Hemingways_Shotgun

Meh. My real world would know what my digital world already knows, that I’m much more of a nerd than I portray myself as.

It’s not because I purposefully hide it. It’s because it’s not a topic that is interesting to anyone in my real world circle of friends. I don’t have real world friends who want to talk about Linux, and Open Source, and retro-video games, and all of the other stuff that I ramble on about online in forums where the peeps who understand me all hang out.

There’s probably some very surprising porn habits in there as well that my real world friends and family would have NO CLUE about, but c’est la vie.

That is essentially the vibe I got from that argument. We didn’t last much longer after that.

The moment I knew that I had to break it off with my ex was when a comment about tea-cup saucers turned into an accusation that I “always had to be right”.

We were having cake for dessert:

Her: “Can you grab plates?”

Me: Grabs a couple of small plates.

Her: “No, those aren’t for cake. It’s the really small ones.”

Me: “Okay, but FYI the small ones are actually teacup saucers. You can tell the difference because they have the indent in the middle so the teacup doesn’t slip around.”

Her: “You just always have to be right, don’t you?”

What followed was a truly bonkers argument where I found myself accused of “lording my intelligence” and told that I had to be right in everything.

For the record, I told her I literally didn’t give a shit what she wants to eat cake off of. I’m the guy that would happily use a Tupperware lid as a plate if it was the closest thing to hand. I was just pointing out an “interesting fact” (in my mind at least).

Not in a million years.

There is no such thing as a perfectly accurate touch pad “click”. Most people (myself included) tend to see their finger slip (even just a millimeter) to the right or the left when pressing down to click on a touchpad. It leads to go knows how many times that my cursor in the middle of typing has suddenly jumped to a completely different line. In fact, it’s why they implemented the option to turn off the touchpad when typing.

So now let’s introduce ANOTHER use to that part of the keyboard. Not only do we have to deal with a wandering cursor, but we have to deal with random spaces popping into existence every time we try to scroll.

Screw that.

Musk’s entire job is to keep the media focused on him and his stupidity so that we aren’t paying attention to what his useful orange idiot is doing.

Rock me, sexy jesus.

I won’t go as far as to say Alien 3 was good. But I will say this:

Alien 3 was exactly the movie that it had to be in order to end the original trilogy properly from a story/thematic perspective.

I’m not even going to call it a guilty pleasure, but Josie and the Pussycats was a movie that I genuinely adored long before people started to appreciate it for the satire that it is.

As a CIS male I got endlessly mocked, but I stuck to my guns.

I wouldn’t necessarily call those two facts “incidental”. I’d be pretty confident calling it “cause and effect”.

Its - “ownership”

It’s - “being” (ie. IT IS)

There are plenty of grammar rules that are annoying to figure out. This isn’t one of them.

• Him --> His (no apostrophe…drops the m)

• Her --> Hers (no apostrophe)

• It --> Its (no apostrophe)

• He is --> He’s

• She is --> She’s

• It is --> It’s

Because if the earth doesn’t want it, it has ways of shutting down that kind of thing.

Or alternatively, Christianity only exists because in an attempt to prevent it, someone from the future snapped Jesus out of existence. But it turns out that Jesus was just some dude who liked to do nice things for people until one day he poofed out of existence in front of a crowd and everyone suddenly figured he must be a god.

The first one. Specifically because of wave function collapse (ie. The cat is both alive and dead until the box interacts with the universe)

I either could have or could not have travelled back in time to the year 1927. In our present universe, the wave function collapsed and revealed that I didn’t. If I went back in time to 1927, I’d essentially be re-rolling the dice, causing the wave function to collapse again, this time revealing that I did in fact move back in time.

Re-rolling the dice doesn’t change the initial roll. It’s immutable in the fabric of reality. All I’m doing is creating a new universe in which I did travel back in time.

If I were to then move forward again, I’d be in the new timeline, not the original one. There’s no going home again. Which is why Sam Beckett was never able to return home. He spent four seasons creating different universes where one person’s life was better at the expense of a bunch of others.

Re-education camps are bad things even if you agree with what they’re “educating”

You can’t apply dogma to someone by forcing it onto them. People have to come to realizations on their own. You can help them to that realization by doing a number of things that are ostensibly agnostic (offering critical thinking courses at the local library, encouraging people to learn how civics actually works, etc…)

But you can’t just throw them in a “facility” and say “this is what we want you to believe and you’re going to sit there until you do.”

You try your best to encourage them to your side. But if they don’t want to come, the best you can do is to mitigate the destruction their willful ignorance can do.