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You're right about the Beatles, though Gen X alt-rock types had plenty more enemies in contemporary music than just hair metal, whether they needed them or not
November 24, 2025 at 1:22 AM
You're right about the Beatles, though Gen X alt-rock types had plenty more enemies in contemporary music than just hair metal, whether they needed them or not
just some bluesky pedantry here, but you're thinking of Billy the Puppet from the Saw movies, not Jigsaw
November 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
just some bluesky pedantry here, but you're thinking of Billy the Puppet from the Saw movies, not Jigsaw
"That's okay, you can just say yes. It's easier than explaining." One of the all-time moments in political comedy.
November 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
"That's okay, you can just say yes. It's easier than explaining." One of the all-time moments in political comedy.
there's actually a mural of Guernica at an ice cream shop in DC where someone's holding an ice cream cone for some reason
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
there's actually a mural of Guernica at an ice cream shop in DC where someone's holding an ice cream cone for some reason
Before you started correcting people on this, I kind of thought ICE was created as an interior immigration enforcement branch, as distinct from the border patrol's focus on the border. But if border patrol already operated throughout the country, what was the point of making ICE?
November 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Before you started correcting people on this, I kind of thought ICE was created as an interior immigration enforcement branch, as distinct from the border patrol's focus on the border. But if border patrol already operated throughout the country, what was the point of making ICE?
"first, do no harm" isn't actually in the hippocratic oath
November 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"first, do no harm" isn't actually in the hippocratic oath
what's extra funny is that there are 4 combinations of growth/inflation, and we got the only one he didn't list
November 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
what's extra funny is that there are 4 combinations of growth/inflation, and we got the only one he didn't list
As big as the big AI companies are in terms market cap, are they really that systemically financially important in the way the financial institutions that crashed in 08 were?
November 6, 2025 at 1:24 AM
As big as the big AI companies are in terms market cap, are they really that systemically financially important in the way the financial institutions that crashed in 08 were?
I'd say it's a suburban neighborhood, but it's not "a suburb."
November 4, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I'd say it's a suburban neighborhood, but it's not "a suburb."
isn't there a theory that non-college workers will be harmed less by AI, and may even benefit from it?
November 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
isn't there a theory that non-college workers will be harmed less by AI, and may even benefit from it?
as with so many cancel culture pieces, this one doesn't define what "cancellation" means
like this line was pretty telling:
"On March 10, 1994, a now-cancelled Bellow, age 78, wrote in The New York Times:"
what does it mean to be canceled if you're still writing in the NYT?
like this line was pretty telling:
"On March 10, 1994, a now-cancelled Bellow, age 78, wrote in The New York Times:"
what does it mean to be canceled if you're still writing in the NYT?
November 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
as with so many cancel culture pieces, this one doesn't define what "cancellation" means
like this line was pretty telling:
"On March 10, 1994, a now-cancelled Bellow, age 78, wrote in The New York Times:"
what does it mean to be canceled if you're still writing in the NYT?
like this line was pretty telling:
"On March 10, 1994, a now-cancelled Bellow, age 78, wrote in The New York Times:"
what does it mean to be canceled if you're still writing in the NYT?
I think it's more that people who choose to respond to surveys are more likely to be people who choose to participate in protests/vote/etc.
People who are totally uninterested in politics and just don't like participating in stuff are more likely to just not respond to surveys.
People who are totally uninterested in politics and just don't like participating in stuff are more likely to just not respond to surveys.
November 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I think it's more that people who choose to respond to surveys are more likely to be people who choose to participate in protests/vote/etc.
People who are totally uninterested in politics and just don't like participating in stuff are more likely to just not respond to surveys.
People who are totally uninterested in politics and just don't like participating in stuff are more likely to just not respond to surveys.
if they were going to make scream 4 they should have made ghostface a zombie or something, do something different
go halloween 3 mode, lose all the earlier characters, have a wacky ethnic white businessman trying to do an apocalypse as a prank
go halloween 3 mode, lose all the earlier characters, have a wacky ethnic white businessman trying to do an apocalypse as a prank
November 1, 2025 at 2:10 AM
if they were going to make scream 4 they should have made ghostface a zombie or something, do something different
go halloween 3 mode, lose all the earlier characters, have a wacky ethnic white businessman trying to do an apocalypse as a prank
go halloween 3 mode, lose all the earlier characters, have a wacky ethnic white businessman trying to do an apocalypse as a prank
Maybe this is naive, but shouldn't the extremely angry reaction from obvious local citizens create some cognitive dissonance for the DHS agents? Aren't these local citizens supposed to be the people benefiting from the deportation of notionally bad illegal immigrants from their neighborhoods?
October 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Maybe this is naive, but shouldn't the extremely angry reaction from obvious local citizens create some cognitive dissonance for the DHS agents? Aren't these local citizens supposed to be the people benefiting from the deportation of notionally bad illegal immigrants from their neighborhoods?
It's popular. It's a winner.
October 31, 2025 at 8:08 PM
It's popular. It's a winner.
Do they just list a random selection of the voter's personal views, or do they pick the ones that will be most likely to confuse you?
October 29, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Do they just list a random selection of the voter's personal views, or do they pick the ones that will be most likely to confuse you?
It makes more sense than voters wanting to abolish the police but thinking it would go too far to get rid of prisons.
October 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
It makes more sense than voters wanting to abolish the police but thinking it would go too far to get rid of prisons.
It certainly makes more sense than abolishing the police while keeping prisons.
October 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM
It certainly makes more sense than abolishing the police while keeping prisons.
part of it is that even if you are pro-immigration, it doesn't make sense to think that immigrants improve public safety (as opposed to not having an effect)
but it is kind of nuts that many people believe immigrants don't have a negative effect on culture but do have a negative effect on safety
but it is kind of nuts that many people believe immigrants don't have a negative effect on culture but do have a negative effect on safety
October 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
part of it is that even if you are pro-immigration, it doesn't make sense to think that immigrants improve public safety (as opposed to not having an effect)
but it is kind of nuts that many people believe immigrants don't have a negative effect on culture but do have a negative effect on safety
but it is kind of nuts that many people believe immigrants don't have a negative effect on culture but do have a negative effect on safety
a couple of kids prank the cops in Michael masks in Halloween 4 too until Loomis nearly shoots them
October 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
a couple of kids prank the cops in Michael masks in Halloween 4 too until Loomis nearly shoots them
I don't get why you'd be looking at this kind of indirect evidence for the Big-SUV Hypothesis. Doesn't NHTSA have records of the vehicle type (SUV, passenger car, pickup, etc.) involved in fatal crashes?
October 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I don't get why you'd be looking at this kind of indirect evidence for the Big-SUV Hypothesis. Doesn't NHTSA have records of the vehicle type (SUV, passenger car, pickup, etc.) involved in fatal crashes?
To this day, everyone in the Midwest still speaks like they're in a Sinclair Lewis novel. The problem with It Can't Happen Here is that it's mostly set in New England.
October 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
To this day, everyone in the Midwest still speaks like they're in a Sinclair Lewis novel. The problem with It Can't Happen Here is that it's mostly set in New England.