1 hotdog a day would suggest a diet that is unbalanced and prioritizing cost and convenience. I would bet money that the comorbidities include sedentary lifestyle, poverty, limited access to fresh produce, poverty, limited education, and poverty.

Someday, that old planter will become a fountain.

This is a good idea even if you don’t think they will do it. When they don’t do it, you can negotiate money back from the purchase to cover the cost of hiring a junk removal team. Then you can pocket the cash and do it yourself or you can pay someone else to do it.

This is funny whether it’s a pet or an actual boss.

I sunk hours into NetHack, and I still occasionally dive into the dungeons. I also have a NES emulator on my phone, but it’s just not the same. I’ll play Zelda or Metroid for the nostalgia, but it’s not the same as sitting on the couch with friends.

Enjoyed with a double demitasse coffee with 2 half teaspoons of sugar and chilled steamed beef milk.

As much fun as we’re having sharing and resharing this ridiculous image of a ridiculous person, this is actually a very serious problem.

How about it’s never actually been proven to work, and it’s primarily been used as a form of torture for LGBTQA+ people. Every study of the subject included either willing volunteers, a sample already predisposed towards ensuring its effectiveness, or gay men at a time and place where it was a crime to be gay.

Consider for a moment the scientific rigor and motivationa for doctors involved in such experiments. Medical researchers, educated in statistics, make obvious mistakes in research design and then reach conclusions that are unsupported by math. If it isn’t motivated by homophobia, then sadism seems to be the next most plausible explanation.

I feel like I’m going to be responsible for Trump sending ICE to raid the Shady Pines community event planning committee that picks the color schemes for their weekly card games.

Impotence and sexual frustration are common factors in a lot of sexual assaults. That’s not to say everyone who is impotent or experiences sexual frustration will commit a crime, but we’re talking about a subset of people who are already known to have committed sex crimes.

Bullshit. I am privileged in many ways. It isn’t an insult to acknowledge that I don’t and haven’t faced the same challenges as other people. I can recognize that society hasn’t been fair to others without ignoring the obstacles and challenges I’ve faced.

Are you saying we’re not privileged?

Edit: I’ve been thinking about your comment, and I wonder if you don’t understand what privilege is.

Imagine you’re at a restaurant. You sit, you’re eating your meal, and someone at the next table asks to borrow the salt. You have salt on your table, and for whatever reason, they don’t have salt on their table.

So you stand up and shout “No! It’s not my fault the restaurant doesn’t provide salt to every table! It’s not my responsibility to make sure everyone has access to salt! I don’t owe this table or any table any other table my salt that I am owed. The salt is on my table because I earned it. And besides, I have no pepper and my steak was overcooked and my chair is wobbly. Fuck you for even suggesting I share my salt.”

None of that bullshit is relevant. You have the salt and someone is asking you to share because you can. They aren’t blaming you for the lack of salt. They aren’t saying you’re responsible to make sure everyone has salt. They aren’t saying that, because you have salt, you don’t have other needs or problems, or that you aren’t entitled to use the salt while you have it. The privilege is that you have access to salt while others don’t. You don’t always need it, so it costs you nothing to share. Having it won’t solve all of your problems, and sharing it should not cause you significant problems. And someone pointing out that the whole restaurant should have salt on each table is not a personal attack on you.

You’re not the asshole until you refuse to pass the salt.

This comes up a lot, and I really don’t know where it comes from. Who is telling you that you’re responsible for the misdeeds of others? Seriously, point that out, because I’m in my mid forties, I’m a white cishet American man, and I’ve never felt like I was being blamed for the sins of people who look and fuck like me. Really, it just sounds like a conservative strawman talking point, because nobody does this.

Frankly, I was going to say almost the opposite. Conservatives are appealing to young men by decrying the “woke” process of breaking down those stereotypes. It’s a reaction to those “traditional” masculine traits being challenged by a more enlightened society.

The key is not breaking down those gender norms, but rechanneling that masculine energy and “gender pride” into something healthy and beneficial. We need to reframe the conversation, because when you attack, people instinctively defend. Instead, we should model the new masculinity, one where being tough means being confident enough to stand out or be yourself. Where being a bro means being a friend, not a douchebag. Real men have the strength to admit their faults and ask for help. Real power is punching up, not down, and real bravery is accepting people for who they are.

Contrast someone like Joe Rogan with Pedro Pascal. Which one is a “Real Man™”? Which one should we celebrate and focus on? Boys need role models, because we don’t know how to handle our hormones at an age when everything is confusing. If you tell them their instincts are wrong, they will retreat to a safe space where someone else will tell them that society is wrong and they should be as gross and misogynistic as they can be.

Real men are creative. Real men are kind. Real men are curious. Real men are sincere. Real men admit mistakes and accept consequences. Real men lift others up. Real men are able to ask for help. Real men are comfortable with their sexuality, and are not afraid of exploring their preferences.

All children are born selfish and frightened. We have to learn to be better through empathy. Without positive role models, we cannot learn to overcome those selfish impulses, and we cannot stand up to the bullies that will try to sell the red pill.

Because no matter what we do, there will always be conservative dipshits talking about how oppressed they are because they can’t insult people by calling them “girly” or “gay” or “retarded” anymore. There will always be angry gym rats who think big biceps and a fast car will fix their insecurities. There will always be bullies, and we should always stand up to them.

Also, every boy should watch Ted Lasso. Seriously, there has never been a better breakdown of male stereotypes than that show.

Customs isn’t the organization that does that. If you’re a target for espionage, someone at the NSA or CIA or somesuch organization will find ways to tap your devices, but they don’t do this to every phone imported to the country. Just consider the sheer volume of data that would produce, and the number of analysts who would need to review it. I wouldn’t assume privacy, though. Act like they are watching everything.

Well, it could be really bad, or it might only be a little bit bad.

Israel has nuclear weapons, Iran has been trying to develop nuclear weapons and probably has them, and both sides believe God is on their side.

Someone should make this game, a game where the tyrannical oppressors violently exert control over a population, and you’re the protagonist but you’re told to remain civil and not give the tyrants a reason to oppress you. Somehow, this works for you and you keep defeating the evil troopers by complying and giving them what they want. Initially, this is stuff like they just go away and leave you alone, only attacking your neighbors who were stupid enough to resist or protest. As the game continues, it should get more and more absurd, like your compliance causes a miniboss to trip over a shoelace and into a wood chipper. You unlock skills, like speaking your mind or defending yourself from criminals, through acts of compliance.

Meanwhile, in the background, NPCs keep standing up to fight back, and they keep getting put down. Heroes fight the troopers, and you just have to stay out of the way. You could help at some point, but helping them causes you to lose skills or even die, and so they lose the fight and you get to keep playing the game in an increasingly depressing and restrictive hellscape. Maybe the goal is to dodge all the shit coming at you, and each level you are able to use fewer and fewer base skills or buttons, until you’re left with only the one button, press F to Praise Leader. Once you get to that point, the game won’t tell you, but you have to keep pressing X to Fight, and the number of times you have to press the button depends on how compliant you were. This kicks off the endgame where you tear it all down. The more times you helped the heroes, the easier it is for you to take down the system from the inside.

Sending drugs in the mail is illegal. The point of this bill is to create pretext for seizing data from servers. When they say “dark” they mean “encrypted” and when they say “illegal” they mean “private.”

Accurate in so many ways

Seems like standard conservative foolishness, wait, what? Run that last one by me again?

I think I still have my google voice number.