🎵 Wave your hands in the air Like you don’t care Glide by the people as they start to look and stare Do your dance, do your dance Do your dance quick, mama Come on baby, tell me, what’s the queer? Oh, queer up! 🎶

Charlie’s Angels’ Colon must have been a direct to TV sequel

This and inflationary language are two of my favorites from him!

Oh, that’s the famous Sherlock Holmes fanfic author, right? And occasionally Batman fanfic!

National Treasure is a mediocre movie that I will always watch the shit out of. It is the perfect balance of ridiculousness and action, and just always brings me joy.

Better than jumping the shark

What does lamo mean? I understood the rest, and yes, my back hurts.

Northerners: The American Civil War

Southerners: The War for States’ Rights

Deep Southerners: The War of Northern Aggression

Deep Deep Rednecks: North 1, South 0, HALFTIME!

Even if that’s true (just assuming you’re correct for now), wouldn’t the effect on the industry overwhelm whatever savings? Sure, if you focus just on the deficit, maybe, but there are a lot of jobs in health insurance/administration/etc. Those people would be unemployed, or (WAY more generously) need to be retrained and transferred to other jobs. Plus there would likely be massive legal challenges, especially around all the religious hospitals, which are often the only care in an area, and working through that would cost billions.

I’m very pro-single payer/socialized healthcare in the US, but I do wonder what a transition would look like. If tomorrow, Congress passed (lol) a bill for socialized medicine (lolol) and was willing to pay whatever it took (lololololol), I bet we would increase the deficit significantly during the transition, which would be maybe 5-10 years. By the time we made that back from efficiency savings, it might be more like 30+ years. Wonder if there’s a model or white paper of that.

I’m skeptical that cost overall is a good argument in favor of single payer, at least in the short/medium term. Now, that’s the fault of the current private healthcare industry, not the fault of socialized medicine. My strongest argument is in terms of a human right to health, and an improvement to civilized society.

Canadians are always dreaming up a lotta ways to ruin our lives. The metric system, for the love of God! Celsius! Neil Young!

I don’t know about best, but I will always watch the intro for the first season of Peacemaker. It is so absolutely ridiculous. The second season opening is good, too, but not quite as classic.

I just finished a rewatch of FMA:B and totally forgot that at the end, Ed sincerely talks with Truth about how being “just a human” isn’t a big deal, because even with alchemy, he couldn’t save a little girl. What happened to Nina was basically a seminal moment in Ed and Al’s life that drove them to change into who they became. I oscillate between sadness and horror about the whole ordeal. Oh, also, good meme.

Oh god how have I never realized this. You monster!

Also, it’s crazy to me that we still use the normal metric prefixes for a logarithmic scale!

When I was younger, I assumed that trans people wanted to transition because they felt their personality wasn’t their “assigned at birth” sex. And thus, because of society’s expectations that “men should dress and act this way” and “women have to do/be this,” a lot of people who didn’t meet that would be trans. But as I met and talked to more people, both trans and agender/genderfluid/etc., it does seem like those with body dysphoria actually feel uncomfortable in their bodies, and want a different body. But I’ve never actually asked any trans friends about it, because it does feel too personal, even though some of them are very good friends.

So, my question: if there were no gender norms or societal expectations, would you still want to transition? Would that answer change if surgery/hormones aren’t desired, and you instead do want to keep the body you were born with?

I had a neighbor growing up who was opposed to legalizing same-sex marriage in our state. Why? Oh, it was because he was legitimately convinced that it would ruin his gay son’s marriage, which had occurred in Massachusetts and was currently recognized by our state. He thought his son would have to get remarried again in our state, and that was unfair and discriminatory to his beloved son. “Why should he have to get married again just because he’s gay?!?”

Yeah, but can it play Doom?

No! I’m sure we’ve aged like a fine milk. Strongbad is timeless!

I recognized this immediately. I hope Kyle “The Yellow Dart” Smith is doing okay

Liz has no tolerance for tardiness

Ridiculous. The metric system is all the same. How many millimommies in a decamommy? I dunno, but it’s 10 or 100 or 1000 or something like that. Everything is a factor of ten, and the unit conversions are even a factor of 10! You can look that up in a table, and a 6-year-old can properly measure things. Booooring!

Now look at the Imperial/English/Standard/US/Florida system: how many hogshead in a cubic furlong? Nobody knows offhand, so you have to get creative. Is it a US standard colonial, also called a tobacco hogshead? Or is it the British hogshead? It may depend on the contents, like whether it’s brandy or sugar or fish (the species matters!). You can convert to firkins if you wish, but that’s optional. As for furlongs, it used to depend on the horse, but sadly they standardized it to 40 rods, because German feet were longer than English feet, probably due to the toes. Fortunately, some states in the US still disagree on definitions, so the length may depend on the state. Once you figure that out, you can easily calculate that using a English wine hogshead and an international furlong leads to about 34,136,818.7 hogshead in a cubic furlong. Explain to me how that’s not better than your silly metric system!