I hear this argument about honeydew all the time, that it can be flavorless.

Well that’s the same with most fruit, it’s called “ripeness” and not every fruit ripens at the same rates, so you tend to get some less sweet than others.

I think people just hate the “investment” of cutting open a whole melon and it not being good, so instead of learning how to tell how ripe it is, they just swear off the fruit.

Fine, more for me.

I know this is a PEMDAS joke, one of many for the PEMDAS throne.

But yeah, we need to really, really worry about the coming day when “math becomes a democracy” and that is already happening for a wide array of other facts and knowledge about the world.

Whatever “civility politics” liberals infested our collective minds with have to be abandoned. We have to get a lot harder and a lot less tolerant of other people’s “beliefs” even if you think “Well they’re only harming themselves by thinking 1x1=4” but they’re not, we need to start viewing these people as threats to our future. We no longer live in isolation, whatever bullshit your parents drove into you about “nothing on the internet being real and shouldn’t matter” was utter hogwash and even less relevant in 2025/2026. We get everything from the internet, including a sense of community and connection, which is why nutsoids find each other and turn something like a joke about earth being flat into an entire anti-science movement.

If you’ve ever seen those dumb sci-fi shows or movies where science if forbidden and people caught learning science are punished, and thought “that’s so unrealistic” well I have some real bad news for you.

You’re still too young to appreciate some of the finer things in life. It’s fine, you wake up different one day and have no idea how you got there… do not resist the change.

West coast small towns are like something out of Central Casting.

Even the homeless groups and young hoodlums are completely diverse and look like they were hired by Netflix for portraying fair representation. It’s hilarious to see after living in places where racial and gender lines were set in some kind of ancient stone and people haaaated each other’s groups or identities.

It actually makes me feel really hopeful for the future going into a walmart out west and seeing every other couple is interracial or there are gay or lesbian couples openly holding hands in public. The attitudes and cartoonish hatred you see on Trump-fixated media seems like fiction from another world. (At least until the ICE gas grenades start landing in the home depot parking lot.)

I grew up in an entire family who had fallen down this slippery pipeline of magical thinking. For some of them, it cost them everything.

It’s almost entirely bullshit designed to prey on people who are desperate for something better in their lives, desperate to feel less alone, desperate to feel hope that the universe is bigger than it seems and that they won’t die or have to say goodbye to everyone someday.

That’s where it does the most harm, along with religious beliefs like the rapture or Armageddon fantasies, it’s just magical thinking that makes you feel like nothing on Earth here and now matters. No need to worry about the climate, Jesus/Aliens are coming. No need to get educated and invest in your future, Jesus/Aliens are coming. No need to value your every moment like it may be your last, because Jesus/Aliens are coming, you have all the time in the world to ignore the people and precious memories around you.

The most fucked-up part of it all is I think there may be something weird going on, but it’s not aliens or jesus, it’s not an escape, it may not even be an “objective” thing, but maybe some natural phenomenon that our brains are recontextualizing. But this kind of “maybe there’s something real” event seems to be exceedingly rare and without a way to study or replicate it, without valid, unambiguous evidence, it’s like any of our own subjective experiences, it takes place inside you and can’t impact the world around you. If you think it will, you will end up alone and disappointed.

I hate this manufactured holiday bullshit so much. The fact that everyone has to do it at the same time, all over the goddamn western world, it just throws a massive wrench into work, plans and issues like medical appointments, work projects, and of course financial planning.

I think it would be a lot easier if buying food for a dozen people didn’t cost half a grand right now.

“Dead Lesbian Syndrome”

JFC

As a cishet man, even I’ve noticed a jarring trope with LGBTQ+ representation across media.

I don’t want to get lost in TV tropes (again) to see if this is a “thing” but what stone tablet has it been written that gay characters, particularly lesbians, have to all have tragic love stories that end with death or disaster?

“Sure, we can show lesbians kiss, that’s hot, but we can NEVER allow them to live happily, that would be unnatural!” - Some movie studio board of investors.

So she pissed off a bunch of reddit incels?

I am not sifting through one of the worst subreddits in existence for hours reading people arguing. I asked what she did that made her a “shit person” and all her comments from what I saw on brief scan seem based or at least mid/average for reddit drama and I still am left feeling like she just makes sexually insecure young men angry with utterly average comics, which is fine, ya’ll fuckers need to feel more human emotions.

Just by asking this question, you have sent several on-duty cops to the ER with rapid heart rates and extreme agitation, well-known signs of opiate overdose.

At least you had bots, I had an actual mod of a huge sub report me to admins because I asked why I was banned for quoting someone’s comment and then reporting them for hate, 12 years of good standing and a stint as a mod also just flushed because the site is managed by unpaid child labor.

My question was “what did she do that makes her a bad person” and you replied to my question with some vibe stuff, which I summarized, and now you’re butthurt? It’s okay to not like her comics, and that’s all I’ve read that she’s done bad.

I don’t get the big deal, I am not hiding that. Does that make my question in bad faith? Or does that make the way I summarized it hurt your feelings? I do not care, I just get really weirded out seeing internet hate campaigns against people who are fine and haven’t hurt anyone.

Ah, reddit mods. Truly the most underprotected class who don’t deserve such foul hassles due to their unimpeachable history and consistent, upstanding behavior.

So she didn’t actually do anything bad, you just don’t like her style. I’m not sure exactly how being a successful but mid cartoonist makes you a “shit person” but I guess that’s where we are in society.

I have seen this sentiment before and nobody’s been able to say exactly why she’s a “shit person.” What did she do?

This is why corporate America wants our population uneducated and tuned out and hooked on AI slop and distractions.

Regular walks are the absolute best thing you can do for your dog and yourself.

Across suburban humanity, there are countless millions of dogs who get to stare at the same walls every day, all day, and they are creatures designed for roaming and running down prey. For that matter, so are you.

Dogs get depressed and anxious, people get depressed and anxious. Walking helps with that.

I wish everyone who reads it would have as positive of an interpretation/association.

Like, imagine if we decided that books older than five or ten years were suddenly not worth reading

I can’t even get anyone I know to try reading Hail Mary before watching the inevitably less satisfying movie, and these are educated people who like science fiction, and the book was written exactly for today’s readers with shorter chapters.

Rates are falling, the book may go the way of the radio. Not gone, just not shaping society like it used to.

https://www.arts.gov/stories/blog/2024/federal-data-reading-pleasure-all-signs-show-slump

Welcome to getting old in the new millenium, where the things you loved are still kept fresh and can be still seen all over the internet, yet they are still… inextricably, old. I do not know what the next generation’s idea will be of intellectual development, but if it follows the patterns of history, likely we will hate it. With a deep, burning fire in our aching bones.

Office Space came out in 1999. There are people already planning their mid life crisis right now who haven’t seen it.