Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

It’s like a watergate level scandal every six hours plus he’s just straight up bombing boats full of civilians every few days

studies show that this shit works but can one truly be certain of any knowledge in this life? for example, what if a demon were to put the metaphorical wool over my eyes and create a false reality, how could i tell what was true or not in that case?

The pundit class's notion of "free speech" is predicated on a division of humanity into those who *participate* in debates and those who are the *topic* of debate, where treating one of the former as if they were one of the latter is seen as the direst of all threats to "free speech".

"'Free speech culture' means that you can call for censorship, disproportionately abuse other people for speech, chill and deter people for speech, even call for violence against others so long as you do it in certain ritualized and stylized ways that people who were on the debate team like."

The combination of "I don't want to see visible evidence of homelessness" with a refusal to build housing or fund public services *is* functionally the same as Brian Kilmeade saying "we should kill all homeless people", just with extra steps.

If I'd been murdered for who I am or what I think or what I've said, would Charlie Kirk have called for a calm, empathetic, respectful response? Or would he have called me an abomination or a joke, and then insinuated that I had it coming?

Today's Low Quality Ad is for these edible $100 bill cake decorations. Forget the cake, I'm just going to randomly pull these out of my wallet and eat them to confuse people. collabs.shop/zwgy0r

ultimately what they want isn't the free speech of a fractious society, but the norms of an academic cocktail party--where any topic is fair game, so long as we all admit it kind of doesn't matter and this is just a little post-dinner diversion we're engaged in

This continues to weird me out because I thought being fractious and destabilizing was *the whole point*.

no charlie kirk joke i make will be as funny or insensitive as this

As a native of Sarasota, I’m gutted by what they’re doing to New College, but also, I know that simply incredible things are going to happen to that statue. It will lead a colorful life.

i've been thinking a lot about the historical record on this and how hard it will be to communicate that this guy was a fucking nobody

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

The one surefire way to get people to stop saying mean things about you is to send out a press release, insisting that they stop saying mean things about you. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...

To be more specific: Ezra Klein not only said nice things about Charlie Kirk but *made up nice things* to praise him for. Kirk was an open white supremacist who spread “great replacement” conspiracies and claimed that the end of Jim Crow via the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a mistake. Klein is out.

Almost inevitably, a white liberal pundit who finds a way to “hear out” or “find commonalities” with white supremacists eventually starts saying depraved shit. I need to understand why that’s not the last strike for white people that it is for Black political observers.

I blame my society that creates a birth certificate form with two little boxes ...

Honest question: If one of the other reactionary influencers who I used to be unable to distinguish from Charlie Kirk had been assassinated earlier this month instead, would he be getting the same kind of deification, or was there something special for fascists about Charlie Kirk in particular?

How thoughtful of them to propose installing a new gender-neutral bathroom on every campus!

this seems like the place for this: www.independent.co.uk/asia/east-as...

the difference between me and guys like klein is that he thinks we should study the right to learn their values and i think we should study the right to learn their tactics

no one wants to vote for a surrender monkey they can fucking smell it on you

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

"...Impeachment for and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, other high Crimes and Misdemeanors, or being a Dipshit."

It’s also George Floyd’s birthday.

you have to admit "can you make a documentary about a contemporary subject that never directly quotes anything he ever said or did" is kind of an interesting challenge from an artistic perspective

These don't even seem like they're priced competitively compared w/ what other (often much nicer) countries are offering in terms of ways to convert having a pile of money into permission to be there indefinitely or into an effective tax evasion strategy or both.

Okay, yes, I'll say it: doing this in memory of a dead podcaster you did not personally know does seem like a kinda loser-esque thing to do, even setting aside the Nazi of it all. www.pnj.com/story/news/2...

Okay why did this person know what Kirk's favorite Starbucks drink was to begin with? That is a weird amount of detail to know about someone you don't personally get coffee with or for on at least a semi-regular basis.

It has been, um, it has been quite an experience to watch partisan attitudes about "fairness doctrine"-type reasoning completely flip.

I wonder if the statute of limitations are passed to sue all the stations that only showed the bad side of Osama bin Laden

& they've declared a "Day of Remembrance" for this man, oblivious to the ting where a "Day of Remembrance for [X]" can be for an X that was good & is missed, or for an X that was a horror you can never forget. This October 14, I am going to choose the interpretation on which Mr. Kirk is the latter.

Me: AI minister? Wikipedia: Diella was formally appointed as "Minister for Public Procurements" of Albania in the fourth Rama government, making it the first AI system in the world to hold a cabinet-level government role. Me: OH DEAR GOD NO. Why is everything like this now?

(Yes I know I keep harping on the plane thing but the reason it bothers me so much is that my wife is LITERALLY A FREAKING PILOT)

people will be like "It's immoral to hate me for expressing my political beliefs" and their political beleifs will be "the emancipation proclamation was a mistake"

i am begging and pleading for cis journalists to stop treating threats against the trans community as clickbait. send post

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

Is anyone noticing how lines like "We need more Charlie Kirks" and "Charlie has awakened a generation of warriors" have, um, a certain presumably un-intended ambiguity?

This is truly the most online administration

This is somehow the most accurate summary of everything about the current situation.

Remember when the last Wolfenstein came out, and Bethesda had devs joking in promos: "There's a lot you can do with a hatchet and nazi?" Now Indiana Jones can't fight fascists. That's a pretty decent measuring stick for what's happened to our society and discourse.

The vice president is laughing over a critic of the president getting replaced by a government official. How would we cover it if it happened somewhere else?

Smash two movies together: No Country For Old Men In Tights

I love watermelons.

"Only about one-third of American Jews support Israel’s military operation in Gaza, according to a new survey by the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Rochester." www.ynetnews.com/article/bk9a...

I’ve been writing about sovereign citizen types lately so seeing the reference here to “SOVEREIGN MIDWIFERY” stopped me in my tracks

we've got to be open to the possibility that they were just going to do 180kg of cocaine on the flight over

ah, well