I haven't been posting about it but the difference between season two and season three is the worst quality crash I've ever seen on a TV show. Nothing even close. It beggars belief. No redeeming characteristics whatsoever.

The Substance was a bad film

this disgusts me almost past my ability for words, the fact they can acknowledge he's fought for and expanded trans rights LGBT rights and still throw him out for what? he has every progressive position on Israel! throw him out because he is a Jew...

Presented without comment:

lol

People are mostly mad at Jews for reaping the benefits of like showing up to work on time

It's a very dangerous Trump-era instinct to take a celebrity you and your peer group feel a lot of goodwill towards and project both good personal politics and presidential ambitions onto them. That's why I think a more realistic ceiling for johnny knoxville is ambassador to the UN

No. It's about misogyny. You don't get to make it about other stuff. That's ours.

Little optimistic to assume that the psychopath who called CPS on Buttigieg is a Trumpist, honestly, given how very online leftists treat him.

Consistent with a theme I've noticed in progressive policymaking, where advocates/policymakers assume that the only acceptable policy intervention is one that carries no possible tradeoffs, and that there are surely no tradeoffs associated with leaving a horrendous status quo in place.

Man fuck this. The only way I can understand this is wanting to kill old people to balance the books.

People's assumption of Anne rice vampire novels: we're gay vampires lets talk about kissing and being smooched 🧛‍♂️🧛‍♂️♥️ Actual anne rice novels:

you've neutralized your last milk hotel

Most white people who hate Haitians don't hate them because of their freedom from the french, they hate them because they are black. racism is usually very basic and incomprehensibly poorly-informed

I have a long running hypothesis that I call the "embedded NYC shelf life" which is the amount of time every single human on Earth enjoys living in NYC which is embedded in their DNA. It is a predetermined figure and cannot be changed. It is destiny. It can range from one minute to your entire life.

I say this is somebody who lived in Portland through All That Time: New York City is the worst city to inhabit in the USA. It has amazing museums and a lot of cool stuff, but the very idea of having to live there makes me want to hurl. awful place for QOL.

The way to ensure ongoing TPS protections for persons with TPS status was to elect Kamala Harris.

It's hard to overstate the extent to which the main thing that matters in my life right now is my wife

so glad that my parents let me watch normal TV shows along with them because I imprinted on beautiful women instead of cartoons. I don't think that most furry or anime people are really doing that much harm, but must suck too only be able to crank it to unreal things. like a ghost or yeti, centaur

Nobody cares. But that's the problem for it. nobody cares. This would've been news two years ago.

it's kinda wild that the 2020s have exposed so much of environmental science as degrowth cranks and absolutely vindicated basically all of the much malign'd gender studies

If you means test Social Security, it becomes a welfare program and you do noooot want it becoming a welfare program.

I got banned from a web forum for disagreeing with this. It wasn't permitted to disagree with this.

Donald Trump is a generational-level talent as a presidential candidate aided by literally two generations of having been celebrating as a business genius throughout the American media, with an extremely high ability to motivate non-voters.

my wife pointing out the ongoing relevance of The Egypt Game

A lot of them absolutely did. And for a lot of them it was because the DSA is their way to repackage extreme greed and a sense of their own victimization. They literally think they have it equally bad and think it's wrong anyone else gets money. They think they DO have it as bad as a starving child.

The current Western democracy meta is let your opponent win an election or three, sweep into office with thermostatic mega majorities, go absolutely fucking ham on all your dream policies for 2 years, then get swept out of office as punishment for attempting to govern.

I see where you're coming from here, but what do you do when constituents are very opinionated, but extremely poorly informed? What happens when they feel very strongly that they should get things that there is simply no mechanism to give them

"Don't doom about blah blah" hey they just went for somebody who is against interracial relationships? Like... my marriage? Would I be allowed to be upset if somebody was winning who was against gay marriage, something I'm also in? My marriage matters to me.

And the GOP is a big tent. It has also shown expanding appeal.

I actually disagree, I think it is not fundamentally that different from the GOP. I think the same patterns can and will easily occur in the party, with all of the downstream implications.

This is what's happening. And basically, to a larger extent, the United States is becoming politically more of a Latin American country.

given what Elon is willing to say out loud now, I’m amazed he’s not willing to say the actual reason he wanted to kill USAID, which is its role in the end of apartheid

silmarillion

I think it's funny that sports teams are mercenary companies

We had to watch supersize me in school!

People will say this is all dementia, but I think part of it is just that old person honesty, and the fact that he doesn't give a crap about whether the Smithsonian is woke. He wants to install chandeliers.

Nothing odd about it. Time is a flat circle, etc.

buzzballs and poptarts are such America B food. i've never even seen it in the home of anybody I know.

I feel like to some extent all lay religion tends to converge on what I can only call WWE Manichaeism— there's an active battle between the forces of light and darkness, and gosh darn it wouldn't you know: today the battle is centered on _me_! But luckily I know how to suplex Satan! Crowd goes wild!

God, where if he passes away and suddenly they start lasting really long time again 😬

I also have a strong deference for medicine and medical expertise. However, I do think the medical system itself is so convoluted and frustrating to navigate that it cannot be surprised the people look for answers and options in other ways, especially when they are getting them.

Larry the Cat shouldn't, when it happens, get a plaque: he should get a Lenin-like complex for his role injecting any stability into the government over turbulent times

it amazes me that american men (and their admirers) eat this shit up after complaining that school/college is a waste of time. the scary part is that the points in the image go beyond partisanship too.

This is fundamentally a story about American innovation in boring things and honestly, I found it very inspiring. www.wsj.com/business/tid...

Rest in peace, Alan Greenspan, the story that dominates the front page of the Wall Street Journal because Prime Minister of the UK stepping down is basically a routine event

talkin Silmarillion

there's a Allan Bloom book on the "American religion" and one thing i think Bloom was basically right on is that 95% of the time, whatever American evangelicals *think* they're doing is in practice basically a form of Gnosticism

Your now-monthly reminder that "normal" people in both the Early Modern Period and Middle Ages married at roughly the same age as we do, and that to the best of our knowledge *no* Western European society has *ever had* an average age at first marriage below 20 years old: