root_beer

I signed up for the beta back in June but nothing ever came of it. Do I just need to keep waiting?

[edit] never mind, I figured things out

I thought I’d read something recently that China is in danger of defaulting on like a trillion dollars of debt, to a bunch of US bondholders. Dunno what that means here, but

Yeah, diaspora, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a very long time. I tried it and got nowhere because nobody else I knew was ever going to go there and making friends is already a Herculean enough task for me as it is

Yeah, this is what I’ve been doing, and I expect it’s going to be that way for a while because this is all still so new to so many people

It’s fine, we’ll get used to things in time

Word, they all have that awful aftertaste, even stevia and xylitol have it. I don’t get where people are coming from when they say splenda is amazing, maybe there’s a genetic component to how I perceive it.

I wonder what this will mean for Ramzan Kadyrov. He relies on Putin for protection, right? But if Putin is seen as the paper tiger he is, will Kadyrov be safe? His Kadyrovites didn’t have a very good showing yesterday, either, having just sat there in traffic for a few hours, probably dicking around on their phones.

Things are gonna get worse before they, uh, get worse.

Do they take out Putin, then step aside for a democratically elected president?

Genuinely curious—is there any reason to believe they’d actually do this?

As someone who doesn’t eat quiche (don’t like eggs), how is that category not “tart”? I’ve argued that a pizza, rather than being a pie, is a tart, but under this system, is it actually a quiche?

This is what I have always maintained and I’m pleased that it’s getting recognition