Holmes: So we agree, my dear doctor, that the world must know nothing of the events aboard the Matilda Briggs at this time.

Watson: Yes. Quite. This is why I wrote the paper and told them that you said the world is not ready to hear about the giant rat of Sumatra.

Holmes: WTF.
Sometimes I see there's a reply that I can't see, so I open a tweet of mine up in an incognito window to see what the person I muted was saying, and every single time I do that, I immediately think, "Oh, that's why." and am annoyed with myself for having gone around the mute.
I swear that I, the person making the giant rat of Sumatra reference, understand Watsonian canon meta. You don't actually have to fact check the joke I made about Watson spreading Holmes's private business.

In fact, you don't have to fact check any jokes. Jokes are not facts.
I wound be way less snippy on here if I remembered to turn off replies on jokes. Twitter really needs to give us a default reply filter setting we can change. I would prefer to have to decide to turn replies *on*.

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So the thing that these right-wing cosplay economists like Burger King Is Full Communism Lady keep missing about the "employment crisis" is that the reason businesses are foundering isn't that they can't compete with an imaginary UBI, it's that they don't want to compete, period.
An employer who says things like "If you have time to lean you have time to clean" but can't find any Standing Up Straight Money to pay their employees... that person isn't suited to compete for employees' time because they think it is beneath them.
The right-wing cosplay economists are pretending that slightly enhanced unemployment insurance *that you specifically cannot collect if you voluntarily quit your job* is close enough to a UBI to get people to quit their jobs because the alternative to believing that is reality.
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It's like "oh, everybody in this family has their quirks and foibles" but the rest of the family... likes stuff? And part of his deal is that he doesn't like that they like stuff.
I also have... questions... about the geography and the routes the two families took on their road trips between the east coast and Kansas, and I have concerns about the college students setting up a slip-n-slide indoors, but the dad is just awful.
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I am taking Amtrak at the end of this month and I am looking forward to it. Private room? You can't get that on a commercial plane outside of very select class of international flights. I can retire to my compartment. Who wouldn't want to go back in time to be able to do that?
When I go to the Amtrak station, I will be traveling backwards in time to an era when commercial travel didn't require me to have my body electronically imaged or my groin patted down while I stand bare foot on a novelty welcome mat.
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Come with me and you'll be
in a world of cut-rate animation.

Take a look and you'll see
your own eventual damnation.

You'll comply with a sigh,
submerging in the swamp of art stagnation.

What you'll see will defy... explanation. A movie poster image for the animated film "Tom and Jer
If you would eschew paradise
simply find this film, it's for rent!
You might even find it... pleasant.
Want to rebuke God?
He is not present.

There is no film I know
To compare with this abomination.
Watching this, you will know
how deep truly you can go.
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One assumes that the rights to the Oompa Loompa aesthetic came with the rights to the movie.

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I'm not sure if Cole understands Japanese or if he's just really good at contextual clues.
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But you can't have everything.
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