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Interesting way of putting it. A lot more sensitivity to dodginess; a lot more sense of arbitrariness to enforcement. Lot easier to spread gossip. People seem to forget that they did try to get Sean Combs before on a nightclub shooting and his lawyers humiliated the city on what should've been an op...

https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1788246709836878028 To a non-USonian, what is the context? Apologies. -------- Govenor Noem released the type of memoir/policy books one does nowadays when eyeing higher office. She's positioning herself for the vice presidental nomination. In the book, she ...

Did you hang out with the literary crowd down in New Orleans?

The paying through the nose has just begun. I envision a million workshops in the future.

Ive been half following the Diddy thing on twatter. Who woulda thunk the guy that called himself Puff Daddy the Gangsta Pimp was actually a child exploiter and trafficer. Still fairly doubtful the client list will ever make the light of day, after Epstein , you cant get cynical enough. One thing I ...

https://twitter.com/paul_hundred/status/1785389165384785938 edit: Keep in mind no one has cut off water to the building- but drinking tap water is beneath them in their struggle. If we had some ham we could have some ham and eggs, if we had some eggs ~ P. J. O'Rourke The spokewoman's page at Columb...

https://twitter.com/paul_hundred/status/1785389165384785938 edit: Keep in mind no one has cut off water to the building- but drinking tap water is beneath them in their struggle. If we had some ham we could have some ham and eggs, if we had some eggs ~ P. J. O'Rourke The spokewoman's page at Columb...

What I understood from Musk a while back, is that the law already provides for what is criminal or not. Like direct calls to violence, childporn etc. Question then is to what degree Musk is obliged to also act as law enforcer in that regard, or that this has to be done by other governmental officia...

I've been told Kardashian derriere is huge, but I'm pretty sure even the most space-efficient capitalist could stuff billions into it.

edit: Keep in mind no one has cut off water to the building- but drinking tap water is beneath them in their struggle.

Beyond this example:

Elon or no Elon, the problem is just starting and is going to get worse. Turning the internet into tv isn't going to work; it's one bullet point to why Elon and Zuckerburg are, for a number of people, on equal footing with the government.

A week into the baseball season, and there is already a gambling scandal too convoluted for a single quick post. Shohei Ohtani may or may not be a victim of theft, his interpreter allegedly stealing 4.5 million dollars to pay off illegal gambling debts to a bookie. Baseball might have been bet on, ...

Sonny Gray's release point for his fastball and curveball

I get that it's being used a catchall and I'm not trying to be a@@ about it or claim it requires a level of purity but half the problem is a denial that all our liberal groupings haven't exhausted the well. The historic use of the name has ceased to be an affinity, only carrying on as a utilty where...

yep - except, im also not playing no true scotsmen games either. Which is smart because it's dodgy that it's ever actually applicable and not just a rhetorical game itself. It was misapplied when Antony Flew coined it and its been downhill ever since. Why it seems persuasive in the original with a ...

Yes, roughly over the last 72 hours.

Things seem better now though, immediately brought me to the log in screen without shenanigans.

https://twitter.com/BenjaminCrew1/status/1783837184610726264 The films and stunts of Buster Keaton As I became older, I started to perceive the films of Chaplin as maudlin and appreciate the films of Keaton far more. I largely agree. Chaplin's legacy is his character's image. A large amount of peop...