Just so you aren’t misled because the press fucking sucks, the Ukrainian counteroffensive actually has not started yet. All that’s occurring now that the press and most Twitter fuckwits have termed “counteroffensive” is just battlefield shaping, feints, reconnaissance in force and probes.
Don’t believe what you read and especially don’t believe what clown-ass doofus Ian Welsh says about it. The counteroffensive has not started, but will begin soon.
Asian soup spoons are so much better for the task of soup it's nuts. Western soup spoons are awful. The west is clearly unserious about the way it consumes soup. pic.twitter.com/oQMqglTdYM
— Chris "laserdisc" Person (@Papapishu) June 15, 2023
I hate those Asian-style soup spoons. They are unusable and dribble everywhere. They are far too large for the purpose and just horrific to use. Is this some kind of joke post?
Body mass index gets smack down: AMA calls out harms and “racist exclusion.”
This is mostly bad. The reality is that for most people most of the time, BMI is a fairly good measure for where you should be. That it fails for ~1% of the population is not really unexpected. In the comments of the article there are more than a few people claiming that BMI is off for them because they are just so muscular. Nearly without exception when I’ve seen anyone claim that, they were just fucking fat. It’s laughable.
Also, this will fuel the Fat Acceptance movement. This terrorist organization already has many people convinced they are fit and healthy at 400 pounds though they can barely walk more than 50 feet without getting winded.
BMI is an imperfect but useful measure. It does quick and dirty exactly what it’s supposed to do. It’s not diagnostic, though — that part is correct. It just is where you start looking.
Keep BMI. Don’t let the FA clowns win.
Shocking absolutely no one. Waiting to see real evidence on this but I bet this is likely true, as there have been indications this is something the Chinese government has been going to great lengths to conceal, even hunting people down in other countries and arresting them.
Not even the people saying this line believe it. They know that if Russia had faced actual NATO armies, the Russian army would be entirely dust by now.https://t.co/yaaovucgSS
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) June 14, 2023
Indeed. Just US forces could destroy the entire Russian army and Navy in three weeks. As some wag rightly observed, it turns out that Russia doesn’t have the second best army in the world, but they do have the second best army in Ukraine.
everything here is true, medical bills are a scam designed to exploit middle class conscientiousness and fear https://t.co/b6qSmslq6O
— alice maz (@alicemazzy) May 29, 2023
This is how you do it.
I got a $300 bill for some Covid test. I threw it in the trash. Never heard anything about it again.
the "carolingian renaissance" is cope from medievalists pushing way too far against "dark age" stereotypes and inventing a gasp of modernity where none exists. they're ashamed that the people they study had different values than them https://t.co/UnXo5c1zKC
— alice maz (@alicemazzy) June 14, 2023
I think this is right on. It’s hard for anyone to believe that others have and have had radically different ways of thinking and being in the world. Historians are no less immune to this bias than anyone else.