You’d think any hidden shit would have already come to light during her 26 years as one of the most visible progressives in the US House.

I think people get confused because it sounds so similar to “eventually”—i.e., something bound to occur given enough time.

It is not an eventuality, it is a possibility that he tries

That’s literally what “eventuality” means:

eventuality | əˌvɛn(t)ʃəˈwælədi |
noun (plural eventualities)
a possible event or outcome.

Hunt them to extinction, make fake ones ten thousand years later, and worship the fakes.

A steelman argument (the opposite of a strawman).

A Mid-Atlantic accent?

Any accent of English, including more recent ones, perceived as a mixture of American and British English, and often perceived as incorporating the prestige speech of one or both countries

One metric you might want to add is the network effect: how much of a difference does it make to the user experience to join a large instance (or the same instance most of your friends are on) compared to a small or self-hosted one? (Or in other words—does the nature of the platform software potentially incentivize consolidation?)

How would Carville even have standing to sue?

This Is How You Lose the Time War

• We see refiners from other locations, so they must have test subjects in other offices.

• The conversation between Drummond and Lorne implies that there have been many previous goat sacrifices (presumably with a corresponding human for each goat).

• Petey talks about a whole secret department full of trapped innies.

But I suspect that test subjects are used one at a time at a given location, which is why we don’t see others on the testing floor while Gemma is there.

I don’t think that was part of the initial plan—they selected Gemma based on tests from the fertility clinic, faked her death, and took her to the testing floor, which was all routine (Petey says there are others like Gemma who can’t leave). Mark joining Lumon was a coincidence which no one thought anything of until Harmony saw the potential of using them together. She pursued that on her own initiative, experimenting with exposing them to each other and moving next to Mark’s outie to get more information. It’s the results of her experiments in season 1 which convince the board that the Mark/Gemma relationship is the key to achieving a new breakthrough, which only becomes their goal in season 2.

My theory is that the inhabitants of K2-18b are deliberately flooding their atmosphere with dimethyl sulfide to make it unappealing to humans.

Presumably it’s related to whatever Harmony was seeing in season 1 when she kept putting Mark and Ms Casey together—something the board didn’t initially seem to expect.

Maybe this was the first time the process got this close to completion, and the Mark/Gemma relationship was the missing ingredient.

I honestly feel like I wasted my one minute of typing this.

Good news—this one weird trick can make you the fastest typist in the universe!

It’s been towed beyond the environment.

Earth travels at 107,826km/ph

In that reference frame, the speed of the ISS varies between 79,826 and 135,826 km/h.

“This is coming from an environmental toxin and somebody made it and put that environmental toxin into our air or water or medicines or food,” Kennedy said during the press conference at the Department of Health and Human Services’ headquarters in Washington, D.C.

“And we’ll announce the culprit as soon as the next corporate figure from any of those industries is critical of the Trump administration.”

While the project is still in early stages, we’re told there’s an internal prototype focused on ChatGPT’s image generation that has a social feed.

Dammit—I can see that actually taking off with many audiences, if it generates an eye-catching fake image to go with every text post.

It’s become an overriding issue for them because the media they consume convinced them a trivial grammatical feature “really drives at the core of what they think it means to be a human person”. If the pronoun issue disappears, the same media will pick some other random issue no one currently cares about to elevate into another existential crisis—and idiots like Carville will keep taking the bait, believing the newest fake issue on the distraction treadmill is their last remaining obstacle to victory.

Goats will only eat grass if there are no other green plants accessible.