This is why comparing the costs of healthcare writ large across generations is in many ways incoherent- it’s like asking if intercontinental flight is more expensive now than it was before WWI broke out.

Oh, yeah, not only did she deserve the Nobel Prize in medicine for the whole DNA thing, she deserved the Nobel Peace Prize for not strangling Watson to death with her bare hands.

High level elected officials should get 7 figure income, have to put all their assets in a blind trust, and be subject to such withering and punitive financial disclosure arrangements that they won’t accept a ride home without reporting it.

Fun thing about Matty is that during the Biden years crime went down, deportations went up, unemployment and income inequality went down, and yet somehow even though the Biden WH did politics exactly how he’s asking we got…this.

It is kind of funny that these assholes spend so much time talking about The Founders this and The Founders that and at least half of the time if you actually look at what The Founders said, they were like "for the love of God do not do that shit" torment nexusass constitutional interpretation

I’ll admit, I did not wake up this morning thinking “Steve, you are going to discover a situation in which launching an FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missile at a parade float would be morally praiseworthy” but, brave new world, such people in it, etc.

The modal “Dems should do X” piece of “advice” from pundits should be understood as an attempt by a hostile pundit to advance a narrative that Democrats are failing to do X, and probably hostile towards X on principal, rather than advice to Dems to do X. This has the interesting consequence that

Sexy IRC section 79, baby.

Former British paratrooper Soldier F has been found not guilty at Belfast Crown Court of committing two murders and five attempted murders on Bloody Sunday in Derry

How to wake up teenager How to get teen out of bed in morning Narcolepsy diagnosis Reddit Advice for parents of teens Max volume no permanent hearing damage Max volume no permanent hearing damage decibels Airhorn same day shipping

I do love the perpetual “the American people are ignorant about Bad Thing. It give me no pleasure to report, from the most prestigious name in journalism, that Democrats have failed to effectively message on Bad Thing.” game from NYT journopoasters.

This is 100% me as an elder millennial telling these kids to get off my damn lawn, but I think that when someone who wasn’t old enough to actually have any experience navigating health insurance coverage pre-ACA starts complaining about it, there should be strong presumption to assume ignorance.

Does anyone else get plagued by random unfollows? Like, I think I’m following someone, they are following me, and I randomly realize one day that I no longer am? It’s happened 3 times in the last week, and it’s kinda annoying.

Taking my standard opsec measures before heading to the protest (removing my pocketknife from my keychain so that if I get detained I don’t have a “weapon” on me).

Tbh, then trying to achieve immortality via big ol’ statues is almost certainly healthier than achieving it through vampirism or The Torment Nexus. Plus, when they are smote and lie in ruin, we will get some sweet drone footage of divine wrath.

My biggest case of unearned white guy overconfidence is that I’m pretty sure I could fix the dating app world, in spite of never having used a dating app, or really dated in any significant volume at all.

my page is an anti-anti-hops safe space. rp if you're not scared of a fluffy green flower

He prepared a balanced meal for his kids and not just a pile of carbs! What happened next will shock you!

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel , while not technically a real Nobel, is less fake than the Nobel Peace Prize.

Caitlin Flanagan confirming that Woody Allen is part of Da Strap God’s extended polycule was not on my radar for today, I will admit.

I don’t love baseball, but I’m glad so many people can get joy out of it.

On the one hand, people react very negatively to any sort of talk about taxing non-parents more, but on the other, giving parents of minor children free money, and more free money for having more kids, at the expense of non-parents is like the most popular policy on here, so? duality of man.jpg.

Welp, someone else just flipped over to the wrong side of the poaster’s Mendoza line. Gotta keep the interesting/unhinged ratio under control, people.

Barrens Chat

This post is how I learned that I’m five degrees of separation from Trotsky.

“Political prosecution of…Lucy Connolly” Once again, the fundamental political divide is between people who think criminals are people who do crimes, and people who think crimes are something criminals do. Almost, but not quite, Wilhoit’s law.

this is not "the Internet was a mistake" bullshit. it is more "you broke the deal"

I wonder how much of Trump’s weird level of fondness for the House of Windsor is his brain being stuck at the era of peak Princess Di mania, how much is a desire to be a monarch himself, and how much is just a sense of solidarity with Prince Andrew.

For sale, lady’s shoes, worn

A desperate struggle of a group of unsuspecting adventurers to escape the Death House with their lives and bring the fight to the Vampire Lord Strahd to free Barovia from his undead grasp, maybe?

I continue to have the strong conviction that I would come out of a Choitner interview looking just fine, thank you, and no level of hacks getting aethered will change my mind.

I legit assumed this was a photoshop, but it’s not, so if anyone else was worried that we were getting a little over our skis, fear not, we are thoroughly planted wrt said skis, and that guy looks like the lady at the end of Requiem for a Dream.

“I support rightsizing the police” Is this anything? Can we convince LinkedIn bros that’s there’s alpha in restructuring Police Departments to focus on their core competencies and spinning off the other duties to institutions with better synergy?

technologically advance a band Queens of the Chalcolithic

The A-10 Warthog is the premier Kaiju fighting aircraft, I don’t get the haters.

I am extremely dumb about this stuff, but I’d think that if 1) you are dong stuff that would make signing up for a protest mailing list with your gmail account a security risk 2) you actually needed to be told not to do that Then you were already hosed and there’s no difference signing up or not.

On the one hand, everything is dumb, but on the other recent weather fluctuations once again led to a particular rotting stump in my backyard blooming with plentiful fungi, so it’s time to make some sulphur shelf jerky and weird out a coworker or two next week.

Serenely meditating, rotating in my mind a conversation with a freeze peach lawyer bro who insisted to me that Trump was easily better or freedom of expression than Dems.

“I agreed with him on something that literally everyone, from AnCaps to Posadists, thinks is the case.”

I just realized that boomers talking about how Kirk was so nice and polite in his debate are probably mixing him up with Ben Shapiro’s debate bro schtick. Kirk got his start paying adults to dress up in diapers and putting together lists of professors to fire.

So, IANAL, but it seems that Kavanaugh’s reasoning here is that if you are in violation of the law, you don’t have 4A rights because the govt interest in arresting you outweighs them, and if you aren’t then 4A protections are redundant because theoretically the inconvenience should be minor.

One thing I genuinely love about bsky is that I can be scrolling while I wait for laundry to buzz and suddenly I get blindsided by a sub 300 character collection of words that is a more artful use of the English language than anything I will produce in my life.

they seem to lack a sense of tragedy, which is to say i'm not sure they can actually conceptualize a world of loss and defeat, where the task is to carry the torch — not to light the fire. there are resources in the american political tradition for grappling with this, but alas, they're woke.

Man. In addition to being bass-ackwards on the merits, bringing up a piece of Obama era SV drama about a browser’s executive succession process as an indicator of grand cultural shifts means you cooking your brain in group chats with techbro plutocrats. Might as well bring up Pax Dickinson.

I’m just saying you roll up to the haiku contest with a fuckin verse cycle you deserve to get your shit rocked by the austere beauty of snow

When I am president, have no fear, the Department of Waaagh will be extremely well funded.

Ooh, ooh. An actual example of the logical fallacy of Begging the Question, in the wild. This logical fallacy works by smuggling in the conclusion-that the opinions libs strongly disagree with are reasonable-into the argument itself.

“Mamdani isn’t a Democrat” is such a weird attack from the centrist brigade. Did they just not bother to update their attack line after Bernie?

This is, by far, the biggest, most scandalous revelation from O’Keefe. I wonder if it will get more or less are from the media than a guy in a costume talking to a random ACORN employee?