And I’m still gonna bitch about it if they’ve reduced the usefulness of a word due to habitual misuse!

Destroying only generative AI Godzilla wouldn’t be nearly enough to make the people happy, so 2.

Ahh, an individual of taste!

“Which did you like better? ‘Jedi’ or ‘The Empire Strikes Back?’”

“‘Empire.’”

“Blasphemy.”

“‘Empire’ had the better ending. I mean, Luke gets his hand cut off, finds out Vader’s his father, Han gets frozen and taken away by Boba Fett. It ends on such a down note. I mean, that’s what life is, a series of down endings. All ‘Jedi’ had was a bunch of Muppets.”

Some of us Gen Xers ended up more Boomer-like, and some ended up more Millennial-like.

Time to let something go.

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What these sounds mean, he thought, is: I am alive and so are you. And we’re all very worried that we might not be alive for much longer, so we’ll just keep talking, because that’s better than thinking.

- Truckers, Terry Pratchett

One of my favorite examples of this is when a coworker from Bosnia asked for some gloves. She knew more German than English, so she asked for handshoes.

What would snail be if they had named slugs first? “Shellslug?”

I mean, if you never go, sure. But it’s $65 a year. You can easily save that much in a couple of trips compared to if you bought the food somewhere else.

Although WWII bombs destroyed his house and the garden, on the banks of the Outer Alster Lake, in 1943, the sculpture emerged unscathed.

That’s a badass lady.