A cousin uploaded a video to YT of her 4yo daughter playing with her friends in one of those inflatable pools. Just for family and the like. It was getting 500 views a day before she took it down. Creepy!

My first real girlfriend got pregnant soon after we broke up. Sometimes I wonder how my life would have been different if I did a teen pregnancy.

At this point in my life I’d barely traveled out of my red State; believed in Jesus; and the only contact I’d had with politics was Rush Limbaugh. Honestly, not ending up a Trump supporter with my demographics is like Neo-level bullet dodging.

Men are stoic, women are ruled by emotion.

So they’re taking a shitty tech trend away from the few people who found it useful in order to push the new shitty tech trend.

Applesauce and sausage gravy.

It shouldn’t be a surprise since pork pairs so well with sweet foods, but it’s as essential to biscuits and gravy as hot-sauce.

This is bad history.

Please explain what Chamberlain was supposed to have done differently. Explain how he was supposed to protect Czechoslovakia with zero military presence and zero contact with any resistance. Explain why Churchill’s plan to protect Poland was identical to Chamberlain’s plan to protect Czechoslovakia. (thoughts and prayers)

No, the “Chamberlain could have stopped Hitler if only…” meme is reactionary missive against diplomacy. It makes perfect sense, if you don’t think about it.

Who wants to bet that the idea of retaliatory tariffs wasn’t gamed out beforehand and they have no strategy?

It seems like if you want a trade war with China, you’d want partners to help you apply pressure and replace Chinese goods you can’t do without. Maybe somewhere like Vietnam for cheap labor; Canada for rare-earth minerals; and the EU to buy expensive American goods and services. Oh no.

I would band up with individuals possessing superior ability or perhaps even supernatural power and strength to help the cops, the government, and protect the status quo.

after contact, the company acknowledged the problem and removed the accounts

Meta is outsourcing content moderation to journalists.

Since this service is free, I expect Az is taxing the retailers somehow. Perhaps it’s something like the Honey scam.

I’ll bet you can’t pay with an Az giftcard or credit balance.

Some of the stuff in the freezer section is pretty high quality. I recently got a shrimp entree on sale that could easily pass for restaurant quality.

Also, don’t sleep on frozen vegetables. The quality is second only to fresh and you can also get “restaurant” versions covered in cheese, butter, and even roasted.

E.S. Herman and Noam Chomsky’s book Manufacturing Consent is a great place to start. You can skip most of the book honestly, (it’s out of date), but the “5 Filters” part is like a decoder ring for American Legacy Media.

Dr Strangelove saw one possible future and it had 10 women to each man.

WTF is a country with a .75 fertility rate exporting the few children it has?

(fertility is measured as the average children each woman has. You need a 2.1 to maintain population.)

Unforgivable Faux Pas: being black. Also being “American” which is code for being black.

According to some psycho-annalists, you don’t have an authentic self. It’s just a Russian nesting dolls of personas and identities that we show the world, but at the bottom is not our true self, but instead another mask we show ourselves.

I’m not sure about all that, but personality, persona, identity, and self are all concepts we use to understand our consciousness. So it would be a mistake to try and reify those concepts as though they’re a real part of you like an ear or a leg.

Alcohol. Sometimes it takes 30 or 40 years to be effective. Not very good for murder, but wildly popular for suicide.