It even got a sympathetic write up in the New York Post

I went to high school w the kids of one of the big names in this particular trade

Bi as in bisexual or like, bi as in hi

Oh never mind I do know what it is my office has little packets next to the Keurig. It’s not something I’ve ever seen outside the US so I am not sure what it does exactly

Is this related to Calorie Mate?

I had to look this one up

rest in power rafiq

thought this was a photo kojima had posted of one of his friends for a second

It was so charming, I really liked Lori's art you see at the end too

obsessive compulsive disorder is culturally sensitive

but it's become a kind of ouroburos where a politically motivated ban in one country becomes evidence and thus grounds to argue a ban in another country is not politically motivated

yeah, like my initial interpretation of the blocker ban (leaving aside all the legal absurdities of it) in the UK was that it was a form of tight regulation to [unethically] coerce participation in the planned trial

I don’t get, even with a low opinion of Starmer, why he’d commit to the line he did knowing this would surely come out?

right, he got in because he signed his letter of intent while still under the height limit iirc?

this is not the same thing but the Navy basketball team practically does have a height cap because of rules about who can enroll in the academy

The parties and islands a given person has visited is not publicly available information in almost all cases, but for some reason the cancel culture liberal elites have decided to hold me to a different set of rules

I was going to say we can attest that Russian has Minionese loan words but German does not (that we know of), but then Minions also spent quite a bit of time in Russia during Napoleon's reign, and time in Eastern Europe serving Dracula before that

I feel like Thanos also works so well as a villain because not only his plan evil but easy to understand, but they spent almost a decade building him specifically up as this unprecedented threat

The NCAA does this

yeah Hollywood in the 1970s made relatively few movies, that and the movies being a more reliable way to see sex and nudity did a lot of work (see films like I Am Curious Yellow and Bob Carol Ted and Alice)

ahhh ok I misunderstood that position to mean she was one of his ministers, so I was really shocked

the reason that gets offered boils down to "obviously objections to interracial marriages are not authentically religious" but that just begs the question

i'm not British so I have to ask - is it normal to get that sort of question from one of your own MPs as Prime Minister?

keep ground floor san francisco weird

Gambling was a huge mistake but it also was something that started with the Supreme Court - if we were still in the Daily Fantasy Sports kludge situation things would likely not be as bad

also man there are so many loaded assumptions just in the subhed alone. In particular I don't think the idea that kids are "steered" to being trans instead of gay has really been substantiated

Kirchick is genuinely one of the worst writers I've read in the US, just on a prose level.

Yes, exactly

the main effect of that strategy if they were to implement it would be to negatively impact the perception of Democrats by making them more closely associated with these fringe figures

IIRC technically the US blockade is just for Iranian ships, but I guess I mean if the US maintains the blockade for Iranian ships, the strait will not re-open