Sure but HBG is the only one who can make a viral 4 hour video.

There should be a warning label on any establishment or product that requires a smartphone to use.

The people who have wildly overstated the implications of IQ are the ones who developed and use it. Your analogy would be more correct if the 100m dash was used to measure the freshness of your breath.

That’s the central problem with IQ. Intelligence as a thing that can be measured is much closer to “freshness of breath” than it is to 100 meters. It’s subjective and colloquial. You admit as much yourself that IQ tests measure something, but not intelligence.

Why does anyone still listen to Anthony Scaramucci or Michael Cohen? These guys were never whistle-blowers, just con-men who changed teams.

This whole thing hinges on Scaramucci’s credibility, which means it should be ignored.

Even little babies know the difference between mommy and daddy. The shift in attitude that’s required to reform transphobia (I know) means digging into the basement of how you think of yourself and the people you love. This is threatening, it’s scary.

For the conservative, a trans person should not exist. It contradicts the ‘natural’ hierarchy or is a rebellion against God. So their must be an alternative motive: sexual perversion. So you connect the dots between “scary” and “sexually deviant” and pedophile is the natural result.

Calling a trans person a sexual threat soothes the dissonance by shifting the identity “trans” into something where the repulsion and fear make sense. Pedophilia is a box where you can put people whom you fear and hate them actively without the need to examine your own motivations or ever, ever have to look at it from a trans perspective.

The aircraft carrier is about power projection. Kinda weird for a “defensive” force to want some.

You never see cats working with the police.

The best argument for Jesus’ existence comes from Christopher Hitchens.

It goes like this: We know the nativity story is made up because of the census. There was a census near the time, but it was after Harrod’s death and cannot fit the story. But why fabricate the nativity? Probably because Jesus of Nazareth is supposed to be born in the “city of David”: Bethlehem. So then, if Jesus was invented whole cloth, why not make him Jesus of Bethlehem and save the aggravation?

Selling loosie cigarettes is a capital crime in NYC. I don’t know if I’d risk eggs.

Remember, it’s not Thunberg’s argument that aggravates the reactionary. It’s her status to make the argument in public, and be listened to! It’s the degradation of having to listen to the ideas of a “little girl”, that’s the pebble in their shoe.

Just a nitpick. Death of the author states that any interpretation that can be backed up with the text is valid. Notice that two valid interpretations are not necessarily equal interpretations.

So no, it does not mean that any interpretation is valid, much less any interpretation is as good as any other.

This is the best explanation of “death of the author” I’ve heard:

Suppose I make a shopping list for my wife to go to the store. But the reason I make the list is to get her out of the house so I can sext with my paramour. Before anyone else sees the list, I’m hit by a bus and killed.

Now, the authorial intent is to get my wife out of the house. But that meaning is completely lost upon my death. Sure, you can go to the store and follow the list, but you can never decipher my intentions from the text.

As media criticism, “death of the author” depreciates “authorial intent” as less than useful and instead of doing a biography of the author to understand the work, you simply focus on the test and only the text.

Rotting potatoes might just be the foulest odor on earth. Worse than rotting flesh.

I read once that an entire family in Eastern Europe was wiped out by potato fumes. First the mother descended into the root cellar and was overcome. Then each other member one at a time went looking to see where everyone had gone only to succumb each in turn.

There are computers made bespoke for Amish people. It’s basically just a desktop loaded with a word processor and a spreadsheet program. You could easily cook up something like this with a Linux distro and an older laptop. Maybe even a Chromebook.

I think your kinda shooting yourself in the foot by fucking with Reddit, YouTube, and Facebook. Those things run on dopamine.

It’s so disappointing to hear Killer Mike spit revolutionary lyrics like in ‘close your eyes’ only to find out IRL he’s into lame shit like black capitalism.

Did you guys ever see those memes on Reddit ridiculing health ministers who were obese? Reason informs us that it’s wrong to think a job like that needs someone who appears personally healthy rather than the education and training.

It’s like people take the logic of TV and commercials to be the Platonic ideal, where a real person is only the imperfect copy trying to live up to the image.

Anyway, RFK jr. sure is in good shape for his age. He must know a lot about health.

OSHA did 911.

Think about it. We know that the buildings were destroyed in a controlled demo. The whole point of a controlled demo is safety. What kind of a diabolical organization would murder 3,000 people using the best safety practices???!!!

That’s a prime rib roast and it’s beautiful. That’s closer to Med Rare than Blue.

Someone mashed it with a fork to get those red juices to the surface. (mioglobin, not blood) And that bright red color of the flesh is because it was just cut off the roast and is only just being exposed to oxygen.

If abusing women and girls, revenge porn, and date-rape are issues in South Carolina politics, this is an unqualified good thing. Sexual control of women in the household has been a core issue for reactionaries as long as there have been reactionaries. Before 1980, it was legal in all 50 to rape your wife. Diversity is strength. Even in MAGA.

There is no market solution to capitalism. Something, something, tools of the master.