You’ve really got to see the original video:
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joined 11 months ago
“Evenings by appointment”
Yep. Stephen King’s Needful Things
This is a great post, Onno!
Envious because I really wanted a bottle of that and only just missed the sale.
It should render in markdown, no?
Unordered list:
- Hyphen 1
- Hyphen 3
Ordered list:
- Number 1
- Number 2
In Voyager it auto-completed the items for me, and seems to render correctly:
I mean, you can put this on ice cream if you want. I seem to Recall some dish somewhere being served with Pepto-Bismol, Assuming that label is exactly what’s inside that container.
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The point is normalization.
In places they don’t already own the news, their whole playbook has been to embrace, exaggerate, and extinguish. Making a mockery of it is the exaggerate part, and then a couple news cycles say more dumb shit to steal the limelight for the next news cycle.
By keeping the news flowing from one outrage to the next, communities can’t develop sufficient steam to hold them accountable, and each new outrage is only a little worse than the last.