vance et al. thought they wanted to be catholics but what they really wanted to be was Evangelicals But With Aesthetics.

I wonder if it is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to get into heaven.

Did a new one

Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a recent study has identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability.

(Published July)

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

Judging by their speeches, neither Trump nor Hegseth has paid the slightest attention to how actual wars are being fought in the actual world. The “war fighting” and “lethality” they plan is inside their own country and comes from conflicts inside their own minds.

if you simply do not like the vibe on this website, that's fine. i'm not a big fan of the "open cesspool of neo-nazis" vibe on X: The Everything App. but this ideologically-driven desire to present every person who uses this app as hysterical and unreasonable is kind of pathetic

this exists it is called thinking

i think that if the FCC threatened to revoke ABC’s license unless it replaced Jimmy Kimmel with Kevin Hart to diversify the network, Ilya Shapiro would be able to identify the issue here

the thing to understand is that for many people the violence of order maintenance is simply not seen as violence in the first place

folks being driven so insane by bad people getting away with everything that a lady who was mean and rude at a baseball game is being treated like lee harvey oswald caught in the act.

Let's be clear what this image represents.

Those skull masks were first popularized on the far right by a very specific Nazi terror movement that began on the pro-terror Ironmarch forums and entered mainstream news with the Atomwaffen Nazi terrorist murders.

THAT is the reference here.

I mean 100% this!! They’ve had SIX MONTHS! Schumer has nothing to show for it and Jeffries’ big message is that sending in troops is a “distraction.” What the fuck do they think is happening right now?

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

Visiting the Newsmax homepage really helps me understand how much I don’t understand about how many people see the world.