Gotta give the man his money’s worth.

Oh I can hear the voice now.

I think it is a legit good and funny costume but I am myself a dad and therefore cannot be trusted with these things.

Man I sure wish so many of these didn’t resonate with me so well.

Thanks. I wasted a year on Duolingo and got very little idioms, just some supposedly common sayings like das is schnee von gestern, oder es kostet nur einen apfel und ein ei.

Honestly, ich_iel has done more for my understanding than Duolingo did, but it is still almost nil.

Isn’t it closer to “we are looking for you”?

Damn I should have scrolled down literally at all.

When I was a kid there was a Transformers cartoon show and every time they transformed there would be this “BE-boo-babu-babu-BEEP” sound effect.

And so yeah.

That does seem to be increasingly the fashion among a certain kind of person.

Not with that attitude

*yet

I’ll be honest, especially outside of their typical context, like the White House or haunted houses, ghouls would make me feel threatened too.

Thank you. I struggle to balance hope and appropriate skepticism.

Are you implying that the laundry room fire was set on purpose by some of the sailors?

Genuine question. It seems plausible and I’m not sure why I took the official story at face value but I haven’t seen anything to contradict it myself.

I genuinely thought for a second it was some heretofore unknown to me Linux build that evoked that horrible windows UI

Just want to take a moment to appreciate the creativity within constraints.

Geeeeeez, just reflecting for a minute on the fact that things like this are still happening in 2026 leaves me feeling hollowed out.

I want to empathize with them, and appreciate what they must be going through in this photo. Waiting to die. Waiting to die for doing the right thing.

It is so galling, so gut-wrenching, any successful empathy is painful, I want to move on to other things.

But I’m sitting here just reading about it, on the internet, safe in my home. The very least I can do is sit with this and try to imagine how they must be feeling. My passing discomfort is not even a fraction, not even in the same equation, as what these fellows are going through for doing the right thing.

But then I also have to reflect on the trajectory of my country and ask myself honestly, am I ready to wait to die for doing the right thing?

I hope that I am.

He is making the classic mistake of thinking that he would be Trump in this scenario, and not the casino employee who lost their job

Oh definitely.

Ouch, that hurts twice