Pitbulls aren’t a species and they can’t go extinct like a species. Something almost identical to them in every way but tiny bits of genetic code could easily be recreated within a lifetime if it turned out we are wrong and needed them back. Every dog is just canis familiaris. Breeds truly are an artificial construct we made up.
She appears to likely have some kind of real mental disorder. I think I also read that she has a history of substance-related arrests, which is why she’s in her 40s and job options are limited to working entry-level at Cinnabon. The two probably overlap. Clearly Cinnnabon cannot and shouldn’t retain her as employee. It is likely that this episode will knock her out of what was already a very precarious position and will lead to more intense and regular inappropriate outbursts and conflicts with people she encounters, this time from the absolute margins of American society. Strong possibility she will end up both victim and victimizer in more serious crimes, part of the endless churn of anti-social types we are too compassionate to confine, and not compassionate enough to treat and so we just let them do their thing until something goes really wrong or they disappear. Some people are judgment proof and someone unemployable at fast food with a history of substance arrests and recorded racist outbursts just became stigma-proof, there are really no meaningful consequences left or lessons to learn.
We should start with pitbulls and worry about an imaginary future where we’re banning goldens or poodles and bichons later. All of the other dogs you mentioned could also disappear forever with no real ill effects, these are not endangered species occupying an ecological niche, they are domestic animals bred to do things no one really needs anymore, and plenty of other breeds can fill the pet role equally well. It is not an enumerated right to keep certain breeds of animals. There’s really not a reason to tiptoe around this; if Kias randomly blew up on the street, and we live in a world with Hyundais and Toyotas, we wouldn’t try to find ways to let “responsible” Kia owners keep buying them and parking them around town. The urge to constantly reach for the complicated, overlay wonky perfect regulatory solutions at the expense of the clear and implementable good enough solution is the tyranny of process thinking. And the very stupid regularly manage to acquire things that are prohibitively expensive. Sometimes that makes the stupid things they want even more attractive. Good enough solution here is fine.
Tl; Dr: One year old mauled in Manhattan, owner walks away and will face no charges. Pitbulls are an excellent metaphor for so much of our problems: the solution is staring us in the face, has almost no downside, and could be easily done with minimal cruelty. Simply ban breeding, mandate neutering, and destroy any animal that isn’t fixed past a cutoff date and make the owner pay for the procedure. We just can’t do it because a handful of the types of people who cause many other solvable problems think that owning a dangerous animal with no unique counter-purpose is cool. Then a second group that believes that it’s wrong to fix any problem that stupid people enjoy causing. https://nypost.com/2025/12/23/us-news/pit-bull-attacks-baby-on-nyc-street-and-refuses-to-let-go/
Animal trainer: We taught this parrot to talk, it’s really cool! Everyone: Wow, really? That’s amazing. Animal trainer: Well, it can’t really talk. It doesn’t know what it’s saying. It’s really good at listening to things people say and how they talk, then repeating them as discrete sounds that seem like it’s engaging in human conversation. CEOs: When can I put it in charge of my business? Parrot: The government is spying on you through transmitters in your teeth fillings. Your mom told the dentist to put them in there when you were a kid.
Animal trainer: We taught this parrot to talk, it’s really cool! Everyone: Wow, really? That’s amazing. Animal trainer: Well, it can’t really talk. It doesn’t know what it’s saying. It’s really good at listening to things people say and how they talk, then repeating them as discrete sounds that seem like it’s engaging in human conversation. CEOs: When can I put it in charge of my business? Parrot: The government is spying on you through transmitters in your teeth fillings. Your mom told the dentist to put them in there when you were a kid.
Same shit with the Brown U. shooter, they outed this Brown Palestinian LGBT faculty member and then it was a Portuguese guy who didn’t get good enough grades twenty years ago.
Young men are not at all unique in creating and suffering from a widespread obsessive Internet subculture to discuss unrealistic physical standards; elevate mendacious influencers who encourage useless or harmful treatments, procedures, and behaviors; or engage in relentless and brutal intrasex competition and status signaling based on attractiveness ideals only loosely related to actual sexual desirability. (It’s not even really new to men now, bodybuilding is basically this disguised as something like sports). I’ll admit the weird and nerdy pseudoscientific lingo and theorizing; this is very much in line with “not dolls, action figures” surface-level distinctions. People like this dude get broader attention precisely because it’s been so unusual to see this type of behavior among men and absolutely unremarkable for women and girls; most men have engaged in other forms of unhealthy competitive and neurotic self-harm. It’s a man bites dog story. Been seeing a lot of criminal skull shapes recently.
I have argued before on this board that America’s Puritan origins are a thick veneer over a more relaxed English common sense. This is revealed over and over and constantly so in a tendency of the elite class to talk about human failings, foibles, and sufferings basically in terms of Original Sin or the Unconditional Election of the Saints; and a constitutional horror of admitting that you are doing things simply because they work and not because of firm and unfailing moral conviction. And a pretty dualistic view of everything. One did not need to announce that being fat is beautiful and maybe healthy even in order to course correct from harmful beauty standards and slenderness as a moral virtue. And yet we did.
He’s a really good back who has a seriously violent running style, and he wasn’t even as much of a workhorse this year. They tried to protect him more, it didn’t work out. I also think with his absence we leaned a bit too much on RB by committee and I never saw a rusher have time to establish a rhythm and sync with the OL. In addition to the aforementioned red zone issues, there were quite a few inopportune short 3-5 play drives at times when A&M needed to settle Marcel down and let the defense sit a bit in the last three games. Again a spot we missed the ability to hand off twice and be confident we’d get 6-8 yards. No coincidence last year’s total collapse happened after he went down. I’d like to see them settle on a back who will get fed next year between Owens, Morrow, and Edwards. Edwards has it in him to be a Moss-like back.
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I love the words men and boys have to use for these things. I’m not getting beauty treatments, I’m looksmaxxing. I’m not trying to be the prettiest girl here, I’m mogging. I’m not going on a diet, I’m cutting. I’m not flirting, I’m running game. Many such cases.
If I know one thing about women it’s that they very rarely get competitive and want to be perceived as more attractive than other women. That’s something weird about the male Looksmaxxing community.
A Minnesota Somali-American fraud investigator made exactly the points I make here in 2024. Almost all of this could be written word for word about Italian crime networks of an earlier generation with some tweaking for local lingo, right down to being victimized by the same networks and often not aware of it. And the points on funneling public money via third providers as a blind spot. The existence of even nastier nativism in the early 20th century did not mean organized crime was a made up issue. https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/07/17/a-somali-american-investigator-heres-why-youre-hearing-so-much-about-fraud-in-my-community/
This young scholar is not smashing his face with a hammer, he is lightly tapping his cheeks with what appears to be a child’s soccer trophy. I do not think we have an issue here with anything other than basic cognitive function for people who watch his stuff.
I don’t have sons I have daughters. Much easier, I just tell the girls every day not to settle for less than six figs/six-six/great bone structure. #doingmypart
Minnesota has a nonpartisan legislative auditor who had been flagging oversight breakdowns and a concerning (to her) dismissive attitude from the state gov. The Governor’s response is pretty awful and patronizing in retrospect but not great even at the time: I cannot emphasize enough that it’s always a bad look for good government/civil society/institluitonalists to get defensive and dismissive of IG or GAO type reports instead of pouncing on them as an opportunity to show bona fides. The whataboutism with Trump is just that— they ran on the idea of destroying things and doling out favors and dismantling important government functions and protections while attacking enemies. That’s the schtick! That’s not a line of attack with them! But if you’re trying to convince people of the need for transparency and accountability and good governance you need to deliver it and even when you think the IG as wrong, you have to publicly vow to take the reports seriously and not just disagree and say it’s no problem. This is a door Walz walked into. You have to do the good governance part!
Yes, and also deer camps and also tee times and church parking lots and softball leagues. This also where the young bucks learn to act like men. Not to steer this to an incel discussion but women also need to avoid dismantling these little clubs and also pushing men to socialize like they do. I’m not suggesting women encourage every night happy hour. I am suggesting they maybe encourage joining a sports league or the Elks before telling men to do “therapy.”
One has to be able to mentally do work. It was always wrong to assume that any Italian you met is a criminal or wise guy. However, it would have been stupid not to focus on Italians with connections to sanitation and unions and deny that the problem existed. One issue is that Americans of all political stripes prefer to do welfare via grants and social organizations rather than just running them. The right typically has a mistaken belief that the government will fuck it up less than an NGO, business correctly see a way to grift. Special activist groups correctly recognize that it’s highly more effective at delivering “services” to preferred recipients directly. It’s like public schools, we just open those and you can go if you need it. It’s not that you can’t steal from coffers, it’s just a hell of a lot harder to do at scale.
Folks, sometimes things are as they seem and one needs to surrender to reality before deciding that the NYT is being manipulated by Trump and tricksy Somaliland activists. It should surprise absolutely no one that an insular, clannish set of first and second generation immigrants from a notoriously corrupt and crime-ridden locale, who are virtually all dependent on state welfare, have become the focus of massive welfare corruption in a high-openness, high-social safety net society. This sort of thing is replicable against time and space. The comparisons to Italians are hilarious because all of that was completely true! Generations of overlapping clan/criminal networks completely took over entire public and semi-public activities in northern cities and hid within an ethic community thanks to a combination of fear, mistrust of the outside, clannishness and cultural solidarity. Those networks bought and installed local politicians, and even legit politicians were afraid to take it on because of the power of the groups and voting blocs. The Feds had to engage in generational crackdowns to get a handle on it and the same deflections got tossed out. I can agree that the DJT tactic is distasteful and politically motivated. Success against other similar crime rings and phenomena depended on a pathway to pull ordinary people out of insularity and into the mainstream and things have gotten toxic because the right doesn’t want to allow in and influential swathes of the modern left has determined that actively pushing for integration and assimilation is violence.
A&M went from one of the most efficient red zone teams in the nation through most of the season to shit over the SCAR—UT—Miami games. There were 9 red zone trips over those three that ended in turnovers or missed/blocked field goals. That is the type of shit that both loses games on the scoreboard and takes away a team’s will to fight. Some of that was WTF and others worrying signs: No idea what happened with Bond, who was reliable previously, this year. Clearly the shuffle attempt on “who has the hot leg” was a disaster for both kickers. It’s inexcusable in 2025 not to have a solid kicker on a P5 roster; I don’t know if Bond got the yips or someone messed him up. Elko needs to look at ST as an area of focus. Losing the crutch of Leveon Moss messed with both Marcel and Klein. It made Klein too enamored with his own cleverness and in turn put more pressure on Marcel, who is very good with guardrails but terrible without them. With Moss, they had the confidence to feed him at least twice in scoring position. Without him Klein got antsy and tried stupid shit after the first punch-in try failed. It’s a question to see how the next OC handles that; I think Reed is who he is. Someone needs to get Owens to a sports movement clinician because I’ve never seen someone fall forward into green grass as much as him, it’s like anti-vulnerability to contact. 10 wins is (likely) going to be harder than 11 this year but not impossible— LSU with a first year HC. Alabama is not a juggernaut under Kalen. UTe is beatable, Venables is also not a genius. These are hard but not completely daunting games and getting two wins of those four needs to happen. It will show whether the program is getting better in the hard ways, because the low-hanging fruit is gone. And he needs to beat UT at Kyle in year three to have me bought in. Like I said, time to do the hard stuff to make me believe.