Hate to break it to you but the same is true in France. Media coverage here has focused almost exclusively on small shops being looted. The human brain has a much easier time focusing on individual tragedies rather than systemic issues, and the government and its cronies (and the local versions of fox news) are taking full advantage of that bias.

While talking to zelensky, trump said something like the war in Ukraine could have ended in three days, and zelensky said 'am I crazy or are you quoting Putin right now?'

I'm unwilling to listen to that embarrassing shit show again so that's as accurate as I can get.

Your comment reminds me of how hurricane Sandy turned into an opportunity to rezone and gentrify affected neighborhoods in New York. The poor always lose, the rich always win: https://apnews.com/article/superstorm-sandy-disparities-042c69728c10e92837360b8b31704eac

It's not an excuse, it's an explanation. Illness doesn't excuse bad behavior

Of all the stupid things in this post, this isn't one of them. 'Cervical' can refer to the cervix or to the cervical spine, basically the neck bones.

In french we have "concours d'orthographe". Pronunciation is pretty consistent, but we add a dozen letters for every sound we utter, so spelling's still a mess.

It never occurred to me until now that the toy's case was the yolk. 🤯

I knew a guy in college who wouldn't eat fish because he thought they were a stupid animal and it was beneath him to consume them.

It's for the same reason he's pretended to be a genius his entire career, he's obsessed with his self image and being number one. He's lied about being the best quake player in the world at some point. He's like Billy Mitchell with more money.

Lol, expecting words to mean something, how stupid.

I was smoking at 12 in France in 1999, I told tobacconists I was buying them for my mom. Pulled the same thing off in the states when I moved there 2 years later. And I was far from alone. These are far more recent (terrible, obviously) habits than you might think.

Both can be true.

I think it's just anger about being out of touch. You can't make comedy in a vacuum, it necessarily draws on contemporary culture, and Jerry's probably feeling a bit left in the dust. But he frames it in a way where he feels victimized. That's my reading for most embarrassing or offensive old comedians though, so maybe I'm painting with too broad a brush.

billionaires want you to know they could have done physics

Rock doves (pigeons) evolved to live on cliff faces. Cities are covered in artificial cliff faces, i.e. buildings.

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I just realized I don't have tattoos for the same reason I don't stick stickers.

I thought llms were a type of machine learning