This is only true if you think that the purpose of prison is actually rehabilitation; you know, like a normal person with a well-developed sense of morality would. The people who run the prisons don’t think that way. For them, prisons exist solely as places of punishment, and they’re far more committed to cruelty as a…

Well shit.

Yeah, I can see that. The difference, I think, is that Miller is genuinely stupid and also has absolutely no idea how to act like an even remote facsimile of a human being. Cotton is also occasionally ridiculously wooden, but he’s all the more dangerous because he can actually resemble a person on occasion and can get…

this is incredibly good and beautiful

Thanks, I didn’t have the link handy and was looking for it.

Tom Cotton is absolutely evil; there was a New Yorker profile of him a few months back that pretty definitively established this. He’s probably the most dangerous person in American politics today, which is saying something.

I also wanted to ask this question. And also: how do you even hide on a one-mile-long loop? Aren’t you basically in sight at all times? What made him think that this would work, and why wasn’t it immediately obvious?

why not me

i’m mad online about how few stars this comment is getting

they’re definitely looking for someone who can put some solidworks in

I’m sure it really is a misunderstanding, since I doubt that a barely sentient slab of meat like Incognito possesses the capacity to understand how to conduct himself in society.

I watched this game in an illness-induced stupor, which I thought was just about the correct way to process this whole event.

I guess LaVar can say whatever he wants, but what does he think he’s going to achieve with this? It’s not like he’s taking some principled stance on an issue of major social importance; he’s talking shit about the guy who coaches his son. Let’s say he achieved the goal of getting Walton canned, what then? It’s not…

Among historians of Europe at a certain time (and perhaps even now for all I know) it was fashionable to refer to the time period between the French Revolution and World War I as “the long nineteenth century.”

it was not the game we needed but probably the game we deserved

I would definitely watch this show.

east coast bias up in this bullshit

Yeah, I guess it helps to be a generational theoretical talent.

Yeah, something tells me that WWII-era Thibs would not be particularly scurpulous about safety (not that any of those guys were).

I was going to make a joke about how real scientists work 25 hour days but then I remembered that a student in Elias Corey’s lab at Harvard literally killed himself because he was being worked too hard and now it’s not funny anymore.