"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
Sometimes I wish they'd finally legalize weed, just so the stoners would have to find something else to talk about.
— Anonymous
Where do the candidates stand on dinosaur research?! That's what I want to know! Which party has the pro-paleontology platform plank? They can't ignore the dinosaur vote! If nobody panders to us, we'll throw the election! We'll stay home! We're disaffected, disenfranchised and discombobulated!
We single-issue activities like to have our "hot buttons" pushed.
We single-issue activities like to have our "hot buttons" pushed.
— Calvin
Fenris: Most magisters would consider this a challenge. Invent a sin that is greater yet.
Hawke: Yes, yes, magisters are bad. We GET it!
Hawke: Yes, yes, magisters are bad. We GET it!
— Dragon Age II, "Legacy" DLC
And also, I believe that Carthage should be destroyed.
— Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder, Roman senator and statesman, at the end of every single speech he ever made.
You know those people who are really into Harry Potter and base their entire worldview around it, and to whom one feels the need to say, "READ ANOTHER BLOODY BOOK!"? I think of Amicia the same way. Find another bloody six-year-old! This one's broke!
"Yeah, California has great weather," says one of the guys in the kitchen; based on his LEGALIZE HOUSING t-shirt, you infer he is the YIMBY. "Which makes it even crazier that 80,000 Californians a year move to Texas, which is 100 degrees plus in summer and below freezing in the winter. It's not because they like the weather, it's because California's restrictive housing policies make it impossible to live here, and despite everything else Texas gets wrong at least you can build homes there!"
"Speaking of building homes," says the youth pastor, "I want to tell you about a carpenter who-"
"The problem isn't building the homes," interrupts the crypto bro. "The problem is that the banks charge such a high interest rate on the loans that nobody can afford them. Direct cryptographic crowd loans could get rid of the bankers and middlemen..."
"You know who else wanted to kick out the money-lenders?" asks the youth pastor. Some of the onlookers cheer, and you think you see a few dollars change hands.
— Scott Alexander imagines a conversation at a Bay Area houseparty
