You say that as if mixed race people aren’t routinely ostracized by both sides of their mix.

The dripping tap won’t be turned off by the suits in charge of the world, and our future’s hanging on by a thread

Because marginalized groups are weak because they don’t grasp their power. Numbers are irrelevant without coordinated organization. A hundred separate marginalized groups taking separate action can never compete with centralized power. Only when those groups unify with a common purpose and course of action can the power of their numbers be actualized

I’m really, really excited for the new InfoWars.

Correct. But it’s easier to assemble and publish an editorial about discrete symptoms than a manifesto on core societal ills.

Same emotion?

The Dripping Tap by KGaTLW

Correct. I’m not sure the article writer would disagree.

I think that not being able to get ahead without parental help is explicitly a symptom of that.

Probably

Dude, no one is doing that. People are, correctly, calling you out for having abysmal media literacy and being an absolute asshole about it. You twisted an image that everyone else seems to understand into an argument that no one was making. Maybe instead of doubling down, you might consider listening to some of the many people patiently explaining how the meme is the exact opposite of what you’re imagining.

Hylics

That’s the hope. If we’re gonna have a fascist state, at least let it be a bumbling incompetent fascist state.

I consider lore and worldbuilding to be related but different concepts. Lore is the details of your world, worldbuilding is the way you deliver those details.

My favorite example of worldbuilding is The Dark Crystal, both the film and series. The lore is standard fantasy stuff, but the intricacies of the world are so rich and they unfold so naturally. It felt like a real world, and I felt like very little of what I learned about that world was simply narrated to me. The world was built through tiny details, interactions and observations, throwaway lines of dialogue, and effectively so.

The Mars Volta in general. Tons of friends have recommended them to me after hearing some of what I listen to, and it’s just not my jam. On paper I should, but alas.

It’s dribbles, that’s why he’s standing that way

It can be frustrating to go from a thriving niche subreddit to a new venue without anyone to populate those niche communities. Outside of ML, FOSS, and Star Trek, most of the niche communities are ghost towns.

I don’t think anyone is suggesting convincing AskReddit or /r/memes to migrate. I think they’re mostly targeting /r/ObscureInterestYou’veProbablyNeverHeardOf.

That’s rad as all get out, not terrible at all

I read the headline, I read the discussion. If the discussion convinces me to read the article myself, I will. If there’s broad consensus, generally it’s not worth my time to confirm what I’ve learned already.

I do this for several reasons:

1. Ads. Even with ad blocker the frequent text breaks are exhausting.

2. Overeditorialization. I want the facts, not a narrative. I get why that’s the way the information is presented, but my time is limited and I’m not into it. Same reason I don’t really like (non-nature) documentaries

3. Perspective. The author has their own unitary perspective, and I prefer to consume multiple perspectives on an issue so I can explore the problem/solution space.

If it’s short, data heavy, and plays nice with Simplified Mode then I’ll read it real quick, but the less navigation I have to do to obtain information the better.

The shoes sent me

I proposed to my wife at Christmas by putting the ring in a bigger box so she was surprised. It was a box for skincare product, and she was actually excited for it before she even opened it to see the ring. Obviously she was happy for the proposal, but she also seemed a little disappointed she didn’t get skincare stuff.

The following Christmas, I got her a tiny container of a skincare product she liked and put it in a ring box.