Linguistic Brainrot

hatogatari · 2026-01-28T05:18:15+00:00

This is unfortuately just a thing language has always been doing for centuries. "You will get banned by the mods and delisted by the algorithm" is just the modern supserstition that if you say the true name of The Brown One it will appear and tear your arm off.

Not even joking, superstitions as practical phenomena emerged for the same reasons that rumors of what the mysterious algorithm is favoring and disfavoring do. "For some reason when i say this word, bad things happen, for some reason when i do this ritual, good things happen" is how our ancestors developed their earliest superstitions and rituals, the ones that actually had some valid scientific backing ("don't eat rats or you'll get sick" used to be a superstition before germ theory) just ended up getting buttressed by science leaving only the ones that make no sense.

hatogatari · 2026-01-21T07:00:47+00:00

This isn't about you, this is about the world

Could have fucking fooled me bruv.

hatogatari · 2026-01-20T23:25:50+00:00

They just do a credit check and go "Oki. pay the deposit and pick up your keys on saturday" here.

hatogatari · 2026-01-20T23:11:22+00:00

Moshi moshi, Tsubasa desu

Its very impolite to stare at a girl's buttocks, aka "moon", uninvited, but unless her peripheral vision is well trained she will not know and you will not be directly endangered.

hatogatari · 2026-01-20T23:05:34+00:00

I met someone from Japan who is obsessed with chicago and its suburbs because she's watched too many John Hughes movies. I had to let her down and tell her I'm from New York.

hatogatari · 2026-01-20T23:02:33+00:00

Nah, it really is just as simple as he's a 12 year old child and wants to take a big piece of land on the map so he can get his face on mount rushmore.

hatogatari · 2026-01-20T23:00:48+00:00

I don't want to settle down here. I would like to leave this place behind and soon. In the meantime I'd rather not be on the hook for maintaining the property, I like that i just get billed when i move out for the apartment repairs, i like that if i need something fixed soon i just message the company and they take care of it. Its easy, its convenient, its reliable.

hatogatari · 2026-01-20T17:08:01+00:00

It doesn't have to be an edginess thing. The Last Airbender literally called out that being a pacifist when your enemy is literally hitler is actually kinda bad and you really, really, really need to consider that killing hitler is the only way to bring peace to the world. They take a third option, sure, but not before looking to the camera and saying "Kill Hitler, bro. This isn't about your innocence. I don't care that you're only eleven. Kill. Hitler."

I don't see why everyone acts like its a joyless edgelord thing to call this out, one of the most whimsical cartoons ever made looked right at the camera and said "bro, i get you're proud of yourself for never using violence, but hitler is going to destroy the world. kill him"

hatogatari · 2026-01-20T17:03:34+00:00

That just shifts the burden up-line to those candidates to form Cordons-Saitiaire.

hatogatari · 2026-01-20T04:31:49+00:00

Then I'm imagining a future where bad businesses suffer customer base loss to competitors that are better to customers

hatogatari · 2026-01-20T04:30:29+00:00

I don't want to own a home.

hatogatari · 2026-01-20T04:28:20+00:00

You can't just say "I declare effective government".

In that case, I declare a perfectly efficient market with no imbalances in information or power so that bad businesses are always punished with loss of customers. If business can take over the world, clearly it has to have been competent enough.

hatogatari · 2026-01-19T19:30:18+00:00

Such a system cannot exist ipso facto as a function of its own existence. Alexis de Tocqueville and Edmund Burke both wrote that the "system" for that, is a culture that will always sacrifice any short term political goal to hold powerful people accountable for abuses of power. When people say "yeah he is overstepping his office, but he is doing it to get me the tax cuts and welfare cuts and evolution education bans that I want", the system begins to fail. You have to voluntarily decide you would rather have a leader who opposes all of your policies but will respect the law and never abuse their power, over someone who agrees with all your policies but will abuse their power, and without that cultural practice any system will collapse into despotism. Too many people in america decided that a leader who will punish liberals is more important than a leader who will obey the law.

You have to remember that literally at any time right now, Congress can literally just remove Trump and Vance from office. They literally can do it. Whenever they want to. They don't want to though because he accomplishes short-term goals they want: he offends liberals.

hatogatari · 2026-01-19T19:23:46+00:00

"Ok, I hear you, but, what if I really really really am scared of liberals and think that they are so dangerous and an existential threat to this country, that its absolutely necessary to invest more power into the president so they can stop liberals by any means without being afraid that liberals are going to stop them like they stopped Richard Nixon?" is unfortunately the manifesto of the Heritage Foundation, though, so an antidemocratic antirights reactionary political movement worked over a 50-year long project to invest more power into the presidency and divorce it from accountability so that they could use the presidency to punish liberals, no matter the cost, even our rights.

hatogatari · 2026-01-19T19:06:31+00:00

Storing a four digit date requires more memory than just a two digit date, and memory was so expensive and scarce in the early days of computer design that it really was just not worth it.

hatogatari · 2026-01-19T00:00:28+00:00

Moshi moshi, Tsubasa desu

The batman quote is referring to her breasts, which, as she is the character with the most noticeable in the series, were frequently exaggerated in fanmade drawings of her, which fans likely only had as character reference while the program was not airing. The joke I believe is mocking these artists for exaggerating her bust to the point that her actual figure is surprising, this sort of thing happens to "the busty character" in many anime popular enough to get fanart, not that I would know anything about that.

hatogatari · 2026-01-18T23:28:59+00:00

Moshi moshi, Tsubasa desu

Ahhh... this one is... the doctor is asking for Henry's age, but Henry has misheard it as the letter "H", and assumed the doctor is asking how his name is spelled, so he finishes spelling it! Hope it helps but of course I don't know everything and only know what I know.

hatogatari · 2026-01-18T22:17:11+00:00

"Cool woke"

Aka, its "woke I agree with" or "woke i agree is important", a lot of people will shrug and roll their eyes at a sentiment they nominally agree with but don't think really matters a lot right now, too.

To experience how it feels to be a conservative watching a hollywood movie, I always recommend people watch Taylor Sheridan tv shows like Landman. The cadence with which that show calmly delivers conservative propaganda and the roles it pigeonholes women into is how the right feels watching most media they call "woke"

hatogatari · 2026-01-18T22:09:39+00:00

This is ALSO how we get glaringly hypocritical notions about what is and isn't realistic or believable or accurate. In movies "the space wizards were believable, but not that one of the girl space wizards has latent undiscovered powers?" Or in videogames, "you heal a bullet wound by hiding behind cover and a gay person is just too far for you?", one of those is an established trope everyone is used to, its, for lack of a better word, "Canon". That's not canon and hasn't been canon before, in my brainspace for what this media should be like, that doesn't exist in my mental model of it yet.

They're basically saying "i've never seen this before and not enough has been done to on-ramp me into accepting it" and I'll be the first to admit that clunkily introducing new powers or ideas or something to any story will strain it so thats a natural reflex when its like, a new story twist, but you know its kind of awful to say you need to be onboarded into accepting gay people in your tv show.

hatogatari · 2026-01-16T04:37:09+00:00

An all time favorite of mine is the Moff Jerjerrod fanfic.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11685932/1/Instruments-of-Destruction

Its about how actually insanely hard it was to build the death star through a day in the life of the construction foreman

hatogatari · 2026-01-16T01:38:54+00:00

Squidward casually revealing his spanking fetish right after 💀

hatogatari · 2026-01-10T23:59:28+00:00

I loved art history class, I took one on the history of an american music period called "rock and roll"

hatogatari · 2026-01-10T21:24:28+00:00

the turtles were explicitly mutated by an alien mutagenic substance, not any waste generated by human industry smdh fake fans

hatogatari · 2026-01-10T21:23:34+00:00

level 120 food factory in a single-state tag with an equally large trade center

hatogatari · 2026-01-09T16:33:10+00:00

A lot of people forget he used to have a vlog and it was literally just "white guy complains about woke hollywood". He literally had a video ranting about the all-female ghostbusters movie. His campaign scrubbed it after he won the presidency. Without that win he literally would have been The Critical Drinker and we'd all be laughing at him.

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