Of all the things for the AI to mess up, I wouldn’t have expected inconspicuous typos. “A” instead of “an,” “orld” instead of “world”

Relevant YouTube short

Curious if you mean psychopathic?

I mean, it’s easy to joke that Republicans suffer from psychoses (hallucinations and delusions) but in the context of extreme antisocial behavior and lack of empathy, psychopathic might be the right word.

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Yeah but the Colosseum tho. That’s some extremely advanced architecture and it’s HUGE. The fact that most of it is still standing after centuries of earthquakes (and being used as a quarry for other construction!) really says something.

I was about to comment something about “alien” Stonehenge and how people assume the Brythonic Celts were fair-skinned, but then I looked it up and was surprised to learn that Stonehenge predates the arrival of the Celts by roughly 2,000 years

“Uplift” means to raise the level of; improve; cause one to feel optimism

Here a dangerous street has been improved by converting it into a neighborhood greenway. It is a well-known fact that there are already a lot of dangerous streets in the world, but I feel optimistic that more and more cities are rethinking the way they build their thoroughfares and are shifting to safer, more human-focused designs.

What a coincidence this came across my feed, I just started playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance yesterday!

I almost ragequit in the first few hours but it’s pulling me back in

People are donating out of the goodness of their hearts, of course. Clearly, relieving a teeny tiny drop in the massive ocean of public debt is a more worthy charitable cause than giving directly to organizations that provide clean water, education, or disaster relief.

It’s the Sandwich Alignment Chart except the options are Lawful Stupid, Chaotic Stupid, Stupid Good, and Stupid Evil

I love that you used the Skeleton artwork from the 1993 Monstrous Manual

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I’m not sure how to feel about the fact that I immediately recognized it

Looks like something I would do

Get his ass, Blade

That evil motherfucker Astarion refused to stop drinking my blood, killed me, and then deflected blame and acted like I was overreacting after Gale resurrected me

Why do you have two Kansases?

Kansas is named for the Kansa Nation that already lived in the area when early American explorers arrived.

Arkansas is pronounced like Arkansaw, silent s at the end. It is apparently the French spelling of an Algonquian word for the Quapaw people, completely unrelated to Kansas.

Why is everything a square???

Because by the time the colonizers made it west of the Mississippi, they were so tired of figuring out logical boundaries such as “geographical features” and “which people already live in which regions” so they decided to take the lazy way out and slice up half of the continent like a sheet cake.

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Definitely not enough sleep

Except for Lola

Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola

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I have the weekend off work and I’m going to a very chill wedding that I have no responsibility to organize, so it’s nice. Also the storm last night took the edge off of the heat

Clearly I have more reading to do, thank you for calling my knowledge and assumptions into question. If he was as outspoken against the Armenian genocide as you say then that already does a great deal to shift my perspective.

By benefiting from the genocide, I meant that his government benefited from the availability of valuable land that had been depopulated, and that it was easier to enforce cultural erasure and ethnic assimilation after the dirty work of mass slaughter had already been done. The “Citizen, speak Turkish” campaign in the 30’s certainly had the effect of strongly discouraging (and in some places punishing) ethnic minorities from speaking their native languages in public.

You also raise a good point that we shouldn’t conflate every act of the government with the views and policies of one man. Just like the President of the United States isn’t my entire government. I ought to examine this period of history much more critically.

Atatürk, “Father of Turks.”

He led his people to so many great achievements - national independence, secularization, democratic elections, promotion of science and education, women’s suffrage, and the preservation/de-Arabacization of Turkish language and traditions.

He also denied the existence of, and actively benefited from, the genocides perpetrated against Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, and other ethnic minorities under the Ottoman empire. His forces perpetrated bloody massacres against tens of thousands of Greek civilians during the war (though there was far too much of that happening on both sides). His government forcibly assimilated those who remained, requiring minorities to adopt Turkish surnames and banning their languages from being spoken.