Surprised that only one of them has been rooted out so far. The whole movement is projection and deflection. There’s a serious problem of child abuse in right wing culture that they’re not willing to taking about.

He clarified it meant “fake friends” which in the context of the Jesus story makes perfect sense. The moral here is maybe don’t post every random thought that pops into your head.

One causes more of the other.

It’s fun to trash the whole post-war generation, but we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that they were just as victimized by class warfare as we are. They benefited from the economic boom and were then lulled by their own masters into believing it was sustainable and things would be just as good for their own kids and grandkids. They were lied to too.

Never forget that the real enemy isn’t any one group except for the oligarchs and leeches at the top of the economic ladder. We shouldn’t focus our ire on those people in between us and the top. They’re not the ones controlling the taps on the river of shit flowing down.

Nobody ever accused Abbott of being a good person.

Those streams of projectiles like deadly tentacles flailing around the ships are incredible. Would love a game that could replicate that.

I sign into “max” now and get bombarded on the home screen with basic cable reality show trash, and every time that happens it just makes me want to use it less. The only thing keeping me coming back is the occasional Soderbergh project and an as-of-yet still decent catalogue of movies, though even that has dropped off noticeably.

I would drop my subscription if it wasn’t bundled into my phone plan.

For me it’s because of Cinemax - ie Skinemax - which used to be associated with the softcore porn they’d play late at night.

It always mystified me that HBO Max was even able to use that name since it was so evocative of another premium cable network.

Also this is literally celebrity gossip, which is against the community guidelines.

I don’t follow Swift or her die-hard fans, but this white supremacist" bit is news to me. Is this a real documented fact, or the usual overblown internet reaction to an assumption based on an extrapolation from a decade-old retweet?

It’s also important to point out that “not guilty” is only a legal distinction.

Plus we’re talking about things which are by their nature very difficult to prove. It’s literally one person’s word against another. Or in this case, nine people’s word against one. All that this ruling tells us is that there was insufficient evidence to convict him beyond a reasonable doubt.

Even with a well-stocked cabin, the cold alone will sap your energy and kill you slowly.

Trying to survive it in a tent isn’t mere ignorance, it’s outright stupidity.

The article said the poor kid was homeschooled, which is often a hallmark of religious fundamentalism. Not trusting the world and thinking it’s out to get you is also a hallmark of fundamentalism - but also of mental illness.

We often fail to teach our children WHY and hope that teaching them WHAT is enough. For some kids this might be the right approach, but I believe this is selling most of them short, and depriving them of the vital context that would allow them to adapt in a real situation.

We keep them in the dark so as not to terrify them, but kids are smart, they know why they do shelter in place drills, and if they have gotten that far, they will be rightly terrified anyway. If we’re going to go through the motions, we might as well empower them with the added information that might actually save their life someday.

NOT. THE. SAME.

And also, “ex”, as in the one you left because they were an abusive jackass.

He’ll get there eventually. It looks shittier and shittier every time he charges it.

And that was a non sequitur.

The hiker was believed to be alone during the encounter, and no bear spray or firearms were found at the scene.

In other words she wasn’t following even the most basic, simple guidelines for hiking in the woods, let alone in a national park known for its wildlife.

Visitors should be required to sit for a half hour “common sense” information video before entering the parks.