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.
I wish I would’ve tried to run some crypto scams. Only big fish like SBF got punished or will ever get punished while many made millions.
It would’ve been stealing money from people I despise. What could be more perfect? I really missed out.
What is a fantasy of yours that will never be fulfilled?
Visiting another planet inhabited by an alien civilization and seeing the differences (to the extent that I could understand them).
It is staggering and makes me more misanthropic while enjoying the benefits of it. In the late 90s, I was fit but not hot. My face changed or matured or something and now I am fit and hot — and goddamn (as I’ve written about before) the difference in treatment I get now versus when I was fat and schlubby is fucking night and day.
Recently, my partner and I were staying at a hotel and the front desk woman (22-26 or so) was beyond friendly, well into flirting*, so much so that my partner even noticed though she’s usually oblivious to such things. The main difference is that when I’m with my partner, women are typically less flirty. But this time she got to see it too.
I mention the front desk woman’s age because contrary to what Twitter and such would have you believe, when you’re an attractive dude in your 40s, younger women seem to glom onto you, seek you out and flirt with you shamelessly. It’s not like you have to make special effort. So don’t listen to what weirdo internet people say about any of it. They’re on Twitter shouting and have very little real world experience for the most part.
I think it’s completely wrong that to be treated as a full human you have to be attractive, by the way…it’s fucking absurd.
*Yes, I know customer service people are trained to be artificially friendly. This went well beyond that.
Cormac McCarthy’s writing could scrape your insides like nothing else pic.twitter.com/aWjvbY8VI2
— Emma Berquist (@eeberquist) June 13, 2023
Yep. Great passage, even if it is from a McCarthy book I didn’t particularly care for.
Try to get ChatGPT to do fucking that. Ain’t happening.
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) June 14, 2023
Exactly. The Dark Ages (not allowed to call them that anymore) really were pretty dark by any objective measure. Not sure why historians insist on going full clown about this lately.
I can afford it obviously, but I’ve definitely noticed in real (2023) dollars things that used to cost, say, $20 are now $60-$80 or far more.
Back in 1993, I bought a Nirvana ticket for $30 — $75 in today’s money. When I was looking at Olivia Rodrigo (a comparably popular artist in 2023 vs. 1993) tickets, the cheapest ones were around $300 and any section I’d actually want to be in was $800+. There are little to no cheap options left anymore. Everything has gone upscale.
I guess there’s Netlfix but even that has gotten worse and more expensive. Damn I am glad I am not poor or even really middle class anymore.
Great song. And she sings clearly enough that I can understand the lyrics in a language I need it slow to grok spoken. Whoever they paid to do the lighting in that vid was worth every penny too.
It's not that this was the most important or central issue
It's just the one where most people (on the left or center) found themselves asked to say something they really couldn't believe, not by any stretch https://t.co/o4WYN6Kxct
— Mason (@webdevMason) June 12, 2023
Yeah, that was a huge self-own. What really kicked off the backlash was “the biology isn’t real” dogma that developed and was sacrosanct for so long, and that the average person rightly recognized as nothing but hogwash.
And then applying it to sports…what a ridiculous and preventable bit of self-destruction. A lot of people care a great deal about sports, and almost everyone cares about at least one sport. Claiming against all evidence that biological males have no inherent advantage against bio females on average is counter to science, lived experience and common sense. This bit of fatuousness kicked the backlash into overdrive. And as noted it totally did not have to happen that way.