Belter took me too long

Homestar Runner dot net. It’s Dot Com™.

not reading all that

Immediate retribution: https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/stephen-colbert-jon-stewart-call-out-paramount-possibly-risking-late-night-futures/ar-AA1IEbJo

social contract utterly disintegrated

The hopium psychology behind the article: “see, some are leaving out of conscience! Even these sadistic brutes aren’t on board to help conduct a holocaust on American soil!”

Reality: the most brutal and psychopathic brownshirts are self-selecting and they’re actively pushing out anybody who would hamper their cruelty. They have the budget and the numbers to sustain much higher attrition levels

That carpet hungers and will continue to exact its toll as long as you insist on eating over it

I love* that the prescribed way for conservatives to complain about Trump is to preface with “Kamala would have been infinitely worse, but…”

* I do not love this

As a straight man, every straight man I’ve ever been friends with has eventually simply made me so tired to be around them.

Like, times are hard. But then we just collectively… have unmet needs, and so many of us deal so badly with them. It just seems like straight men inevitably make it everyone else’s problem.

I have heard the same old thing so many times-- to have a friend, be a friend. Reach out. Listen, be empathetic, blah blah blah. And I wind up hanging out with some douchebag thinking to myself why am I in the same room with this fucking guy. Before I know it he’s drunk or desperate for a long, long hug from being so touch starved, or he lets his guard down and casually says some slur. I don’t have the patience to be friends with straight men. I don’t have the patience to start to try.

I’m not gonna even click, that headline is some incredibly bad pop sci

“Thesis it?”

Heat rises. It gets trapped under the blanket and helps keep you warm.

Semi related, your body loses the most heat through your head so wearing a warm hat on a cold day makes a huge difference.

Millennial bait

Hate to put it this way but my read is in ten years you and that kid are going to be pretty close and I kind of doubt you’ll still be with your SO.

Kind-of-not-caring-that-much is a pretty normal dad thing like others have stated. You show up, you be yourself, you do what you gotta do, there’s no single “clouds open up and your entire brain floods with dopamine and seratonin while angels sing YOU’RE A DAD YOU’RE A DAD” moment.

But the fact that you can just be kind of normal turns out the be one of the things your kid likes about you. They start following you around or spending time with you to get some time away from Mom. They bring you little problems and you get to teach them things about the world.

And then you blink and they’re a teenager and suddenly they’re too cool to say “I love you Daddy” anymore and you aren’t prepared for how much that hurts.

So anyway that’s how it happens. Btw for what it’s worth, I don’t think it was just tiktok brainrot that gave your SO rose colored glasses about parenthood: evolutionary biology has its own ways to compel women to want to have babies just like it has its own ways to compel men to go along with it. That’s… why we’re all here.

Moar like cocklobster

Edit: in a good way

Fucking false dummy

It goes beyond trashy. He’s riling up his base with a show of violence and normalizing bloodsport. This is an intentional shift in social norms. His base laps it up-- government that’s fun like a wrestling match???-- and it takes the place in our public life that we had reserved for sober discussion of our nation’s wellbeing and handing it over to gleeful violence.

It’s not “UFC bad,” this is “drinking whiskey for breakfast,” the context matters. They are exterminating their enemies and it’s going to get worse.

Just for fun I tried reproducing this with chatgpt and it consistently messes up aligning the light beam with its illuminated patch no matter what I try. They always fail on the weirdest details

There’s also those who did everything in their power to vote but had their suffrage effectively revoked by the efforts of the Republican party

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_United_States

My kid loves roblox because its controls are pretty much completely ideal for her ipad and apple pencil

Roblox is entirely unplayable to me because its control schemes inevitably break all my millennial expectations and I don’t have great internet connectivity at home anymore. It hurts me and makes me angry, lol. ANY game that properly works with an Xbox controller is superior for my personal experience because of decades of that paradigm. Touchscreen controls are death and other control schemes are second class citizens in the modern landscape