Cheesecake Factory interiors are famously over-the-top and gaudy. "Like a Cheesecake Factory designed by Saddam" is actually a great description of what Trump has done to the White House.

I genuinely do think there are a lot of basically good people who have never really thought about the ways in which they are behaving badly as dog owners, because nobody ever really calls them out for it. If your dog is ever off leash, you are being antisocial and behaving badly. If your dog ever jumps on somebody who didn’t specifically ask for that to happen, then you are behaving antisocially (even if the dog is just being “friendly”). If you have an invisible fence in your yard, but your dog comes running right up to the line at full speed only to stop at the last minute and bark at everybody who walks by, then you are behaving antisocially. Honestly, even behind a fence, this is an aggressive and annoying imposition on anybody walking by. If somebody has ever respond with fear or annoyance at something your dog has done and you’ve reflexively protested, “oh don’t worry, he won’t hurt you” or “he’s friendly” then that’s antisocial behavior. (You should just simply say, “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have done that, I won’t let it happen again” and then you should work to actually make it not happen again. Telling people not to worry, that you think your dog is just peachy, is bad behavior.) This is all bad behavior. It’s all antisocial. And I have these experiences with dogs and their owners routinely. This is all extremely common stuff.

My favorite part of the right not knowing history is that they’ll see something like “you can’t kill someone in retaliation for theft” or “the state cannot execute the insane” and think that it’s something the ACLU invented in 2015, and not like a 14th century principle

Question for Mechanic types. Bought a used 2021 Subaru. 75K miles. Brand new battery. When starting cold, starts right up. When I drive the car an hour, stop for gas and start it, it starts right up. But if I drive the car around town for errands, when the car is warm, it sometimes cranks a while before it starts. What could it be? Fine when starting cold and hot. Trouble if car is just warm.

If Elon was actually a genius he would finally figure out how to make trains work. Unfortunately he's not smart enough to get high speed rail to blanket America.

Normies don't seem to understand that Elon's "flying" car runs out of compressed nitrogen in about 5 seconds and takes 6 hours to recharge. They also don't know that everyone at the physical demo was given ear protection even though they were 100+ meters away. Elon has not in fact made a flying car, it is just one in a long succession of failures on this theme. Oh, and you can't actually buy the flying roadster. It is literally not for sale.

Waarom denk je dat ze links is ? Als ik dat mag vragen?

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 American boomers over 75 years old now have 15 times the median household wealth of Gen Z and Millennials.

Stripping a political opponent of their citizenship and deporting them is, again, very bad stuff.

Something I’ve always wondered Is there really nothing that can be done about the prison rape situation? Like seriously it is kinda ridiculous that prison is a super rape warehouse.

You misunderstand my argument. It is partly that everyone has the experience of the place that they grew up changing as they age and partly that you are reacting to the understandable sadness of that feeling (which is rooted in the deeper understanding that all life is fleeting) by blaming immigrants for it, and that you'd probably be happier if you instead tested your assumptions about how different they are.

Putting fentanyl in drugs knowing people will die from it seems like cartoonishly evil I cant imagine a human being doing that

It's not meritocracy if you want to exclude 95% of the world based on where they were born.

Areal distortion caused by Mercator projection; comparison showing actual relative size of each country.

Overall, I’m very surprised at how little media coverage there’s been around the OpenAI / Hugging Face attack. It’s clearly one of the most important things to happen this year.