He could do all that by pulling a fire alarm.

Honestly the first actual sign of resistance from within the Senate chamber.

Dumbass L*dditor gets amused by jingling keys.

As far as I’m concerned, we’re not getting the site name back. Everything should be planned with that in mind. There will be massive consequences like you’ve stated, and those are massive consequences that the website will have to face because the site name is not coming back. No use clinging to false hope.

They just missed the first octet.

Please don’t spend a single cent recovering the domain. The closing bid is probably going to be >$1000, which most of you probably couldn’t afford anyways. What’s done is done.

The way forward is to accept the lost of the domain name, come up with internal processes to make sure that retiring admins have to fork over the credentials, and either come up with another site name or reuse chapo.chat. Please don’t try to attempt to outbid these libs and definitely do not make some humiliating backroom deal with those libs over the administration of this site for the sake of getting the domain back.

The Democrats went from starting a civil war because they wanted to keep slavery to whatever the fuck this is. It’s almost like there’s absolutely nothing redeemable about the Democrats and they should be relegated to the dustbins of history like the NSDAP. At least Republicans have a coolish origin story even if it’s completely irrelevant to how they are today.

Academia is completely jargon-brained. Mao was right to send them to the countryside to shovel pig shit.

Oppobrium

It just means shame, a near universal concept found in almost every single human society. “Uh aktually, oppobrium has no modern equivalent because the Roman’s understanding of shame is different from modern society.” Shame is shame. Every society has the concept of shame. Obviously, every society has their own particular twist and interpretation of it.

Latifundium

It’s just a plantation within a Roman context. Academia being jargon-brained means using this word even when it’s really obvious you’re writing something within a Roman context. If you’re writing a paper about the economy of the late Roman empire, you don’t need to say “latifundium” or even “Roman plantation.” You can just say “plantation” because the paper is obviously about Rome. Now, if you’re comparing different types of plantations, then it would make sense to use the word. If you’re comparing a Roman plantation with a Haitian plantation, using “latifundium” and “habitation” would make sense since “Roman plantation” and “Haitian plantation” gets cumbersome after a while.

Bellicose

It means warlike, aggressive, or combative. It’s one of those words that’s occasionally used in writing but never used in speech. Most people would just use “belligerent” as in a “belligerent drunk.” And I just looked it up and both “bellicose” and “belligerent” come from the same Latin “bellum” for “war.” Another instance of academia being divorced from the masses where they picked the slightly less often used word even when both words mean the same thing and come from the same Latin word.

Effete

It’s not used often and for good reason. The word has homophobic and misogynist undertones. When you call someone an effete man, you’re basically calling him a limp-wristed homo. The word originally meant “woman weakened from having just given birth.”

They simply outlived its usefulness. At this point, they probably get more ROI by platforming Joe Rogan or propping up some Breadtuber than blowing millions of dollars on Radio Free.

The episode is pretty dark for a Simpsons episode and Homer acts a little out-of-character (he acts dumber but more earnestly than he usually does). It’s a huge contrast if you compare Homer in this episode and Jerkass Homer during the Skully years. That rubs some people the wrong way. This episode is one of the few Simpsons episode with a permanent death, so it’ll always be talked about relative to other episodes just like how the episode where Maude dies gets talked about and even referenced in later episodes even if the actual episode is meh.

It’s also a season 8 episode, so there’s the wider context of people pointing to it as the end of the classic era and people not liking season 8 for being too meta. I don’t think the episode would get this much attention if it were a season 6 episode. In general, a lot of season 8 and season 9 episodes get the spotlight pointed at them because there’s a faction of the Simpsons fanbase who thinks that this episode marks the end of the classic era. Homer’s Enemy and The Principal and the Pauper get the most heat.

I say every single season 1 episode because there are still people who insist on excluding them from classic era Simpsons.

What about Lisa’s Rival? Everybody remembers the B plot, but how many people actually talk about the main plot? There’s character development in Lisa being a big fish in a small pond, there’s funny lines (“Here’s the grapes, and here’s the wrath!”), Milhouse getting chased by feds. I guess it’s underrated in that sense.

Bart’s Inner Child is kinda the same thing. The entire episode gets overshadowed by the trampoline B plot.

Where’s n-word bot when we need it?

Monogamy will always have a place for the very simple reason that:

1. Polygamous relationships means more in-laws, both from having more than one partner and each partner having a possibility of having more than two parents.

2. Nobody wants to deal with in-laws.

Imagine having to juggle around 9 in-laws (3 partners with 3 parents each). Fucking nightmare fuel.

Yeah, I would want to get rid of USAID too if this is where they blow their money on lmao

Is adb enough to get rid of this shit for good or is this one of those things where Google will constantly try to reinstall it in your device a la Microsoft?

1. Do the time honored tradition of moving the PC to an inconspicuous location to see if people look for it before moving it to the back of your trunk.

2. Take some of the parts home if you can’t take the entire PC with you. You would have to spend money on a used case, which is like 20 bucks. Do note that the motherboard and PSU aren’t completely internal components. What you can salvage home depends on the salvage policy of your IT department. Nobody cares about RAM or the motherboard lithium battery while people usually care about the storage drives because any semi-competent IT department would have policy stipulating that retired storage drives need to be sanitized or shredded.

3. Befriend people from IT or the warehouse and ask if they can “salvage” the PC by “disposing” it into the back of your trunk.

“Dear Elon” is pretty sus. It should be “Dear Mr. Musk” or [Musk’s made-up position] Musk." No way this dude’s staff would make such a mistake, especially in the context of someone sucking up to Musk.

It’s time: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/

1. End capitalism because I don’t want to show up for work.

2. Create walkable cities because I hate driving.

3. Eradicate all diseases because I don’t want to get Covid or the bird flu.

I don’t really have much to add since the two chapters are pretty straightforward. To go on a tangent:

In 1909, the publisher of Die Bank, Alfred Lansburgh, wrote an article entitled “The Economic Significance of Byzantinism”, in which he incidentally referred to Wilhelm II’s tour of Palestine, and to “the immediate result of this journey, the construction of the Baghdad railway, that fatal ‘great product of German enterprise’, which is more responsible for the ‘encirclement’ than all our political blunders put together”.

Zionists will never stop seething when reminded that their so-called country is less than a century old. Meanwhile, Palestine predates the Second Reich and First Reich, proto-Germanic as a spoken language, Baghdad, Byzantium, the Roman Empire, the Roman Republic, and the Roman Kingdom.

This is fascinating. I thought Asimov was a lib? I thought he didn’t like communism? But this paragraph suggests otherwise? He sounds very much like he thinks the world will either go communist or be destroyed.

Upholding the immortal science of Marxism-Leninism just to own Orwell.