These posts about Reddit’s continuing slide are like the news my elderly mother gives when yet another one of her friends dies: sad, but what you gonna do?

Sarcasm can be difficult to catch in online conversations. Yours, however, came through like hot sauce on chicken wings.

“Earlier today, we spoke with representatives from Twitter and they will send a letter to us to say that X.com will be used by Twitter…”

Ah, yes. A letter, the choice of grandparents and luddites worldwide.

"When we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we're in a crisis."

Half this story is about the idiot SBC constituency. The other half is about top SBC officials who have somehow come to believe that the teachings of Jesus were anything but subversive to begin with.

A foolish monkey and his bananas are soon parted.

/word nerd mode on

It's kind of interesting to consider how all of the so-called dirty words got their start. Historically, a swear or an oath is a promise before God that your words are true and you'll do what you say. If a person swore with an oath and then broke their promise, they were considered to be profane (treating something sacred with irreverence or disrespect) or to have uttered profanity. So in that sense, the words oath, swear, and profanity are all connected in that they all have to do with invoking the name of God or Jesus Christ.

Historically, the word "vulgar" merely refers to that which is common. For instance, Vulgar Latin was the everyday speech of the Roman people. Nothing dirty or low about that. Now however, the term "vulgar" has come to mean "coarse or crude." All of the dirty words that deal with "coarse or crude" aspects of our humanity (words for bodily functions, organs and acts, for instance) would be considered vulgarities.

So technically in this meme Kirk is requesting a swear, and Mr. Spock responds with a vulgarity, a mistake he most certainly would never make because that would be fucking illogical.

/word nerd mode off

Those baggy knees lol.

“Nothing.” You know: memes, scrolling, YouTube. I mean if you’ve tried all three, what else in the world can a person do?

I really would like to give this post a thumbs up but regrettably am unable to do so due to the childhood trauma inflicted upon me by my evil parents of having been made to pick bush beans for interminable hours in the hot sun and unbearable humidity that is Missouri in July.

LeVar Burton has striking eyes to begin with. When a person is used to seeing him as Geordi with his visor on, seeing him with it off is like he has 100 watt bulbs screwed into his head.

Here are video links:

Pic 1: Bilbo Baggins, Fellowship of the Ring, https://youtu.be/IBxGNfjv4oo

Pic 2: Faces in the Dead Marshes, The Two Towers, https://youtu.be/R83vTGt0vg8?t=68

Pic 3: Galadriel, LOTR, https://youtu.be/HZ7wB4rm5Hw

Pic 4, Sméagol becoming Gollum, The Return of the King, https://youtu.be/knImeAiO1qc

Talk about Grim.

I don't recall any lasting sleep benefits, but you're absolutely right that there ain't NOTHIN like a Propofol nap. Amazing. And when I woke up, completely, instantly awake, no grogginess or hangover effect.

No wonder MJ was addicted.

Very cool article! (Har) Tx for posting.

Little bit of a goofy mistake in it about a supposed 1939 St. Louis World Fair. NYC was 1939. St. Louis was 1904.

Yep, same here.

Pretty much the only way to be 100% certain about any mushroom, after narrowing down identity visually, is to do a spore print.

I'm happy(ish) with my current setup, but I'd really love eventually having the option to replace my Echo and Home devices' innards with something local and open-source.

Just signed up this morning and am trying out both Lemdit and Voyager. REALLY great work Thanks!

It's not paranoia if everyone really IS out to get you.

Does anyone know: can you buy Humble Bundle games and play them through Steam?