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The Jesuits are poisoning our wells!
(Or wait – maybe it's the Freemasons.)

Nah, it's the farmers

[Dredge]

Dredge

A game about fishing and exploration with engaging fishing mini-games, interesting places to explore, and cool H.P Lovecraft undertones. Lovely art too.

It's baffling, Brits usually only disrespect and defile other culture's historical sites.

I've heard worse, though - tons of folk just go straight for the jugular with Greta and point at her disabilities (as if that somehow counters her logic). Goebbels would be proud.**

There has been a wave of anti-disability language in the last ten years, in the UK this is since the Tory/Liberal government and media colluded to demonise disabled people tied to 'austerity'.  This led to about 57,550 excess deaths of disabled people between 2010 and 2014.  Doesn't appear to have gotten any better with the continuing dismantling of the NHS but while the R word isn't used so often in the UK any more, the L word seems to be pretty much normalised, even among people you'd have thought would know better.

As someone who should know better, and has done a quick audit of the (extensive) list of known offensive terms, what's the L word? Genuinely drawing a blank

This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.

JJ Abrams makes a pizza:

"Hey do you like pizza, asshole? Here's a big lump of fuckin' cheese! Take some flour, yeast and water, and chew on this fuckin' basil! Yon can wash the whole lot down with a vat of tomato sauce! What's the big problem? All these things are in pizza! Don'cha like pizza!?"

I'd be proud to sit around a conference table in a volcano with any and all of you

I'd be happy to join you and definitely wouldn't send a decoy with a surgically implanted bomb.

One time, this alcoholic, misogynist Brit spy thought he had tracked me down, and infiltrated my lair. But when he snuck into my study all he found in my leather wing-back chair was a bomb which leveled the whole island.

Some people say the real Mister Pops has been dead for years, now it's just a mantle ambitious criminals and underworld tyrants take on. Some people say I was never real in the first place, just a story made up to scare children and keep potential snitches quiet.

Some people don't say these things twice.

Is Most Published Research Wrong?

He drew an even shorter straw to end up in a band with Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley

I think it's important to acknowledge the 45th anniversary of the KISS solo albums:

[Convenient research]

Your understanding of the peer review system and scientific discourse in general is quite different to mine.

But politics doesn't work like that. We all know it. Convenient research is funded, even popularised. Inconvenient research is ignored or derided be it peer reviewed or not.

Convenient research?

Like that time they dug miles of tunnels under the alps and filled it with expensive fiddly magnets and then fired particles around it at near light speeds, to collide with a particle going the other way producing a big messy scattering of particles to be analyzed even though it's not visible to the naked eye? The most expensive thing humanity has ever built? (ISS is 2nd)

Convenient like that?

But politics doesn't work like that

No shit, most politicians are too scientifically illiterate to influence the general scientific consensus.

Why can't any thread stay on topic!?

The problem with experts is they spec'd too hard into Wisdom and Intelligence so they tend to have shite Charisma modifiers.

They're also woeful tanks and feckin abysmal glass cannons

I had never heard of the social media platform Rumble before this week and now I'm starting to think the Secret Hidden Illuminati Types (SHITs for short) dropped the omertá on Brand to get it in the news cycle

See, I was once just like ...Pops.

HA! You wish!