Diver

Isn’t it incredibly interesting on a sociological level that the transgender lobby as well as standard-issue liberals chose to present these two completely contradictory items as incontrovertible facts:

1) That there is no such thing as gender. It is completely constructed and is as nebulous and as insubstantial as the wind on Pluto.

2) That the pull of gender and identifying as the “right” gender is such an impossibly-strong imperative that it is worth harming children with puberty blockers, telling women that they should just deal with penises hanging out in their locker rooms, and that anyone who believes that a transgender woman is not exactly the same as a natural-born woman is worse than MechaHitler.

As I said above, those two contentions are 100% contradictory. They do not, cannot work in any unified manner. But for more than a decade we were supposed to accept both of these ideas inherently at war with one another without questioning them an iota.

And people are surprised there was a backlash.

Dark Light

Agreed. The pseudo-historians are wrong, wrong, wrong about this. The Dark Ages definitely occurred, and were pretty stygian indeed. Anything from that era looks like absolute shit compared to the Roman or even earlier Greek high culture eras.

Why historians need to deny the Dark Ages occurred is complex, but mostly has to do with the fact that they do not believe human culture should be judged at all, partially due to the leftist implicit (and sometimes explicit) embrace of Islamofascism after 9/11. And culture very much should be judged.

Pot

No matter your politics, that is true. And I hate it.

It’s still not as bad as the whiny “aggrieved because someone ate my potato salad” Fox News host voice, though. That one is so fucking horrible.

Hamassholes

Yep. Hamas started this and knew what would happen if they perpetrated some shit like October 7.

They did, and it happened. Cry me a fucking river. War is hell, even if you start it yourself and bring the consequences down upon yourself.

Fit Fits

It is a truth not so universally acknowledged that an “ugly” woman or an “undesirable” man can look pretty damn good by losing some weight, spending some time in the gym, having a decent haircut and wearing clothes that fit correctly.

But ain’t no wailing wallower want to hear that shit. Or make that effort.

Trisomic rescue via allele-specific multiple chromosome cleavage using CRISPR-Cas9 in trisomy 21 cells. Whoa.

Against the Censorship of Adult Content By Payment Processors.

Arizona woman in North Korean IT workers scheme sentenced to 8.5 years for helping to trick Fortune 500 companies out of millions.

What Keeps the Lights On.

Economics teaching has become the Aeroflot of ideas.

Why do MAGA faithful support Trump if his โ€˜big beautiful billโ€™ will likely hurt many of them? Many people will hurt themselves pretty badly if it also hurts someone they hate too.

Attacks on science are attacks on making and keeping America great. MAGAts really hate science.

A fifth of California homes are investor-owned as stateโ€™s affordability crisis deepens โ€“ report.

The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived. Pure evil.

France recognizing โ€œPalestineโ€ is as irrelevant as it gets. It doesnโ€™t change a single fact on the ground. Palestine is a fake fantasy country.

I Hate, Therefore I Am.

Deltaโ€™s AI spying to โ€œjack upโ€ prices must be banned, lawmakers say.

Intel is laying off 24,000 employees and retreating from some countries.