Suggestion: Don't put Hoffman in unless the game is a blowout and the other team is reduced to position pitchers.

Sports

I can defeat this woman's entire argument in one word: Sports.

One needs to simply visit the nearest ballpark for overwhelming evidence that everything she said was bullshit.

Millions of men across the country voluntarily devoting their time and energy taking care of kids who are not their own.

If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.

How does that quote (and DS9 episode) from Cicero go?

Inter arma enim silent leges.

Well she is a Florida Rep. And she does frequently do "Florida" things.

Maybe this is Bsky testing out its AI feature that I've been hearing about. As expected, the results are wrong.

Yes they did.

Because porn.

If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't theft.

My favorite part of Xmas shopping was telling the clerk "NO" when they asked for my phone number. And then they asked for my email address, again "NO". And then they asked how I'll be paying, I said "CASH".

As I walked away with my purchases I said to them grimly "You will never know who I am."

And they don't mind if their own voters get caught in the collateral damage. The strategy always bares out: If they can sufficiently depress voter turnout in urban districts, they will win. Without fail, every time.

There's a dunning-kruger adjacent corollary to that: Every expert in a given field thinks every other expert is dumber than them.

Present company excluded of course ; )

I don't think apathy tells the whole story.

I think voter suppression, voter disenfranchisement, voter deregistration, and voter confusion go a long way too. Republicans make it as difficult as possible to vote, short of outright banning it for certain demographics.

Did she not learn anything from that Internet movie 30 years ago where the computers stoled her megahertz?

Oh it's a great movie. The drill being a phallic symbol of both male insecurity and pride is NOT subtle. They knew exactly what message they were sending.

Once again: They're not betting on what he says (no one fully believes anything that comes out of his hamberder hole), they're betting on what OTHER investors believe he says.

IOW they're chasing the pump. It is in this way that his announcements affects the markets. A lot of FOMO involved.

Every accusation is a confession. Every fear is a desire. Every warning is a statement of intent.

They complain about election fraud because they commit election fraud. They warn about big government because they want big government. And they worry about perverts in bathrooms because...

If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.

Oh I noticed. Couldn't load my account or do anything really. The site was blank for several hours.

As is often said:

A Christian is someone who believes in the Bible.
An Atheist is someone who's read it.

I like the analogy.

Every year we should "blue shell" the richest person in Forbes.

"Dinosaur" isn't even a scientific classification. It has colloquial usage like "bug" or "fish" but doesn't really fit any exact animal or even group of animals anymore.

The clades that existed from the Triassic to the Cretaceous are so disparate that they can't really be considered one thing.

I had no idea the troops were so famished they're already into boiling shoe leather.

There was such a fine line between "cute puppet" and "uncanny valley nightmare fuel" in children's live action TV shows in the 70s.

And Lucas ripped off Akira Kurosawa, Buck Rogers, and The Dambusters for his space opera movie.

It's okay to make a movie made up of other movies. Just be sure you hide it well.

New web app idea: Go Fuck Off.

It's like Go Fund Me, only you pay to never hear from people ever again.

If they meet their target goal, in order to accept the money they have to leave the Internet/media/public life altogether. Go somewhere quiet and do non-attention seeking things.

4 girls? No wonder he was so eager to get into space.

I'd like to see her climb out of this one.

1000+ people were dying of a disease every day, and this asshole's strategery was to let the guy in charge who pretended it wasn't happening to stay in power where he could continue to ignore it and not push initiatives to combat it?

How do people that callous even make it through academia?

Oh that song sucked. Late 90s trance was some seriously awful shit.

I've been saying this for decades: We don't have any rights. We never did.

What we have are permissions -- things we are allowed to do at certain times in certain places in some circumstances. But those permissions can be rescinded at any time for any reason.