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A few years ago i went to the Basque region and saw some exhibits in museums there about Basque Rural Sports, and many of them are in this category; lifting carts, throwing hay bales, dragging or lifting rocks, boat racing and climbing a greased pole.

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Strongman is the only sport where you can show up to your gym with a cool rock or log or such you found and everyone will get wildly excited trying to pick up your cool new toy.

5 years later people across the country are playing with their own versions of that heavy thing you found

the AI industry is just versions of what BlueberryAI did to the spreadsheet of valuable public information Ty gathered and organized free to help others: scraping info without permission, putting their brand on it, paying to get better SEO then charging to view the work done entirely by someone else

Again, every single person involved in this wildly illegal & unconstitutional project needs to go to jail for many years, & some, like Elon Musk, for the rest of their days.

This is legit how I stay sane online

I miss when each class level in D&D had a different title

Yeah even if ai was becoming sentient (it isn’t lmao) what you have is a malevolent demon you should not give access to Anything

'An Iranian missile landed on him': Sky News speaks to son of expat who died in United Arab Emirates Saleh Ahmed, 55, was delivering drinking water when he was fatally struck by debris after a missile attack on the first day of the war. His son tells Sky News he does not believe his father knew the c...

Victims in our countries seldom get profiled and humanised in Western media. This is a portrait of a life cut short. What a tragedy.

"Saleh Ahmed (55) lived in the UAE as an expat for 25 years, sending under £500 per month in earnings to Bangladesh for his wife and four children."

Well I just got to #Vancoufur2026 and we’re off to a strong start

Chlorine dioxide is an industrial bleach for lumber and freaks like RFK give autistic kids enemas with it. Kids die from the practice. These people just want autistic kids dead.

Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.

“We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”

a passage from an article by Hunter S. Thompson We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that 8 or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history-which is no doubt true—but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th Century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

Hunter S. Thompson wrote this about a week after 9/11 and god he nailed it

"No testing, no cases" but applied to the threat of reprisal for an illegal war levied without consent of the People and assassination of foreign head of state and massacre of schoolchildren

...Of course, if such a pill DID exist, it wouldn't even be ten years until capitalism REQUIRED we all took it. And would make sure to fill those hours with More Fucking Work.

(Speaking of which, y'all ever read Power Nap? www.powernapcomic.com/powernap/)

I remember learning about the Hays Code in film school and how it made it so that any amoral protagonist had to meet karmic justice by the end of the film and going “wow, that’s really silly” and then once a week I log online and see people argue that we need stuff like that now or it’s problematic

post that becomes more evergreen every day

There is a legal provision in immigration law that someone married to a US citizen can stay in the US while there visa is pending. Immigration officials have long recognized it to allow residency during the wait time. The DHS has just stopped following this part of the law.

the etymology of our word "travesty" comes from the late Italian medieval "travesti" which was used to label "men" who dressed like women. They've been coming for us for centuries. It didn't start recently, it didn't start with the Nazis. It's been centuries.

This is just it. All this, and also it let the liberals feel really good about themselves and kept them quiet for a while.

Don't get me wrong, marriage equality is still an unalloyed good thing, but the reasons it went ahead aren't because the radical progressives actually won anything.

Screenshot from Aaron Renn’s WaPo opinion piece. Title: Why America needs evangelicals on the Supreme Court - and more.

Genuinely hilarious to imagine that the *Supreme Court* is meant to represent a full range of religious diversity, let alone all the other forms of diversity.

How many Muslims or Hindus or Buddhists by population percentage should be on it, or do they get a sort of rotating slot?

Have said this before in other forms, but will reiterate it here: if you're doing long-form writing of any sort, reading the words aloud into a microphone is a completely unparalleled cheat code. It's free, easy, and so effective it feels like it shouldn't be allowed. I do it in a few stages...

This is a thread of great writing advice.

We have the data. My longest columns have more readers, who read longer, and who share them the most.

Polymarket Odds on Khamenei Son to Be Supreme Leader Fall Below 50% Polymarket users have reduced their bets on Mojtaba Khamenei becoming Iran’s next supreme leader, with probability of him assuming the role falling below 50% for the first time since March 3. At one p...

The WSJ is tacitly admitting that Polymarket is used by administration officials for insider trading, since that is the only reason a “futures market” betting on a head of state would ever have news value. But they are too afraid to say it and seem to just hope you can figure it out. Annoying.

Presidential systems are clearly a terrible idea anywhere, but say what you will about Latin America, at least there we know that you can remove a president.

Alien Earth should learn from the mistakes of Jurassic World series and eventually make good on the implied premise of its name.

There's at least four invasive alien species let loose on the planet by the end of season one. I want it to get worse lol

Israeli attacks on UNIFIL peace keepers tonight. Irish service men were not directly hit, but they aided their counterparts from Ghana. This will further deteriorate Irish Israel relations.

munchie merit badges for everyone

give whoever’s idea this was a merit badge

4. In the rules summary displayed to users at the time the Market was opened and during the period when most trades were placed, Defendants prominently represented that “if Ali Khamenei leaves office before March 1, 2026, then the market resolves to yes.” This language was clear, unambiguous, and binary: if Khamenei left office for any reason—including death—the Market would resolve to “yes” and holders of “yes” positions would receive the full contractual payout. 5. On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched military strikes against Iran. News outlets began reporting that Khamenei had been killed. Khamenei’s death was subsequently confirmed. By any reasonable interpretation of the Market’s terms, Khamenei had “left office” before March 1, 2026, and the Market should have resolved to “yes.” 6. Instead, after Khamenei’s death became public, Defendants invoked a socalled “death carveout” provision—a fine-print mechanism designed to allow Defendants to avoid paying consumers what they were owed when the predicted event occurred through its most foreseeable scenario. Under this provision, Defendants asserted that if the leader “leaves solely because they have died,” the Market would

Lawgeeks, here's the complaint against Kalshi for not paying out the bet on "Ali Khamenei out as Supreme Leader" because he died.

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