hunchback from sardinia

i get the benefits of continuity, especially when you are winning and you like your squad, but it's still kind of crazy that unai simon has kept his starting spot for spain given the competition

don't love being forced to watch someone's ankle almost be broken on repeat in slow motion over and over again

police departments really are just mob organizations that have carved out little fiefdoms for themselves within cities. it's kind of bonkers where you read into basically any major department in the US

i assume that it's because of the taboo in hollywood itself that prevents actors from advertising how short they are, because it would hurt their careers

they really made a movie where women's preference for taller men was one of the main punchlines, and they couldn't even cast a shorter guy to be one of the romantic leads?

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Suuuuuuper interesting.

And somewhat economically/financially terrifying.

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one thing that's somewhat peculiar is that people whose job it is to put their lives on the line and choose to accept that risk are mourned way more by the public than innocent people who don't accept to take that risk

lol did they really put lawrence krauss in their ad in november 2025!!

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unprecedently rapid and disproportionate increases tend to be followed by...

honestly, any graph that looks like this (you can add population growth to this) should be regarded with great trepidation

guys, it's going to get really fucking bad

the internet and social media may have fragmented our shared social reality, but AI is going to complete demolish any conception of a shared reality

One of the big tidal forces of the coming years is that the baseline reliability of things you see on a screen is going to decline.

I think this has not been adequately metabolized.

This is one version, but there are a bunch of them.

these thoughts come from listening to the book on oakland police rampant corruption and culture of thuggish illegality, and how jerry brown cynically supporter them when he became mayor

this is my main gripe against democrats. their going along for the ride on the path that will lead to their violent demise

the macho, mysogenist, corrupt, racist culture that has dominated police departments around the country and have been either tolerated or celebrated by democrats and republicans is now the dominant culture of the federal goverment

what do you expect will happen if you continuously empower the police and security forces of a state? it...becomes a police state

do you still call it a boomerang effect if it's a colony within your nation?

hard to imagine a carceral state on the scale that the US has built over the past 50 years without it culimating in a fascist authoritarian regime

but bro have you ever thought about how humans tell stories??

regular politics is when the tracy flicks of the world are in the charge

nothing encapsulates the jock-nerd alliance of fascism better than this clip

fascism is when you give giant losers and dorks power

if i showed you this graph without telling you what it was, you'd for sure think it was a giant bubble just waiting to pop

nope

oh right, he's the guy who bent over backwards to not implicate the president who is going after him because...you know "institutions" and "integrity" and shit

it's a shame comey will be harassed by this wannabe tyrant for the rest of his life, but at least he was able to...wait, what did he accomplish

you don't get to a political environment dominated by MAGA without figures like jerry brown paving the way