if you spend any significant amount of time on X the everything app, your brain is being cooked

There’s so much amazing fiction being made today I can’t keep up and I try. We really need a good way to match readers with stuff.

Ally is something for others to call you. Be wary of anybody who claims it as a title.

Lots of men—smart, savvy men—use this facade because it makes the people they want to prey on feel safe. After all he says all the right things, could he really be one of the bad ones? Yes. Almost always. Any man who harps on about how much a feminist he is inherently suspect.

Exactly. Heroes can never live up to the expectations.

It's funny that every time Elon leaves his carefully curated Potemkin village full of chatbots with suspiciously childlike faces, he's met with a roaring crowd of millions of people calling him a pedophile and telling him to pack a sack lunch and play some sudoku.

I don’t consider the Bill of Rights “unrealistic.”

Megan "but what if the child consents?" McArdle

The Epstein story isn't a moral panic. Calling trans people groomers was a moral panic.

I'd like to know DOJ's reason for redacting who Epstein was emailing after the 2016 election, including "Holy hell! Is this good or bad??" and "By the way - do you think my long ago invitation to come to Mar a Lago 'whenever you want' still stands?? Hee hee" www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

As it turns out, it is in fact very very easy to be a heterosexual male without being creepy. If someone struggles with that, then it's clearly a skill issue.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

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That’s his defense? “I knowingly served her up to a predator because I knew he couldn’t resist?”

does that mean spy It sounds like it means spy

All the major Texas research universities, including my own Alma mater and our flagship, have readily collaborated with Abbott and Patrick and Paxton to gut academic rigor. Tech is merely the latest.

1-goal wins after losing multiple-goal leads in the second or third period isn't a "heater." It's barely clinging on. We've got a porous defense and we can't backcheck with fervor for three full periods. You think we're gonna beat the Mild or the Avs in the playoffs with this jackassery?

Hi, I’m Ken, and I am here to tell you things you won’t like. It’s my job. I sympathize with Julie Le and am on her side in general but she went about it the wrong way. /1

"Oh but you can't take him SERIOUSLY" say all the very serious media pundits. "We know Trump just speaks brashly and off-the-cuff! He won't REALLY do that."

I tell people all the time the default "libertarian" position is open borders, but too many people associate the "libertarian" brand with Ron Paul paleoconservatives rather than actual libertarians, and that's a problem.

Inshallah, if you put black olives, or any olives really, on tacos, then you will not see paradise. Look, I *love* Mexican food. And some of it is kinda complicated, but if abuelita can do it on a wood burning clay oven outside a ranchito in Mexico, then you can in your kitchen.

She’s not a seasoned AUSA. She’s an immigration attorney barely out of school without effective leadership or mentorship thrown into an incredibly difficult system by uncaring, cruel bosses. It’d be weird if she didn’t break.

Hey where’s the Sickos guy watching from a window? I don’t feel adequately represented!

Hello it’s Imperial Japan calling. Nanking? Bataan?

I mean, I do too, based on a long history of the CIA being up to shady shit, but *what now*? Or did Ron just learn about Project Artichoke and MKULTRA?

This is key. During the period of Classical Greece (when Nehemiah was authored) foreigners were generally admitted into a polis without restriction, though certain activities of citizenship were denied to them and they often had to pay special taxes. They were called "metics."

First off, there is no such thing as “Judeo-Christian.” That’s a bullshit term evangelical Christians use to pretend they’re not in an antisemitic death cult.

Pink Floyd, “Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYfx...

Way to not meet the moment

I can’t believe bsky radicalized foxtrot guy

Ok, another history lesson. Milk in its raw form was actually fairly rarely consumed prior to the modern era. A lot of it that was consumed was actually goat milk.

lol, even cbsaustin.com/news/local/k...

Have people just never been around cows, particularly dairy cows before? They are organic machines that turn alfalfa into smelly smelly shit. Everywhere. Drive through Dalhart, Texas sometime.

continue to think that if instead of "raw milk" we called it "doodoo milk" people would understand the risk proposition

EVEN REGULAR COPS ARE LIKE “HEY GUYS IT IS OUR MOMENT SOMEONE WORSE JUST DROPPED”

Martinez ends her testimony with this: "If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."

COLLINS: you gonna shit yourself again if I keep asking? (is what she should have said)

Nothing says “Conservative America” like the song Bawitdaba, which features these lyrics:

Iiiiiittt’s BUDA!

Actually…

Bad harvests in Brandenburg and the promise of Wisconsin. As for my mother’s side of the family, probably fleeing the law, a jilted husband, or creditors.

I agree that "opsec" is often used a shibboleth in leftist spaces to justify gatekeeping. At the same time, prosecutors move slowly and they WILL raid your fucking house out of the blue a year later. Don't assume the feds are stupid or not paying attention just because "everyone's been out there".

/3 I think the Harper’s Letter people should be encouraged to come together as a community, gather at a convention, and spend several days together with each other, but then I am notoriously cruel.

I would just like to add that the notion of any continuity of "Western Civilization" between the modern day and Hellenistic Greece is fucking dumb. Then again, given how many of our wealthy elites are pederasts, maybe I'm in the wrong here.

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they never stopped to ask if they *should.*” —THE ACTUAL POINT OF THE FUCKING MOVIE THESE PEOPLE ARE DEBASING!!

This is a good point to tie into my earlier thread, and maybe I was being a little bit too harsh on Mr. Bossy. After all, when he read "white-armed," he naturally interpreted it through the only lens he had available, that of a 21st century reader.

Before the printing press, most tales were oral, and even the first record of these tales (Childe ballads, Grimm’s fairy tales) were written records of the oral stories. Each storyteller would adapt and add to the legends to make them familiar to their audience.

To add to this point, since I didn't explain it very well: if you imagine Helen of Troy as a white woman, that's *on you*, imposing your modern notions of ethnicity and default-ethnicity on a classical work. It's the same way American filmmakers presume anyone in a fantasy world...

So this is an interesting point, and entirely anachronistic imputing modern (well, 19th century onward) colorism to Homeric Greek, which... lol no. ATTEND.

The woke scolds are trying to make this about racism. But Musk is right. It's about historical and scientific integrity. When the God of Thunder disguises himself as a swan to seduce and fuck a queen and the resulting baby hatches from an egg, *of course* the baby will be white. It's just science.