WatDabney

Thanks for the clarification - I sort of suspected that, but all of my first-hand knowledge of it is 10+ years out of date.

Yes. That’s why they call it a “spectrum.”

Last I knew, the accepted term was “high-functioning autism.”

The last chapter was already great, but seeing it all from Akira’s perspective just made it all that much better

Emulated on a PC.

In about '98, I discovered SNES9x. I had an SNES hooked up to my TV at the time, but as soon as I discovered how convenient it was to play on a PC instead, I just stopped using it and eventually boxed it up and put it away. And I haven’t looked back.

Snowflake.

Huh… they just did Yemen the other day and they’re already back to Syria. So Lebanon can expect their turn… sometime this weekend?

This is how a republic becomes a dictatorship.

One of the few bits of good news I’ve seen in the last couple pf years is that the Trump regime is having a hard time finding willing agents for their gestapo.

The bizarre thing, from any sort of objective viewpoint is that Israel is anything other than an international pariah.

At this point, pretty much the only thing one could say in favor of Israel is that they don’t eat Palestinians. Short of that, they’ve committed and are committing virtually every evil and atrocity imaginable, on an almost daily basis.

They aren’t even subtle about it - given the chance they’ll crow about it - brag about it - even laugh about it. Hardly a week goes by without some number of civilians, soldiers, even politicians applauding the wholesale murder of Palestinians, the destruction of everything they value and the theft of their land - standing up in front of the world to declare outright that Palestinians are subhuman animals undeserving of any consideration and that Israelis have every right ro do whatever they wish to them.

It is, by any reasonable measure, pure, unmitigated evil, and the degree to which Israel is not an international pariah is only the degree to which they aren’t made to face the consequences they so richly deserve.

I would assume their totals aren’t going to change much but thry’ll lose some number of users from the UK and gain a more or less equal number of users from a seemingly random snd ever-changing assortment of other countries.

As far as genre statistics and the like go, I wouldn’t expect them to change other than as they generally do, just as tastes and trends change.

The high tech version of the Nazi yellow stars.

I did think her use of a first person pronoun there was a bit odd, but I didn’t put that together. You might be onto something.

“All these porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists so desperate to get their hands on rape-my-little-sister incest games they’re now exchanging clues on how to find them so that they don’t all die overnight,” Collective Shout co-founder Melinda Tankard Reist tweeted on July 18th.

She sounds deranged.

i wonder what her own perversion is. It’s likely quite disturbing - nobody has that much anger and scorn over other people’s sex lives and a healthy sex life of their own.

How did you manage to miss the other six letters?

It’s a very simple idea - there aren’t enough resources available in the world to both keep billions of ordinary people housed and fed and healthy and to provide for the obscene privilege of a wealthy and empowered few.

So a few million ordinary people are going to have to die for the privilege of the few.

Of course - this administration is serving the interests of its constituents.

I’m not surprised to see this.

Not that I expected a suit necessarily - just that with Jane’s Addiction and especially with Perry Farrell, nothing surprises me.

Yeah, and then Christianity took off and Europe ended up collapsing into ignorance and barbarism that it only managed to pull itself out of by stealing from the rest of the world.

The only quality that made Europe stand apart was a sort of cultural insanity - a loathsome combination of stultifying ignorance, unbridled greed and religious fervor that led vile scumbags to sail to other lands specifically in order to steal, murder and oppress.

And they couldn’t even manage that without first stealing navigation technology from the Arabs.

Setting aside the fact that you couldn’t even manage to get the dates for the Industrial Revolution right, your entire argument hinges on the laughable presumption that all advances anywhere on Earth outside of Europe were doled out to the inhabitants by Europeans, and that colonized nations, left to their own devices, would not have advanced.

I would go so far as to say that if the age of European colonialism had not happened, the world outside of Europe wiuld be even more advanced, and if anything it would be Europe that was lagging behind - that colonialism was a positive in the long run only for Europe, and was a negative for everyone else.

Right - the rapist-in-chief says everyone should stop paying attention to the teen sex trafficker who called him his best friend.