I don’t think this is true? While the sex of a given child is ~random, the number of children one chooses to have is not, and couples will make different fertility decisions based on the sec of their existing children.

Clap push ups have to be like the very worst exercise from a joint stress vs actual workout benefit perspective in existence, right? or do my elbows just suck?

I cannot stress this enough: if you or your child or you on behalf of your child treat admissions as a validation exercise rather than what amounts to a lottery you are begging for a massive hit to your ego. No matter how exemplary or impressive an applicant is it's just numerically punishing.

I still occasionally come back to how this year one of the biggest hit movies had the dual themes of 1) you must accept yourself for who you are. 2) boys are ontologically evil.

Once again, "imagine getting to place a side bet on your kids soccer game" is an indicator of severe levels of degeneracy and in a healthier/more functional society, we would nuke these ppl & their entire business model from orbit

Laura Kelly looking at these numbers and wondering if she has one last job in her.

Electoral hedonic treadmill in full force. Is a 16 point over performance a disappointment? What about 18?

Sometimes I’m reading a thread about AI and kind of nodding along and suddenly I feel like I’m at “ape holders can use multiple slurp juices on a single ape” level comprehension.

remembering a Bush era protest sign: Support the Troops. Bring them Home.

Other than a bunch that are wayyyy too personal to post into the aether, probably when some coworkers were arguing about who got to have me on their squad when the zombie apocalypse happened.

Lot of thoughts about That Article, but one thing that made me scream. The cost of childcare was not zero! That our system devalues feminized care labor doesn’t make it actually free. Opportunity costs are a thing, childcare is more expensive because of Baumol, not because it was free before.

Rome-esque epic about the House of Valois-Burgundy.

every time i am reminded about these i get unbelievably mad

Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Semaglutide has the weirdest side effect I’ve ever experience. I’m hyper sensitive to caffeine all of a sudden- I went from ~4 cups of coffee a day to a single Coke Zero hitting hard enough to be unpleasant. Overall it’s a great drug ime but that came out of left field.

My most woke opinion would make me the Main Character on here, so no thanks. My second most woke opinion would catch a 3 day suspension. #3 is that everything is gender, except for gender, which is race.

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?-ass response.

Jeffrey Epstein being connected to Russiagate. of fucking course.

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

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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.