Ahab Apologist

But you can call me Ishmael.

Google Drawings is the single best piece of software Google has ever produced, and I'm pretty sure it's not even actively maintained

I hate to disappoint anyone, but my cousin used to make up insane stories and send them to advice columns etc.

So whenever a random unsourced anecdote enrages you, just remember: it's probably made up

Maria Bamford offered to remove my skin tags

I prefer a house of mirrors, personally. I wanna see what my opinions look like when they're wavy, or string-beaned

That's actually what they call the position: "shootin' the dog"

"imagine our surprise to discover all these slurs in our chat"

Feeling crazy, might read a book

How much do I gotta eat

Put it in a martini glass, we call that a ratboy slim

My mom wouldn't stop until she made it through the pets.

My dog was named Shalimar.

This is happening at the same time the US is asking Ukraine for help shooting down Shahed drones.

Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die' In an interview with 'Time,' President Donald Trump acknowledged the possibility that Iran retaliates with attacks on U.S. soil, saying, 'We think about it all the time. We plan for it'

Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'

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This is honestly one of the most anti-Jewish things I’ve ever seen from the United States government.

Fire sigh

⚡️ Zelenskyy: More Patriot missiles were fired in the Middle East in three days than Ukraine’s entire supply.

Set up a tollbooth

RETVRN to employees not publicly denigrating their customers

I'm just... struggling to make sense of this. Like... did he pick their noses? Or is this... erotic?

Luckily, this is the first documented recidivism for any January 6th rioter

Nobel economist Paul Krugman says the Iran war could be the "straw that breaks the camel's back" for a fragile US economy

Call me crazy, but a multibilliion-dollar war effort halfway across the world feels like a little more than a piece of straw

I feel like self-reports are aspirational—how one would like to be perceived.

I wonder how much of a disconnect there is between how they describe themselves and the way that others would describe their desired policies.

Let's be real though: if you can't find a good candidate without Nazi tattoos, you've got big problems

Lol stupid English keyboard

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Es kommt darauf an, was Sie damit meinen (lol). Die Bedeutung? Klar, kann man ausdrücken. Aber manchmal veliert der Ausdruck seine Wirking, wenn er einer umständlichen Erläuterung bedarf

To be clear, I don't think he was TRYING to be malicious or trolling. He otherwise behaves like a really nice guy.

The problem is that his perception of Ukraine as "little Russia" so distorts his reality that he thinks he can speak a language that, in fact, he cannot.

I will never forget the Russian engineer I talked to who said they speak Ukrainian, and when I said the word говорити they corrected me: "I think it's gah-vah-reet."

Relevant: the repeated and ongoing attempts by Russian imperialists to erase the Ukrainian language

What even _are_ the US objectives and how can anyone measure that they've been achieved?