For real!

Step one of automating a task (successfully) is understanding it intimately

What about a similarly sized steel blank or poker chip?

WCGR?

Yes, single-issue voters exist. For many, just saying that you’re anti-abortion is enough.

I, too, originally took the line to mean that Smith didn’t know what he was doing, like he was out of his mind, which played into the deranged speech he’d just given. Turns out I was reading way too far into it.

I think maybe a little misleading, but probably not fake. For the boxed meal, that shit happened all the time. It’s just like going through the drive through.

For meals served on ships, most of the time you ask for what you want, they don’t just give you what they have. If you have a piece of bread on your tray, that’s because you only grabbed a piece of bread. Most of the time.

Sometimes there’s just not a lot of options because you haven’t been replenished in a while and the cooks have already done what they can to keep people from bitching at them constantly. Fresh fruits and vegetables are always the first to spoil, so eventually everything is canned, frozen, rehydrated, or reconstituted. Or baked from scratch, poorly.

Why lol here? The sequels are a bit hollow, so this seems like it would be true almost no matter what, but not having seen acolyte I can’t draw a fair comparison.

Did everyone share qui gon’s view that Anakin was going to do that? Or was it just him and obi wan?

Every time you communicate an idea in a way a prescriptivist doesn’t like, an angel gets its wings

Rice pilaf would like a word with your starch-deprived mother

How far abaft of the beam? How far from centerline? Is that first or second deck?

If any other country was pouring millions into our elections everybody would be up in arms, but because it’s Israel they somehow get a pass.

(oops, it’s John, not Jon)

That makes sense and I’ve felt the same with a few bits they’ve done recently, and they harp on things a little too long sometimes (Lyndon Johnson’s nuts, for example), but I still think he/the writers make compelling arguments and present them in interesting ways.

It’s amusing and informative, perfect for laugh-crying about the state of the world.

And Last Week Tonight with Jon Oliver.

For the late shows I like Kimmel well enough, but he just doesn’t have the same charisma as Colbert.

My first thought was a gun, that’s pretty American, and if you show them how American you are they are less likely to want to try to arrest you

Maybe it’s just my algorithm but I don’t think I’ve been presented any slop videos. Surely not long videos, right?

Walking backward is just walking negatively forward by another name

I don’t think they posted on Lemmy to get search results

Capitulation was originally the negotiation that led to one side surrendering, hence the meaning of capitulation as surrender. But to recapitulate is to have the negotiation again, or kind of re-discuss, which is where we get the word recap.

I just went down a fun little rabbit hole for this only a few weeks ago, glad I got to regurgitate it!

It’s so crazy that 10 million subscribers is huge by YouTube standards but practically meaningless in the larger context.