To be fair, it was beautiful data. This is definitely the first time that reading about a gangbang made me want to subscribe to canva dot com.
carlitoscohones
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At the risk of kind of picking around the edges here ... something caught my eye in #5:
Michael successfully alerted me to the fact that crime has risen by a factor of ten over the past century, which seems REALLY IMPORTANT and nobody else is talking about it and it seems like the sort of thing that more people than just Michael should be paying attention to.
This claim is ridiculous. The homicide rate in the US was something like 30 or 40 per 100,000 people in colonial times, reducing every century, and it's around 5 right now, since the increase from the 1960s - 1990s has gone back down.
Maybe, in the past 100 years, we have passed so many bajillion new statutes that it has increased crime tenfold, but that's not what the reactionaries are saying at all.
Eschewing the mainstream use of language and formatting is a sign of genius.
Hi Elon, Here's some chalk. Give me 100 lines:
profits and commercial interests ahead of seeking to benefit humanity. profits and commercial interests ahead of seeking to benefit humanity. profits and commercial interests ahead of seeking to benefit humanity. profits and commercial interests ahead of seeking to benefit humanity. profits and commercial interests ahead of seeking to benefit humanity. profits and commercial interests ahead of seeking to benefit humanity. profits and commercial interests ahead of seeking to benefit humanity. profits and commercial interests ahead of seeking to benefit humanity.
My first response would be “that’s a rather shite superpower then, innit?”
I was thinking the same, especially if it only works on busses.
I love this podcast. One of the hosts (Michael Hobbes) used to be on "you're wrong about" which also dispelled common myths and misinformation. They look at bad science and epistemology in airport-type books, like Malcolm Gladwell or right wing nut jobs, etc.
This makes sense to me. I went through a Jars of Clay / Switchfoot phase, but never Stryper.
I have heard a couple of really good episodes of The Dig podcast, which is a Jacobin thing. Notably "The German Question" a couple of weeks ago.
Skip to 1:03 for a second ... this is the super-fast lyric portion of the video. Saying all of those syllables fast causes Mr. street-sounding rap guy to lose his accent code-switch and for that verse he sounds like a generic white guy. Pretty funny actually.
terrorists have and can used bio weapons to terrifying effect
Can you please tell me when and where? The Japanese subway gassing comes to mind. Anthrax envelopes in 2001. Any others since then?
I'm now imagining populations of penis havers who scoff at the enlarged ones behaving like the Rolex aficionados who play "spot the fake Rolex" and get into all kinds of watch minutiae. Look at the telltale marks around the base - definitely enlarged, not like my 100% natural model, which comes 2.5 seconds fast per day.