If a person is involved with a nefarious organization that “disappears” people and “secretly” governs an industry, I’m going to a bit interested in that...

Not in its current form but founder Bikram Choudhury was a creep who ran it like a cult and did just that.

Because she wants to hide the fact that she’s in an extremist cult from people who don’t know it.

I don’t think the main concern is that Musk is going to turn it into a conservative dumpster (although it’s certainly a concern for some people), just that he’s not someone that they trust or are comfortable supporting in any capacity... and this was obviously done FOR conservatives (specifically to build goodwill…

Okay man. You are committed to blaming Jason Sudeikis for the actions of someone he had no idea even existed, even though you haven’t even the slightest hint of a clue about and zero practical experience with what is involved in this process. Go for it, my dude. I, as a woman, very much appreciate your mansplaining…

Not that controlling food intake and/or weight is not a method that cult leaders may use to control their members, but having watched both of these docs, and also recently watching the one on Heaven’s Gate, I think another reason weight and diet control is so common in cults is that there is the need/tendency of cult…

The book and its sequels are absolutely worth your time, as are GM’s other books.

All fair points, especially the part about Twitter not being a monopoly. I was thinking more of Facebook/Meta.

Anyone want to bet that the NYPD cop is not just absolutely slathered in galling hypocrisy or that he’s reflective enough to detect it?

I work and recruit at a college in South Carolina. Kids from the northeast come down here because it’s less expensive and kids are becoming smarter about not taking out loans. Also, these college campuses are becoming more and more liberal. There are a lot of students here that don’t like seeing what is going on in…

As terrible as this is, I doubt sincerely that those states will give a fuck until their precious sports teams are affected. Once you see a bunch of players going to D1 schools outside of those areas for those reasons, there may be a change in tune. 

Homosexuality is illegal in a number of Gulf counties, leading Doctor Strange to just be the latest film banned for including even Disney-friendly amounts of LGBTQ+ content within its reels—see also Eternals, and Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, which was blocked from release across the Gulf due to the presence of…

You were in a caloric deficit therefore you lost weight. Intermittent fasting allowed you to be in a caloric deficit so you could lose weight. However, if you were in an equivalent caloric deficit WITHOUT intermittent fasting, you’d still have lost weight. That is what the study is saying.

Except that this is complicated by many things, including the fact that, when the body detects an imbalance in the calories in and calories out, it is incredibly good at reducing at rest activity and increasing cravings - all to bring things into balance again. This is something we obviously don’t want, but the…

11 states are “two-party” or “all-party” consent states. It would arguably be easier to have the feature be location-based (just like all of the cable/streaming services do for blacking out local sports events) than to try and button up every hole that an app developer finds.

Piss off troll. How about all those white boys/men who keep shooting up schools/malls/other public spaces?

Or we could just literally force everyone to get vaccinated and hit herd immunity almost overnight.

I’m sorry but this is an extremely crappy take.

“If he breaks into your house and steals something, then what?” one of the officers asks Jackson.

Mmm....I understand this take, but it assumes that people both know their history and that this symbol is no longer needed to remind people of the lengths to which people will go to obtain abortions. Neither of those should be assumed. We don’t like it when history makes us uncomfortable, so we often keep that stuff…