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25 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I was given the most precious gift of all, @dimension20show merch. First up, the Goddess of Gold Gardens and a Gold Gardens tee! T shirt reading "I visited the Gold Gardens and had a l
Next up is a mug featuring the warmth and wisdom of everyone's favorite anarchist halflings, the Cubbies. A hand holding a white mug with an image of a halfling familAnother side of the same mug, reading "Laws are threats
And then we have the Corn Cuties, whom @BrennanLM once vainly insisted are not adorable. The Dungeon Master's word is mostly infallible, but can be overruled by the marketing department. A t-shirt showing three corncob monsters with big eyes and s
And some pandemic style school spirit. A gray neck gaiter with an image of an owlbear, captioned &q

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25 Dec
I'm re-reading A Christmas Carol to test this, but the thing is, I don't think Marley and Scrooge are even good businessmen. I don't think a single point of this editorial is actually supported by the text.
The *idea* behind the WSJ editorial is that Marley and Scrooge created wealth that enabled people to build railroads and factories that raised the standard of living for the nation and the world, but I don't see any indication in the text they invested in those things.
I'm re-reading because this is one of the most adapted works in the English language and so it's hard to separate my memories of the adaptations from the texts, but the impression I have is that Scrooge's main business is the equivalent of sub-prime mortgages.
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24 Dec
Never worked face to face retail but when I did catalogue sales, I worked on 9/11/2001. A woman called and when I answered, she asked if we were open and when I confirmed that we were, she lost it and started demanding to know why.
As I have said on this site before, I bear this woman no ill-will and I sympathize with and believe I understand her reaction. It was the weirdest thing that happened to me but not the worst.
She was calling a party supply company so probably she had some event coming up with a fixed date that she had to get ready for even if the world had just turned upside down. She probably called thinking there was no chance she would get through but she needed to do something.
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24 Dec
I'm slightly obsessed with this "#PenceCard" nonsense which is like the Platonic ideal of the current level of Trump election stealing conspiracy theory nonsense.
Here's a thing about the United States: the vice president famously *does nothing*. By design. The job is not like the vice president of marketing or whatever where the guy has a job. Mike Pence is the spare president. He's there in case anything happens to the first one.
In the original formulation under the constitution, the vice president was the runner-up of the presidential race. Nobody ran for it. There was no assumption that it would be an ally of the president; more likely they would be rivals.
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23 Dec
If you're lost as to why the stimulus bill has a passage dealing with this, that, or the other thing, or why it's thousands of pages long if it was just written at the last minute: it's not a stimulus bill. It's an a must-pass spending bill the stimulus was folded into.
I just saw somebody asking how they call it a "consolidated" bill when it's so long and this is the answer: it's long *because* it's consolidated. They consolidated a bunch of funding and other priorities into one giant bill.
I think this is an area where Congress needs to be better at explaining itself and its doings, because every once in a while the whole country pays attention and doesn't know what's normal or how things work.
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21 Dec
This tweet made me look up Geordi La Forge's canonical birthdate and he apparently missed it by three days, so he's only on the cusp.
The thing about Geordi treating Data like a person is that's just how he relates to technology; Data is the first machine to love him back.
The writers had him fall in love with a hologram he made of a married woman and the journal entries of a supposedly dead woman. Not only were his romantic plots with inanimate simulacra, but simulacra of unattainable partners.
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21 Dec
Thing that jumped out to me in this is that she wants people to know that Shkreli's "villainous persona is a mask"... listen, somebody who is being a dick on purpose and is aware that they're doing it is *worse*, not *better*, than someone who is just sort of like that.
Like, can we just put that to rest? I remember when the defense of Milo Yiannopoulos was "Oh, but he doesn't actually believe the awful things he says, he only acts this way to make a name for himself" and again that is worse, not better.
If you vote for racist people with racist policies because they benefit you but you want everybody to know you don't have a racist bone in your body: congratulations, you have told the world that you know better and you did it anyway. You're worse than an avowed racist.
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