kryptonianCodeMonkey

I have never had the motivation to actually start it knowing that the writers were just winging the overarching plot and it ultimately ends up nowhere remotely satisfying. Like yes I'm sure that episode to episode the story flows and the mysteries are interesting and the characters play off each other well. But it really sounds like a TTRPG DM who refuses to plan his campaign ahead and is just worldbuilding on the fly and throwing out puzzles and mysteries that even he doesn't have the solution or understanding of. Sure that can be fun as hell while you're in it trusting that the DM is building toward something. But then when those loose threads run out and you realize that they never had anything on the other end at all. That almost ruins the entire experience, even the good stuff. I've invested years into multiple novel series that ended up being like that, series I absolutely loved and reread multiple times for fun as the books were still coming out, and now I can't even pick them back up due to the taint of the endings.

I smoked too much and blacked out. I'm missing some thyme from yesterday.

Conservatives didnt help end slavery though. The Republicans at the time were not the conservative party. They were progressive relative to the Democrats of the time. Their was a ideological shift in the middle 20th century that swapped the party ideologies. Republicans today would have been Democrats back then and vice versa. They are claiming Republican victories of the past because they are technically they same party, but they in no way, shape, or form the same party ideologically, just the same name. It's the ship of Theseus in policitical party form.

What's their business?

Frankly, how would DHS even know at this point?

What's the point of twins marrying twins? Surely at least some of that point is kinkiness...

Because they are racists but they hate when you correctly point that out, so they claim responsibility for ending slavery because they think that will make them immune to criticism of their current racism.

"By the way both families live together in the same house".

Ain't no way in hell that, intentionally or unintentionally, there hasn't been some partner swapping.

They US just kept the name the discoverer wanted instead of giving into those British asshats that just wanted to troll Sir Davy.

It probably wasnt really a willful defiance thing. It's likely more correct to say that we kept the name because by the time they changed it officially in Europe, we had millions of students across the country that had textbooks with the name Aluminum in it, that had already been taught the original name, and if the inconsistentcy was even important enought to consider "correcting", it was likely deemed too costly and too much of a headache to change at the time. By the time people were buying reprints/new editions/more recently written textbooks anyway, professional chemists in the US had been calling it Aluminum for years. Given how isolated we were from Europe in the early 1800s, there was very little pressure to align with them on it, and so it stayed. The longer it stayed the more likely it was to be permanent, and here we are.

But yeah, Sir Humphrey Davy was an indecisive wishy-washy namer of elements, disseminated multiple names across the world, but somehow that is our fault when we just stuck with the one we were given and everyone else changed over nitpicky conventions. It's not the only thing that Brits shit on about American English that is entirely their invention or their mistake:

• "Soccer" being a British term short for "Association Football"

• The season "Fall" being a British term shortened from the phrase "The Fall of the Leaf" and directly complementary to "Spring" which comes from the phrase "The Spring of the Leaf", which they still use despite making fun of Americans for "Fall" instead of their "Autumn", which Americans also use.

• "Dove" instead of "dived", "pled" instead of "pleaded", "have gotten" instead of "have got", etc. all started in Britain but were dropped there and stayed in the US.

• "Herb" being pronounced with an audible "h". The word is borrowed from French, where the h is silent, exactly like , "honorary", and "honesty". Neither country pronounces either of those words with an "h" sound, but that doesnt stop people like Eddie Izzard shitting on how Americans say it with a silent "h" despite the American pronunciation being, arguably, more correct given the word's origins.

Side note, it is crazy how many words in English are borrowed from French, even if they are horribly mangled and unrecognizable now in a lot of cases. The British Aristocracy really had their noses shoved firmly up French asses for a lot of their history in the last few centuries.

Those are the ones they are putting air quotes around as "experts" because they disagree with them, and therefore must be crackpots.

I will revolt

Do you think JD understands the irony that posting an exerpt from Justice Thomas that is against appealing to the authority of "experts", is, in itself, in fact appealing to the authority of an "expert", Justice Thomas, to support his stance? His stance of course being that medical treatment of minors with gender dysphoria in a way that does anything but reinforce the gender on their birth certificate is bad medicine/science. And both Vance and Justice Thomas also, being... I see here "not experts in anything remotely to do with medical science, gender dysphoria, adolescent development, or any field at all that would inform any semblance of a valid opinion on the matter of how to properly treat these kids medically" might, in fact, make their stance a little bit non-authoritative. Maybe both of them should stay in their lanes of bad faith partisan political theatre, bribery, and forcing the sprint we are all on towards fascism. That seems to be where their real skill sets are.