"$100k in credit card debt" is itself absolutely fucking crazy to me as someone who regularly represented poor people getting sued for like $600

yes but then we invented things called “society” and “laws” around ~1750 BC because we realized that unilateral violence is bad en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of...

“I paid into insurance all these years, never had a claim, and then they raised my rates anyways!!” yes that is how the product works

Otherwise, insurance is, like other services, something you pay for. Do you know how much you pay your phone company if you go a month without making a phone call? Yeah, just like that.

A reminder to everyone, there's only one kind of insurance you "pay into", whole life insurance, and it sucks. You should get term life instead and invest the difference in an index fund.

I don't think this was *the* reason, but one benefit was that they allowed Emperors to appeal to the people by publicly taking an interest in chariot-racing but without having to take the divisive step of siding with either Blues or Greens - they could just claim to be a Reds or Whites supporter.

(I've never actually read anything on what the *purpose* of the Reds and the Whites was once they got totally eclipsed. We know they were still around! Presumably they must have had some social/sporting function.)

it's very simple; They Have Always Been Or: inertia is a powerful factor, four teams make a more exciting spectacle than two, and you can come up with all sorts of retroactive elaborate theories about them mirroring the four seasons and the four elements and such

Yes and this was bad, vendetta are bad, the earliest human civilisations tried to prevent these.

Honestly, props to the Link actor for perfectly nailing the expression of a man shooting his shot with a lady out of his league and the Zelda actress for her 10/10 resting Just Friends face.

I think Seattle should lean into what Bezos is afraid of. sickle and hammer hanging from every building downtown. every public service renamed "the people's [x]". buses should have signs that call you comrade.

asking a Roman if he supported the Whites would be like asking somebody if they were a fan of the Washington Generals.

I'm just glad they look nice and aren't in camo.

What the fuck is WRONG with people? Like why is there this deep seemingly widespread human instinct to be horrific to people fleeing persecution?

disagree on this point, I think a lot of people - including lawyers - are feeling a sense of both betrayal and purpose that will make them only too happy to get into this fight.

Listen if the PLP topples Starmer over abhorrent immigration policy instead of dry tax stuff I'll take the redemption arc

Getting adultery/sexual harasser tips from a child rapist and trafficker? Maybe you should NOT hold a named professorship and direct a center at Harvard, suggests local senator

some people are edging dangerously close to trying to both-sides the goddamn Civil War but leftishly, and no, absolutely not, we are not doing that

also kinda inescapable now that the dixiefication of rural american is directly linked with a homogenizing reactionary turn

the other possibility is the Klingon one where everything is interpreted through the lens of honor and conflict. "A cold morning, and once again the Hunt begins. My target? The prey receptive to my sales pitch for mid-range office furniture."

buckaroos know this classic way

this is from the cover of his second album, which features extensive rapping in Welsh.

I need someone to explain this mystique that RFK Jr. holds over some folks. I feel like it's a contingent of undiscerning people who see a bunch of status traits - old, white, male, tan, rich, Kennedy - held loosely together by a chaotic personality and media smokescreen.

I’m going to choose violence today and argue that the tradcath/orthobro obsession with “dignified liturgy” really has nothing to do with the implied theology of the Tridentine Mass or the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom/St. Basil and has everything to do with consuming a different aesthetic

Here Alan Taylor shares @ajamesmccarthy.bsky.social's recent picture, spoiled by someone #photobomb -ing the Sun. Andrew McCarthy regularly makes wonderful photos of the cosmos, and, not infrequently, amazing photos of the cosmos. With this carefully arranged picture, he may have topped himself.

"are Southern whites more racist than other American whites" is like the most tested question of all time in American history and the answer is yes extremely so

Crank realignment is going to be brutalizing for voting margins unless we permanently activate the educated suburbs and/or demoralize them and both of those seem more appetizing than bringing cranks back onside.

As another white liberal born and raised in the South, I second this.

another key-takeaway for me from reading about the Civil Rights movement is that those activists fully acknowledged that the South was worse than the rest of the country in most respects *and specifically brought the fight there* for that exact reason. "it's hard" doesn't equal "so give up."

that famous Nina Simone song was, in fact, about Mississippi for a reason and not because she randomly picked a state name out of a hat

absolutely NOTHING i am saying here should in any way be construed as "therefore, white people outside of the South aren't racist and have no work to do"

the 1960s was not that long ago, and my key take-away from reading a lot of books about the Civil Rights movement recently has been the exact diametric opposite of "the South isn't really that racist compared to the rest of the country"

this doesn't mean the South is hopeless, it doesn't mean that we shouldn't keep trying to win elections and fight the MAGAs in the South, but maintaining this fantasy nonsense about how the South doesn't REALLY have a uniquely racist culture in a number of respects is just foolishness

as a white liberal with Southern roots, quite frankly, I think other white liberals from the South need to get the fuck over their oddly defensive attitude about what should be pretty blindingly obvious.

All men are brothers. (derogatory)

Every backwards rural shithole in the history of the entire world has been a hotbed of reaction but everyone from French radlibs to Chinese communists thinks they’re the ones who are going to turn it around. There is nothing new under the sun.

ill tell u the chinese communists did (checks notes) make a bunch of real estate moguls money god damnit

Yeah RFK Jr was key for Trump’s moderate, bipartisan image (which he had! At least more than Harris did!)

not "I don't like this person" bad, but like actually bad.

people say "bad writing" when they actually mean "writing by someone I think is bad", and I think that most people who write for a living are unsurprisingly pretty good at it, and that I'd be much worse under the same editing/ pressure. I say all this because I think the Nuzzi piece is actually bad

if you read the Nuzzi excerpt with the understanding that "I'd take a bullet for you" is something RFK, a serial adulterer, probably tells every single woman it becomes even funnier.

The cruelty is the point. Shameful.

Me: You can’t just solve everything by throwing money at it. You need systems in place to… Me, two seconds after seeing this picture: We could probably feed the whole world on what the pastor here spends on hookers and blow.

new 4k criterion edition of network coming out soon

🎶You're so vain... you probably think this song is about you... don't you? don't you? don't you?...🎶

Me, coming down from the mountain upon having my 3rd eye opened and receiving a grand revelation of truth that will shatter the world (laying on the couch, under a blanket, half asleep): Dwight from THE OFFICE & Barney from HOW I MEET YOUR MOTHER suffer from the same fundamental problem.

The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all we do. - James Baldwin

Evangelion: 3.33 You Can (Not) Redo

"I'm going to propose to my girlfriend, do you have any engagement rings?" "How about this one, it was forcibly ripped off the hand of a homeless Sudanese widow tearfully pleading that it was all she had left of her husband?"

Poor Things being unique only if you haven’t read one million romance Novels. (this post could have been typed in 2009 about the Time Traveler’s Wife).