to be fair, this sounds just like having kids!

Depends on the age, my 98th percentile four year old is about 50lbs

Tbf, I don't think that precludes conspiracy since lots of conspiracies involve killing people. I *don't* think it was a conspiracy, but I think that people who do would probably argue something like "the trajectory wasn't actually close enough to put Trump at risk & the blood is fake" or something

Honestly even if they didn't, they could just look to modern history! The Spanish Flu was extremely recent by world standards

Hale Boggs' plane was blown up in Alaska with a smuggled bomb

Ronan Farrow is such a good reporter that his uncanny resemblance to Frank Sinatra is overshadowed by his investigative journalism skills

I just don't feel like buying new hair product on every trip and my kids go through about 2x the outfit changes an adult does

In Article About Horrific Shooting That Killed Eight Children, Forbes Lets Readers Place Bets About Gun Control In a story about a mass shooting that left eight children dead, Forbes is encouraging readers to bet on the news with fake money.

Forbes is gamifying news about the horrific mass shooting in Shreveport, LA this weekend, encouraging readers to bet on the likelihood of gun regulation with fake money via its "ForbesPredict" feature.

Eight children were murdered in the shooting.

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My husband and I considered visiting out of morbid curiosity last year when we were in the region (we're Christians but not YEC or anything), but they charge like Disney World prices to go!! I wasn't going to pay almost $100 a person just for a lark

free healthcare but your chart is live on polymarket

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Get out of my kitchen, Jerry.

(I did actually forget the word for pre-peeled garlic today as I was peeling garlic, but I just kept saying "pre...pre..." like I had a stroke while I tried to remember the word peel, which I would have remembered if I'd stopped peeling long enough to really think)

"In retrospect, Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over" - Dan Hodges

As needlessly pedantic as this is, the FBI defines mass shooting as one attack in a public place, so since this is two houses hit it doesn't qualify by their standards. That said, different news agencies use the term differently (AP is calling it a mass shooting)

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

The head of the FBI isn't supposed to be getting blackout drunk. He's supposed to be cross-dressing

So blue players versus everyone else? 😉

to a racist cop, he'd be black if he was pulled over for speeding, they wouldn't care at all about specifying "half-Kenyan, half-white," so why are newspapers opining on it? 2/2

Yeah, I think it was something like, "he's not African-American because that has a specific context [Black American culture], he's Kenyan-American because he knows where his dad is from" or something. But society wouldn't see him and make that distinction so I never got why it mattered. Like, 1/2

The "who's African American?" discourse seems to come up a lot with politicians, I remember the same thing being brought up with Obama since his dad was a Kenyan immigrant. I'm sure that discussion is important to some people but at least as a white lady looking in it seemed...odd, to say the least

"Performs astonishment" is a perfect encapsulation

I still remember the first time I turned the corner at the museum and saw this skeleton. I almost cried!

Oooh, that sounds so interesting!!

The crusades are messy and complicated, but a big part of it wasn't necessarily Muslims (bc, as you point out, Christians were living alongside them mostly alright) but because a "new" kind of Muslim (the Seljuk Turkic empire) was expanding into the region. It was religion mixed with geopolitics

Just got a text from Chase fraud division about whether a purchase at Taco Bell was really us and I'm beginning to think this bank doesn't know us at all because of COURSE it's real

Guidelines, which are still too nebulous to be used as a strict rubric, is that someone is a Christian if they repent, become baptized, agree with the Creeds to the best of their capabilities, and live as if they actually believe it (again, to the best of their abilities). 4/4

they were declared heretics in 326 bc defining religious dogma is notoriously complicated) and rituals are normative in the definition as well. It is normative for a Christian to be baptized to be a Christian (but there's room to acknowledge that there were exceptions to that). I think my own 3/4