“Men lead with logic” the therapist says. In the background, the radio set to NPR switches from music to news. A smiling woman has been killed by a male ICE agent. The Secretary of Defense demands people call him War Daddy. The Secretary of Health takes his daily steroids and offers to fight people.
If I were living in 2026, I think I would want a therapist who understands that anger is an emotion.
starling (seth rogen): if you could take this survey that would be so awesome. i could get out of your hair before this guy's done jacking off.
hannibal lecter (danny mcbride): motherfucker that's miggs. me and him are boys, so you better watch yourself. i'm behind this glass cause i ate some dudes
This is the second most unhinged thing I’ve seen connected to Silence of the Lambs in the past 12 hours.
The first was watching some dude spending literal hours of their life getting increasingly angry that someone spelled had spelled the antagonist’s name “Lector” rather than “Lecter” in a post.
Hopy shit, nerd.
Mike Evans, Ricky Pearsall, George Kittle, and Christian McCaffrey should be a devastating starting lineup for the 3 games they play together in 2026
Sorry if I wasn’t clear, that’s what I’m saying.
Sam quoted a post with stories that feel anti-social, not for need. But Sam said “shoplifting” without caveat. Doesn’t make it Sam’s fault, just explaining one possible reason it might have been such an angry response. It’s a fraught topic right now.
A prosecutor once charged a homeless woman with a felony for stealing under seven dollars worth of hamburger rather than working it down to a misdemeanor like all the other prosecutors would.
The judge paid the restitution himself and made the prosecutor go record it and bring him back his change.
Feeling gregarious today. This is actually a fairly normal thing for society to at least talk about differently and in many cases actually treat as different types of crime (even if they aren’t, technically). Story time:
People can disagree, but “I stole because I will die without food” isn’t anti-social to me in the same way that “I stole because I’m bored and I figure they won’t catch me” is. That’s why lumping “shoplifting” in might bother folks if they don’t believe a separation is being made between the two.
Castigating people for stealing food is gonna be fraught these days. I think the original source is clear it’s more about the latter form, but a blanket attack on shoplifting (which is how yours might read in isolation) may spark tempers because it touches on deeper societal issues.
For what it’s worth, I think there’s a huge difference between people who shoplift because they cannot otherwise afford to eat (or are even leaning towards food insecurity) and people who can afford to buy what they eat and decide to shoplift anyway.
That disconnect is likely the source of vitriol.
He drinks a salty drink. He drinks a mocha drink.
He drinks a nitro drink. He drinks a latte drink.
My wait time at the cafe was not a good time.
Casting blame on the young folks makes it a better time.
Writers: once again it behooves you to invite your imposter’s syndrome out for a walk in the woods, hand it your phone so it can read the sheer stupidity that somebody proudly signed their name to, and snuff it while it’s distracted.
This is what happens when you haven’t experienced consequences commensurate with your actions in far too long.
Especially slow explosive targets that aren’t covered by insurance and that the captain likely doesn’t own or control.
As for the applicability of Betteridge’s Law of Headlines…I’d say it holds. Probably not the worst America has to offer, but it’s not for a lack of trying (too hard). Her points are inane and her prose just feels like she’s trying to sound like a Sex and the City character. Bad, yes. But banally so.
There are so many reasons to buy a Defector subscription (for example: you like sports but, like, in the context of realizing you live in a society where other things happen), but their dedication to taking shots at shitty people who were clearly told how special they were too often is far up there.
Ah yes, the Tesla special. “Check out our awesome new tech it’s basically perfect and you can rely on it entirely [whispers] except we accept no responsibility whatsoever for how you use it, no big deal might as well not even consider how that invalidates our premise that [yells] it’s like a human!”
Ma’am I realize that newfangled technology is not always friendly to those of advanced age, but the thing is that we actually have invented books that tell us what words mean and that actually does let us define people by what they say and do.
Ma’am it really just seems like your problem is with the English language and the concept of words having definitions.
This is a goofy ass website full of millions of people who bicker constantly about anything and everything EXCEPT for the need for intelligent media and the power of the written word and you dorks can’t figure out how to monetize that because you’d rather write dumb shit for people that hate you.
On X, the killed the visibility of links to make it harder for you to reach readers. On Bluesky, people actually see your posts. And then they willfully ignore them because you write hire shit people to write shit articles for shit people.
“They used the slop factory that enriches technofascists to make a fake picture about oil prices but it’s okay because it’s sarcasm” may be one of the dumbest arguments I’ve ever heard, and that’s before we get to the fact that you don’t even seem to know what sarcasm is.
Slop
That’s what’s so great about it! I realized I didn’t need to say anything and by the time I discarded my draft, you’d already proven me correct. It’s really rewarding to get reminded I don’t always need to try to be clever in public.
It actually feels really rewarding to write a comment, and then deleting it because you figure “yeah this person knows what I’m about to say, the joke’s kinda obvious” and deleting the comment only to come back and see the person go “yeah no shit, [summary of comment you deleted]”.
+1 dodged bullet
scribbly jabba the hutt with a lollipop
elden ring
IM CRYING youraislopbores.me
Beginning to sound this went down exactly like how I do mindfulness exercises before I do something stressful.
What I’m saying is.. it was premeditated.
