Robert Goldberg

the thing i don't get about this is that sure, you're some groyper who thinks the posters look cool. but, like, you must know that the nazis lost, and they didn't just lose, they lost to the people they *deemed inferior*: a polyglot nation of shopkeepers on one front & russian peasants on the other

among my (many) favorite parts of Jurassic Park novel is when Malcolm points out that lions and tigers don't naturally hunt humans - they must learn that humans are easy prey - and Dr. Grant says "I wonder: have they learned, somewhere along the line, that humans are easy to kill?”

I think the Jurassic Park/World movies would benefit in dramatic terms from treating dinosaurs and other ancient reptiles less like monsters and more like animals.

USC had the most egregious and widespread case but it was happening in the UCLA soccer program too abc7.com/amp/post/ucl...

the one thing we don't want to turn this discourse into is an attack on smart, funny guys who were kinda awkward and lost their virginity late because the prospect of revealing themselves and facing rejection was terrifying even if it worked out in the end and they have been good on podcasts

“I know writers who use subtext and they’re all cowards.”

less experienced people might make a fake lady called like Tatiana Lyubova to signal that she’s sexy Russian lady; I appreciate “Russian girl” for cutting straight to the chase i.redd.it/1qqwqrsttcqe...

eh, that’s what some of them are looking for though. the real punishment would be for everyone to ignore their attention seeking, but of course that’s not always possible (and it’s not like the cops are always reacting appropriately)

if they don’t get what they’re looking for, they’ll act progressively weirder or more annoying until some public employee asks them wtf they’re doing and then say their rights are being violated

basically it’s siblings going “I’m not touching you” for adults

“Auditors” will film visibly outside some government establishment (like a post office) to “check that the First Amendment is being respected.” eventually someone calls the cops on them for being weird and then they film the interaction to see if the cops are normal about it

Supreme Court says “that’s not what we meant” in 3, 2, 1 …

Who is Powell drift-compatible with?

amusingly, the claim that Princeton admitted 68% "People of Color" students relies on counting "Unknown" (8%) and "International Citizens" (12%) as automatic "People of Color"

German studying abroad? PoC. white but didn't indicate race on admissions form? PoC
www.princeton.edu/news/2024/09...

someday the president might be a Democrat and, if so, the court will need to deny them the use of the tools they’ve been granting Trump

chasing down old USB sticks in the 2100s like horcruxes, to stamp out the Immortal Mad King

really, isn’t every man’s struggle “to defeat his own penis and maybe do something else too?”

I’m polarized in favor

just finished it and by the end I was a veteran of my own psychological war, mentally editing every sentence for brevity

god forbid a man be consistent

I imagine that indicates that the pilot at fault didn’t know what he’d done (or lied about it, I suppose)

you’re telling me a fetus made this alcohol?

A tweet by plagiarist and useful idiot Benny Johnson: "Hi guys. I have just been handed official Alligator Alcatraz merch. I repeat, this prison has merch. Things are going insanely well."

showing off my free concentration camp merch. My soul is just out of frame, intact and not bound by dark blood rites to the eternal service of Moloch the Devourer

They tied, Gaines is still in 5th place

how many young families should charlottesville turn away so that an 80 year old millionaire can preserve their peace and quiet? how many businesses should close and how many vacant storefronts should we have so that we can remain a quaint little college town?

a real testament to how little juice the vice president has in the white house that he is wasting time shitposting on a niche social media website

The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness This scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical.

"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."

Jobless, Selling Nudes Online and Still Struggling (Published 2021)

NYT actually did a pretty good piece on this; it’s similar to how there are hordes of Twitch streamers with no audience just streaming to nobody. It’s hard to get traction www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/b...

they don’t work for their constituents

No, I think it shows Lander’s 14% being parted out to an 8% bump for Cuomo and a 7% bulb for Mamdani (presumably due to rounding) so pretty even

this 48-second video of a protest in ontario, california is top-tier storytelling 🤌🏽🤌🏽