman’s agreements that we all assume a normal president wouldn’t defy.

If the leader of the FBI attempts to investigate him again, they could just hire a new one who won’t.

That is literally what happened last time. The house (where Republicans are a majority) wouldn’t pass a bill that makes firing the FBI director illegal so there’s no real difference.

Moats. I was kidding at first, but I’m now thinking lazy rivers are modern moats.

That sounds like an adult with a social and/or psychological issue.

I think Reddit killed forums more than Facebook did.

Reductio ad absurdum is a valid proof by contradiction.

This post is more like a strawman fallacy.

I wouldn’t even be mad. My favorite amount of garlic is “too much garlic”

I couldn’t imagine having only one clove in a pasta sauce.

My pet peeve is when lids are slightly on. It’s worse than having no lid at all.

I liked Devs. It had a dope concept. That show didn’t get much buzz.

I don’t think Freddie Mercury was into the type of women he was singing about.

Facebook is basically a dinosaur. The demographic that were the first users ran away right around the time when their parents got accounts.

Lemmy users seem older than most social media to me. Why is Star Trek TNG so popular here if not?

I just ignored it because she would eventually learn to leave the guy.

That won’t necessarily happen.

Not everyone runs it in the shortest time possible. My longest run is probably close to a half marathon. It wasn’t fast and it was fun. If it weren’t fun, I wouldn’t have done it.

That being said, some people who run it in the shortest time possible probably find it fun too.

I think he argues in bad faith. I saw an interview he had with someone who had a disability where they were both arguing against a specific mobility technology because it could have military applications.

Everything can have military applications.

It sort of reminds me of people who don’t care about an arbitrary technology or research (let’s call it Z) and start saying “why are you working on Z, shouldn’t you be working on a cure for cancer instead”

9 times out of 10 the complainer isn’t trying to cure cancer themselves and the researcher doesn’t necessarily have the skillset to immediately switch to curing cancer.

Is it Missi Pyle’s husband Casey Anderson?

The picture’s not too clear, but I bet there aren’t a lot of famous people that are best friends with a bear.