Christopher Ryan

Disagreement is not betrayal.

And subsidize their power bills.

@Aella_Girl I think unhygienic is an issue.

Turns out this is a weird question. I was trying to design a survey to figure out if men were learning incorrect things in porn. My goal was okay - ask guys if they watch porn. Then ask them about, expectation of what women want done to them in bed. See if the guys who watch porn report different expectations. Simple, right? Okay. So how do I ask about this? "You have sex with a woman. If you tried [slapping her face], do you think she'd like it?" Well, a guy reading that would prob go "it depends on the woman." I could say "The last time you had sex with a woman, do you think she would have liked if you tried [slapping her face]?" Well, probably for most men that's gonna be a girlfriend or wife, and by the time you're regularly banging someone, you're gonna know her preferences, and you'd just be answering directly for what you know she likes. Okay, so this has to be like, about a girl you just met? First time having sex, and assume yall are bad at communication and so don't talk about your preferences in advance. So I could say "You just meet a woman, if you slap her face without asking her do you think she'd like it?" Most guys would never try this with a girl they just met without asking. So okay - this scenario needs to have *some* level of trust involved. Maybe it's like, the second or third date after you've built up friendly rapport and established you like each other? But... most guys still would ask! When I escorted, guys would sort of indicate a request to do anything particularly porny. Guys rarely just wildly try something brand new without some type of in-the-moment negotiation about 'can i?' because they don't wanna offend me or ruin the mood. So I ended up settling on this scenario: "Imagine you've been on a few dates with a girl and have good rapport. You decide to try a thing, *without* discussing it beforehand. Predict how likely it is that she would respond positively to it." Like, when I had to really drill down into it, picking a scenario clear enough to measure where porn is causing guys to do things women don't want in bed, required an extremely specific scenario. Because either you're so new that trying some crazy porn scenario is *retarded* to pull out on a woman without checking in first, or you're sufficiently established that any level of basic communication would make it clear that this isn't a welcome activity. So when people are arguing that porn teaches men to do porn things in bed, idk what concrete thing they're envisioning. I think probably if this is true, it's much more subtle. (Btw, I found that men who watched porn, were slightly more accurate at predicting the responses of women's preferences in bed, but especially women who watched porn.)

Martha Stewart went to prison for saving herself $45,673 using an illegal stock tip. Donald Trump traded stocks 3,700 times between Jan—Mar of this year, totaling between $220–$750 million, and used the presidency to make his stocks go up… And he’s walking around a free man.

Within one 24 hour period, Trump: - got out of a $100 million IRS fine - secured "immunity" from all future tax investigations for his family and friends - created a $1.8 billion slush fund for lawbreaking supporters - was reported for likely insider trading worth nearly $1 billion All of the obvious things to say about this are true. It's bad. Nobody even tries to defend it. The closest thing to a defense you get is something about how "but Democrats suck" and "woke was also bad," which is not a defense, but rather a kind of moral blank check made out to the administration to give them the right to do anything. But what I'm most curious about is whether this sort of lurid corruption creates a countermovement that successfully returns government to rule of law or whether it's establishing a norm of executive imperialism that every future administration will use to achieve its ends, which can always be justified by the moral blank check of "the other side is worse, so let us do whatever we want."

The last footage from the security camera before it got destroyed.

I saw this one coming years ago. Joked about it with Rogan, who thought I was nuts.

@davidfrum How much money did Miriam Adelson and AIPAC put up to defeat them?

Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney broke with their party to stand for democracy when it counted most and at severest political and personal risk. But they don't make sly jokes about their opponents having phone numbers with Tel Aviv dialing codes.

I wonder if anyone at the NYTimes sees how these stories are connected.

When I was young I thought things were bad because solutions were complicated, and now I’m older and realize things are bad because the solutions are often simple, but they would inconvenience affluent people, or those who aspire to be, and religious fanatics.

@JohnColapinto Congratulations!

My first nonfiction book, As Nature Made Him (2000), is still finding foreign publishers 26 years later. Poland is about to publish it in Polish and retitled (cleverly) “Bruce, Brenda, David.”

@Strandjunker It's sad, for sure, but "easily the saddest?" Civil war? Extermination of millions of natives? Slavery? Great Depression? Perspective is everything.

This is easily the saddest time in American history. The absolute worst people are systematically destroying the country, and our system is completely failing to stop them.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Tim Dillon: "We cannot go to war with China. It will destroy all life on Earth. We're not the high school bully anymore. We're the weird kid who may have a gun. The American quarterback century is over." America lost its soft power, its economic dominance, its moral authority, and its cool factor. All that's left is a violence

Once again: Broke Artists need to PICK A TOWN in the middle of nowhere and flock to it. Preferably a town that is: 1. Actively dying / hopeless 2. Chock full of DIRT CHEAP housing 3. In a high-minimum-wage state 4. Has some kind of public transit Ogdensburg NY comes to mind. As does Herkimer, Tupper Lake, Malone, Binghamton, and Massena NY. Each has some kind of a local bus, some kind of connection to coach bus or Amtrak, low rent, and crazy cheap property. Literally anyone who wants to live a low-rent lifestyle, making art, writing novels, hanging around in warehouses and cafes, etc can show up in one of these towns and make it work. $16/hr minimum wage, houses for as little as $40,000 (Ogdensburg and Massena) or, on the higher end, $100k (Tupper Lake). STOP being fixated on NYC / Philly / MTL. Just make the leap. I'm already up here. I already paved the way. And if you want it even cheaper come to a village like mine, my house was $33,000. There's a cabin down the road from here for $17,000. You do not need to work a job here, period.

As porn went online violence against women fell precipitously. Try again.

A new DNA study has revived a long‑running theory that Christopher Columbus may not have been Italian at all, but actually Pedro Álvarez de Soutomaior, a Galician nobleman also known as Pedro Madruga. Researchers compared genetic material from remains believed to be linked to Columbus with DNA from documented descendants of Madruga’s family line, finding striking similarities. This theory argues that Madruga disappeared from historical records after a regional war in Galicia, the same moment Columbus suddenly emerged in Portugal with a new identity, nautical expertise, and connections that would later launch his Atlantic voyages. Supporters of the theory point to additional clues: Columbus named over 100 places in the Americas after Galician towns, and 80 handwriting experts have concluded that Columbus’s writing style is virtually identical to Madruga’s. If true, this would radically reshape the accepted biography of one of history’s most famous explorers, suggesting he may have concealed his origins for political survival. While the theory remains debated, the new DNA evidence has pushed it further into mainstream historical discussion. One of the strangest supporting clues is Columbus’s 'obsessive use of Galician‑Portuguese language patterns', even in private notes. His letters contain idioms, spelling habits, and grammatical structures that do not match Italian dialects of the era but align closely with the writing of nobles from southern Galicia. Even more intriguing: Columbus repeatedly used Galician nautical terms that were not common in Genoa or broader Italy, but were standard among sailors from the exact region where Pedro Madruga ruled. Linguists argue this is nearly impossible to fake, especially for someone supposedly born and raised in Italy, and it quietly strengthens the case that Columbus was hiding a past tied to Galicia’s political conflicts. © The Historian's Den #drthehistories

@OThorpe @YouTube Remember all those babies they "beheaded?" Nope.

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@life1sbeauty @foundmyfitness If money bought truth....

@foundmyfitness Why should we believe your post vs the guy who spends $2MM a year on frontier team research?

Small correction here. You don’t need to reach a core temperature of 102.3°F to activate HSP expression. And you definitely don’t need to sit in a 200°F sauna for 30 minutes. The research shows HSP expression can increase by ~50% after 30 minutes at 163°F, with core body temperature rising to only about 101°F. Sauna benefits (even those related to HSPs) don’t require extreme heat or pushing core temperature that high.

I've often wondered about this.

@paulg Or a billionaire, apparently.

No one is more indignant when falsely accused of theft than a habitual thief.