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“She is like a cat in the dark, and then she is the darkness” from Fleetwood Mac’s “Rhiannon” might be the best and most poetic line in all of pop music.

Talking about saying so much with so little. I’m in awe of the economy of those lyrics that manage to build an entire world ex nihilo.

Stevie Nicks wrote those words and though she was never a horrid lyricist, those lines so far exceed anything else she ever penned that the lightning of pure genius must have struck full force that day.

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_s.a.m.e.m.e.m.e_ (@st_louis_stan) / X

That’s largely because every mediocre woman has been propagandized to believe they are special fairy sparkle princesses who all deserve Chris Hemsworth and will accept nothing less. The combination of social media and smartphones has really ruined women.

Even an extremely mediocre woman does not find an above average man attractive any longer. I don’t know what can be done about it at this point, though, in practical terms. Looks like everyone will just have to suffer. (Most American men should become passport bros, though.)

Minimally and highly processed meals nutritionally matched on calories, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, water, salt, and weight produced distinct metabolic responses.

Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape.

Man discovers his parentsโ€™ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days.

The Great Bifurcation.

Hunger grips a rural community hit by Trumpโ€™s cuts.

The interview round is just a search for excuses.

The thing you need to understand is that on the progressive left, racism has an entirely different definition to the one you were brought up with.

The more Putin escalates his attacks on Europe, the more Europe should support Ukraine.

California has tech. NY has finance. But apart from these flagship industries everything else is in these states is decaying and entropic.

Vegetables half as nutritious as they were in the 1960s.

I Would Like the Value of My Home to Rise, While My Property Taxes Fall.

How strong is the strong interaction?

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The thing that I and other men resent about being a “default rapist” is that I am at no more risk of raping you than the average woman is.

So it’s in no way fair to me to treat me like I am. That you think you “have to” doesn’t change that fact.

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VB Knives (@Empty_America) / X

Well, of course. Most fashion models and those women omnipresent in magazines are chosen by gay men and other women, not by straight men. Cindy Crawford never was most men’s fantasy woman. She is a gay man’s idea of a straight man’s perfect woman.

OnlyFans women are chosen by actual men, and thus more closely represent what men want — which is far more tolerant of flaws and not being a perfect 10 than supposed narratives about the “male gaze” would have you believe.

The “male gaze” is mostly the “gay male gaze” and has absolutely nothing to do with what most men want or appreciate.

Ladder Pull

Amy Nixon (@texasrunnerDFW) / X

Amy is right. The numbers speak for themselves. No matter what Noah Smith and clowns like that claim, the essentials of life are vastly more expensive now than they were during the Boomer heyday. It is harder for younger millennials and Gen Z to build wealth, find jobs, live independently and have good lives than for prior generations.

The C-17A Globemaster III is an extraordinarily capable strategic transport aircraft.

Germany's demise is self-inflicted and will one day be studied as the largest self-sabotage of a developed country.

โ€˜Complete devastationโ€™โ€”How NSF gutted its social sciences research.

Europeโ€™s Tough Choices to Avert a Gas Supply Crunch This Winter.

In 1948, the German philosopher Josef Pieper warned of a world of "total work," in which life is subsumed in labor and the capacity to enjoy genuine leisure goes into full retreat. That is where we stand today, and it did not happen overnight.

Is Fine Dining Dead? Thatโ€™s the Wrong Question.

Poor enshittified souls.

You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner.

For Walmart, Replacing Humans With Robots Is a Multibillion-Dollar Struggle.

EU countries brace for โ‚ฌ100B-โ‚ฌ200B smaller budget.

A Student Found a New Giant Isopod That Had Been Mislabeled for Decades.

15,000 VHS Tapes and Counting: Meet the Guys Preserving the Weirdest Parts of the Analog Era.

Long live the mechanical keyboard.

Remote Employee Fired After Refusing To Be Photographed by an AI Tool Every Three Minutes, Lawsuit Claims.

The Failure of the Pandemic Novel.