People really hate the Marcos family. When he died (which was in Honolulu, where he was being treated), the government initially didn’t allow his body to be brought to Philippines. It took four years till the next administration before his body was returned.

Maybe I’m remembering wrong, but wasn’t there a Portlandia sketch about why raw milk is bad?

At this point, looking at this vehicle with your naked eyes is bound to cause damage.

Still, don’t like that the name is shared.

Fuck Lovecraft.

Anyways, I started reading The Light Fantastic and I spotted a parody called “Necrotelicomnicon” which is described of pages made of lizard skin.

I like to point to Idiocracy (a movie you couldn’t make today but I saw for the first time in 2024; I think it was good) which Crocs are used as shoes for the future because they were not widely available and the costume designer said “There’s no way people will wear them.”

I stand vindicated that Crocs are idiotic.

I once got a wrong text from someone identifying themselves as a person named Sky. I proceeded to try to act like I thought they were Sky Tate from Power Rangers S.P.D.

The whole meme and the title are references to “Sugar We’re Goin Down” by Fall Out Boy.

The chorus: 🎵 We’re going down, down in an earlier round/And sugar, we’re going down swinging/ I’ll be your number one with a bullet/ A loaded God complex, cock it and pull it🎵

I don’t want him associating with my favorite movie. Secondly, he probably thinks the theatrical cut is the canonical one.

I knew one teacher that would drink one Code Red a day.

Another was addicted to Diet Coke. They stopped class to have someone deliver a case of it. They wouldn’t continue the lesson (it was an elementary school class in the computer lab) or let anyone touch the computers while they waited.

I assumed it was a weird reference to the Phoenix Force from X-Men.

Could they not have found a pun for fox?

Shouldn’t Church and State doctrine (or whatever it is called) immediately make all of this illegal?

I would immediately cite anti-LGBTQIA+ sentimentality as the contributing factor. While lots of people understand that homosexuals aren’t the only people who can contract the infection, I’m sure the treatments being aimed primarily at homosexuals as the highest risk group, will make certain people unwilling to believe it is a potential risk.

It sucks that safe sex isn’t a thing being discussed. However it does feel like anti-abortion laws would be unnecessary if teens had access to sought information. I’m sure with the advent of Internet based pornography, teens are being influenced more by that with no educational tools to say that people in pornography (I am sure not everyone across the industry follows health guidelines but for the “professionals” you’d hope they do) have access to testing and other health related care.

If we are going to be cynical about this, one reason I suspect sex education is no longer being thought would be to fall inline with twisted alt-right/conservative values about women NEEDING to have children. With lack of information about contraception, teens might believe they can’t be safe. Maybe they actually have access to contraception but aren’t aware. Maybe contraception is being banned. If you have no contraception, then the rate of pregnancy will increase and maybe those anti-abortion lawmakers wish to see more unwanted pregnancies instead of anyone wishing to engage in recreational sex that doesn’t aim for procreation.

I’ve heard supposedly those people got severely taxed for doing that.

Taxes? I don’t know full details or if this is even tangentially related (or maybe it is the same thing). There is a supposed practice as some universities (maybe just the non-UC’s and Cal State’s) that if you were a relative (I’m assuming immediate family only) working at say USC for example, you could get accepted into the university without paying tuition. The only catch was you got severely taxed (something like 30%; of what, I don’t know) for attending tuition-free.

Considering the news out of Russia about making childless families ideology illegal has been in the headlines… does this dude think he works for Russia?

EDIT: Sorry, forgot to add the word “ideology”.

And they don’t want to include the non-Judeo-Christian religions, I’m sure.

They didn’t abbreviate with a period. Sure is confusing.

Correct me if I am wrong, I remember he was associated with Chris Brown, helping spotlight them.

Anyone associated with Chris Brown is not in my book, a good person.