Hate it when TikTok farm cosplayers and cottagecore types say stuff like "I'm not going to use modern equipment because my grandmothers could make do without it." Ma'am, your great grandma had eleven children. She would have killed for a slow cooker and a stick blender.

I’ve noticed a sort of implicit belief that people used to do things the hard way in the past because they were tougher or something. In reality, labor-saving devices have historically been adopted by the populace as soon as they were economically feasible. No one stood in front of a smoky fire or a boiling pot of lye soap for hours because they were virtuous, they did it because it was the only way to survive.

Taking these screenshots from Facebook because they make you log in and won't let you copy and paste:

I learned today that Scoobert Doo was designed to violate every Great Dane breed standard and I love that

*ungreats your dane*

crying so hard night now. he is cute is that not enough to let him compete

So actually, to compete in the Olympics in Ice Skating, Snoopy has to:

That's it.

So Lucy is basically right and wrong - Snoopy hasn't done those two things but potentially he could.

crying so hard night now. he is cute is that not enough to let him compete

Ooh. This is SO GEN X.... hopefully some of you younger ones will get it too.

I can't believe they left out the most important one...

Things We're Never Gonna Do:

Oat milk is made by milking goats and then putting the milk through a fine filter to extract all the "G"s

I heard thats where they get the "G"s for cell phone service

And the ones that don't get approved for cell phones, go into roller coaster forces

luke learns what a difference water makes to sand

Ranma 1/2 AU where Shampoo is actually Cologne's cat who fell into the spring of drowned girl and that's the real reason why she's completely fucking insane

Amazon law doesn't say any of that shit, and she wouldn't know even if it did, she can't read

you guys are so right, I should have added the best part

love when a character is a scientist and their speciality is science and they do science in a science lab. no specifics no clear goals no clue where their funding comes from. dont even worry about it. science.

The ulltimate embodiment of this is Mystery Science Theater 3000.

I feel like its worth noting that it remains unclear that Rodriguez promised jack and shit to Trump before he got up and announced that she was going to be our satrap. Trump likes to just say things that aren't true because he wants them to be true, and is used to this working more often than not, but he can't actually make reality bend to his will just by saying.

I have no particular sympathy for Maduro, and I understand that at the highest levels of international politics it all ultimately comes down to "big countries can kick little countries around for either good or bad reasons and they largely have to take it because what else are they gonna do," but as an American I sort of find the unending march of Presidents claiming more and more unilateral power to themselves to make war and peace, and to do murders, anywhere they can get away with it to be kind of disgusting.

I don't generally think much of Congress, but the House at least are the peoples representatives and both the Constitution and various pieces of legislation like the War Powers Act kind of establish that if we're going to do wars, that is THEIR prerogative, not that of the President, whose office exists primarily to do the will of Congress and not their own fevered preferences. Sending the military overseas with lethal intent is one of the most serious things a nation-state can do, and that decision should rest with the legislature, not a small cadre of guys in a room who can tell the rest of the country "Surprise!" after the deed is done.

This is before even getting into how there is functionally no intention of establishing a robust Venezuelan democracy. This would be a laudable goal and might be worth using force to achieve (leaving aside the fact that the US is deeply, deeply bad at trying to build democracies at the point of a gun) but the Trump Administration flatly doesn't give a shit about such things. Motives and intent, you know, matter. This was at best a fit of pique from a temperamental manchild, and at worst calculated imperialism, an literal oil war.

Trump's sheer incompetence is probably going to simply ensure that more Venezuelans back the rest of Team Maduro and he is farther from controlling Venezuela than he was before this.

Dune trading cards wax pack - Fleer (1984)

I cannot help but imagining Baron Harkonnen seeing this and laughing so hard that he dies.

the nearest depiction of an animal or other sentient fantasy creature to you at this moment comes to life right where it is (i.e. cat photograph, shark plushie, dragon painting, etc)

assume it doesn’t know you (unless it’s actually a specific animal you’ve met) and that it’s normal for its species and would do whatever was natural for it. including being too giant for and destroying the room it’s in. as well as dying immediately if its environment can’t support its life

I don’t want to hear any writing advice from Stephen king not because I think there would be no value in it but because whatever works for Stephen king is between him and god and that demon he made a pact with that lets him write 3000 words in one sitting daily.

"at least venezuela lost a dictator" "the good thing about trump's invasion" "maduro deserved it" oh my god some of you are dangerously susceptible to fascist propaganda.

unfriendly and honestly hostile reminder that trump isn't invading venezuela because maduro is a dictator, or because of drug cartels. he's doing it only and exclusively because they have desirable oil reserves and no other reason. reminder that venezuela is a comparatively poor country that will never financially recover from this. reminder that venezuelans are suffering with the bombing and the air strikes. reminder that trump did it to steal from them and no one did anything. reminder that this sets a dangerous precedent and now all trump has to do to invade another country is claim they're in a dictatorship. reminder that trump is a fascist dictator.

this will only be bad, for venezuelans and for all of latin america (and possibly the whole world) in the long run. trump did this not to help the venezuelans or their country, but to steal their petrol and get away with it. and he will. because that's what dictators do.