SK Anthony S. Layne, KoC: The Impractical Catholic

If every American voter, without a passport, decided to get a passport, as their primary form of ID, it would take 5 years to fill the requests. But Republicans want this to be in effect before the midterms. They know this, of course, so it’s obvious voter suppression.

That's what we call a survivor.

The last thing Charlie Kirk said to me confirmed all of my priors.

If you're cremated after you die, you can be put into an hourglass and continue to participate in family game night.

It’s not crazy for both progressives and conservatives to dislike the same thing It’s slightly crazy that both sides at least claim they think that EA is fundamentally aligned with the other side

Hear me out: we don't retire the A-10, and instead triple production.

Chairman of the JCS Gen. Dan Caine: "The A-10 Warthog is now in the fight across the southern flank and is hunting and killing fast attack watercraft in the Straits of Hormuz."

Walmart is rolling out digital price tags at all of its stores. At the same time, the corporate giant just secured a patent for "dynamically and automatically updating item prices.” Plus another patent for using machine learning to predict demand and recommend prices.

The Illusory Truth Effect The illusory truth effect is a cognitive bias where repeated information is perceived as more truthful, regardless of its actual accuracy. Familiarity is mistaken for credibility, meaning hearing a statement multiple times—even if false—makes it more believable. This phenomenon is driven by processing fluency, where familiar information is easier to mentally process, thus making it easier to believe. Given how social media has rendered our attention span to something that can only be measured in nanoseconds, it's no wonder that people believe anything they see a headline about. Combine this with cognitively lazy approach of "journalistic" websites simply c̶o̶p̶y̶i̶n̶g̶ syndicating other stories, and it's no wonder this happens. If it aligns with a person's world view (confirmation bias) and it makes them emotional (emotional suggestibility), then you can be guaranteed they won't even think to question it. This is how you get groups of people defending a subjective interpretation of reality as if it's objectively accurate. We are doomed, because the ONLY fix for this requires so much work and confronting erroneous thoughts a person has invested energy into, that it won't happen. And you can't even train kids to do this because most people don't realize this happens and they don't want to believe it's happened to them. "It's easier to fool people than convince them they've been fooled." -Mark Twain

If boys and men are excluded then women and girls can have nothing at all apparently

5 yo has almost mastered writing her name. I say almost because she writes it right to left, with all the letters mirrored. Me: "We write (showing her), this way, you see." 5 yo: "I know, but I prefer the other way."

I find it fascinating that Charlie Kirk said a LOT of interesting things in private that cannot be confirmed or verified now that he's dead.

Have you ever finished a book and thought, “Yeah… I’m NEVER reading anything by this person again.”