I was running late to work the other day and had to speedwalk right past a big green beetle chilling next to the sidewalk :/

In the past year immigration is down and vaccine refusal is up but suuuuuuure

that Nurgle cultist says nothing worth listening to.

...do they know that Muslims would also want a statue of Mohammed destroyed?

some people are trying to immanentize the eschaton

Rahm's trying to monetize his rolodex

me? I'm just trying to defragment my hard drive.

I always thought Sun Tzu's "Art of War" was a little simplistic and obvious but it turns out yes, you do literally need to tell the Secretary of War "you need to feed your troops and keep them from being wiped out by preventable diseases"

I'm Litvak so I'll leave the obligatory mention of gefilte fish to Galitzianers, who traditionally make theirs SWEET. (Mainstream Ashkenazi culture in America is mostly Galician in origin, but we did at least fall on the objectively correct side of the Gefilte Fish Line.)

"checkmate"?
Chess is for nerds, checkmate.

freedom is when you aren't allowed to grow a beard but nobody can tell you to get a flu shot.

Pay your nickel, take your choice.

don't you guys famously have a code that you always come to the aid of a fellow Marine in a fight? amazing how you learned nothing from that.

I use Google Translate to speed up translations of teaching materials into Spanish (a language I speak with decent fluency) and it is constantly trying to turn "cleavage" (as in how some minerals split) into "escote" (as in neckline).

Machine translations are...okay. Usually.

The guy who designed the first IQ tests used them to identify students with intellectual disabilities for extra interventions to help them keep up with their peers and not just fall behind. It was a colleague of his IIRC who took the concept and leaned heavily into eugenics.

I'm not really wired for "cute", personally, but giving the fatherly sort of pep talk to kids (champ/tiger/you got this/rock and roll) is one of the best parts of school teaching.

that soy chorizo is actually super good though. not as greasy as their beef chorizo (can't speak to the pork chorizo) and crisps up real nice in a pan.

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I mean the President of the United States sent goons to rough up Christian clergy who were praying for people he'd had thrown in prison,

but somehow I doubt that's what those weirdos are yapping about.

"holy shit! you were censored for believing in God?"

LOL no, not that

"for thinking it's appropriate to observe religious holidays in the workplace?"

haha no not that

"Which religious beliefs, exactly?"

oh, you know the ones

im not saying we should return to pre-modern norms when it comes to speech but i am saying that for most of human history if you said the kind of stuff about "knowing" the future that sam altman says you'd be characterized by the proper authorities as a heretic and would need to flee for your life.

this is incredibly impractical and I want one

this is so sad
Alexa play Crab Rave - Monstercat release

did something finally happen with the Money Laundering for Organized Crime Wearing a Palestine sticker?

I don't think the divergence of "which son did Abraham nearly sacrifice on Mt. Moriah, why was it important he did so, and why did he stop" is a minor difference.

especially since Jews & Arabs claim descent from Isaac & Ishmael, who was the favored son is important to religious claims to the land.

well, Palestinian Christians do.

there are some key differences between the Pentateuch narrative followed by Jews and Christians and that followed by Muslims. around the Akeidah, most notably.

On the National Mall you can wave a sign all day shouting "down with Reagan!" and nothing bad will happen to you. And in Red Square you can likewise wave a sign all day shouting "down with Reagan!" and

exactly!

they don't read literature except to plunder it for references they can use in messaging. they sponsor no poets, commission no art with a purpose beyond crude propaganda. culture to them is not something living to make or celebrate, but something to put on a shelf & point to now and again.

Very cool #ant stuff for the weekend.

Original paper here:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

personally I agree that we should indeed reject the hollow pluralism of pretending that we shouldn't judge Klan, Nazi, and sparkling eugenicist subcultures according to what they have historically produced, and would enthusiastically endorse rejecting inclusion of them in public life