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“Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem. The lack of evangelical Christians at America’s most prestigious institutions fuels mistrust.” Excerpt From “Opinion | Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem.” Aaron M. Renn The Washington Post https://apple.news/ATJF-eGWhQMuuXvLnrj0ugQ This material may be protected by copyright.

Congratulations, WaPo, you did it, you published the worst take

jfc everything I read or hear about these things makes them seem even worse, a perpetual motion machine of utter depravity

Got a script? I keep making it worse.

If they want to reboot it with an all-Chinese cast, or an all-Nigerian cast, I’m in. Otherwise,

I always say, “I never met a genius who wasn’t also a dumbass,” but I ran into my friend Laurie earlier today, who is several kinds of very quiet, very understated genius and not any kind of dumbass, so I think I’ll change it to “I never met a MALE genius who wasn’t also a dumbass.”

Meanwhile, my younger son just blew my mind with this

Him: “They’re doing dangerous things on the playground, but I don’t wanna be a Karen about it”

Me: “Huh? What’s a Karen?”

Him: “Someone who can’t leave their neighbors alone”

Me, head in hands: “Jesus Christ”

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you'll notice there's absolutely no depth of bad judgement that's disqualifying for treating these guys like hybrid philosopher geniuses provided they still retain the immense wealth they backed into ass first

I wish one journalist would ask one of the people using the word "kinetic" to define the word "kinetic."

Housequake (2020 Remaster) YouTube video by Prince - Topic

Pretty close to salvation youtu.be/t3sBMaDMCrk?...

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Do you just KNOW that another world is possible beyond militarized borders, policing, and prisons? Do you want to work toward that world?

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Totally. “None for me, thanks,” is always a fine answer.

Porch light, though, either of us can talk you through. You’ve done way harder repairs.

Yep!

evil. it's ok to call evil people evil. in fact it is necessary

There’s something that always breaks me a little by knowing that dozens of dead little kids will not make Americans rise up against their government but higher gas prices might

+1 I ordinarily only hire an electrician if breakers need to be installed or replaced, or if I have to fish wires or run conduit and I don’t wanna.

It is repulsive to me -- morally, aesthetically, politically -- on a scale that I genuinely don't know how to describe. It's just so deeply, deeply gross, to be so filled with weakness that you abuse other, weaker people to feel better. What a horrible kind of human, to do that, to *allow* that.

I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.

i really think that however catastrophically the 'ai' bubble bursts, what will maintain afterwards is mainly a new technology of scapegoating!!! areas where you need to vanish responsibility for killing people (health insurance, policing, israeli occupation etc)

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If other people's children are fair targets in war, then so are yours.

Life’s too short to carry grudges, so I’ve started pushing mine around in a wheelbarrow…

Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans SEM analysis of pottery residues showed people combined fish with a wide variety of plants when cooking.

This is incredibly interesting — archaeologists have been able to reconstruct the diets of different prehistoric Europeans from 5,000-8,000 years ago by analyzing the charred remains of food in clay pots. Extremely cool!

Oh hell yeah

Cover of “Dying of Whiteness” by Jonathan Metzl (2019)

The US, and by extension Iran:

The problem isn't just Noem or Trump or Miller. It's not just the MAGA movement. The problem is that 25 years ago we took the evilest gov't police force, supercharged it, removed any semblance of real oversight, and then turned a blind eye to its festering corruption. Abolish ICE & CPB.

These guys are going "look, I invented a mind that is ok to enslave!"

Which means they *already think there are some minds that are ok to enslave*

And then you look at how they treat actual people and you're like "yeah that checks out, shithead"