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Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"

US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces The Human Rights Reporting Gateway acted as a formal "tip line" to the US government.

The Leahy law is being killed off. "The US State Department has removed an online portal for reporting alleged human rights violations by foreign military units supplied with American weapons." www.bbc.com/news/article...

The path forward involves killing off your grandma and sexually harassing your daughter.

This is how Josh Barro sounded ten years ago! His nonstop immersion in social environment where these sorts of views are treated as ridiculous has changed and radicalized him! (and many others)

I love tech and tech gadgets! But it’s bad enough that I will basically never wear a nice watch again because I only wear my Apple Watch now, outside of special occasions. I’m not going to give up having a nice pair of glasses just so I can buy a Meta product

I am a big time glasses snob so I will never wear a pair of sunglasses just because they are tech-enabled, ensuring I will never get punched in the face because someone suspects I’m surreptitiously filming them just because I’m wearing Ray-bans

Old Soviet joke:

Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?

One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals

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This somewhat fits the perception, fair or not, that High Point is for rich kids who couldn't get into Elon, which is for rich kids who couldn't get into Wake Forest, which is for rich kids who couldn't get into Duke.

Protests of normies and wine moms might be cringe to leftists and the Nazi edgelord crowd, but these are the people who vote. We are a cringe nation. All hail our cringe resistance suburban wine moms

These guys love spending other people’s money and indulging in their Nazi fantasies in the group chat. Amazing stuff

First Trump is crushing the soybean farmers. Now he’s undermining the cattle ranchers. These are unexpected blessings!

As a guy who keeps a bunch of good stories in my back pocket to pull out when necessary, I absolutely agree.

Whomst among us has not ended up at the Ustaša tattoo parlor during a drunk night out?

It has warped my fragile little mind

You really sorta understand where marvel/dc characters come from when you realize how many types of guy like sliwa are in new york

My brain is rotten to the core.

college towns are absolutely fantastic, one of the great American concepts, and for unknown reason the people who live in college towns absolutely loathe them and want to ensure no one else can live there

I’m sure if Obama did this no one would think it was a big deal

The fact that the Uvalde police were called and that that is where all this is happening is a nice touch

donald trump holds only two principled position: that neither corruption nor rape should be crimes

Americans are driven by extreme amounts of status anxiety. People sign up to be republicans because they think that’s the path to social respectability. The NYT is always looking for what places them in some kind if establishmentarian alongside their wealthiest and most respectable audience

Seriously I have seen people take one step into the subway and just stay there with their back immediately to the door. This city is full of self absorbed animals.

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One of the things about NYC which no New Yorker will admit is that they have TERRIBLE subway etiquette. It is the only system I’ve been on where people don’t make an effort to move to the middle of the car. And tonight’s train conductor is NOT having it, & she’s reminding everyone to move further in

Guys who crawled up into fame by running small businesses and mastering SEO and cloutchasing being more right wing than people who mastered a collaborative art form seems pretty intuitive to me

Trinidadian Family Says U.S. Military Killed Relative in Boat Attack

Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth conspired to murder a fisherman named Chad Joseph (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/w...

My risk tolerance is vastly different now than it was in 2020, and for very good reason, and based on our actual experiences, it seems like I am making the correct decision.

Yes, if it occurs in up to 10% of severe acute infections and 0.1% of mild infections, then the majority of long COVID cases will be from a mild infection

But the odds that I am going to get Covid are low. The odds that it will result in long covid are tiny.