Of all the shit to charge Adams with, of course it’s bribery by scary foreigners instead of any of the significantly worse shit he’s done as mayor.

It’s very old art at this point, but I think it’s generally still considered canon.

That’s a big thing in the Horus Heresy series. There’s definitely a dude underneath it all, but he’s so massively psychically powerful that he’s got a permanent glamour effect that adjusts to each viewer’s conceptions. The Mechanicum sees him as a scientist, the primarchs largely see him as a massive warrior, etc.

improbable female authority figure

female authority figure is Cadian

Cadia is (yes, Cadia still stands. fite me chaos nerds) a world where every human with a pulse and an age above 5 is handed a rifle and sent to boot camp because LITERAL HELL IS RIGHT THERE, JUST LOOK UP AT THE DAEMONS COMING TO GET YOU

Bruh.

Ultramarines are improbably diverse

Ultramar is literally Space Rome, a massive cosmopolitan space empire consisting of 500 worlds and trillions of people

I’m going to find this person and beat them with my worn-out copy of Know No Fear until they stop whining about the existence of women and black people long enough to have at least a cursory knowledge of the lore they’re butchering.

It’s got strong Lysenko vibes for sure. Some people are so busy shitting on Amerikkka (good and based) that they start deciding that mRNA vaccines are actually inferior (bad and cringe).

There’s definitely been a trend of growing sentiment against any sort of authority under capitalism combined with general anti-intellectualism here. The threads full of people screaming that 9/11 was an inside job because jet fuel can’t melt steel beams was absurd, no matter how many people wander in pointing out that’s not how that works and that, yes, you should generally trust structural engineers even if they exist within the framework of capitalism, or threads like this full of people saying that (the very real) systemic racism within healthcare means that doctors have no clue what they’re talking about in any context and that you should just self medicate instead.

“Doom spending,” the new media term from the same people who harp on why it’s important that inflation be constant lest people not spend all their money all the time to keep the economy afloat

It’s also dumb because the Franco-Prussian War was re-litigated two more times afterwards in WW1 and WW2, and has only not been repeated again because western Europe fell under the American sphere of influence which prevented any more major European wars. It’s essentially irrelevant for modern times despite only happening 150 years ago.

Meanwhile, the American Civil War was never properly ended. The slave-owning class that started it continued on and is still in power today, and the vast brainworms of “The South Will Rise Again!” were never rooted out and destroyed. All it takes for the average American to have to think about Lincoln is spending twenty minute with their racist uncle, so obviously it’s more relevant.

based and Samuel Hayden-pilled

I feel like the systemic response to BLM completely negates your assertion. If mass riots don’t get even token police reform as a result, then it’s pretty clear that our leaders don’t give a shit about anything short of someone putting a gun to their head.

Going through that part of the country for the first time was wild to me because until you’re there it doesn’t occur to you that there is no shade anywhere. Even in an air conditioned car you will still be uncomfortably warm because the sun will be beating down on you for the entirety of daylight. I can’t even begin to imagine hiking through that, I’d be experiencing heatstroke within an hour.

Also considering that a lot of this C code is going to be extremely critical code pathways, like making sure your banks don’t collapse and your energy plants don’t blow up, the major pain paths for migrating to another language are going to be rigorously testing every last path through it, not rewriting it.

Who could’ve guessed that trying to invade the world’s most infamously uninvadeable region could’ve ended poorly for a combatant that has a smaller military than its opponent and has been having major logistics issues?

Fortunately for all involved it’s not like there was any historical precedent for this being a bad idea.

Fuck, just institute a 0.1% tax on Wall Street and you’d have to expand the MTA to spend all the money you’d have.

Can’t wait for Adams’ next primary opponent to run against him not because cops are shooting people over unpaid subway fares, but because the rounds of ammunition spent in the process were more expensive than the fare and so it’s not efficient fascism.

This is one of those blowback cases of patriarchy hurting men. Because the dominant social structure has men objectifying and harassing women constantly, it can be difficult to openly admit to finding a woman attractive as a man because people, very understandably, are going to assume that he means that in an objectifying way or is going to go harass her in public trying to get a date out of her and respond accordingly.

It obviously doesn’t compare to the consequences faced by femme presenting people, but I’ll have a moment every now and again where my bi femme partner and I will notice someone in a cute outfit and I have that moment of knowing that she could walk up to them and compliment them on it without issue, but if I tried to do the same they’re likely to be defensive and assume I’m about to ask them for their number.

I love this libertarian obsession with “true free markets” as if there has ever been or ever will be a market with no nation-states or major conglomerates putting their fingers on the scale for their own self interests. What a world it must be to live in where one is so high on idealism that they somehow miss how incredibly fucking worthless even considering such a thing is when a child could point out that would never occur.

Brandenburg players salivating over forming Prussia in 3 quick wars and developing geneseed for their troops in the 14th century.

You have to scan all 30 cards, then print out receipts for all of them, then assemble each card with its corresponding receipt, then prep 30 pens + card holders for that, then hand them out to the right people, then input all of their tips afterwards, and hope nobody fucks anything up else you’re dragging a manager over for the worst night of your life.

It’s actual hell dealing with more than 3 cards per table.

The background buildings have strong sci-fi military bunker vibes