I’m glad I could help!

I must be old.

Oh, Luigi should absolutely be convicted.

And then sentenced to unconditional release.

I always get those mixed up.

The “Your Parents Have Gotten Old Enough, Haven’t They?” Act.

It sure is a good thing that land elects presidents.

I thought it was well established that decades of forest management that included extinguishing every single fire is what has produced an excess of fuel for today’s fires.

Edit: In case I am misunderstood, I’m pretty sure that kind of forest management was changed a long time ago, but the consequences are still evident. I am not saying that denying funding is in any way correct or justified. There is nothing about California’s forest management that would demand that.

Democrats voicing concerns …

Bring me my pearls; I must clutch them!

The ever-present “-ly” suffix that makes nouns and adjectives into adverbs comes from the Old English (and earlier) suffix “lic” (pronounced leek), which meant “like” (as in “similar to”).

Someone who is “friend-like” is friendly. Something that is done “proper-like” is done properly.

I’m on my third listen-through of the History of English Podcast, and I notice something every time. Like how the origin of the phrase “going Dutch” for “paying one’s own way on a date” was derogatory against the Dutch by the English when there was the huge global commerce and colonization competition between the two. And that that’s just the currently best known one of many phrases “against” the Dutch – “in Dutch” meaning “in trouble,” usually in jail, is another, but there’s almost too many to count.

Now look what you’ve done.

Tangential note:

The -ster suffix was initially reserved for specifying that the person being referred to was a woman, as in “spinster.” After some time it was extended to words like “gangster” and “jokester”.

That’s a little different than what I was thinking.

Most Tijuana bibles were obscene parodies of popular newspaper comic strips at the time, … Others made use of characters based on popular movie and sports stars of the day …

That’s more along the lines of Rule 34, or the early Simpsons “porn” that got sent by fax machine.

I was thinking of wholly original “mainstream” comics that you could just go buy at a drugstore or newsstand.

No one will ever convince me that old comics weren’t just thinly veiled fetish media.

That’ll surely cancel out the impending fascism.

Now we get to find out if WWII was just fascism’s Beer Hall Putsch.

But when it comes to Americans, it’s open season for people to take pot shots, and it always gets upvoted regardless of its accuracy.

It was once possible to see the rise of fascism in the United States as something that was being amplified by media, amplified by foreign influence, amplified by propaganda, amplified by whoever made the most noise on Facebook.

Then the election happened, and Trump won. The reality that Americans as a whole are much shittier than previously imagined became undeniable, and that has really upset a lot of people’s worldview (myself included).

Trump’s federal cases got dismissed, and now his sentence for 34 felonies in New York State is “go on your merry way.” Fascism isn’t looming in the distance somewhere anymore; it’s literally eight days away as of this writing.

So yeah, it’s open season for people to take pot shots, especially when the US has been promoting itself on the world stage for decades as the height of moral superiority. And it’s very easy for people to conflate “Americans” with “an American”. If a specific person in a specific context is making that kind of conflatory (yeah, that’s a word) mistake continually, I may point it out, but I generally understand and I’m willing to give it a pass for the moment.

Seems the log jam has been freed, though I didn’t stay up all night. In any event, I’ll go back to minding my own business now.

I’m somewhat on the outside of this, am aware of a bit but not following super close.

But the moment I read

Hello all, it is with a heavy heart that I must admit that I have become the drama that I always sought to avoid for this server.

– Yeah, you’re fine.

Simply being in a position of authority, even if you are not using that authority, will make you a target for rabble-rousers. On internet forums, the Venn diagram between “people who need to be moderated” and “people who will raise hell about mod actions” has a huge amount of overlap. There’s kind of no avoiding catching hell as a forum mod.

I’ll pay attention while I’m up all night getting high and watching car builder videos, and let you know.

It’s on par with a thought experiment. The notion is still one worth considering, even if it is impractical or unsuitable to create a literal test based on it.