Dan "The Bear Jew" Lapidus M.Div.

I went to college in Pittsburgh. After graduation I moved into the historically Italian neighborhood and it was an absolute f'ing blast. The shops, the diner, and, yes, Little Italy Days, made that neighborhood such an awesome place to live

I've never understood this. Should people just never leave the place where they grew up? I'm just now moving to my fourth state in my life

There are legit home remedies. If you have a cold, chicken soup and OJ really will help. If you get a minor burn, aloe vera is good for pain and healing. But…if you are HIV+ you need HAART. That’s the only way to stay healthy and not infect others. All the crystals in the world won’t do squat

Yeah healthcare in the US costs way too much, but the alternatives are run by grifters so they also charge exorbitant prices for their crap too

Except the woo woo wellness crap is also absurdly expensive. I found a homeopathic “first aid kit” for $120+S/H. I could solve all the problems it claimed to treat with Ibuprofen/Benadryl/Pepto Bismol/Tums for about $50.

Jeff, is it true that the investigation into Ortiz began last year? If so, how was he still able to traded while under investigation? I somehow doubt that Cleveland trades for a player with that cloud of suspicion hanging over him

Couch bangers of the world, unite!! The only thing we have to lose is our dignity

It's like living through 1930s Germany, with Nazis driving Jews out of public life, except the entire time everyone is obligated to pretend that the Nazis are completely fine with Jews and are motivated by neutral policy considerations.

The idea that we either have to let people get high on sidewalks or chuck them away into dystopian capitalist loony bins is a false choice. There are other options like increased housing stock, outpatient drug treatment programs, needle exchanges, supervised consumption sites etc

You're right. I could never have guessed that. I guess increased housing supply+trying to help people get sober=slaughter of the marginalized

It's much more disconcerting than that. Blood and Soil dictates that certain people "belong" in certain areas, and once you have more than one type of person within given borders (which are taken to be natural) then that space loses its "cultural authenticity". It's racism all the way down

Yeah I’m inclined to think it’s hubris/arrogance rather than Machiavellian machinations

Cubs fan here, not happening

I blew up at a customer service representative today for denying my GLP-1s because I needed to be "on a weight loss program with reduced calorie intake". The drug is what helps me maintain a reduced intake. I'm not proud of losing my temper, but I'd just hit a limit with the insurance company's BS

A lot of truth to this: most US conservative Christians have basically decided that not liking gay people is the doctrine on which the church stands or falls. Everything else, from moral rules about honesty and kindness to doctrines about justification or baptism, has become a secondary issue.

Spencer Cox found that there were four trans kids in the whole state of Utah playing high school sports, and couldn’t justify using the power of the state to force them out. All but the most committed bigots will likely agree

The only two non-Protestant Presidents in American history: JFK and Biden...not to mention the role that non-Christian religious people play in the party (Shapiro, Tlaib, Ellison, Emhoff, Andre Carson, Bernie, Pritzker, Khanna, Ossoff, Raskin etc.

Former CEO of Christian nonprofit pleads guilty to possessing child pornography Jason Yates, former CEO of Christian faith-based nonprofit My Faith Votes, pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography.

The former CEO of My Faith Votes, a nonprofit that encourages "Christians in America to vote in every election," has pleaded guilty to possessing child sexual abuse images, months after his arrest.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Bibi's decision to allow the Kahanist parties back into politics (they were banned after PM Rabin (z'l) was assassinated in 1995) will have dire ramifications for I/P for years if not decades to come

All knowledge is probabilistic. However, if that probability is acceptably high for the subject in question, this probabilistic nature can be ignored and the knowledge treated as absolute

Capital punishment is theoretically justifiable; however, no human society is capable of administering it justly, and thus it should be banned.

Plus very little in our society is truly made from scratch. Usually someone else grew the produce, slaughtered the meat etc.

One like, one opinion. Come hear my takes before I start the journey toward a PhD

I don’t know what the bar for cooking is, but if you purchased the meat raw, acted upon it, and then it wasn’t raw anymore, then you can be said to have cooked it

Folks it's 2025, there's endless internet content offering to teach you how to make good meals in less than 30 minutes. I'm not saying you can't order out/buy pre-made meals (I'm typing this while waiting for GrubHub), but every adult should have ~6 recipes that they can do easily

what's the difference between buying bread, a chunk of meat, and sauce at a market and exposing it to heat in your dwelling, and cooking?

Never has someone’s middle name so accurately described them

Durst isn’t a predator, just a cringey asshole

Thankfully no direct experience of food insecurity, but my grandparents both lived through the depression so the value of leftovers has come down to my generation. Also, pretty sure they make single serving bean cans these days