How do they rise up, rise up, rise up?
How do they rise up, rise up high?
Highlights include computers, finance (Important! Did your parents teach you enough about this? Probably not.), science, humanities, and basically this is awesome.
somebody tried to convince me the other day that the Chinese takeover of the US was imminent
and for a second, I stared at her and then I said, “you think that China’s going to invade?”
no no, she said, and then told me about Chinese sleeper agents and how “they”…
*flaily hands* Oh, I would get into such an argument about the myth of the imperial presidency, my gosh.
Congrats on not giving them the death glare of being surrounded by abject lack of critical thinking? Or, if you did indeed give them that death glare, kudos on a good target.
…that’s the plot of The Manchurian Candidate. China doesn’t really want to invade? They are busy.somebody tried to convince me the other day that the Chinese takeover of the US was imminent
and for a second, I stared at her and then I said, “you think that China’s going to invade?”
no no, she said, and then told me about Chinese sleeper agents and how “they” just need one person with the ear of the president or in some other high ranking position to do this secret takeover until the US was a China puppet state
it was like a bizarre conspiracy theory/racist!Cold War worldview
“you shouldn’t be depressed, people have it worse than you”
finally, after years of searching, the person with the worst life ever is found. formally, they are granted permission to be sad. but only them. only they have earned it. no sads for anyone else at all ever
There are people who like other people to be intensely emotionally dependent on them. They like to control people through this emotional dependence. And they like to think of this control and forced dependence as understanding the target on a deep level, rescuing them, and…
Reblog this if you ever stayed home alone when you were 13
I need to prove a point to some social workers who are saying I’m too young to stay at home by myself when my mom goes to work in the evening.
So I’m reading the first book of the Dresden Files, which is a series that apparently a lot of people like. And I don’t know. I mean, it is the first book. Sometimes a series can take a little while to come into itself.
So, anyone who’s read it…does it improve any? It’s not awful or anything,…
In terms of noir it’s not that great, in terms of urban fantasy it is pretty great. It depends on which genre you mentally slot it into - I’d say most people who read it haven’t read a lot of noir? I’d also say my favorite books are roughly 4-6 in that series. I rarely reread 1 or 2.
