Me using KDE Plasma because I prefer to work with my computer rather than work on my computer:

This is an odd card to play here because the protagonist only comes to value her appearance by seeing it through the lens of the male gaze. Ursula LeGuin or Becky Chambers would be far better places to look in that respect.

Lots of people love AI too, but that doesn’t make Midjourney an artist. Liking the taste of slop doesn’t make it not slop.

What are we looking at here?

I’m sure it’ll have the “not like the other girls” protagonist who is smoking hot and doesn’t know it, but will it also retain the cringey dialogue and cliché teenage love triangle of the book? Those are the most important elements of that literary slopfest. It could truly become the next Marvel franchise.

Reading the article is for boomers, apparently.

Putin is just the latest in a long line of Muscovite imperialists. Russia has always been an imperialist project, just lke China and the USA.

Thalion got it right. One of my former bosses was an ex-journalist and inststed on adding this to all our releases, despite it being archaic - and this was 20 years ago.

Wow, I haven’t seen “-30-” in a press release in years.

Sorry to have to tell you this, but the tattoo artist made a terrible mistake - that’s a Romulan warbird.

No, this is pretty much a USA problem. The rest of us are just trying our best to weather the torrent of brain rot.

This is pretty much what I imagine whenever I read “slams” in a headline.

“Cosmicrookie SLAMS wsws.org - you won’t believe what happens next”

Huh, I thought they lived in Italy.

Ouch, you’re unironically trying to play that card? Embarrassing.

She was asking for it, did you see what she was wearing?

TFW bias is when I consistently apply the belief that everybody should have agency rather than lick the boots of totalitarians

Oh, do you mean whoever this other person is? I read your post and was deeply confused about why Brigitte Bardot got so into the weeds with US politics.

It’s so good I still rewatch it every time I come across it.

I should have disengaged as soon as you spewed out that abhorrent take on Palestine, but you people are always a fountain of otherwise entertaining word salad. Re-read my comment - I never said the CPC was a state, I said the CPC’s state (i.e. the PRC). Note the possessive. All states are ultumately bullshit, even the hypercapitalist dystopia you’re slobbering over. It’s all arbitrary and the only thing that really matters is what the people on the ground want. In the case of Palestine, it’s unequivocally NOT to be a part of Israel. For the Taiwanese, >90% do NOT want to join the mainland. It’s only authoritarian imperialists like you and Likud who still choose to impose their will on others despite their most vehement refusals.

Likewise, you are attempting to recognize the existence of a Taiwanese state when there is no such thing to recognize. It has never been a nation-state, it has never claimed to be a nation-state, and no government has ever recognized as a nation-state.

I’m going to assume you’re just trolling at this point, because this is a bald-faced lie even by tankie standards. Not only is this obviously false if we consider Taiwan a de facto state as most western countries do, several other countries even still support Taiwan’s claim over the mainland (which is absurd, but that’s another story)