Papyrus did successfully solve one puzzle at least: he DID somehow manage to reconcile Frisk to Undyne. you have to admit, that conundrum nearly got the better of him. "No betrayal anywhere!" is a line that hits with tremendous force, once it's clear what Papyrus is attempting to do.

Somehow he achieves the impossible! I think that's a bit more important than trying to solve the horoscope (although I actually agree with Papyrus on this one—"do horoscopes mean anything at all?" is a legitimate puzzle.)

~Chara of Pnictogen

I've never been into that SCP stuff too much although maybe I should, if I want to get serious about being into Forteana. It's a fun but intimidating prospect and I haven't quite made up my mind about how much priority I should give to collecting and sorting esoterica. It's like asking how you can refine dilettantism into a legitimate profession somehow. ~Chara

It's just occurred to me that the "effective altruist" buzzword quietly disappeared from right-wing Twitter, probably a while ago too. I looked up a few big names who'd been attached to that "movement" and they're not using it any more. I feel like the buzzwords are shedding pretences to higher values, slowly. "e/acc" might as well mean "more of everything, faster!" and not much else. Oh that's not a pleasant thought actually.

(Imagine Peter Thiel's name being screamed in the throes of passion! Now un-imagine it, if you can.)

I guess...with that sort of faith, in the end, all words fail anyway. No words can possibly describe the great Technological Whatsit.

~Chara

Political Power is terrifying, as we all know. She's already committed to 100% sales tax as one of the planks of her platform, in an episode of the Chainsaw Man anime series. Sales taxes are extremely regressive, hurting chiefly those with little money and who therefore spend a large proportion of their income on buying products for their own survival, like soap and bath towels. Hence we can conclude that Power's politics are, at the very least, "right-wing".

The distinction between leftist politics and rightist politics really isn't that complicated. It's absurdly easy to tell who's right-wing from a brief sample of their talk, which is bound to be full of praises for some form of authority or other—Trump, Musk, Vance, soldiers, cops. Almost openly do they flirt with pure authoritarianism, but they're wholly committed and invested in their "Greatest American Patriot" act. They've puffed out ungodly volumes of doublethink to cover their tracks.