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@gmiller @APA God help us.

People have learned a few psychological buzzwords on social media,like "gaslighting," "narcissist," "boundaries," and "toxic", and now they use them to run away from normal human conflict. Sometimes your partner isn't a "toxic narcissist violating your boundaries"; sometimes they are just annoyed, having a bad day, and you are actually the one who was wrong. We have weaponized therapy language to ensure we never have to apologize or compromise.

Pardon me, I’ll just be over here injecting this speech directly into my veins.

@SydneyLWatson This isn’t even close to a free market, and that’s the majority of the problem.

Seen a lot of conversation about how predatory the American medical system is. So I will weigh in. I ended up going to the ER about 2 weeks ago for crippling pain. Turned out to be a ruptured ovarian cyst. I was there for MAYBE 4 hours. My bill? $13,500 dollars. Because I'm uninsured (by choice, that shit is a SCAM), the hospital dropped my bill down to $8,100 and some change as an "uninsured" discount. For starters, $13,500 for a 4 hour hospital visit is insane as it is. But the fact the hospital can wipe $5,000 off the bill "just because" should show you how utterly fucked this system is. And to be clear - $8,000 is still an absolutely insane sum of money when all these people did was scan my stomach and give me some pain killers. On my itemized bill, my CT scan was 7k. The iodine they used was $900. Just being in the ER room alone was $2,500. We phoned the hospital to haggle. They dropped the price by $20. Normal people can't survive this shit. I do okay and $8,000 is still an INSANE chunk of money out of my savings. Anyone who argues this isn't a disgusting, predatory system is crazy. And it is even crazier that Americans accept this. And for those of you who argue this is the free market, I need you to be quiet. There can never be a true free market here when government and insurance have their creepy little fingers in this pie. People shouldn't go bankrupt trying to pay medical bills. This has to change.

Today I asked an abortion advocate what her favorite method of abortion is.

@abnormalpsyco @JBook_37 They gave up almost 22 points per game. That’s pretty mediocre, in the context of “all time great” teams.

@21milkman @JBook_37 Their defense wasn't mediocre

They say LSU would have smoked Ohio State if the refs didn't cheat them against Clemson. I mean it's 5 mins to go in the 3rd and it's 28-25. OSU vs LSU with Fields, Olave, Garrett Wilson, Jameson Williams, JK Dobbins, Chase Young. That 2019 OSU team had like 35 players drafted.

Ben Sasse is uniquely extraordinary…but if you watch that interview and wish we had more civically serious leaders like him, please understand that’s a choice. Voters can demand it.

@BenSasse This.

this is true, tragic, and woefully under-reported/under-discussed

this fucking wrecked me

@BTCBreadMan Option A: Tell him it's your way or (walking on) the highway. Option B: If you insist on getting leather, look at certified used. Option C: If he insists on leather, make him to pay for it.

Took my 16 year old to look at cars today. At first he loved the Toyota Camry we looked at, but when he saw the seats were cloth he hard vetoed it. They have another one with leather seats, but it’s an XLE and costs $5k more. How can I change his mind so I can save some money?

@CovfefeAnon @echetus Indeed. There's a scientific basis for mansplaining.

@echetus The general knowledge gap between men and women is huge and replicates across many studies

What’s the male equivalent? A straightforward factual issue where men are far worse informed than women.

@cremieuxrecueil Is someone attempting a based reverse-psychology proof-by-contrapositive here? If a sensible reader sees that since the Neanderthal/human cognitive differences probably *are* significant, then I guess human sub-population cognitive differences are too!

lol

Just met a guy making $300k a month with AI Charges small businesses $5k a month to be their "AI Guy" Everything is automated He works 2 hours a week AI Agents do everything for him 99% profit margins Growing 100% every month The craziest part? This guy doesn't exist and I just made him up

In our magical age, you get attempted assassins who think previous assassination attempts were staged.

@JeremiahDJohns Yes, you're right about some details: there's an excess of 99.9th percentile testers, and SAT/ACT isn't the lone criterion for a school. But you're disingenuous about the broader point. The schools are intentionally denying opportunity to top-caliber white and asian kids.

One of my least favorite discourses that pops up every single year: "This kid got a 99% SAT, and no Ivy Leagues!" followed by blaming wokeness or whatever they hate. Look. 2M kids take the SAT each year. By definition 20K will get top 1% scores. It's impossible for them all to get into the Ivy League, who admit around 15K per year. And that doesn't account for the fact that a bunch of Ivy admits are legacies, rich kids, or athletes, so the pool is actually smaller. And it doesn't account for the idea that the Ivies would legitimately rather have a kid with top 5% scores plus [other really cool thing] rather than the top 1% TestBotOptimizer. It is *not a story* that kids with strong numbers get rejected from elite universities, but every year it's portrayed as a shocking new trend caused by whatever the current culture war item is.

Rep. Ilhan Omar: “The last time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked… during World War ELEVEN.” She must have gotten her education in the Quality Learing Center.

When they say it’s for safety, remember the guy whose van wouldn’t move out the way of a truck because he don’t have his indicator on. His lane assist came on and he couldn’t get it to move back into his lane

@ConceptualJames More like "right on Q" ammirite!?

*cue Cue, dude. Cue. A queue is a line.

OMG. 🇰🇪 Sabastian Sawe becomes the first man ever to break 2 hours in a marathon (legal conditions) in 1:59:30 at the London Marathon! Yomif Kejelcha 🇪🇹 runs 1:59:41 in his DEBUT. Jacob Kiplimo 🇺🇬 takes third in 2:00:28 All under the previous WR.

René Girard, what a line