Exactly this. Anybody who thinks the current SCOTUS isn’t just dying to find a way to kill Roe while also pushing a maximalist view of firearm proliferation, regardless of whether the underlying rationales contradict one another, is a naive fool.

Somebody remind me what the force-field was that Liu Cixin came up with for the Trisolarian ships in The Three-Body Problem. I think (?) it was some kind of quantum force, and was fairly well reasoned in a decently hard-scifi way, but I can’t remember the particulars.

To his credit (as one might expect of a smart politician with a gift for rhetoric), Pete Booty-Judge has gotten the answer to this question right:

Good job taking the bait (as did Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, to my dismay) and believing that Republicans are “ignorant” about pregnancy or rape, when in fact they’re just liars.

You can’t talk about Disney’s weird futurist/fascist utopia at EPCOT without mentioning actual Disney-run Reedy Creek Improvement District. Between that and the town of“Celebration,” Disney runs an independent fiefdom almost entirely without government oversight or regulation.

Time to turn the 4th of July into the 4th of Shit!

Relevant thread:

“You know what this slowly dying online media property really needs to perk up reader engagement? Tasking a bunch of our writers to write fluff pieces hyping a slang term from 20 years ago! That’s the ticket! Kids these days love that half-ironic stuff!” — GM ownership, right before high-fives and doing some lines at…

This hot-ass take is one step away from, “sure, the last guy was awful or whatever, I guess, but he sure made great television, amirite? God, this guy is so boring! Bring back the clown show!”

I’m just going to leave this here:

I mean, what’s the counter-argument here? The draft should be male-only, because that somehow makes the US’s imperialist wars of aggression less likely?

There’s the argument to be made that we go to war all the time because it isn’t politically or socially painful, and that this is wrong. It should hurt to vote to send our nation’s youth to war, both personally (politicians’ kids should be first in line for military service) and professionally (all their constituents…

I remember reading somewhere that there was a plant that grew wild in the Roman Empire that was effective as birth control. It was so popular that they harvested it to extinction. 

you’re a gentleperson and a scholar. Many thanks.

Anybody recognize the music from 01:00 on?

Didn’t they already try this a few years ago with the “Lore” series?

If you’re going to be Team Tall Girl, go all in and root for Elizabeth Debicki. She’s 1.9m (6'3"), and does not hesitate to wear heels.

Is this the thread for the ALL CAPS hysterically flashing MISANDRYYY!!!1! gifs? Because women destroying their enemies through the power of their menstrual cycles is the kind of Valerie-Solanas energy I need in my life right now.

Very disappointed there isn’t a loudly flashing