If Norway wins, free smalahove!

Don’t underestimate L’oreal industries…

Everyone who got Rick rolled will click on it. The view number will double from 1.5 billion currently to +3 billion views and YouTube will crash. All will celebrate the annual rick roll day henceforth, causing Never gonna give you up to become the most played song of all time ever with hundreds of billions of views in the year 2100. Trust me, never gonna lie.

That’s nice. But I feel this is just absurd. “We killed lots of people and took these people as hostages for years, but we’re really nice about it”. I mean, I don’t approve of mistreating prisoners, but taking them, and the way it was done in the first place kinda outweighs letting them have a holiday 🙄 And if you’re about to start “but Israel…” save your time, I think they’re monstrous fascists.

I have the ungrateful job of teaching English. I have two types of students. Screenies and non-screenies. The former are like this meme, they pick up a lot from popular culture, games, etc, and are often bored with classes. Then you have the latter group, they have very little exposure to English and usually very little interest as well. A third group exists, and they’re the kids that are in between and do the work in class.

Now one would think that getting everyone into the first group would make my job easy, however, those kids are usually a special subset of kids who will learn independently just from their interests. The other two groups could do hour for hour exactly the same as the Screenies, but they would never reach that proficiency level without other instruction. On the other hand, a lot of screenies do poorly at formal English, like grammar, spelling and word choice, because much of their learning is casual.

So long story short, to the meme, yeah, I know.

How you fit your parents in law in microwave?

Dang, if those agencies ever see my Civilization 4 save games, I’ll be so royally embarrassed that I spent so much time on it that they could blackmail me to anything.

Pulling things out of context let’s you think and justify just about anything. The letter to Timothy is in response to particular people in a particular church at a particular time. Go research it.

But the main point of the whole text is: the world is full of suffering, people are good and people are bad, but we should work to be better and lessen suffering. -Forgive those who trespass against you. Love even your enemies. Those who are not against us are with us. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

The Christian right are literally the kind of judgmental people Jesus criticizes. All good forces should work together, rather than creating strawmen that can split progressives.