charonn0

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (12 children)

But that's not the part I'm asking about.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

How do people fall for this guy's lies? He's not even good at it...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (31 children)

What's with these "no cops at Pride" comics?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Her continued presence on the bench, not just on this one case, is fatally undermining the already tenuous legitimacy of the federal judiciary.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hello. Smithers. You're. Quite. Good. At. Turning. Me. On.

Lisa makes a doll to compete with Malibu Stacy's anti-feminist message.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

It's also an English expression.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

drove a balrog out of its natural habitat

Akshully, they tried to keep it there. Imprisoned because of its religious beliefs! Killed while attempting escape!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

One is high fantasy, the other is satire. They may be technically very similar, but as far as tone and mood they are very different beasts. Like Star Wars and Spaceballs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Kirk penetrates an alien organism in order to destroy its reproductive organs.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (4 children)

The Romans named their years after who was elected Consul that year. There were two Consuls, so you'd say "in the consulship of Jones and Smith". 59BC was Julius Caesar and some other guy. The other guy was so unimportant that Romans joked by calling it the consulship of "Julius and Caesar".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

He's stating that as a non-citizen he wouldn't be afforded full constitutional protections by a US court. Which seems like a hail Mary legal maneuver rather than an actual, legitimate fear.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The researchers say they derived the name of its genus, hotwheels, directly from the beloved toy due to the structure of the male spiders' reproductive organs. [...] "Because of the lack of nerves in the palpal bulb, the challenges faced by a male spider attempting to copulate can be likened to those of a person attempting to adjust a complex, delicate mechanism in the dark, using an elongate, elaborately formed fingernail"

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