[-] roscoe@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago

Yup, that's another one. I think that one is even worse because the new usage makes it a contranym. Dictionaries are starting to include the new usage of that one too. Unless you have a reason to be pretty sure the author/speaker knows the correct definition, it can be difficult to tell.

[-] roscoe@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago

Oooh, bison bulgogi, bison galbi, either would be good in bibimbap. I've got a couple things to try.

BTW: Yesterday I ended up going to the burger joint, but I got the bone marrow burger with a couple drams of Glenfarclas 18.

[-] roscoe@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, but...are you saying you never want some shitty nachos?

[-] roscoe@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago

I had a similar situation travelling in Ireland with a friend who ordered a black and tan.

[-] roscoe@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

You can't get it in the boonies. I live in a city and my insurance, with an earthquake rider, is only a few hundred a month. My coworker lives in sparsely populated area (by the standards of this metro area) and his insurance costs a little over 7x as much, and continues to rise.

And it's deserved too. These people move out there because they're the type that want to "own land," but then none of them maintain it. I'll go over to his house for a party and be in the backyard and everywhere I look, his property and every property it touches, as soon as you go beyond the area immediately around the house that is actually used, the entire ground is covered by kindling. One dropped cigarette and his entire neighborhood is gone.

[-] roscoe@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

Now I want to see videos of bees trying to fly in microgravity. Maybe set it to yakety sax.

[-] roscoe@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

Right?

Learning things a little at a time, when the stakes are low/non-existent is the way to go. From early teens to partway through college when you get an off campus apartment you can learn how to apply for a job, how to interview, responsibility, managing your money, responsible credit use, professionalism, bill paying. All this over the course of years, with a support system when you make mistakes (hopefully).

I guess some people think you should just have all that dropped on you like a ton of bricks the day after you get a diploma.

[-] roscoe@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago

He has a nuanced take on controversial issues and isn't afraid of voicing his opinions about them to push the conversation forward. I think he is taking a contrarian stance against what he perceives as a lack of nuance in response to his side of the conversation. I can understand being frustrated at tackling a complex issue imperfectly and simply being labeled a transphobe in response.

I don't think that's a good excuse in general, but for Chappelle specifically it definitely doesn't work.

If I remember correctly, when he walked away from his show is was partly due to the wrong people laughing for the wrong reasons. Bigots were laughing at his "nuanced takes" on the black community for their own racist reasons and missing the point.

Even if you think Chappelle isn't bigoted and he's trying to make some other point, after all this time it should be very clear to him bigots are missing the point and laughing for the wrong reasons.

He had the strength and conviction to walk away when it was the black community he thought he might be harming but not when it's trans people.

[-] roscoe@startrek.website 0 points 2 years ago

Me and everybody I know are doing great. My empirical evidence seems to disagree with yours.

Too bad nothing can be done about that. If only someone, maybe a government agency, could collect all the data and determine how the country is doing as a whole.

[-] roscoe@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The third punic war for sure.

Edit: The fuck downvoted that? Cato the Elder in here?

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