There's "knowing" on a theoretical level, and knowing having experienced it. As the generational knowledge of people that have experienced fascism dies off the younger generations have to learn the hard way. Seems to happen every 100 or so years.

The idea of "European exceptionalism" is no different than the idea of "American exceptionalism". People are fundamentally the same regardless of where they live -- we all have the same base instincts, the same hard-coded tribalistic tendencies, and the same fears. Every population on the planet is susceptible to fascism because it preys on the aforementioned.

Stupidity combined "fuck you, I've got mine."

Bigots aside, I'm convinced most people are 100% fine with queer and gender non-conforming characters so long as they're well written.

People like characters that act like actual people -- not pandering, one dimensional, rainbow capitalistic tokens.

Every generation uses old slang they mistakenly believe they invented.

I take it you've never seen or experienced burns from boiling water -- second degree burns happen nearly instantly, with third degree burns taking seconds.

The coffee they served her was near boiling.

I'd agree, yet I keep seeing people argue the counteroffensive is going poorly for Ukraine because they're not making serious gains in recapturing territory. People forget that there are many ways to "win" a war: one of which is the enemy simply giving up and withdrawing. Chipping away at the enemy's ability or will to continue fighting is a path to victory.

You don't need to steamroll the enemy if you make it militarily, politically, or economically untenable for them to hold a position.

A disturbing percentage of people never outgrow highschool.

Pak'n'Save has an AI recipe generator, and for a while there was no sanity checking of the ingredients. I entered what I had on hand and it gave me this.

Do you guys not have phones?

It's an infrared motion sensor. They're not like cameras -- they can only detect "movement" when something warm moves in front of them. It's probably part of the old security system, and if the system is disabled it's not "spying" on you. They're also used for automatic lights.

Yeah, nobody here is dumb enough to fall for your bullshit.

They're just lying about pirating to look cool.

I highly doubt there are any actual pirates on here, it's just users being edgy. A bunch of dorks that don't even own a boat role playing badass pirates.