faux literally translates as false.

A faux pas-ta

*Mrs. Wasp

You have to, if your horse literally can’t make it across. It may not go well, but you have no choice.

It didn’t work for Florida though. Desantis was running for the nomination, not for president. Had he won the nomination, he would have had to resign as governor.

Dred Scott?

Sometimes precedent is plain wrong.

ETA: not in this instance though. This was a time they should have respected precedent.

Hah! Ya got me!

But of course I’m talking about the adjective punk, as in " punk rock," which is an entirely other word than the noun puncke, (or, more modern, punk ) which Shakespeare used.

ETA: I don’t mean to imply they’re not related They just aren’t the same word. And one of them was created in the 1970s.

I agree that the word punk came to be associated with aesthetics, almost exclusively. But that is very far from where it started, and it is frustrating for those who started it to see it coopted like this. The association of the word with anything other than anti-consumerism is just " branding" at its worst.

I was a tween when the first version of “punk” came around (yes, that makes me old). I think I can say with authority that the ideals were: anti-corporate, anti-consumerism, and anti-commercialism. Ever since then people have tried to sum it up (and marginalize it) as “DIY.” But that falls well short of what it really was.

Of course, the second it showed any sign of viable popularity, the forces of capitalism, well…, capitalized on it. The obvious examples are bullshit, high production, made-for-tv bands like Green Day getting sold as punk rock. But does anyone remember Urban Outfitters? Holy crap, the open, unashamed corporate pandering!

I disagree. Dad jokes are most often puns, and puns always elicit a groan, whether they’re good or not. Dad jokes can be witty and/or clever, and that’s what makes them good. This one is not.

Nope. This time I can’t abide. There seems to be a culture here of mutual encouragement, that leads to upvoting everything no matter what. But this joke is simply awful. No good. Terrible. Very bad.

Jackalope?

It’s not about nostalgia. It’s about passive aggressively needling Musk, and it works and I love it.

Sometimes we find that obscure pure mathematics does describe reality when no one expected it to. Riemannian geometry is one such example.

I need 'em both. Not everything I multiply is a number.

You seem to be taking this a bit personally - did someone pour water in your bag?

An eye for an eye is not justice, and it doesn’t lead to peace.

That’s so weird because a quote from WaPo had him saying he could hear the sincerity in her apology.

rtfa. That was never implied by either side.

*yarmulke

Thankfully, it is not the country yet. It is just a sizeable and highly motivated minority. Fuck them.