You don’t really hear about serial killers anymore.

CMV:

99% of self-identifying stoics are just dudes who watched a video on Marcus Aurelius and took away that holding in your feelings is a virtue actually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_paradox

Islamophobia still get a pass on the internet. Especially on Reddit.

I feel like it’s OK to demonize narcissism in ways that would be unacceptable ableism if you were talking about other neurodivergents or personality disorders.

It’s just as blanket and vague as calling someone an asshole.

It’s become such a pop-psych phenomena, I think it’s time for clinical people to abandon the term to pop culture. When a diagnosis becomes a common insult, it’s time for a new term.

Hitting the saloon with Lenny in Red Dead Redemption 2 means consuming a dangerous amount of questionable liquors.

The idea of personal action vs. corporate/government action is a false choice. The government can force the corpos to stop burning the planet, but that will mean significant lifestyle changes for everybody.

It also means getting our shit together about immigration/ migration/ refugees. And not just in the US, but globally. A humanitarian catastrophe is assured otherwise.

I’m not optimistic.

Some seem confused so: There was no organized effort to selectively breed enslaved people. While the slavers did get to decide who would have children with whom. And they no doubt chose individuals with “desirable” characteristics. This isn’t the kind of multi-generational project that could possibly hope to select for traits.

The brutality of slavery may have had some selective pressure, but that was unintentional.

This is a core component of a corrupt system. Everyone needs dirt on everyone else to feel secure that they can screw you if you ever try to run against the grain.

Just look back at any of the police who get criminally charged. One of the charges against the cop will likely be “theft of state funds” or similar language. This means the cop stole overtime, which is so common as to be universal.

Another common example is tax-evasion under a dictatorship. Everyone in the ruling class does it, but run afoul of the regime, and off to jail you go.

The cheapest method is to abandon the body. People die without family all the time and the State has a method to dispose of unclaimed corpses. Cost $0

I think of analog time as kinda a pie chart telling me how much of the minute and hour that’s elapsed. So I don’t see 13:45, I see 75% past one o’clock.

Does that make sense?

My technology skill makes me satisfied that your scale starts at zero, but annoyed it didn’t end with nine.

There was a time when language pedants just used Latin so they wouldn’t be bothered how living languages change all the time.

Modern pedants prefer the “old man shakes fist at cloud” style of bemoaning change they notice in the world.

You should know the difference between dejure and defacto.

I don’t want to alarm anyone from outside the US, but the pigs are pretty loose about how the rules apply to themselves.

Boy, you’ve obviously never seen Precious (2009)

And they did exactly the same thing with Better Call Saul in the character Howard Hamlin.

The critical battlefield experience can be had on Linux. By that I mean checking to see if it’s selling better than Call of Duty and arguing about it.

Being in love makes you an expert on love the same way getting run over by a car makes you a mechanic.

Yes, they even put nukes in backpacks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitcase_nuclear_device