Despite decades of assimilation, many Indigenous Taiwanese continue to speak Indigenous languages unrelated to Chinese, they predominantly practice very syncretic Christianity and traditional belief systems, and most still have Indigenous names despite not being allowed to hold them officially

Characters in the genre who seek to live forever are the villains, and often grotesque or inhuman in body or heart.

(Another thing the tech bros seem to have missed in their “readings.”)

Tantalus Catering.

Car deaths and firearm deaths are on par with suicides included (~45-47k in 2022). But what scares people about guns are homicides, which are only 40% of gun deaths, and a much smaller source of deaths than cars.

If it were proportional to the threat, the urgency & horror people in the US feel about gun homicides should be felt doubly so for cars.

Is Khan Mirren es-Sevash a cousin of Dame Helen?

Six people whose legacies, if any, will be that they actively undermined many decent norms of U.S. political culture. All insufferably pompous “intellectual” asses who would loathe living in their ideal polities except on the condition that they were among the ruling elites (inverted Rawlsians).

Galaxy-level IQ on Larry to put that in an email where he frets about men being cancelled for bad behavior towards women

youtu.be/3bYkNptOJns

Kirk’s lecture would also include another Constitutional exposition and panegyric.

of the Senate & adding states. Etc.

Republicans didn’t gain control of all three branches by being timid or by offering tepid, triangulated policies. Firing up the base and setting your sights high has beaten the cautious approach in national elections this century more often than not. (3/3)

Democrats want to harness this outrage to get out the vote a year from now, they should make this a referendum on ending Trump’s unpopular regime by removing him and his willing accomplice from office in 2027. That getting to 67 votes in the Senate is nigh-impossible is a plank for reform (2/3)

Exactly. They are deliberately, flagrantly, repeatedly subverting the Constitution and have gotten away with it because the majority in Congress has abdicated its responsibilities. 5 million Americans took to the streets decrying this Executive as a king. The colonials revolted for less. If (1/3)

Which is to say, Steven Pinker wrote