Yeah a lot of effort has been put into presenting socialism/anarchism/Marxism as a reaction against humanistic liberalism (Stephen Pinker perfected this narrative), but the reality is that they are a development of it, and I do think we need to regain that sense of continuity somehow

There’s a whole archetype of Bald British YouTube Guy Who Does Radio 4 Intonation* In Place of Actual Comedy or Substance

• context: https://youtu.be/QVUhSLl1DAQ

tfw what you purchased was not an ape, nor an image of an ape, but a claim to a link to an image of an ape

So funny to me how proud Americans are of ‘rationalizing’ English spelling when all they did was make it 0.00001% less insane

Lol, lmao

The first time I saw the Spanish one was at like four in the morning, and I thought I’d had a stroke lol

I have very fond memories of the Neil Buchanan era — of how quaint, low-fi and distinctly British it was — so my mind was kind of blown when I realized it has since become an international franchise

“One point three two”, because otherwise the question is ‘thirty two what’. Consider what happens if we put a zero on the end — does it become “one point three hundred and twenty” despite being exactly the same number?

I do often feel like we overcorrected after New Atheism, and also Catholicism gets too much of free pass on the anglo internet, which irks when you live somewhere where Catholic orgs are literally funding the hard right, BUT secularism is vitally important imo, and that means freedom of worship for everyone

The interesting thing about this situation imo is that, while I’m sure the EU would like to hedge, they’re going to be made to choose. Joining the embargo against China is going to be a hard demand from the US in these tariff negotiations, guaranteed.

Tbh the EU has been gearing up for a pivot to China for a while now — Nord Stream was the point of no-return, and now the tarrifs are lighting a fire under the whole process

Oh no, now who will vomit all over our beautiful historic plazas

It is definitely worth it

I’m sorry sir, our beef must be cooked thoroughly to account for the large quantities of fecal matter therein. It’s ‘organic’

Don’t mind me, I’m just going to the American restaurant. They serve real American beef, don’t you know.

Worth noting though that such takes frame Thatcher as a revolutionary, when really what she did was bring the Tories home after their brief dalliance with Keynesianism; and that brief, anomalous period owed more to the apparent threat of world revolution than anything else

Imagine having the guy from Weezer as mayor smdh

Jfc man, at least Obama managed to sound progressive on immigration

I think the shows themselves will change much less than the publicity around them. The wokeness of an e.g. Disney show has always existed more in the press releases than in the text itself.

It’s a pun