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  1. Right, but she has a “name” and is a somebody. Even if she was one of the taller midgets pre-CC.
  2. Crisis averted. Regulation is still in play for all 50 states.
  3. I get what you are saying, but I actually think you are making the opposite point by saying it. WNBA was a flailing league. If it wasn't outright dying, it sure wasn't growing with any alacrity that would anyone would confuse with health. If you cop to being a WNBA fan pre-CC, that is cool, but it's rare. And it stands to reason that the reason the league was failing (cue Bill Burr for the 11th time) is that it had no broad support from any sufficiently large demographic. So the fact that the (massive) growth drivers are new fans who don't really know a lot of the players who were drowning in a sinking league isn't the flex you think it is. That said, there are a few names that casual fans shold have heard of and I think Kelsie Plum is one of them. You should have a passing awareness that she is a person and a component of the league just as I know there is a fat rapper named LIzzo and Gorilla the red, even though I have never and will never listen to woman rap. Just by virtue of being alive.
  4. Not to get all semantic, but there is a distinction between the hebrew words "to kill" and "to murder". As Marlon Brando famously said, "I'm having a little trouble getting started, Father." Priest : You are in the House of God now, my son. Speak from your heart. "Well, I've done a lot of killin'. I've killed a lot of men and sinned a lot of women. But the men I killed needed killin' and the women wanted sinnin', and well, I never was one much to argue."
  5. 100% agree with you, with respect to me. But I can compartmentalize (aka, have empathy) with others who might not share my worldview and spiritual beliefs. Far be it for me to sit in judgment (for many reasons, a big one you hit upon with me).
  6. It's pretty arrogant to presuppose what and how someone should grieve and what or how should bring a sense of emotional comfort and closure to someone who is not yourself. Even if you vaguely agree on such broad concepts like "justice", the details can be widely different for different people (e.g. justice for one might be the death penalty in an eye-for-an-eye and for another it could mean a cosmic or spiritual justice like hell once life on earth ends, etc.)
  7. I guess if you have a hammer a lot of things that aren't nails start to look like nails so you can justify using the hammer?
  8. Iran president signs law suspending cooperation with IAEA Iran is also considering an entry ban on IAEA chief Rafael Grossi, after rejecting his request to visit nuclear sites. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/2/iran-president-signs-law-suspending-cooperation-with-iaea
  9. Speaking of Trump's America. Is it not just WILD the whipsaw and whiplash since January? It's been 6 months and feels like 2 years worth of events and rollercoasters. The fact that I woke up this week and our stock market is at an all time high just 3 months after tanking it with self-imposed tariff-sized gunshot wounds to tank the market, is absolutely nuts.
  10. Listen here Mr Jabba the Hut you fat sloggily no good lazy bum of a quarterback!
  11. I said this in another thread, but Muslims and Christians in a spiritual sense actually have more in common as an Abrahamic religion than either do with Judaism (again, as Abrahamic) in a fundamental sense, despite the closer political and social commonalities between Jews and Christians. In all three cases, if you are actually "doing the religion correctly" as in, actually living out what the precepts outlined for how to live if you are to call yourself an adherent, to put it coarsely, you are going to necessarily be an extremist IMO. I think that's the conflict. The conflict with adhering to a prescriptive religion in a secular society and it is, from what I can understand, actually a built-in conflict that is a feature and not a bug.
  12. 100%. And certainly there are no "sex trafficking" charges brought against a poor who simply does drugs with his gf and/or cucks himself with prostitutes and his gf. It's just weird kink and possession of controlled substances and prostitution at best. I guess the argument could be with poor people (talking about the freak offs and chemsex, not the actual beatings that took place outside of the sexcapades), the girl is more into it. With Diddy, the girls did it to win his approval and either social climb or be in relationship or otehrwise in his sphere of success/money/influence and so that is, of course, abuse.
  13. I fundamentally disagree, on most or all points, but recognize the ChatGPT AI thread is hardly the place to really drill into it (yet, again). Bringing it back to the technology discussion-- how about that Mark Zuck, eh? That guy is competitive.
  14. Oil tankers worth of ink has been spilled about how what you are describing as the idyllic middle class golden era was an artificially created construct from WWII and America not being a theatre of war and not losing a generation of young men and with an unscathed manufacturing base, that was always a temporary state and was never going to be sustainable, so I won't do it again here except to call it out and say: If your ideal is hinged upon a mirage, it's going to hard to ever really be happy in the messiness of reality. You are chasing the dragon.
  15. What we got ain't nothing new. Industrial Revolutions have always been hard on people. It ain't all waiting on white collar work to find a soft landing to keep up the creature comforts white collar workers have come to expect the last 50 years. That's vanity.
  16. It seemed like from day 1 that the "freak offs" were just crazy drug and sex parties with kink between consenting adults who wanted to engage in chemsex (for whatever reason; career gain, money, pleasure, relationship status, etc.). Calling it sex traffiking and kidnapping always felt like it was catering to the TikTok conspiracy theorists and revisionist historians. Diddy, like most rich and powerful men, seems to be weird, strange, perverted by money and power and sex and drugs (and maybe even sexually confused as suggested by contemporaries like 50 cent and Kat Williams), and definintely a crappy person and domestic abuser. But it didn't seem like he was a sex trafficker or kidnapper, like ever.
  17. Ii mentioned it earlier, but a funny meme last few weeks ago was the YC batch class and how it's all Cursor for XYZ:
  18. It's because rule #1 of mediocre executives (which is to say, 80% of them) in a bubble-- never question or cause anyone to question the hype when you are leading. Satya got a lot of credit (and flak) for doing just that recently, actually.
  19. In dev it's going to look like the housing market. All senior devs and hardly any freshers worth a dang. Like all $600k houses and no starter houses anymore.
  20. I had a FIL gift me Trump's cologne called Victory Christmas of 2015 or 2016. So it's existed forever, just it was a regular square bottle not a golden idol. Yes, the inlaws are MAGA. Yes, we no longer do Thanksgiving.
  21. I like Bobby Cole.
  22. The problem is that "medical marijuana" in Texas under compassionate use is like, barely anything. No flower allowed and it's a gummy or tincture of barely any THC. Doubt there are real medical benefits. disclaimer: this was last time I checked like 18 months ago. Maybe things changed, but doubt it.
  23. I read today that even with the tax breaks/rebates on solar, even with, we are still 5x the price of China. I wonder what multiple we will be now without it.
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