A syllogism: other men get old, but I am not another; therefore, I'll not get old.

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If somebody today were to cover a song exactly as old as Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly" was when Lauryn Hill covered it, they could try any of these: "Hey Ya" by Outkast "Crazy in Love" by Beyonce "In Da Club" by 50 Cent "Milkshake" by Kelis "Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence

Well Aaron Judge's season opening slump lasted for 1 game.

Why did the U.S. attack Iran again? What did they think the benefit was going to be?

I read the back story here. If I'm reading between the lines correctly - which I may not be - here's what happened: Man loses an administrative hearing. Man wants to appeal; knows he needs an attorney; doesn't want to pay an attorney. Man creates papers using AI, finds a solo willing to sign them.

Every single word of this is nightmare fuel to investment bankers.

I accidentally took pure crystal meth once and it was the worst physical experience of my life. The level of psychological misery I experienced wouldn't be topped until my best friend died when I was 27. I still have no idea how people take it for fun.

The Nippon Professional Baseball league has 12 teams. 5 of them - almost half of the league - are based in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area.

I don't know enough about Protestantism to say for certain, but I'm reasonably certain that most Protestant denominations would consider this blasphemy.

Hillary Clinton using the term "fake news" on the 2016 campaign trail was a harbinger of a world that failed to acknowledge the existence of consensus reality, but I had no idea at the time how pervasive the denial of objective fact would become. Society can't function without belief in truth.

In August of 1914, Kaiser Wilhelm II issued a statement to German soldiers leaving for the front lines to fight in Belgium and France. It concluded with these words:

AOC is my dream candidate but I feel like Pritzker would have a better chance at winning. There are a lot of imperfect candidates on here whom I disagree with fundamentally on important things, but who'd I support wholeheartedly anyway. If Newsom gets the nomination I might as well emigrate.

From my grandparents through my kids, every person in every generation of my family has risen the NYC subway before hitting puberty. Just the softest human beings imaginable.

Fun fact: the F-22 was the most advanced combat aircraft ever built, but the Air Force scrapped the program after fewer than 200 were built because, at $350 million a pop, they were just too expensinsive. Solely the Tomahawk missiles in a stocked Navy guided missile submarine cost more than that.

I thing I will simply never get over is that Joe Rogan ended up not being the worst human being on the cast of NewsRadio.

There are very few people like me: the Mets won the World Series when I was in 1st Grade and were clearly the better team; everyone in my school was a Mets fan; so I became a Yankee fan to be a contrarian. The first year I truly followed the Yankees every single day, they finished in last place.

My father, a West Point grad and one of the most virulent homophobes I've ever met, used to say he wanted to join the Marines, but they wouldn't let him in because he liked girls. Anyway the Army general staff will not stand for this.

I don't actually think it's the most important invention in history, but I find it fascinating that: Writing was independently invented 5 times in human history (Sumer, Egypt, China, Mayans, Easter Island). The concept of an "alphabet" was only independently invented 1 time in human history.

one of the only appropriate uses of ai

FUN FACT: It is not a crime to to be present in the United States without authorization or to work in the United States without authorization (assuming you don't provide a fake SS#). It is, however, a crime to employ someone without authorization to work in the United States.

Because the 1960's were stupid, here's a photograph of a dude jumping out of an airplane with the smallest nuclear weapon ever built strapped between his legs. It's kind of hard to miss; can't hide it in a vest. Its explosive power was about twice that of the bomb used in the Oklahoma City bombing.

TERF island earning its name yet again.

I know this isn't news, but O'Neil Cruz is a TERRIBLE center fielder.

My most batshit idea for a Constitutional amendment I legitimately believe would be helpful is that every census, state borders should be redistricted to ensure that all 50 states have roughly equal populations.

So, generally speaking I don't actually have a problem with this except the last part. If you omit "subsequent history" then you can, for example, cite to a Circuit Court opinion that was subsequently reversed by SCOTUS on the exact issue you're citing it for. That's just... not ok.

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It'll never stop being crazy to me that the Rockets had the Number 2 pick in the 2021 draft and got the second- best player in the draft... except it was the guy they drafted with the 14th pick.

I no longer have Twitter on my phone to even check what's on there, but I used to periodically pop over and count how many of her 50 most recent Tweets were about trans people. It was always 45 or more.

By the way: MDL lead counsel are generally among the best complex litigation attorneys in the country. Better than most people you'll find in Biglaw. They also make A LOT more money than Biglaw attorneys. There are jokes about lawyers on billboards, but some of them are the best of the best.

Maybe my favorite moment on Twitter was when Stephen King said something nice about JKR's writing, and she started gushing about how wonderful and magical and amazing King was, and then somebody asked King about trans people and he said "trans women are women" and JKR blocked him.

Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy.

In 2019 the Washington Nationals won the World Series, and the two biggest free agents in baseball that offseason were Nationals players Anthony Rendon and Stephen Strasburg. Rendon has since been paid $245 million to play in 257 games. Strasbourg has been paid $245 million to pitch in 8 games.

I feel like the best way to understand baseball's importance to American culture is to look at the list of English (perhaps American English) idioms derived from baseball. People who have never watched a single game use a ton of these!

I know Judge Daniels very well. He's perhaps the most chill and relaxed judge in SDNY; I do not think I've ever seen him actually get visibly upset by anything. But I cannot think of a single line of argument more specifically designed to piss him off than the one being pursued by Taibbi's lawyer.

State courts are massively important - signed, plaintiffs' class action litigator who files in state court almost exclusively since Federal courts are, uh, not particularly friendly to class actions - and there really isn't enough reporting on them.

Far more useful to have all of these goons than extra air traffic controllers.

Not gonna lie: maybe it makes me an old man yelling at clouds, but this in particular drives me insane.

Honestly war reparations seem like a minimum ask.

If I watch Chinatown, I am not helping to finance Roman Polanski's rape of more kids. If I watch Harry Potter I am contributing funds to harming trans people.

L-O-fucking-L. Taiwan has 60% of all global semiconductor production, and 40% of all RAM production. All Apple products. All NVidia products other than those made in the brand-new (4 month old) facility in New Mexico. Overwhelming majority of AMD chips.

When my daughter was born, we had a Harry Potter themed nursery and then she she was born two weeks early on Harry Potter's birthday, and everything she got as a baby was all Harry Potter. We threw all of it away after JKR became JKR, and at age 7 she has no interest in Harry Potter now.

Going to designate my daughter as a supply chain risk.

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Notice how Mamdani specifically uses "Pesach" in his recent statement. I've seen this from him in other holiday statements before. It's obvious he puts effort into the small cultural details, making sure he speaks to New Yorkers in THEIR language and honors THEIR culture.

As somebody who was born with a "III" after my name I can confirm that people do this and it's absolutely idiotic and one of the many reasons I'm grateful that I legally changed my first, middle, and last names when I turned 18.

Charles Curtis is an absolutely fascinating figure that more people should probably know about. English was his third language, after French and Kansa. He was raised on a reservation by his maternal grandparents. He was put on the ballot in 1928 as a ~conservative~ balance to ~progressive~ Hoover.

This is a linguistic myth I believed my entire life until reading that it had an earlier history like 5 years ago, and I was completely devastated because it's an absolutely perfect etymology that is far more interesting than the truth.

I was at a game where a bird got killed by a hit ball - April 12, 1987, Dion James hit a fly ball to the outfield of Bobby Ojeda that killed a dove. They put video of a visibly disgusted ball girl carrying the dead bird off the field by its tail on the jumbotron.

My understanding of Epic Games is that it's Fortnite with a pretense of existing for reasons other than extracting value from Fortnite, so if that one single revenue stream dries up it's kinda sorta cooked.