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London Met Police To Take on…..Freemasons?
It cant be emphasized enough that these currents were all extremely modern and an attempt to work a framework of rationalism and historicism into a religious foundation. They were wrong, but that’s what it was. Many humbling similar lessons out there on various dead ends of Progress and Reason for those willing to see.
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Looksmaxxing: Body Dysmorphia For Men! Now Featuring Meth, Smashing One's Own Face With A Hammer, and Intentionally Driving Your Cybertruck Over Another Person
Of all the things that didn’t happen, this guy smashing his face with a hammer didn’t happen the most. Go Google Jake Paul hospital photos to satisfy yourself that he did not achieve chiseled features via blunt force facial trauma. He’s just a full of shit online personality.
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London Met Police To Take on…..Freemasons?
The English have a state church and also a developed tendency to encourage their zealots to decamp for other parts of the Anglosphere. As a result they missed some real theological oddities and sped up secularization. However, it has long been clear that the secularism and rationalism trains are not only on different tracks, but often heading different directions. As evidenced by Mason conspiracy posting and public policy in the Year of our Lord 2025. This is in strong contention for most embarrassing statement— public institutions category in 2025, even with DJT in office.
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London Met Police To Take on…..Freemasons?
Starmer is in the middle of a PR crisis because he bragged about bringing “home” an Egyptian extremist who inherited his citizenship from a prior government víš his mother (who was born there while his grandma is a student) without ever setting foot in the UK. He was jailed in Egypt and became a minor cause. No sooner had he landed than a series of tweets emerged from his 30s where he called gay people “dirty homosexuals,” expressed a desire to work with bin Laden to kill Americans, and to engage in mass exterminations of white people. (Of course also the requisite calls to kill Zionists anywhere; which made the aforementioned OK). Several MPs who were on board have turned against him. If it is deflection, resurrecting a 40 year old Masonic conspiracy is the most brain dead way to go about it). So it will likely work.
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London Met Police To Take on…..Freemasons?
Since everyone is a mentally ill conspiracy theorist now, I shouldn’t be surprised but somehow I still am. The London Met has decided it needs to ferret out Freemasons in the ranks, apparently in an effort to appease other mentally ill people. It’s been a while since we had a good Masonry panic, maybe Nature is Healing?
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Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body in Congress? Oh you mean Marjorie!
She looks like she’s being hunted or is in captivity in this photo. It’s like a still from Planet of the Apes. Not of the hot fur bikini wearing retrograde woman that the actor falls for, one of the extras cast for their Denisovian features.
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AI and suggestion
Counter-point: all of the best music was made when I was young, had a lot of time to listen to it, had a lot of intense emotional and formative experiences associated with the music, a hormone dump like being on drugs every day, and basically no real responsibilities or actual concerns. But now that I’m old and my life is the opposite of those things all the new music sucks.
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Time for another ‘my dog is awesome’ thread
They wouldn’t be if people other than the owner weren’t feeding them. If you’ve been doing that then just wander over and leave the gate open one night, or get a trustworthy kid to do it. Leave some really fragrant treats outside if they are especially reluctant to come out. Take the dogs when they “escape”, next day wander over and knock on the door. Leave a note that you are watching the dogs and will take them to a shelter, leave a number. Go to a trustworthy a shelter, tell them the story: dogs got out, seemed they had been abandoned, house seemed empty. You want to adopt them after the waiting period, fill out the form then and there. Go get the dogs for adoption after they are not picked up and you and the neighbor lady can then either take them or figure out a good rehome situation. EP LEO are not going to be interested in cracking the case of the dogs that you tried to return after they got out and followed proper waiting times after their owners just left them for SPCA to come feed, assuming these assholes ever come back and want them.
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Looksmaxxing: Body Dysmorphia For Men! Now Featuring Meth, Smashing One's Own Face With A Hammer, and Intentionally Driving Your Cybertruck Over Another Person
This has every indicator of a fake bullshit moral panic scam. It’s not that there aren’t incels or dudes obsessed with their appearance and making it better. But this shit as outlined by this podcaster is not an epidemic and I frankly don’t believe he really smashed himself with a hammer or injected his girlfriend with meth. (I didn’t and will not watch the videos). Now if you’ll excuse me I have a medical appointment to make, I am getting ribs removed so I can perform autofellatio.
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One Battle After Another, the next Paul Thomas Anderson film
I agree, I think There Will Be Blood and Boogie Nights are better. Part of that is PTA not being fully in or fully out of this being Trump’s America and so it occupies a weird space between explicitly political or more thematic about “big picture” America. 10 years down the line I think the first two will hold up better and be more relevant by choosing the latter clearly and by being anchored in a specific time/place but telling a more timeless story and character study. I think also in those two PTA lets his characters be complicated and always recognizably human, even the revolting characters, whereas Lockjaw is just the worst person in the world and we don’t know why really. Chase Infiniti killed it and will be a megawatt star. I think here also- she was a bit too mature, forgiving, ready with a quip, badass, and composed despite being raised by a pretty messed up single dad and thrust into a terrifying ordeal. Martial arts will only take you so far. I think also that she’s so clearly older than a teenager— and audiences do not react well to real depictions of terror and danger for kids so PTA for sure had a justification for that casting.
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Gumbo
My philosophy on chopping the trinity is the opposite: as small of a dice as I can do casually. I won’t obsess over it, but I want the chunkiness to be from the protein and okra (if using). I find that if you’re slurping down a bowl of gumbo, you don’t dislike onions and peppers though you may think you do; it’s not a salad or sandwich or fajita where you are getting them in big pieces you chew. It just kind of goes down. Not a criticism of @ROFL BOX . I am a bit of a fascist on cooking: I’ll accommodate allergies and religious restrictions, and if you warn me in advance I’ll do my best with vegan or vegetarian options. Beyond that, I cook what I like as good as I can and if it’s not your taste then I’m sorry you are so limited.
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
I have apparently missed out that it has tremendous impact on people with amazing forms of mental illness. I admit my error. Many such cases.
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Israel
“Look, the dumbest and most racist person ever elected to Congress shares my thoughts on Israel” should prompt more introspection. (Side note, the Gaza plan which is just vaporware and terrible grift does not involve money to Israel).
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
I am trying to think of a massive, record breaking property like Avatar that has less cultural impact. I cannot recall the names of any characters without thinking hard. No memorable dialogue. No musical earbugs. No real attempts to capitalize off of Avatar mania. No gifs or catchphrases or touchstone characters. I assume there are toys but it’s not like kids beg for the stuff. You go, you oooh and ahh over the special effects, you leave. It’s not like Cameron can’t do this: Titanic, Alien, Terminator— huge lasting cultural impact. But Avatar remains basically a massive SFX showpiece that doesn’t resonate beyond that. The only real impact I can think of is the SNL Papyrus sketch which is ironically about Avatar being bland and generic.
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Looksmaxxing: Body Dysmorphia For Men! Now Featuring Meth, Smashing One's Own Face With A Hammer, and Intentionally Driving Your Cybertruck Over Another Person
Me, geeked up on meth and getting arrested after running over a pedestrian: “We’re just looksmaxxing, officer.”
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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
Mid-range is likely the worst place to shop for fridges and appliances. Appliance guys I talk to say the same thing: Whirlpool or Frigidaire, no ice-maker or dispenser, top freezer. Simplest and will run for as long as the compressor will. I’m happy with the Frigidaire we have. Interior plastics even on high-end models now are mostly shit.
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comedy is in a weird place right now
Comedy is awful in large part because comics crawled up their own asses and began performing for each other and putting out endless meta content about themselves and their philosophy of comedy instead of just telling jokes and being funny. It was always clear that it’s harder than it looks and that comics are mostly self-loathing and nasty and back-biting. And that they have rivalries and beefs. All that stuff is supposed to be behind the scenes. For the audience there should just be jokes. Let us believe you’re a funny person telling jokes. We really don’t want to know you, we want to enjoy the character you play. All the performing arts are like this. I don’t want a podcast on YoYoMa’s theories of practice or hours of him just jawboning with musicians. It’s mildly interesting to know that Daniel Day Lewis is a madman method actor— at most that’s a few magazine profiles. I just want to watch him chew the scenery as Bill the Butcher. Also their feuds and beefs are boring and stupid and no one wants to hear it. Hollywood gossip is vaguely fun because beautiful people sleeping with each other is inherently fascinating. Funny men griping about their problems with other funny men is anti-comedy.
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One Battle After Another, the next Paul Thomas Anderson film
They are both terrible people and a big part of the movie is that Bob/Pat is Charlene/Willia’s real family because the other two actively harm her. “Pussy is for war, the guns is the fun” is her credo. Most people look at that in the frame of her imbalanced but quasi-consensual involvement with Lockjaw, but it applies to her treatment of Pat. We first see her having sex with him after seeing his explosives expertise and asking him “do you like black girls?” After a confirmed yes, she has sex with him but abandons him after he asks her to stop shooting shit and settle down and take care of their daughter. She was using him all along to keep him around blowing stuff up for the French 75 and once he was done, he was no longer instrumentally useful. Neither he or her daughter mean anything and she dumped them when needed. She drinks while pregnant, murders an innocent man (who is black so it’s bad even in the warped ethics of the French 75), she cares more about chaos than her “cause.” And when she is down she rats on her group and runs away— again causing danger to Charlene and Bob instead of, for example, making their safety a condition of her ratting. Her name means treachery, you aren’t supposed to like her. As I mentioned, this isnt a nuanced film in a lot of ways.
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NCAA Hoops 2025-26
Now just getting actual NBA players to come play midseason. This was totally worth just letting the kids do a local car commercial. He scored points this weekend for the Bulls.
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Shit I've Cooked Lately
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
- Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
Yeah, jokes aside I agree here. This is an admission that the program will need a factory reset. Wittingham won’t be the guy to win an NC, but he can be the guy to go to the CFP and make UM a desirable destination.- Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
Someone gotta find his Finsta.- Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
Would have been a great hire in 2015.- Uniform Pron
Minnesota vs New Mexico will be color vs color. I love everything about this except the giant gopher. - Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
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