I didn’t watch it out of self-care, anyone with more stomach want to give some of the sundowning highlights?

Especially in the culture of the time, taking in travelers was considered an essential part of society.

Oh there’s gonna be some malicious compliance surrounding this:

“Now class, why do you think that after the death of his wife, Lot’s daughters decided to have sex with him?”

Technically he said that AI could understand all of physics which is a slightly different thing. Still silly as practically that just means “AI gonna do better physics modeling” which is more an incremental improvement on current systems than reinventing the wheel.

I ask, because you see a lot of libs and liblefts calling America fascist, but then being asked how, and not being able to respond.

Completely anecdotal, but my memory of being taught about both fascism and communism in high school (and I was in the more advanced social studies classes mind you) was, they’re very very bad, no good, but no real explanation of what either was structurally. We were taught they did bad things, but the theory/ideology behind it was reduced to “here be dragons.” So I’m not surprised that a lot of people have trouble defining fascism even if their heart is in the right place in opposing it.

I can’t say if it was a Zoomer or not because I just saw the car itself not the driver, but the worst example of that I saw was a car I walked by with a ton of anime stickers on the back. A few were innocuous but most of them were lewd but not outright nude/pornographic. However, they were all explicitly related to a particular kink/fetish:

And not just in the imagery, lots of euphemistic word play/puns on the kink. The kicker though was in the middle of all that, was one bumper sticker that just said “sorry mom.”

For me it depends a lot on what it’s a tutorial for. Like, I hate music lesson tutorials, always feels like it’s moving on before I absorb what I need. Home repair tutorials, on the other hand, those are boss because often the written instructions are vague or not optimal, and seeing exactly what physical movement the instructions meant is helpful.

Good to see that usage is good, although I think we’d need to see some data of young people from 20-30 years ago to get a full comparison. Also, the older generations are most likely reporting lower condoms use because they’re more likely to be in long term, monogamous relationships than the younger ones, thus more concerned with the reproductive control aspect than the disease control aspect. So they’re more likely to be using hormonal or surgical birth control. If you look at the breakdown by relationship type, it show long term relationships have way, way lower condom usage rates than hookups or casual relationships.

Not sure how widespread it is but I see a lot of younger women complain about this so I assume there’s a shift: young people being way more lackadaisical about using condoms these days, especially for casual hookups. Obviously HIV isn’t the death sentence it once was, but it’s still there and it’s not the only STD with long term consequences. Yet there seems like an attitude of “Well she is (or I am) on hormonal birth control so there’s no concern then.”

That would be the use of dialectics on the internet

“Our main goal in supporting Kenya is to help it overcome the difficult economic challenges it faces and improve its economic prospects and the well-being of its people,” it said in a statement, before bursting out in laughter

Fixed it.

I will Hexbear with you

Oh libs absolutely love it when their party is out of power because then they get to pretend their party would fix all these problems if they just were in power. When they’re actually in power, then they have to make excuses for their impotency and that’s no fun.

Vaccines and Public Health

LOL Operation Warp Speed was a Trump initiative. This list is entirely vibes-based.

I prefer my trucks high poly

Yeah that sounds like the typical car in the greater Buffalo-Rochester area

Speaking as a dude around his age, there is no way he can be flirting with minors less than half his age and not be a completely arrested development man child. I can have conversations with people that age but there’s a distinct “this person is on a different wavelength than me, anything deeper than polite chatter would be awkward and annoying” feel to it. As I like to say, some girls are mature for their age, but if a fully grown, let alone middle aged, adult male wants to have a relationship with a girl like that, he’s not mature for his age.

“We are in a mad season of the Democratic Party,” he said. “We are turning against ourselves instead of realizing that we don’t have the luxury of fucking around.”

Remember, it’s only the party turning against itself when it’s the left wing of the party criticizing the center. When it’s the other way around, that’s called “being the adults in the room,” sweaty.

Since October 7th, the news from Israel and Palestine has been unremittingly grim. For lawmakers in Washington, it has also been vexing, since they are being held responsible for a situation over which they have little direct control.

Yeah those arms packages just write themselves into being.

As much as I give Disney flak for a lot of what they’ve done with Star Wars, the Legends treatment of the EU is something I’ll give them credit for. They couldn’t excise the entirety of the EU without pissing off fans, but it’s also unavoidable that Lucas exercised little control of the EU so while there’s great stuff in there, there’s also a lot of slop and, more importantly, contradictory stories. So they couldn’t make it canon without a god awful mess to clean up.

Legends was the only way to square the circle: it’s not canon, but it’s not necessarily not canon, and (unless overwritten by something we make), it could become canon down the line.

I was once riding a bus that was passing through a predominantly gay neighborhood, and passed by a gay porno theater. There was a big sign out front for a film by the name of “Raiders of the Lost Arse.” Still gives me a chuckle.