To your first point, there was a story about the alarming number of searches for “did Biden drop out” but it didn’t mention that this would have included searches like “when did Biden drop out” and “why did Biden drop out.” So it was a half true and half clickbait.

Doesn’t seem that suspicious to me. One person could be supplying dozens of users who hang around that area. If they’re all doing the same batch, and the batch is too strong, it follows that something like this would happen.

My god, that must have been a horrible scene. There are a few intersections in my city that have become hubs for fent users and it’s very sad to see. I don’t cast any moral judgments, but it is visually disturbing to see people frozen or slumped over.

Won’t someone think of the theatrics?

Why do they need guns if they’re aid workers?

Jake Paul isn’t championship caliber, and may never be, but as a boxer he’s not the joke that people seem to think he is.

Most of the movie was about the man himself, but it did end with a very clear defense of the bombings. It was a compelling defense, and I don’t know if it was based on Oppenheimer’s own reasoning, but it did digress from the biopic format.

I also wonder if they’ll make sure the red states aren’t hit as hard. I know the way the bill is written, we assume it’ll be enforced equally, and since red states receive more federal assistance they’ll be hit the worst. But what’s stopping them from selectively fucking blue states?

That wasn’t a strawman, it was a direct challenge to your claim that non-voters decided the election.

I like stuff with a bumping beat and no words. K-Lone and Facta are some UK producers whose music I just play over and over when I need to focus.

I won’t try to change your mind, but I rewatch all of Succession like every 6 months. As soon as I finish I have to stop myself from starting over right away. God it’s so good.

It was super popular, I think people maybe have some nostalgia for it, but it’s really a bad show.

Does that also remove easily without leaving a mark? The VHB tape says it’s not for sensitive surfaces.

Thanks for the context. I read your comment as “you don’t get off the hook ever” which is not what you said.

Is there an avenue to getting off the hook? Apologizing and not doing it again? Or does he lose everything for the rest of his life?

For context, I barely know who pewdiepie is. I just have to imagine that when public figures fuck up, maybe there’s a spectrum of available consequences other than “they must lose their job and never been spoken of again.”

Thanks!

I’m seeing lots of different tapes from Tesa. Is it PET? PVC?

I’m gonna need a source on that.

Thank you for expanding on that point. I meant it to be a “here’s how we got here” before the rest of my “this is where we are today.”

You’re totally right, and any conversation about men’s behavior at large should include the experiences you just described. Even though we didn’t get ourselves into this situation - in that we didn’t raise ourselves - we’re the ones who will get us out.

I’m a therapist who works almost exclusively with men. Here one pattern I’ve seen often:

• Man is conditioned from a young age not to identify, process or express his feelings
• Man doesn’t share his feelings with anyone - friends, family, partners - for years
• Man sees woman as safe, caring and validating
• Man confides in woman only and continues not sharing feelings with others
• Woman becomes overwhelmed, resentful, dismissive
• Man gets the message that he never should have opened up in the first place

It can be true both that men need to open up more and should not treat their partners as therapists. We all need support systems because no one person can always be available to give us everything we need. It’s not wrong to confide in a partner, but if that partner is the only confidant it’s precarious for both. And I want to emphasize this is not the fault of a man, or men as a community. This is the result of generations of conditioning from both men and women, and both men and women play a part in the solution. I also want to recognize that many of us don’t have a network of people we could open up to even if we wanted to, and many more can’t afford therapy.

If anyone reading this can afford therapy, I highly recommend it. It’s a place to undo some of that conditioning, to sit with someone who’s committed to listening, caring, and not judging.