That’s quite some whataboutism. I’m clearly talking about the insanity of 9 year old girls being forced to wed…

Bezos + Lauren Sanchez apparently binge watch Fallout, Baby Reindeer, Presumed Innocent and Severance…

“My favorite time is when the house is calm and quiet and Jeff and I are deciding what show we’re going to binge that night,” Sánchez told the magazine.

“It takes a little bit of time to decide,” she added. “You can imagine our tastes are a little different. But I love our TV time, we just have the best time.”

Among their favorites is “Fallout” – a post-apocalyptic drama based on the video game series of the same name. The series airs on Bezos’s own Amazon Prime TV. But the couple also watches shows on rival platforms Netflix and Apple TV.

“We recently saw Baby Reindeer, which of course everyone saw,” Sánchez told People. “We also just finished Presumed Innocent, which was incredible. Oh, and we loved Severance.”

https://qz.com/lauren-sanchez-jeff-bezos-reveal-favorite-tv-shows-1851636860

Yes

Travesty!

The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - page 19

It’s probably just your house being knocked down,” said Ford, drowning his last pint.

”What?” shouted Arthur. Suddenly Ford’s spell was broken. Arthur looked wildly around him and ran to the window.

”My God they are! They’re knocking my house down. What the hell am I doing in the pub, Ford?”

”It hardly makes any difference at this stage,” said Ford, ”let them have their fun.”

”Fun?” yelped Arthur. ”Fun!” He quickly checked out of the window again that they were talking about the same thing.

”Damn their fun!” he hooted and ran out of the pub furiously waving a nearly empty beer glass. He made no friends at all in the pub that lunchtime.

”Stop, you vandals! You home wreckers!” bawled Arthur. ”You half crazed Visigoths, stop will you!”

Ford would have to go after him. Turning quickly to the barman he asked for four packets of peanuts.

”There you are sir,” said the barman, slapping the packets on the bar, ”twenty-eight pence if you’d be so kind.”

Ford was very kind – he gave the barman another five-pound note and told him to get a nice new set of aglets while he was at it.

The barman looked at it and then looked at Ford. He suddenly shivered: he experienced a momentary sensation that he didn’t understand because no one on Earth had ever experienced it before. In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny sublimal signal. This signal simply communicates an exact and almost pathetic sense of how far that being is from the place of his birth. On Earth it is never possible to be further than sixteen thousand miles from your birthplace, which really isn’t very far, so such signals are too minute to be noticed. Ford Prefect was at this moment under great stress, and he was born 600 light years away in the near vicinity of Betelgeuse.

Nigeria is not “the West”

Child marriage in the US is rare, in sharp decline and is heavily skewed towards poverty and Native Americans. Numerous political movements exist to raise minimum marriage age to 16-18.

So again, name a mainstream Western political movement where marriage at 9 is not insanity

My dramatic account detailed here: https://lemmy.world/comment/13482252

(Incidentally, if you can believe it, I used to use floccinaucinihilipilification unironically when I was a teenager)

[citation needed]

State a single mainstream western political movement in which marriage at 9 is not complete insanity

Collapse of post war consensus -> deregulation of financial markets -> complete failure of political parties of all types to build and maintain social housing -> the present suffocating cost of accommodation

Nothing to see here guys. All cultures are equal and thinking the West has a better way is colonialism

/s

Even now and then it just catches me how absolutely insane it is how long the planet sustained complex life without any humans whatsoever. We’re an evolutionary accident. A footnote consequence of unlikely circumstance. Were it not for a number of unlikely destructive events this planet might have quite happily continued ad infinitum with only dinosaurs on it. Can you imagine that, if this whole universe had happened and this one random blue marble had dinosaurs on it and not a single minded being anywhere to appreciate the magnificent insanity of it all?

Now that I think about it I’m not sure why they had to accept investor money at all. I wonder if it would have turned out differently if they had remained 100% privately owned?

So, this is what winning at life feels like eh?

Yes that’s the context - Jesus saying no one will be married in heaven. Either angels are asexual or they’re all male. The latter is a little more likely given all angels in the bible are presented as male. Which if that’s the case has weird implications for what female Christians become when they’re resurrected. Some weird male equivalent? So now we’re “all like the angels”?

I was getting in an MRI machine and had a sudden panic that the aglets on my shoes were metal. I garbled out my concern quickly to the nurse and was surprised to hear myself say “aglet” in a sophisticated manner rather than “the little end things on my laces” like a pleb. Of course, she didn’t actually know what I meant and we all died. Joking. Some people died. This story is half true.

I don’t get it. They were rich beyond most people’s wildest dreams. Why did they jump aboard the enshitification bandwagon?

ha thanks

Oh we know lol

People with their birthday on Monday are not going like that their birthday is always on Monday…

Things seem to work fine with the calendar we have anyway.

programmer’s eye twitches