Levitation Day 2: the Brian Jonestown Massacre

One question: do you value loved ones for your relationships with them, or because they're people you care about whose own lives and experiences matter?

So why *is* the capital of one of the richest states in the US so unappealing?

We have created a society where everybody can sit inside the magic circle forever, attending to the make-believe showplay and even participating in it, and the curtains never have to come down and no one ever has to go back to their real life

There are few truths more taboo than the fact that conservatism as a political tradition has been intellectually and morally bankrupt from its inception, because it is nothing more than the political face of the just-world illusion.

Courage is always an option.

Matt Walsh is merely expressing the median New Atheist position

One of the constant strands in the history of the university, dating back to its medieval origins, is the attempt of authorities - especially religious authorities but not exclusively - to control what can and cannot be taught.

Ah the atheist who thinks Jesus will return

This incident in Katy, Texas has been shown to be an accident involving illegal hunting on a nearby property. Yet this is how DHS describes it. And that description was amplified by Fox News reporter Bill Melugin. Second pic unrelated.

shot / chaser

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

Baby you're my ride

Libertarianism can only be failed, etc.

If you “misspent a couple of hundred billion dollars” on urban transit, that would mean like building an entirely new subway system to suboptimal standards, or having to do only half of the planned lines because of overruns. I WISH we could do this kind of “misspending” on things that matter.

Genuinely interested if the people still rehashing Michigan in the last election are going to find the same level of vitriol for the children of undocumented immigrants who voted for Trump because Venezuelan asylum seekers had it too easy

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Well don't I feel stupid

Blame Oppenheimer

I believe this is the Texas Solution

You might also remember when Ken Starr was forced to resign from Baylor University for failing to act on the reported sexual assaults of at least 6 students.

Joe Straus Oh, not like that?

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Yes, officer, I have a good reason to do Only Chest Day

the original is a banger:

butt rock and ass rock are two different genres

Data centers AI whatever To some degree or another this is the cost of the clean energy transition. You’re retiring coal plants that are close to their end users that basically turn on and run all year without interruption with three equivalent sized generation resources that by their nature

This dropped off almost everyone's radar, to be honest (possibly for this reason)

Job search continues to go well

it's good that the filesystem community generally frowns on murder

Yeah I'm going to see the battles film. Battles Without Honor and Humanity

This remake of Bonfire of the Vanities sucks

Add a jollof vendor at Q2 you cowards

Yay!

The solution to the make loneliness epidemic is to go help your soccer team's supporters group make a tifo

There are not enough boos in the world for this

Going to go home and muse upon my pulled lat

Few say it out loud, but Texas' leaders have decided that nobody need live in West Texas anymore after a generation or two and that it's okay for frackers and cotton farmers to suck up all the water rn, while the fix is still in. www.depts.ttu.edu/research/dis...

The plan? Take millions of dollars in bribes from Gaddafi, then launch an international coalition to overthrow your creditor.

I feel the recent USAID discourse is very much a "so you hate waffles" thing

I admit to mixed feelings about this because, um, in general the countries involved (who are providing public health services, etc.) would prefer to be rich enough to not rely on largesse. And it's still true that American aid as a fraction of national income was already much lower than the EU...

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you… Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest. The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

Credit where credit is due

Yeah this was my assumption as well

There's a certain kind of well-intentioned liberal who is very frustrated at the difficulty of domestic progress and so turns to foreign policy as an arena where they imagine they can Make Good Things Happen more easily

Not really the point but I'm always astonished how high other people's utility bills are. Dunno if Austin Energy is just super fantastic or if having a new-ish build house means my insulation is a lot better...

Karen Attiah, a Washington Post opinion writer fired this month for her social media posts about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, has filed a grievance arguing that she should have been allowed to share her views on news events under the company’s labor agreement and social media policy.

Counterpoint: voice mail exists for a reason