Yeah, as an ex or deconverted fundamentalist, it is somewhere between hilarious and terrifying to me how… just fucking obvious it is that all of these nutjob theofacsists just are worshipping people who meet basically all the criteria.

They are the idiots who would be fooled by false miracles, they follow the lawless one.

They’re so incredibly deluded.

Here’s my uh, off the cuff, ‘end times’ theory:

The Rapture did happen.

No one was saved, because none are worthy.

Also, this guy is a self-taught expert on ‘the Anti-Christ’, and really, really wants you to know he is not the Anti-Christ, its uh, actually, Greta Thunberg, or something.

Motoko Kusanagi.

How, is she when she doesn’t surf?

I wonder what she does when she wakes up.

…

How, does she so perfectly surf?

…

She’s incredible math.

… like you are an idiot child?

Either you are, or you have a very bad and disrespectful therapist.

Wow I am so incredibly surprised.

Anybody remember when Rockstar used to parody American capitalism, not embody it?

Guys wouldn’t it be funny if Luigi had a brother named Mario?

cough

Oh that?

Thats the motion you make when fanning through dollar bills, one handed, to count em.

They’re doing a pavlovian reflex everytime they need to remind themselves where their money comes from, and how its time to focus in on delivering shareholder lobbyist value.

Holy shit that is awesome!

I did not know that was a thing.

Woo conlangs! Woo con… scripts?

English sure is funny sometimes.

Also also autistic people of lemmy:

Would you like a linguistic history lesson?

Perhaps I could interest you in Icelandic?

… maybe we can settle for the ‘long s’, written sort of like an f with no crossbar ( ſ ), or sometimes even approaching the modern integral symbol of calculus?

https://www.rd.com/article/long-s-us-constitution/

Yep, iirc, Icelandic is the only language that still uses it as a standard letter.

Because the thorn is an old timey English character, and some people are quirky / write in a stylized way ‽

Yeah, let that happen to some other guy.

Either you unionize, you leave, or your ethics aren’t worth shit.

Sometimes the void cat has to equalize the reality pressure between the many realms it walks in simultaneously.

Welp, that’s a new facial expression in my book, never seen quite that one from a cat before.

Oh I’m not saying its all 100% bad.

Having a reasonably healthy, similar tasting alternative is good when it is a good deal cheaper.

I’m just saying it doesn’t cross my bar of ‘real cheese’.

Used to be a bit of a brie and wine snob, and I still have the strong opinion that basically all pizzas should be 3 cheese blends, not just one.

Used to be that parents and grandparents would teach the kids how to cook something a bit fancier for a holiday.

But we’re all too atomized and busy and politically polarized these days for that.

Thank you, I’d seen something like this before, did not manage to snag a copy that time =D

The pasta is real, the seasoning is real, the cheese basically is not real.

For example, regular Cheeseburger Hamburger Helper contains trace amounts of blue cheese, which is absent from the Deluxe Cheeseburger Macaroni Hamburger Helper. The “Deluxe” product also contains parmesan cheese, palm oil, and lactic acid. These can all impact the texture and taste of the dish.

In an email to the Daily Dot, an Eagle Foods representative wrote the following: “The difference between the Double Cheeseburger Mac and the Cheeseburger Mac products are that, for the Double Cheeseburger, the ingredient ratios are slightly different and there is double the amount of cheese powder in the seasoning packet.”

https://www.dailydot.com/news/regular-deluxe-cheeseburger-hamburger-helper/

Its only ‘real cheese’ if you consider a dehydrated powder that you have to add butter or milk / water to, and then prepare with heat as a ‘cheese flavored sauce’ to be ‘real cheese’.

Yep, the tiny trace amounts of ‘100% Real Cheese!’ it contains are indeed tiny denydrated crumblets of real cheese… but I am fairly sure that by that metric, Cheetos are also ‘real cheese’.

For most Americans under the age of 40, the idea of making an actual cheese sauce out of… an actual block of actual dairy cheese from their refrigerator… that is literally a foreign concept, nobody has time to be that fancy, or even knows that is a thing you can do.

I figured it out we were poor once I hit middle school, and me asking about this and further realizing the truth of it… well of course that sent Republican dad further into an insecurity/rage/alcoholism loop.

Being honest would have been too difficult, I guess.