asmallcat

OldGriswold said:

All the Chickens said:

ken hale said:

So, uhh, what was with that horse last week?

Pale horse of death? Nah
Arya’s dead? Nah
Bran warged it? Nah
Just an inexplicably clean-ass horse hanging out in an apocalypse, never to be seen again? Nailed it.

Clean? You sure about that?

Head-canon

Bran warged into Ken Hale's head and made him forget the horse was dirty. 

Clean Horse
Cean Hose
Cen Hose
Ken Hole
Ken Hale. 

Seems extra-appropriate for this site lol. 

Except that the tone of debate is not the only, or even the main, problem. This idea that all debate needs to be equal, and all sides have good points, is how you get shit like climate denial, obama is a secret kenyan muslim, banning the CDC from researching gun violence, blatant lies about immigrant crime, etc, etc, etc.

Sometimes civility and hearing all sides is not the answer. Sometimes people need to be told they are wrong, and that they are being a fucking idiot. 

Rush Limbaugh. To quote a tweet I saw, "All I'm asking that you treat the news of Rush Limbaugh's death with the same level of respect he gave, undocumented immigrants, women, Michael J. Fox,  minorities, rape victims, LGBTQ individuals etc."

Edit - also this tweet - "Live your life in such a way that "Rest in Piss" does not trend when you die." 

It makes perfect sense with all the dumb shit that's happened in the last 5 years that we're in the Archie timeline. 

asmallcat said:

Yeah I decided I'd throw $50 in a brokerage account and go to r/wallstreetbets, sort by new, and literally buy the first stock I saw mentioned that wasn't Blackberry, Gamestop, or AMC. I'm happy to report that my $50 is now worth

Drumroll please

$46. 

Yup. I will continue to put my actual investment money into index funds lol. 

By the way everyone, my $50 is now worth $51. 

BOW BEFORE THE GOD OF STONKS, PUNY MORTALS, AND DESPAIR!  

Dee said:

After I heard on America’s Test Kitchen that smooth peanut butter outsells crunchy 4 to 1, I don’t think the US is any position to be getting on their high horse about other people’s peanut butter quirks.

This is the first time I've been proud of the US in about 5 years. CREAMY FOREVER! CRUNCHY PEANUT BUTTER IS TRASH! IT'S CALLED PEANUT BUTTER, AND LAST I CHECKED BUTTER ISN'T CHUNKY.  

Hatorian said:

To get back on covid. Recent news says phizer is only 40% effective against Delta in terms of catching it.

you cannot force people to take something for the benefit of society if it’s a 50/50 shot they are still going to get people killed. 

Yes, its 99% effective against severe illness and death. But that’s only a reason to get it for yourself. 

That's about on par with the flu vaccine, and we still recommend everyone get that to protect the vulnerable. 

Plus, taking the Delta variants R value from 7 to 10 (where most estimated put it) to 3.5-5 will definitely save lives, so it's still going to save a lot of lives, especially when compared to the single-digit deaths in the US caused by the vaccines. And that assumes that people who are vaccinated are contagious for as long, which seems to not be the case, so it's probably reducing the R value even more than that. 

And we force people to do stuff that saves lives less than 50% of the time all the time. I have to say "well, since this mandate will only save 10,000 people instead of 20,000 people, we probably shouldn't bother" is a bizarre take. 

Jesus so far it looks like Nagy is trying to get fired.