It’s not real. A delivery person wouldn’t get to the door of the oval office. And almost certainly an aide grabs the bag, though the fast food delivery obsessions is partly about security paranoia, so maybe he is paranoid enough to grab the bag.

Slightly but significantly less bad. For now.

The fact that you can whittle a paintbrush in the wilderness but cant build an LLM in the wilderness really doesn’t mean anything.

A zine-maker can’t make paper and a photocopier in the wilderness but they’re still an artist. A digital artist can’t code photoshop in the woods, but they’re still an artist. And some percentage of prompt fondlers could still draw in the wilderness but that doesn’t make their ai art real art.

This is just a bad argument because the complexity of your tools is not what defines an artist.

Ah yes, legislative reform that emerges from nothing but the powerful suddenly deciding to be nicer.

The rich won’t stop killing us if we ask them nicely. All progress has involved threatening the lives or property of the powerful.

Hate the game, not the players.

“The game” is rich people brutalizing humanity to squeeze an extra dollar. The game wouldn’t exist without the players.

Post-war/crisis baby booms are likely a seperate phenomenon, there’s some archaelogical evidence of them in similar situations - like in athens after the persian war there seems to have been a baby boom that helped fuel their rise to imperial power in the aegean.

Trump and musk show many traits of psychopaths, who tend to have a lot of children.

When standards of living rise, birthrates drop.

Western countries, japan & korea all have low birthrates and all developed them as av. income rose. China too but one-child made it a less clear example. Even within a society, middle and upper classes have smaller families than the working class.

Declining birthrates can’t be fixed by improving living standards, but that’s fine because low birthrate is a good thing - a sign of a society doing well.

If a high income/low birthrate society needs more citizens, immigration from low income/high birthrate areas is the only viable option. Endless expansion is a fools errand anyway.

“Are you already aware of the situation?” [Ungaro tweeted @ pam bondi]. “Do you fully understand the extent of the information I possess regarding you and the individuals associated with you? I strongly advise you to consider the seriousness of these matters. Any actions taken against me or attempts to escalate this situation could have significant legal consequences,”

This is the brazillian “model” who was deported at the personal request of her ex husband and father of her child, Paolo Zampolli.

He is one of trump’s closest friends, was close with diddy, worked with epstein, was a “modelling” agency director and obvious sex trafficker. He was the one who procured melania and trafficked her to trump.

Ungaro is obviously referring to her knowledge of her husband’s role in the wider trump-epstein trafficking ring. Her perspective probably sheds a lot of light on melania’s role.

He is not a republican asset, he’s just a member of the ruling class. He’s representing his class interest, not ours.

I do think it’s a bad idea, even as someone who saves sex for committed relationships.

• A lifelong commitment to a potentially disappointing physical relationship doesn’t seem like a great plan.
• Before sex, there’s a lot of incentive to present your best self. Afterwards people are a more comfortable presenting more of who they are.
• You learn a lot about someone’s priorities, self-control, receprocity, hang ups, etc.

But if it works for you, don’t let others talk you out of it.

I wonder how much breaking up the trump-epstein ring lowered the fertility rate of 15-19 year olds.

Even sad af persian cuisine is gonna be pretty amazing.

You’re talking aout the ruling class, basically. Around their world their class interests generally align, so they act as one.

Sometimes the ruling class get into intra-class conflict - factions form or some members try to steal each other’s stolen wealth, but they’ll usually stop when it begins to threaten the interests of their class as a whole. See: every single war. Maybe WW1 they didn’t stop in time.

But then we’d still be talking about the fact that he rapes children and none of his cabal of fellow rapists have seen justice.

I think there’s a chance this was the plan all along and the ‘ceasefire’ was just a PR ploy to avoid having to admit the tuesday 8pm deadline was just a bad bluff that everyone saw through.

Of course it’s entirely possible that the us regime did desperately want the ceasefire to work and was just too stupid to realize that israel won’t stop until they’ve created a crippling humanitarian crisis in iran.

This is for shitposting, not whingeposting.

The death is intentional. You don’t run brutal concentration camps because you respect life.

Who’s afraid of virginia woolf at portland playhouse.

It was incredible, as that play always is. The male lead outperformed the female lead, which i feel is less common than vice versa, but everyone was great.