It's so goddamn refreshing to hear a media figure straight up admit "I messed up". Respect.

If you want to get in early on a Thing To Be Concerned About, the forecasts for El Nino and its downstream impacts are kinda crazy.

We are all the same person

I haven't been able to come up with a less dumb way to put this but... you can kind of clock these guys early by the structure(?) of the arguments they find compelling

Penrose went on Rogan

You guys want to go see Minions and Monsters after this?

We're a 2nd half country

HELL YEAH BROTHER GONNA DRINK THE PATRIOT MONSTER

I'm just here because I like posting and hanging out with parasocial friends

american evangelical christianity is more or less antinomian. it lacks any moral requirements which cannot be instantaneously and privately absolved, does not require that you be catechized by anything other than John 3:16, and ratifies every impulse which you might have.

The connection between a certain subset of bsky and Monster Energy drink is real and deserves to be studied.

It's so crazy how the alien spaceship in Blindsight is shaped exactly like my mom

A more broadly applicable lesson from Russia's strategy in Ukraine is to never apply a selective pressure on an adversary that selects more strongly for motivation on your adversary's side than your own.

I wonder why conservative men struggle so much with finding women who will date them?

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I think if you're a human being that gets killed by a wild animal in 2026 you should automatically get a memorial statue built of you in hand-to-hand combat with said animal.

It doesn't matter because these bans on trans athletes are driven solely by bigotry, but the idea that relying on "biological sex" lets you avoid relying on socially constructed definitions is incorrect. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of what biology *is*

If Meta was able to build a working brain-to-text decoder, imagine what competent companies are doing in their skunkworks

I'm clearly in the minority on this, but does anyone else find anything besides a chronological feed from selected users to be essentially unusable? Like, social media feeds are chaos anyways. Not knowing why a post is being shown to me, or its relation to anything else, is deal-breaker annoying.

One of my favorite little subplots on here is the number of people I follow that are quietly addicted to Monster Energy Drinks.

The main reason the Romans are able to absorb defeat after defeat is the simple fact they are a republic. Yes, other factors too, but republics/democracies are more resilient because you have political mechanisms to mobilize collective action and express popular will.

If you have any understanding of US demographics, these numbers should immediately set off your BS detector. On the flip side, the thing that transit-pilled me was learning that 2 million Americans are hospitalized due to car accidents annually, disbelieving it, then finding out it was true.

Human Trafficking Panic is a genuine glonzoist hysteria. People, even educated liberals, sincerely believe that there is a mass movement of human trafficking that systematically kidnaps women and children (and sometimes even men!) off the street. They get mad when they're told it's not happening.

The real reason people are so weird about who can use which restroom is that every Men's Room comes equipped with an XBox 360 and a copy of MLB The Show 2008. Men must protect this secret at all costs.

Is anybody else struggling with extreme cognitive dissonance trying to square their distaste of NYC sports teams with the images of how the city is coming together to celebrate?

There are lots of responses to this saying "such and such cuisine is also really good" and "lots of countries have excellent cuisines". That's all good and true but, in a purely objective sense, Mexican food is the best food that humanity has invented as of this point in its history.

Looks like I spoke too soon. How could I have possibly known?

For my 6th grade science fair I measured relative plant growth when watered with: A) Nothing B) Water C) Mountain Dew And I'm just now realizing I unintentionally did Idiocracy irl. Just incredibly on-brand for me. That one plant smelled so awful by the start of the science fair.

Good news everybody! We're almost out of this thing.

The Backrooms have nothing on the existential dread caused by seeing a porta-potty with an occupied status of "yellow"

If I can be afforded a bit of larpy cringe: The Right will regret the day that the squishy, bland, inoffensive normiedems remember how to feel hate.

PK Subban doesn't quite pull off the style he's going for, but he's lowkey likeable enough that just the fact that he's trying something is, in itself, endearing. It makes his sense of style come full circle back to completely working.

We're really raw doggin the discourse on this one huh

It's been a full 24 hours and not a single one of my so-called followers on here has complimented my haircut

Consciousness is stored in the balls

Self care is a rose that blooms in many colors

Trans rights are human rights.

Not that I'm complaining, but why did the universe let Bob Odenkirk become a legit action star?

Stavy's brilliance is his ability to roast somebody in a way they should never psychologically recover from, but then say "respect" and you can tell he genuinely means it.

Language Is All You Need

If The Atlantic insists on publishing mediocre "intersection of culture of and politics" articles, they could at least do one about how, universally, Trump supporters are bad hangs.

Oh so now it's a crime to play Fuck Marry Kill with my wife, Jo Firestone, and Donald Trump?

"These are games that civil attorneys play" is such a massive law burn

With some very rare people excepted, it's essentially impossible to regularly work more than 60 hours a week productively. If you're actually "working" working beyond those full 60 hours, you're going to start making serious mistakes and misjudgements.

It's interesting that the thing that unites right wing grifters and ex-rw grifters isn't specifically ideology, but rather a complete inability to separate ideas that might be true from ideas that might be false in any consistent, coherent, way.

All proofs are zero knowledge proofs if you're dumb enough.

I'm in Las Vegas so of course I can't get the idea "Ed Hardy, For Her" out of my head

Got blood stains on my Paul Giamatti Sideways t-shirt

"Cracking down on shitty drivers" seems like a pretty underexplored framing for trojan horsing in a bunch of urbanist policy

information diabetes