The infamous sneak peak.

It’s possible that Trump was taller 30 years ago but lost height due to age.

Having a pick me conservative female candidate reinforces all their values while co-opting more women through representation. In this respect having a female President could be way worse, think Erica Trump.

Yes, that is the fundamental flaw of identity politics.

I agree with your point and I think the reason it hasn’t happen has a lot to do with the extreme sexism the US has.

Yes, but in other countries they still get elected despite the sexism. I find it hard to believe that Americans hate women more than the people in struggling third world democracies do.

It’s wild how plenty of more conservative countries have had female presidents in the past.

Silicosis is a horrible way to go.

One bad fall from a scooter and you’re one of them.

Every 60 seconds in New York, a minute passes.

You could try finding out the international phonetic spelling and offering it to people. Teachers in particular should be fluent in it.

My name is [ˈjustəs] in it, for example.

First they came for the Communists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out for me

“Revolution, like Saturn, devours her children.”

The more aggressive Russia gets, the more attractive NATO membership becomes.

“I would kill for that job!” Threat assessment: low.

I mean, have you ever worked on a Russian engine? They suck.

Quarterly reporting makes company leadership focus on short term gains over the long term health of the company, leading to frequent layoffs, selloffs and other actions that hurt both the employees and the economy as a whole.

The English term “empathy,” in fact, was coined only in 1908. English-speaking psychologists needed translations of the German scientific terms appearing in the new discipline of experimental psychology. By around 1913, “empathy” became the term of choice for the German Einfühlung, which literally means “in-feeling.” Empathy captured the ability to project one’s own inner strivings, movements, and feelings into the shapes of objects. In the early twentieth century, then, empathy was quintessentially an aesthetic impulse.

Wild that we didn’t need a word for it before.

One person’s utopia is another person’s dystopia.

Some people, mostly jokingly, think that the timeline where Jeb Bush got elected president is the best timeline. JD Vance’s would be the worst.

Those vets telling the soldiers “You will be like me in 20 years” over and over should be pretty painful.

I bought an air purifier last winter. Now I can’t find a replacement filter anywhere. Fuck that forced obsolescence crap.

From my understanding, the primary sources were oral traditions, only written down later.