and did those feet in ancient times walk upon Whoville's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God on Whoville's pleasant pastures seen? And did the Countenance Divine shine forth on our clouded Mount Crumpet? And was Jerusalem builded here among the dark, satanic Grinch?

Thank you everyone who wished me a happy birthday yesterday!

I'm starting to believe that all of the alleged spoilers and rumors that exist about The Drama are a form of guerilla marketing, because I have been searching up and down the Internet and I cannot find any actual spoilers or rumors… just rumors about rumors

So much snow melted last night and now everything is kind of ugly and they canceled the replacement snow that was supposed to fall on Saturday 💔

Everyone should really actualize the fact that 19-year-olds and 37-year-olds routinely interact on this website as social peers in a way that they absolutely never would in most other contexts

This is true for basically everything on here. If you see people responding in a way that seems childish and sheltered, they probably are actual sheltered children

We're supposed to be hosting the World Cup in like six months

And you can abstract it and try to make it all about personal liberties or republican ethos or something but that just isn't true, really, it's mostly about contrasting fundamentalist religious beliefs that do not make sense in a time shaped by the ecumenical movement

I think a pretty fundamental issue for me in reading about the Wars of the Three Kingdoms is that I just fundamentally cannot comprehend getting so worked up about there being rood screens in the local church. Like I get it on an intellectual level but it's extremely alien to me

what is more harmful, destroying your child's sense of wonder and awe or getting to boast that you never lied to them (you almost certainly will lie to them hundreds of times, lying a totally normal and value neutral part of social interaction)

Or they seek to make their child an extension of themselves and their own grown up neuroses and obsessions, witness the rise of books for toddlers on every adult celebrity and media property or political figure as though your toddler must know Trump bad but Taylor Swift good

My honest answer to this is that I think a lot of modern parents are incredibly self-involved and do not allow their children to be children or experience a sense of whimsey out of a narcissistic sense that any minor childhood discomfort they experienced amounts to trauma

This is literally what Cignetti did

Like no shade if you're not familiar with the book at all but you're supposed to be deriving humor from the (fake) YA romance cover for a self serious literary novel

A disturbingly large percentage of people are not understanding the joke here

"Happy birthday Himbo President" say it back

I've yet to meet a single person who likes QR code menus

This was absolutely phenomenal. Probably a great read at any time of the year but especially interesting at the height of the winter holiday season. Cannot recommend it highly enough

Alabama fans and not knowing anything about college basketball, name a more iconic duo

It could just be that the average college kid using AI to do their homework is not knowledgeable enough to use the technology effectively to find sources, but i'm actually continually surprised by how effective it is as a research tool and search engine

At the risk of being unpopular, I've been tooling around with ChatGPT using the web search and thinking functions to do things like dig deeper on various strands from books I'm reading and I don't really see any of these hallucinated sources anymore.