Jenius

Man, fraggles really do love radish though.

There is a better way! Ranked choice voting means no more voting for the lesser of two evils. Look into fo yourselves and others - vote to change the voting systems near you!

Because its not really "1 plus 3", its negative 1 plus 3 which is two. I know it seems a little weird but the minus sign is " tied" to the thing following it.

Enjoying other cultures isn't appropriation. I think the line where it becomes appropriation is profiteering. If you are commodifying and profiting off someone else's culture that's pretty shitty. Obviously that's not a perfectly clear cut line (who 'owns' culture?), but it's a good place to start.

I think this is a greater problem with games that are technically aimed at children. There is so little respect for your time generally, but I think it's especially egregious when it comes to menus, dialog, and animations. Additionally, there are many things that are in sequence (with large unneeded gaps between) that could happen more or less simultaneously.

Conspiratorially, I think this is to pad play time, and for kids the animations and what not are jingling keys that keep then occupied enough they don't care or notice.

Counter: not every citizen of Ba Sing We is an earthbender.

Homeless man stops begging, demands change.

Best line in the whole movie.

For those interested in the etymology of the party names at the top:

The democrat side uses the characters "the people", "lord", and "party". My interpretation is "the people are in charge party", which makes sense because democracy is "the rule of the people".

The republican side uses the characters "share", "peace", and "party". To me, this one doesn't have an interpretation that obviously links to republicanism.

"Wow, you're really shit at bargaining. They really took you for a ride!"

Picture source?

I've often that about that if I could design a house, I'd have a room just like this. Like there would be a section of the house that was tower like and the only way to get to the room at the top would be to take an exterior balcony-like-staircase from the second floor to the room in question - the sole room on the "third floor".

There's just something about a room like that that makes it fell so isolated, peaceful and serene. And the exterior access makes it feel like a little adventure getting there. Like if the weather were bad you might opt not to go there because it would mean gearing up to make the trip.

Finally, yes! Anyone who wants to vote for a third party should instead spend their time and effort fighting for a different voting system (ranked choice, star, etc) that could mathematically allow a third party to actually succeed.

Hell yeah Royval! Was already a fan, now I'm a bigger fan.

I think they're trying really hard to not translate the name of the practice to make it seem cooler or esoteric or something. But it literally translates to "stomach 8 10 percents" 😂

George Washington Carver. He popularized eating peanuts.

doesn't treat its viewer as an idiot

A lot of what you said is reasonable but this is absolutely laughable. As someone entering their thirties, this is the single most annoying aspect of anime and it's especially blatant in works aimed at teenagers. And trust me, I'm not here to hate - this stuff isn't aimed at me and that's okay, but claiming most anime doesn't do this or that not virtually 100% of shonen does this is absurd.

Actual advice for anyone seeing and wanting guidance:

If you're waiting for a day when every citizen says to themselves "enough is enough" and then stands up and walks outside to start the revolution, without communicating with each other, that's never going to happen.

If you want a revolution, you need to be organized. That means joining an organization and being ready for the call when it happens. So if you want a revolution, I urge you, please join a group. Do your best to join one that emphasizes mechanical action, but join one. Even if it's small, these groups find each other and coordinating a bunch of small organizations is way easier and more feasible than a multitude of individuals.

I also want to emphasize that joining the group doesn't necessarily mean "giving a bunch of time and resources to the group". Many groups are happy to just have you contactable so they can keep you informed of actions and group initiatives (voting or otherwise).

I've got recommended groups if people want them, just ask. But please, join one and start building the revolution now.

We don't need spelling rules, we need a new alphabet. See the Shavian alphabet. It'd be like the English equivalent of Hangul.

A quick reminder: our alphabet isn't English, it's Latin. The letters were only ever meant to represent sounds in Latin and were retrofitted onto the English language (which is why it sucks so much).