I just don't like hair in my teeth

(This is 13 min long, Christ Lady)

"It takes time and effort to neatly trim and maybe even make a little design"

Alright, I stopped here. This is not what anyone seriously complains about when they're talking about bush. I fully get that ladyscaping is hard work and keeping everything in line can be a pain. But when you've just gone on a rant about men not expecting head, you've got to expect some turn about.

Have you ever tried to shave balls? A harrowing experience. I'm taking my own life, and millions of my little guys lives, into my own hands. Why am I putting a bleeding sack on the line when you can't run some clippers over your mound? Come on.

It would take ten Wyomings to fill one Wyoming ten times.

They’ve still got a year and a half

Primaries are already over and we're maybe four months out from the general.

All part of the 2028 plan.

I'm much more curious to see the 2026 results. If they lose Congress - nevermind flipping state governors and legislatures - it's going to be a very different ballgame going into 2028

I've had very different experiences.

Oh sure. That's just called "having kids" and I'm firmly in that stage.

As someone who has aged, I gotta disagree.

In high school, 20 year olds were ancient and wise.

In college, 20 year olds became peers and competitors

Once I started working, 20 year olds were the newbies

Now 20 year olds are indistinguishable from babies. Just having a conversation that ends with "After this we're going to the bar, you want to come?" and getting told "Uh... I'm not quite old enough to drink" blows my mind every time I hear it.

Jesus Christ, she's 40% thigh in that first one.

Somebody just wants to see Supergirl crush a watermelon with her legs.

To fulfill the third wish, the genie must ignore the first wish made.

These were executed in serial, so the effects have already been committed. Ignoring the first wish at the end had no material effect, because it's already been executed "flipping the second wish".

These commands would need to be actively looping before you encountered a runtime error. But the genie isn't re-evaluating the wish stack after each wish.

I don’t really get why it’s eating up the public attention.

A number of reasons.

Trump screaming about it on social media is the big one.

National news just being "Hey, what's on Twitter? Let's talk about that. (Unless it's the Gaza Genocide written from the perspective of its victims)" on a loop every day.

Surprisingly high profile people getting arrested for just curiously poking at the bad work.

Paul Krugman was predicting the 2008 crash as far back as 2004.

The markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent, as the saying goes.

The premise of the joke is pedantry. I reserve the right to be equally pedantic.

I think lots of Americans being disgusted with America blunts this to a degree.

It's funny, because you can just go to the gym and meet people who are both old and in shape. In fact, you're more likely to meet people who are both old and in shape at the gym because... older people who are in shape are the ones who go to the gym in the first place.

And the idea of breeding jesuses is pretty funny.

It's a great setup for a long running joke. One reason why Garth Ennis is so obnoxious. He loves to squander a good premise on a cheap punchline.

I mean, fit people still shop. It's just going to be much more of a crap shoot.

but if I were single at any age, I would never approach a woman at a gym.

I mean, more power to you. I'm mostly just saying "Women over 55 who are fit exist, you can find them at gyms all over the country." I'm not suggesting you need to hit on any of them.

That said, I can say from personal experience that people flirting with each other at the gym is incredibly common. I've flirted. I've been flirted. I even dated a Pilates instructor that I met there.

Feels only a small step better than approaching them at work.

Lot of flirting happens in offices, too.

“Captive audience” type shit

You meet people where you both are. But there's a tactful way to approach people and a crass way. Don't go running up to grab someone by the pussy. But smiles and small talk don't hold anyone hostage.

His politics seem to lean closer to libertarian nut-job than anything else

Sure, but you could say the same of Luigi Mangione and that isn't slowing anyone down.

Case in point, Glen Greenwald broke the Snowden leaks, and I considered him one of my heros for a time,.but these days he sounds more like Tucker Carlson than anyone else.

Glenn was always a libertarian crank. But after he got ousted from The Guardian, his economic needs superseded his politics. I might suggest that if Glenn had ended up on MSNBC rather than the gutter for FOX News washouts, he'd be denouncing Snowden today rather than praising him.

The point is, admire heroic actions, but don’t make people your heroes.

I don't think you can criticize Snowden because the guy who interviewed him ended up becoming a crank. But I also don't know of what became of Snowden, outside "he fled to Russia after Hong Kong wouldn't hide him".

I might suggest that Snowden was only able to leak what he did because he climbed up the ranks through Booze-Allen to begin with. And there you've got an inherent problem with whistleblowers - either coming or going, they must have done something you don't like.

But I'd say his turn of conscious and his work ethic and professionalism in how the information was aggregated, leaked, and confirmed makes him a role model for anyone else who aspires to turn coat against a fascist regime. Whatever you think of the individuals, you still do need Role Models in order to inform how you might achieve similar results. That means studying other people - studying history at the individualist level - and asking how they did what they did. Ideally, you're studying people you admire because you want to be more like them. Realistically, you're going to study people and see their warts. And that might shape what you think about their motivations and whether your own motivations lead you the same way.

I read the Preacher comic and... I gotta say, it falls off fast after the first couple of chapters. The mature-ish grotesquerie made to deliver context early on devolves into pure juvenille banging-my-action-figures-together by the end.

Eugenics Jesus was a pretty good gag about american myth and Nazi racial mythology.

I enjoyed "What if the Catholic Church tried to Hapsburg Family the Desposyni" as a concept. The execution was crass and fell flat. They could have had a legitimately interesting story arc introducing a severely disabled Jesus descendant capable of the odd miracle who the straight white male able-bodied main character could engage with. But it was more fun to make poop jokes and then splatter them in the punchline panel.

It's nutpicking, to a degree. The odds of finding someone who wants to fuck the cartoons approaches 1.0 lightning fast on the internet. I'm less disgusted with the guy whining about an uninspiring upskirt shot (literally, why even shoot that frame? You could just not point the camera there!) I'm more disgusted with the AI Slop in the first panel, where they've replaced Kara Zor-El's legs with the Hulk's for some reason.

Why would a 40 year old lie about being 55?

So, on Tinder at least, there's something I read about people under 40 being sorted and matched differently than people over 40. The end result being folks in higher tiers of service getting access to younger matches. But because it's a semi-known exploit, you end up with people lying about their age to manipulate the match set.

You also get a weird phenomenon such that you see the same list of people showing up over and over again on your feed, until you cross the dateline and suddenly they all vanish.