In advance of the 80th anniversary of D-Day, I'd like to remind Americans that our oldest ally, France, maintains a noble soul. https://t.co/C9DTp12dKl
this is actually seems incredibly odd, culturally speaking
sharing a meal is probably the most ancient human social ritual
how did sweden lose this? i have to imagine the swedes once had it https://t.co/aTwwMSjcuN https://t.co/ez1BLlqOKq
>communist
>irish
buckle up you are about to hear opinions about how to manage food supply from the worst qualified person imaginable https://t.co/ePY13jGbUM
my wife is mad at him because he "doesn't understand what women want at all, he's just mimicking ryan gosling" and its working anyway https://t.co/zZAEmynoL0 https://t.co/EYASkM6lCf
one reason to be skeptical of 9/11 conspiracy theories about controlled demolition or whatever is that i worked in a building that was a miniature WTC, designed by the same dude, and they had to structurally renovate it after 9/11 bc they learned the original design was fucked https://t.co/XdKfn9f1UF
it wasnt until the 1980s that doctors were willing to countenance the possibility that infants can feel pain and they would (eg) just give babies muscle relaxants while they performed thoracic surgery on them https://t.co/55XUmdQmoA
everything π is π monocausal π and π specifically π results π from π whatever π shit π I'm π on π about π at π any π given π time
i dont know who these ppl are but this seems like a window into a sort of downwardly mobile culturally middle class zoomer hell https://t.co/TFiBhkYt9n
occasional reminder that lord of the flies was written because Golding read about boys being marooned and having a good time and this made him angry because he hated children so he wrote a book about dudes being assholes
but no. irl, marooned bros on islands are chill https://t.co/kHOyrv0a9M https://t.co/mX1lfqNEqk
remember like 100 years ago when the smart set was convinced that sexual repression was the main cause of mental illness and so we stopped sexually repressing people and now people have created insane bizarre types of sex unimaginable to our forebears yet theyre crazier than ever
don't over index on this tho
my dad proposed to my mom when she was shouting at him and demanding to know where the relationship was going and he just said "oh i thought we were going to get married"
if you haven't seen this
its utterly bananas
the scale of potential pwnage seems almost unfathomable to me
idk how you even start going about fixing the vulnerability that led to this https://t.co/MdEv9cAcA8
old boss, great dude, worked at amazon hq a while
eng team wanted a second coffee maker. theyre apparently like $10k
he wrote up a doc estimating annual hours wasted waiting for the existing machine Γ average eng wage. obvs >> $10k
the proposal was denied
tldr short $amzn https://t.co/FtK0bGF693
insane wolf dude: i deliberately contracted hiv to get off
british person: well what i am most concerned about is, i hope you're not going to use our taxpayer-funded health system to get treatment
insane wolf dude: I AM GOING TO USE THE NHS https://t.co/M9ZJTNi0bN
people will really be like "you invented entire languages for your fantasy world? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, writing an epic story about medieval tax policy" and then not finish their epic story about medieval tax policy https://t.co/VxRRWk34N4
pov i'm running a retail business in a highly competitive market operating with a 1% margin and you've just told me i should "cut costs" https://t.co/v35ZOv9xVv
if indigenous ways of Knowing are so good how did peoples who Knew Indigenously always and everywhere end up getting stomped by peoples who Knew Linear Algebra
no one even knew enough to tell him this was a bad idea and he didn't know himself i guess
its hard to know whether the harris campaign is actually imploding or whether it just feels like it to me https://t.co/HWM8i30L1J
the decision by texas to mass deport illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities, thereby concentrating them in those cities to the cities' detrimental in a highly visible way, is probably the most effective policy innovation enacted by a state in living memory https://t.co/05bKtVhDaa
watched some of cinderella tonight
it's striking how subdued and stately it is
at any given moment there is typically one thing going on. sometimes there are zero things going on
attention is always drawn to the most charming bits of animation https://t.co/LQrzHyBx1m
protip
anyone who tells you that high prices are the result of "price gouging" and whose strategy for reducing in inflation is "urging" businesses to "lower costs," which they confound with "lowering prices," is either retarded or thinks you are retarded https://t.co/FBvCzCJ3do
i just dont feel right bringing children into the world to live in the richest country in history where food is so plentiful that our biggest nutritional problem is obesity and childhood mortality rates are near zero
basically one thing that's happening globally right now is that american ideological strains escaped from america. they're incredibly potent and while americans have been selected for resistance the rest of the world is naive. basically brain smallpox but for the old world
is SIDS mostly real or is it, mostly, a mercy diagnosis for when parents do something really unfortunate and their infant dies
ive heard the latter explanation but not sure what the dark academic cw is https://t.co/7SdWSstR9d
the interesting thing about the 70s in America is that they were so fucked up that you'll never learn about all of the insane things that went on, and you can keep stumbling across fresh new horrors your whole life https://t.co/4aKpFf7rfG
this is actually true
prehistory: racist (autistic)
bronze age: racist (jock)
classical antiquity: fascist
dark ages: integralist
high/late middle ages: plays dnd
early modernity: colonialist
french revolution: gay
19C: hates the poor
20C: neoconservative https://t.co/UKCRpwtxOK
you believe in monogamy? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, feeling horrible after my gf has sex with someone else and tells me about it https://t.co/o8NNSudYjy
occasional reminder the rosenbergs were incontrovertibly spying for the soviets and their work led to such things as "the soviet union getting nukes" https://t.co/LSpLzDKYzt https://t.co/k3YHDYripn
video shows a dude attacking someone with a knife in london subway
MP says "bring back train guards"
everyone quote tweeting this is a british person incredulously saying "what could a guard do? against a knife?"
i am reminded of our cultural differences https://t.co/NL78Qk5vmU https://t.co/h1cblnzuSS
genuinely curious what the endgame is for britain and for europe
what's the scenario where they are not majority muslim in twenty or thirty years https://t.co/P34qgw7dVP
if harris fucks up the debate hard enough, like if she had a panic attack on stage or something. do you think theyd try switching her out
i have a comedic vision of democrats accelerating through a line of nominees each of whom collapses in their first debate in a different way
there's something cruel about asserting that people dont differ in ability
like. its cruel to directly rub it in someones face, but its also cruel to proactively lie to people when, be real, they either know youre lying or will end up damaged by believing you https://t.co/5OmNeUWWws