something i like is when languages have "generic person" names. so English has John Smith and im given to understand Japanese has Taro Tanaka--anyone know any others?
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- bro last night was a movie but you were depicted as a CGI monkey for some reason
- my high school english teacher was in fact a member of a lesbian alt-country group called Menage A Twang
Your English teacher put out an album 😬 - put Cars (2006) on for my daughter during the flight. this is a cliche but i mean it sincerely: it is a fascist movie
- reminded of ELIZA, the first chatbot from back in 1966, which responded to every input with some variation on "that's interesting! Tell me more!", and which many users considered leaving their wives foraverage 4o experience rn
- a conspiracy theory that I sincerely believe is that there is a concerted effort by some shadowy group of powerful people to kill Wikipedia. I've thought this ever since I noticed how it was being deprioritized in Google search results, back when Google search still had resultsUK VPN demand surges 1,400% as age verification law takes effect; Wikipedia faces ban, X users report blocked content
- "unc" used in the same manner as a Japanese honorific like "sensei"
- listen up liberals, there are only three genders: man, woman, and USA! USA! USA! 🇺🇸🦅🗽
- "the person who took over the role of The Brain on Arthur after Steven Crowder left was Haus Of Decline" is something that is maybe common knowledge but i didnt know it until today and im fucking floored
- JAZZ ALBUM TITLES 50s: Smokin' Sounds 60s: It's Happening!!!!! 70s: A Sensuous Woman Receives Divine Light 80s: Adventures Beyond the Crystal 90s: U Iz What U R 2 B 00s: I Still Haven't Found America 10s: History Will Eat You Alive 20s: Meaning(s)
- Replying to @therapykiss777uneasy mixture of nostalgic twee traditionalism and machine-worship (a world with just cars and no humans is something the italian futurists absolutely would have loved!) (why do trucks and highways exist when there's no actual need to transport anything?)
- protestants think that pleasure is bad while catholics think that suffering is good. subtle distinction
- major cultural shift that has happened is that this used to be a hack conservative joke but now conservatives all drink 32oz cups of coffee colored corn syrup with every mealI seriously don’t think anything like this has ever happened even once anywhere in the world
- it would be really funny if it came out that Fidel Castro is ALSO Katy Perry's dad and it's a Luke-and-Leia situationKaty Perry spotted on dinner date with former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau trib.al/Hth4a5g
