crazy to me that we talk about gen-z brainrot like we weren't all watching this in 2010

redid a few times and it looks like I'm around the 70th percentile

shockingly, a movement of self-promoting oppositional defiant weirdos may not be particularly stable

You can think it’s good that Massie and MTG are stirring up shit within the GOP caucus without thinking their politics in general is good. It’s not hard at all in fact?

If we wanted to be real strict and technical about the meaning of ‘pedophile’, then the salient thing about Jeffery Epstein is that he was much worse than that

strongly suspect this is correct. a big part of MAGA’s coherence & ideology is downstream of the impulse to “own” some nebulous enemy, when they lose easy access to that enemy it makes sense they’d turn on whoever they do have access to, which is each other

thinking there are interesting complications for theories of truth in fiction wrt videogames

The good news is that we might finally be be rid of Lawrence H. Summers

states don’t have any right to restrict immigration

being a Hampshire College alum is mostly thinking “heyyy look it’s my homeboy!” any time Ken Burns comes up

lmao

really seems like even if you think the death penalty is warranted for some people the moral risk of executing someone who's innocent would way outweigh whatever is morally gained from executing someone who deserves it

The Cat in the Hat Tin Roof

oh no not hundreds. how will the city survive

oh no not hundreds. how will the city survive

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mancept? oh you mean the manguage of thought

Fodor should have called it manguage

One caution I'd offer as everyone goes through these emails is that *Jeffrey Epstein* (of all people) saying something in an email does not automatically make it true!

important update from the epstein files

Don't wanna pile on. But. To the general public it will just be implausible to suggest that journalistic standards meant a lead suggesting a Trump-Epstein link wasn't worth pursuing when the NYT did run with "Mamdani said he was African American in an application to a college he didn't get into".

man, killing the previous pope hasn’t gone the way jd vance was hoping

lotta people posting email screenshots like this with captions like 'wow'. yeah man, i'll take your word for it. that's crazy

it's interesting how in pop presentations of special relativity you'll often hear "time is like space" when if anything what generates relativistic effects is that there's one important way in which it isn't

Oh no, you’re telling me Epstein had sloppy grammar? Well, he’s certainly lost my respect.

There's something really funny about a graphic that just reads "GREW UP PRIVILEGED"

what

Just learned about Hanna’s book title and I thought you guys would want to know

Oh no, you’re telling me Epstein had sloppy grammar? Well, he’s certainly lost my respect.

annoyed that I didn’t think to post this with “GOOD LORD WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THERE?!”

Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load. So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.

HOLY SHIT

WAIT WHAT

what the ridiculous comments of the Palantir CEO who got a B.A. in philosophy and a Ph.D. in social theory show is that we need to educate people in the humanities

?????

I can see their challenge, if there's one thing thats always been important to the Bond franchise it's continuity

dudes rock

one of the weirdest things that people believe on a website where the collective mood changes every thirty-six hours is that events completely unknown to 60% of the population, where 90% have the facts wrong, will have persistent effects eighteen months later

this problem will be solved when one day I write my own logic textbook that has the obviously best notation & approach

ok, say I’m looking at ACA marketplace plans rn, is the tax credit I’m seeing the enhanced one that’s going away and if so how would I figure out what I would actually pay?

we have this zany idea that you should use quotation marks to indicate which parts of the text are being quoted from another source, and not put stuff that's a part of your writing and not being quoted in there, because that is confusing

I genuinely struggle to comprehend why someone would think the punctuation should go inside the quotation marks. your sentence is now ill-formed! it doesn’t have a period at the end!

ridiculous that reversing the rotation of your ceiling fan helps you stay warm, looney-toons-ass logic

ok, say I’m looking at ACA marketplace plans rn, is the tax credit I’m seeing the enhanced one that’s going away and if so how would I figure out what I would actually pay?

I'm thinking of starting a philosophy journal with a 100% rejection rate. It will be the most prestigious journal of all time.