Fucking idiots like Ian Welsh (et al.) are making it seem like an international crime that Lithuania is not allowing goods bound for Russia to transit its borders.

Here’s the thing: Lithuania is a sovereign country and can allow whatever the fuck it wants to enter its boundaries. Or not, as in this case. Imagine that Japan was at war with Germany for some reason, and Japan attempted to ship goods across the US. We tell them, “Nope, can’t do that.”

Does Japan have some sort of right, some sacred duty, to be able to move goods through the US to eventually reach the German theater? No it does fucking not. The same is true with Lithuania, or any country. No duty at all to allow anything into its borders. That’s what being a “country” means.

Welsh and his kooky coterie are enormous hypocrites here because they so badly want Russia to rise up and…do something? Not sure what. But it’s sad that I ever relied on these people for intellectual probity or clarity.

One member of my team is going to apply for an open position in the company (anyone can), but before she did, wanted to make sure I’d still be her boss if she went for it.

Awwww.

nah man this is some of the coolest shit ever, look at that ship, it rules https://t.co/xO9ucamM6t

— Scott King (@MScott_King) June 21, 2022

Agreed. That means we are very fucking rich and it’s great. We can do better in many areas, but having goods to purchase and enough food is fucking awesome. De-growthers are putzes.

“It’s impossible to not weigh 400 pounds because the food companies told me to eat a lot” is not the winning argument that many Fat Acceptance types think it is.

whats the worst movie you guys have ever seen. and like don't give me easy answers like late-career adam sandler movies, i mean something like completely and totally devoid of any redeeming qualities. i'm talking something so offensive on every sensory level it's breathtaking

— LeVar Burzum (@weadhitter) June 19, 2022

Landmine Goes Click.

Getting massively hotter over the course of four years has really decreased my opinion of people, even as I reap the boons and benefits of being treated better and more respectfully everywhere. It just shouldn’t matter so much, especially in contexts where it’s completely irrelevant.

But it does. I like and hate that I can stroll into a place and get what I want so much more easily now. A lot of women act like giggly messes around me and help me even when I don’t want to be helped. At the same time, men treat me less like an annoyance and more like someone to kowtow to.

It’s not really right or fair, though. And it bothers me even as I benefit from it.

What’s the worst thing about being a man?

I haven’t read any of the responses, but the worst part of being a man is that you are treated like a predator and dangerous by everyone. It’s impossible to have a normal interaction with anyone — particularly women — because you are seen as a default threat, and not worthy of respect or consideration because of that. Your every action is suspect, and your motivation for doing anything is questioned.

Women think they get too much attention? Try being given so much negative attention all the time. Society treats men as completely disposable and as a huge threat by default, no matter what you do or how you try to get around it.

Modern libs be like: I’m sex positive! Positive it’s terrifying and a power imbalance is definitely involved and always a dealbreaker and should be illegal!

RT 🔒:

when you think about it all het sex should be illegal due to the attractiveness gap between men and women. men can't meaningfully consent to sex in the presence of a hot naked girl because of this power differential

— moonboi (@moonboi_) June 19, 2022

Yes I know this is satire, but it gets at an important point: there are multiple types of power — not just the frankly absurd PMC lib notion of “power” — and being sexually desirable is indeed a huge one. One of the issues is that the only type of power the PMC libs can imagine is related to “will this further my career” and/or “what will HR think,” so anything else is utterly foreign to their apperception of life and how it works.

Deadlifted this morning, awww yeah (my favorite).

Even though Emma Dumont is not in this scene, this was my favorite dance sequence from Bunheads:

I like their all-black outfits with only their faces showing combined with the backlighting. And the dancer Julia Goldani Telles, who plays Sasha (the dark-haired one), is just grace personified.