Basically, a shibboleth to indicate in which Trivial Pursuit categories you should assume I will consistently fail to answer any questions whatsoever.

That’s closer to how I always used it: at least mostly self-deprecating, underscoring my ignorance of the professional leisure activities that apparently must not be named, similar to (but heretofore with a catchier label) my ignorance of e.g. pop music or movies made in the last decade.

I think those might be fighting words. Be prepared to accept a polite apology for the punch in your face, kind of fighting words.

Then it's not necessarily that he's stupid, it's just that he outsourced his reasoning ability and is now struggling to put sentences together unaided with his rusty, atrophied brain. Presumably he feels (or an LLM tells him to feel) it's a worthwhile tradeoff.

...I think so? Like I said, never had it, though I know it's usually opened underwater to contain the smell.

I also know, and suspect more than chance coincidence, it's traditionally served with strong liquor.

I've never actually had either lutfisk (...the Norwegian spelling just feels wrong) or surströmming, even though I'm Swedish. I think my grandparents did, annually, but especially among younger generations (I'm only in my forties) I think it's on the way out. Or northern.

Lutfisk, hákarl, balut, san-nakji, odori ebi, ikezukuri, casu martzu, kiviak…?

I get surströmming holding pride of place, but the world is full of horrors.

I thought so and am glad to hear it, but this is the internet, and there are some points on which I really, really, really don’t want to leave any room for misunderstanding.

(Also, I have a truly awful track record of guessing what other people will find obvious and when I’ll be misunderstood.)

I hope it’s obvious but want to be 100.00% clear: I of course utterly reject that position and I assume a vast number of Jews do, too. I’m pointing at what feels like a self-defeating aspect of her atrocious thinking, not looking to validate or excuse antisemitism.

If she, as a Jew, thinks that the Holocaust is an exclusive, Jews-only matter, wouldn’t it basically follow that we goyim might as well shrug and ignore Holocaust education entirely since it’s got nothing to do with us?

And ditto FB/Zuck.

And if you ask Grok for advice, it will give you advice Elon approves of (though strongly limited by competence—thus far). Same for other LLMs, of course; just sub in another oligarch.

People are entrusting their brains to sociopaths. haggholm.dreamwidth.org/264696.html

The people want the worst people impeached, not released.

In a world where their ideological purge of the military is complete, and everyone is on board from POTUS to PFCs, the swastika will be a symbol of their unity, not division.

But until they get rid of all the people who dislike Nazism, it will be divisive. They know; they’re working on it.

I assume it won’t *work*…but it still needs to be done. What kind of signal would it send for Democrats *not* to attempt an impeachment motion?

It may just be signalling while Congress is controlled by cultists, but it’s still important to signal your actual position and intent.

Democrats: “Obey the law.”
Republicans: “Saying that is a capital violation of our restrictions on free speech. Kill all democrats who discourage murder!”

Seems wise to me. The message is clear, but they are *literally* just saying to follow the law, which…normally ought to be difficult to criticise, even if the current POTUS thinks telling people not to commit crimes is a capital speech offence.