Balling used to be slang for sex. It’s still the first thing I think of, unfortunately in this case.

I think it makes more sense to say that money is the great filter that’s threatening us right now. It’s the root of all evil, after all.

You’ve heard of rolling coal, get ready for rolling crematorium

Meaningful laws for thee, laughable pretense for me

Orange slime

I worry people find it distracting, but it definitely captures the imagination

If the lion doesn’t concern itself with memes, sooner or later memes will concern themselves with lion.

Sure. Human nature has a lot of ugly sides, and human nurture is not in great shape either, these days.

Nobody’s out here saying it would be a utopia if there was no religion. Perhaps the best we can do is accentuate the good, give the bad less room, and try to encourage everyone to hold themselves to the highest standard they can manage.

The piracy has already begun? Great news!

Seeing a lot of “we don’t do that here” in this comment section and I’m here for it

Hah. I must have had my sudden burst of aging at 37! Glad that’s over… Heh… Ehh

Surreal comedy is hardly random, it’s deliberately incongruous in ways that demonstrate a mastery of causal logic.

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I have an 8th grade DC trip story myself, actually. We were at one of those colonial reenactment places where everything is brown and people dress like it’s the 18th century. It was alright.

I got distracted and zoned out near the end, the bus left without me, and I was basically stranded in the 1700’s for most of an hour. It sucked but it was hilarious.

At one hotel we wrote “fuck you” on a piece of paper and hid it under a desk lamp.

On that same trip I made every kid on the bus refuse to eat lunch because I opened my burger and pointed out it had a “weird texture”.

That’s enough detail that if you were in my class I’ve basically doxxed myself. But if you found that note under the lamp, I want you to know that I sincerely meant it.

They obviously made their point in a hateful way, but that doesn’t mean you get to spike that football. If you stacked up all the hate that comes out of Abrahamic religious institutions and all the hate that comes from non-religious people and atheistic institutions, it’s not even close. Even if you compared per-capita, I’m willing to bet it’s on another order of magnitude.

If you’re looking for the point when the wrongness began, look no further than baryon asymmetry. Every known model of physics fails to explain why matter and antimatter were created in unequal proportions, and that’s why we’re in this mess.

Sheesh. An arbitrarily infinite multiverse and I end up stuck in the one where stuff exists.

Knowledge-gated progression perhaps.

I kind of enjoy the abstruse, tortured jargon of “metroidbrainia”, but I would never use it in a respectable conversation.

It’s a terrible thing to become aware of one’s own consistencies

For a while everything looked like Steven Universe/Adventure Time (CalArts). There was a couple of decades where Hanna Barbera single-handedly diminished the entire art form with the sheer volume of their minimally animated dogshit.

Smear frames, impact frames, the whole 9 yards

It helps if you’re fun.