I'm the flip side, Go back and watch Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Once you're done cringing at the racism, think about the fact that Harrison Ford went on an intense weightlifting program for that movie, and was considered the most shredded leading man in Hollywood at the time. Actors using steroids has become so common that it has also skewed our perception of a normal fit guy's body.

We can excuse the racism, the transphobia, and the antisemitism, but we draw the line at drugs!

It's my opinion that every single person in the upper levels is this organization is a maniac. They are all a bunch of so-called "rationalist" tech-right AnCaps that justify their immense incomes through the lens of Effective Altruism, the same ideology that Sam Bankman-fried used to justify his theft of billions from his customers.

Anybody with the urge to pick a "side" here ought to think about taking a step back and reconsider; they are all bad people.

When you read this comic, it makes you realize that it shouldn't have been surprising that Bill Waterston retired the strip suddenly and moved to a remote cabin in the middle of nowhere to paint watercolor landscapes.

Texas: if your abortion is medically necessary, you and your doctor must go to court and prove it.

Kate Cox: goes to court and proves it.

Texas Supreme Court: If your abortion was truly medically necessary, you wouldn't need to go to court to prove it.

Why are all those people giving Reddit money by buying awards for that post?

I have a friend that is a sales manager for private planes. He said business exploded during the pandemic and then never slowed down. This despite flights being eye-wateringly expensive (like, 20k for one-way is a great deal, because you managed to book an empty leg.)

Yes, but I once saw a cyclist run a stop sign. These two things are obviously exactly equal, and bicycles are just as dangerous as cars. I am very smart.

Not that hot a take. It also maybe misses the point: those AMAs pull in tons of clicks and comments. Reddit wants interactions to show advertisers.

I know it can be difficult to search for answers when you have questions. I did a deep dive into the subject matter, and found the following info hidden within the first sentence:

Overtime pay for cops in New York's subway system increased from $4 million in 2022 to $155 million over the same period in 2023, according to an analysis by Gothamist.

She even got the inflection the way you would if you were using air quotes around a word. Verbal italics, if you will.

I'm with the commies on this one. We need to nationalize utilities like energy distribution. No reason to have a profit seeking entity in charge of necessities like electricity.

But of course, police are given 3 months of training tops, so they just fire them wherever.

I don't think they fire them wherever. I think they aim at people's faces because they think it's funny.

Number one cause of death of pregnant people in the US is murder. I wonder what the rates are like in these states versus others.

Vaughn’s confession contradicted the facts of the crime, but the judge sentenced him to life in prison anyway, commenting, “I’m sure that some governor somewhere down the road will reduce the sentence or commute it to a term of years.”

It's awful at every step.

If he wins, we're done. No doubt about it. However, if we hold back the fascists this election (this includes the House and Senate,) there is a real chance at landing a huge defeat to maga extremism in '26 and '28.

Yes, you should be paying attention to your local politics: right wing extremism is on the rise everywhere.

Back in the day I worked in a restaurant that closed down, and the owner tried to steal all of our last two weeks' pay.

It had been announced ahead of time that the place was going to close at the end of the month, and we were actually a very popular place, so the last two weeks were completely sold out, crazy busy, and there should have been lots of tips. After we closed, they kept dragging out the date we could get out last paychecks, then finally just tried saying, "there won't be any last paychecks."

All of us employees got together with a lawyer and they sent a letter saying that they needed to give us our last paychecks or we would file a class action lawsuit for all the tips they'd been stealing out of the tip pool. He then relented and agreed to pay us our last checks, but refused to mail them. When I went to pick up the check, dude really had the balls to try to shake my hand and say, "Hey Turtle Joe, how's the summer going? Take any vacations or anything?"

I left him hanging and said, "No I've been out of work for months now. I'm not here to talk to you, I just need my check."

P.S. we sued him for wage theft anyway and ended up taking him for almost $200k.

This was a case where you needed the sarcasm tag. Up to then, it was a totally "reasonable" comment from an AI bro.

BTW, plug "crypto" in to your comment for AI, and it's a totally normal statement from 2020/21. It's such a similar VC grift.

Your liver doesn't have any nerve endings inside of it, so your have no way of knowing if there's something wrong with it, unless it suffers a traumatic injury. So don't worry, the pain your feel isn't your liver failing, because you'd never notice it.

Hopefully everybody finds this reassuring.

Russian State TV ran celebratory pieces when the House elected Johnson as speaker. He's been in their pocket for a while.