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  1. Hot take: debate is an inferior, pre-literate way to synthesize information and decide between alternatives that has been filtered through 19th century entertainment culture. Winning a debate is not the same thing as presenting the best position. Jordan Peterson is fascinating to me. His whole schtick was telling boys how to pull their shit together and learn to function and then he very publicly crashed out in a spectacular way. I thought that would be the end of him.
  2. I was coming here to post just this. The essence of the article is that TripleSecDef’s personal lawyer told the White House that a (very illegal, very unconstitutional) NSA tap of Hegseth’s aides outed them as the source of leaks surrounding Signalgate. When pressed by the White House, the lawyer walked it back and said he never made any such claim and that he was just passing messages. The reality is that Hegseth’s executive team is fighting and backbiting and throwing each other under the bus. The level of amateurism in this administration is on par with Balkan countries. Just an inability to get shit together and be normal even for a minute.
  3. I’ve lived overseas a long time and listened to people moan about their governments. Most of the time— with rare exceptions, like when a regime is imposed from the outside— people have the government they deserve. That’s where we are in America. It’s a country I still love. Up thread someone mentioned that it’s by sheer luck we were born here. I disagree, gently. My parents were from Texas. Their parents were from Texas. Their parents were from Texas and back to Virginia. Where else could I have been born? That’s simply to say that this is my country and I don’t have another one. I love it like I love my family, of which I also don’t have another one. I’m not going to labor under the delusion that it is better or more special than any other family, but it is mine and so I love it for how it is. And I want it to be better, and kinder, and braver. Which is what I wish my country could be. There’s never been a place in history where it’s easier to be kind and brave. We are richer and safer beyond measure than anyone in the world. I’m ready for us to choose to be so.
  4. I can’t even pretend to be outraged. Its what the country voted for. Enjoy it everyone!
  5. You can buy a oil/fat separator if you want to do a reduction right away. You can drain off all but a little of the fat but be careful to leave the fond. Straining the liquid will also help get it glossy and less chunky if that’s what you want. Another cheat, that requires some patience and planning is to let the dish sit overnight in the fridge. The fat will congeal at the top and its easy enough to strip away and get at the good stuff underneath. You also get more flavor as the good stuff sits and mixes together.
  6. They get close enough to fool the elderly, which we all will be. In any case the constant barrage of foreigners trying to scam us is for sure part of the enshitiffcation of American life. We used to be able to just answer phones. Living in Central Europe drove it home, no one else speaks the languages so no scam bullshit. Slaps you in the face back home.
  7. Lots of noise in the info space, now making its way to right wing space that Ukraine tried to down Putin’s helicopter on its visit to Kursk. Clearly a play to isolate Kyiv further from Washington.
  8. I get these texts a couple times a week. Just one more thing that could be easily stopped but isn’t because it’s more profitable to let people get scammed. An unappreciated part of the scam industry: how extensive outsourcing of customer service and IT primed the pump. It conditioned Americans to be unfazed when the customer service reps of major American companies were located outside of America and speaking barely comprehensible English. And it taught huge swathes of South Asians exactly how to pose as a legit CSR.
  9. We all have to admit our limits. Just like in the other scenario where I am the best hope for the plane: I hope I can nod at another unassuming yet secretly deadly dad across the aisle before we move as one to effortlessly eliminate the hijackers using a plastic coffee stirrer and a laptop I grabbed from a sexy brunette in a business suit and messy bun as brilliantly improvised weapons. But I’ll do it on my own if I need to meet the occasion.
  10. That’s a lot of text that boils down to “opening fire at Jewish museums in America is ok if you’re righteously angry at Israel.” It took you a while to get there but you did.
  11. One thing unites all men. Deep down we are all certain that if we are on an airliner and the pilots are passed out or dead, we are the best choice to stay calm and collected and land that sucker with a little help from the tower. The really hard part is going to be keeping the pretty stewardess calm.
  12. I’m workshopping a new theory that autism is caused by getting too interested in trains.
  13. Well and also navigable inland waterways so that we can easily connect the vastness of our interior to the markets of the world. I am pretty sure they’re up for DOGEing though. Who needs them when we are becoming an interplanetary species.
  14. Across time and distance, in the history of motoring, a simple and elegant solution has solved the “emergency egress” problem: An internal door handle that gets pulled and unlatches the door so a person can egress. And while billionaires and millionaires have long been obsessed with ever more stupid door-hinging mechanisms, no one ever said “these interior doors handles fucking suck! I want something that requires me to read a manual and climb across seats!” Until Elon. And that’s why he’s a genius.
  15. I mean yeah. Doing grotesque press conferences with “Angel Mamas” and telling everyone that because an undocumented immigrant murdered a cute co-ed, we should all just go along with stuffing a few gay hairdressers that never murdered anyone in a Central American penal colony forever is a pretty apt analogy to this reasoning.
  16. If I can’t find my HouseBeast KeyFob I have to crawl out of an upstairs window. But my neighbors are stuck with stupid and lame doorknobs inside and out, while I’ve ditched them for clean and futurist no-doorknob Cyberdoors.
  17. Why were we experimenting with woke gender ideology on flies in the first place?
  18. Sometimes I like to think about 10th century peasants stripping ancient palaces and public spaces for marble across the former Roman Empire. Surrounded by stunning feats of human achievement made possible by systems they never saw, could not understand, could not recreate, but could slowly dismantle piece by piece.
  19. You’re right, it’s not very profound or even comprehensible. What rhetorical device does dead children and parental vengeance serve in a thread about a murder where no one involved has dead children of any nationality? And why should Americans have to just expect that clearly disturbed people who are overly excited by geopolitical developments and what they read online will shoot people they have never met at a museum? This type of behavior is (rightfully) ordinarily called stochastic terror.
  20. Something to unite the far-left and far- right: Apparently the killer got kicked off of Twitter because he kept telling Will Stancil to kill himself via DM.
  21. I’m completely lost— between Elias Rodriguez of Chicago, Yaron Lischinsky of Jerusalem by way of Germany, and Sara Miligrim of Kansas— who are the parents of deceased children and who is getting the vengeance because their kids got murdered?
  22. I am pleased to report that I made the same pot roast grilled cheese sandwich with Dijon mustard and horseradish but this time also a side of au jus to dip it in.
  23. Seems pretty legit man. https://forward.com/news/722632/yaron-lischinsky-dc-shooting-messianic-jew/ Two different groups at play: People with no Jewish background who inject cosplay Judaic rituals into their faith. And Jewish background people who graft Christian beliefs onto Jewish ritual. The state of Israel will accept right of return for the latter based on lineage, although there is a lot of suspicion and have been court cases. For the former, they are not accepted as Jewish at all.
  24. According to some stuff flying around the internet, they were both “Messianic” so this photo would be pretty apropos. Also point of order, all articles I see frame them as embassy staff. I haven’t seen confirmation that they were diplomats and they could have been attached in another capacity like local staff. (Neither has any bearing on the hideous violence, but is more interesting than “when the thread started” discourse).
  25. Pot roast grilled cheese. Pot roast, pot roast onions, pepper jack, white American cheese, pepper jack, mustard, horseradish.
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