Idk. Does America got an oil?

I vote we send him to an uninhabited island he threw tariffs on. The penguins won’t be happy but he’s gotta go somewhere.

• Humans are born of the universe.
• Humans are sentient.
• Therefore, the universe is sentient.

Your conclusion does not follow your premises. Just because one thing has an attribute does not mean the thing that came before it has that same attribute. See:

• Humans are born of the universe.
• Humans are supposed to have two arms and two legs.
• Therefore, the universe is supposed to have two arms and two legs.

human response to existential dread

I realize this was likely not intended, but you’ve ironically removed most of the nuance in why religions came to exist in this statement lol.

But you’ve certainly directly interacted with all of them in some form or another.

I don’t think sentient is the word you’re looking for, as animals have sentience.

Hey, that’s not fair. He’s also weirdly into Ivanka Trump.

Are you sure? I’m a pretty heavy sleeper…

It’s a good thing we got rid of all those unqualified DEI hires!

I agree. Poor choice of words on my part.

I think the problem with this is, nobody really wanted Biden or Harris. They were just the best we had. Like, nobody is going to listen to Harris now. But people love Trump, so he doesn’t have that issue.

Edit: The democratic party does not care what their voters want, they need only provide the lesser of two evils to get votes. They believe that so much, that Harris’ entire campaign was to talk about what Trump was going to do rather than what she was going to do. “Look at all these things Trumps gonna do, at least I’m not him!”

Another edit: Indeed, as multiple of you have pointed out, “the best we had” was a poor choice of words. Hell, I think even Walz was a better choice, so it’s not exactly like you need to go looking far for one.

Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter said they’d been dismissed illegally and would sue to block Trump’s order. They also said they consider themselves still part of the FTC, though whether they will still have access to their offices and logistical tools like email going forward was unclear.

From a different, apnews article. Not sure what more you want them to do.

I agree that we seem to use language differently, and it’s pretty interesting to see. Both of us have been upvoted by at least one or two other people as well, so it seems some people agree with you and some with me despite our completely different takes, so I don’t think either of us are really wrong.

According to the dictionary, ‘is’ and ‘was’ are respectively a present and past tense singular of the word ‘be’. The definition of the word ‘be’ (or at least, the one I find relevant here), is “having the state, quality, identity, nature, role, etc., specified”. This seems like a significantly more important part of the sentence to be emphasizing here.

On the moon he is the alien.

As opposed to who? I still just can’t understand why you would emphasize ‘he’, when there are no other subjects that we could be talking about. Like, obviously we’re talking about Neil, so why would you put emphasis on it? On the other hand, the fact that he actually ‘is/was’ an alien is pretty surprising to think about and thus the important bit. That is to say, it makes more sense to emphasize the fact that he is an alien, and not the fact that Neil is the subject.

The emphasis is not being placed on was because it’s past tense, it’s being placed on was because the shitpost is ironically somewhat accurate. You can replace it with is if you’d like for the same meaning. On the other hand, everyone knows we’re talking about Neil as there is no other relevant subject, so bringing attention to the word he doesn’t really make any sense.

Perhaps it would read better if they had said “…he actually was an alien”?

Why would he be italicized? ‘Was’ would be italicized because the emphasis is being put on the fact that he actually was an alien.

This is fire.

Yeah, the entire joke is a subversion of expectations. The only reason the joke works at all is because the format is being used “incorrectly”.

Well-priced for the content of the game itself, with or without 20% off.

You have such a way with words.