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@Johnny_DGB @KJP @BBQ_Guys I'd argue that we're losing our first world ability to deliver durable goods without damaging them. It feels like there are way more issues with furniture and appliance delivery than there used to be.

@KJP @BBQ_Guys First world problems be like.

My new outdoor grill: dented. Me: crushed 🥺😭 @BBQ_Guys

This is a great example that illustrates how the left’s love for Islam actually makes perfect sense. Many don’t realize this, but Islam is incredibly longhoused. Some of its most brutal enforcers are middle aged mothers and aunties; hijab is both the ultimate act of female intrasexual competition - flattening the beauty hierarchy - as well as a tool for the neutralization of male sexuality. You can see how this perfectly serves the goals of women on the left, who want to exert unilateral control over relations between the sexes at best or even end heterosexuality at worst. The uglification of women in popular media is a form of hijab, hiding male-enticing beauty away “for women’s protection” and punishing male sexual attraction. These illiberal photo guidelines that feel like they’re from a conservative country are another example of the left’s adoption of virtual hijab as a tool for female sociopolitical dominance. You might think, “Doesn’t this contradict the sexual vulgarity & immodesty promoted by the left in the West?” Superficially, it might seem that way, but the popular left’s love of prostitution is/was a stepping stone in the transition from liberal hedonistic democracy to asexual authoritarian regime. They were seeking to “desexualize” the female body through exposure (while also exerting control over the male psyche: just because a woman is scantily clad in public doesn’t mean you have permission to think demonic sexual thoughts about her!). The argument of topless feminists in France is that boobs should evoke zero sexual feelings; they’re just a body part. The argument of OnlyFans feminists is that their body is a tool for extracting resources from men. None of this actually has to do with the promotion of sexual freedom. It’s all a game of flattening the SMV of women while exerting power over men through sexuality, and the tides are naturally shifting towards female-enforced asexuality (rather than female-enforced promiscuity). This is clear in the rhetoric of online Western feminists, who post more and more frequently about how scared they are of sex, how they avoid it (occasionally by going as far as to transition into men themselves). In this view, a feminist hijabi is completely rational, and perhaps even the perfected manifestation of an anti-male ideology. Do not think that the rise of Islam in the West will mean the return of the patriarchy. No, it will mutate with our broken gender relations to form a novel, putrid mixture of sexual communism and repression. The future is asexual hijabis, finger wagging you to death

@SteveC1793 @byrne_a @Heminator Triple X syndrome has pretty normal fertility AFAIK. 1 in 1000 condition, so not super-rare, but definitely female (as there is no Y chromosome). Presence of a Y chromosome essentially guarantees a male phenotype.

@byrne_a @Heminator There are two sexes in humans. They are expressed genetically as XX and XY. There are a few viable but sterile anomalies. A person with one leg isn’t a different species. A person with anomalous genes is a human with anomalous genes.

American Anthropological Association President Carolyn Rouse: "All you need to do is literally type into Google and see that we know, factually, that there are different types of 'sexes' and 'genders.' You can have XY and you present as a woman, you can have XXY — they’re all variations, genetic variations. So the idea that there are two sexes is just factually incorrect, and to force biological anthropologists to teach that is the equivalent of turning an astronomy department into an astrology department." h/t @robsica /1

@byrne_a Fertility varies with extra chromosomes. XXYY is also possible but extremely rare.

@byrne_a This is such a crazy thing for her to say. There are only 5 viable sex chromosome configurations, 3 of which are considered abnormal: XX, XY, XXX, XYY, XXY. The presence of the Y chromosome essentially guarantees a male sexual phenotype.

Israel does not deal with the Palestinians the way a typical Western democracy deals with its own citizens, nor should it. Let me explain why. Arab governments manage the threat of Islamic terrorism through an extremely tight security apparatus. In Jordan, for example, the intelligence services instill fear throughout society. If someone says something that could even remotely be interpreted as a security threat, that person is quickly summoned by the intelligence services, subjected to intense psychological pressure, and made to think twice before ever repeating it. This is not unique to Jordan. It is how virtually every Arab government in the region manages the threat of Islamic extremism. It is the only way these governments can contain Islamic threats within their own populations. Without that level of control, far larger numbers of people would declare jihad against the Arab regimes. Israel manages the Palestinian security threat in the same way Arab governments manage security threats within their own societies. The difference is that Israel is not an Islamic state. It can't rely on the same religious legitimacy, nor does it exercise the same level of control over mosques, schools, and religious institutions that Arab governments do. As a result, Israel faces a security challenge that is far more difficult to contain. The useful idiots in the West attack Israel for refusing to deal with Islamic jihad as naively as Western governments do. At some point, Western democracies will have to learn from both Israel and the Arab regimes about how to confront Islamic jihad. Otherwise, the threat will continue to grow beyond their ability to control it.

@Evelyn001d I had typing in middle school, in the early ‘90s

Is anyone old enough to remember when typing was an actual class in high school?

@DiscussingFilm Love this guy ❤️, RIP

Sam Neill has sadly passed away at the age of 78.

🚨 NOW: Senate Majority Leader John Thune begins crying on the floor while closing in his remembrance of Lindsey Graham 😢 *Thune, choked up*: "We will laugh together again. Mr. President, I yield the floor." "I will miss Lindsey's friendship more than I can say." 🙏🏻

The peach crop is about 2 weeks early for most varieties on our farm! This will be the third week this summer that I’ve been able to bring peaches to my staff in DC. Headed there now.

Lindsey Graham was one of the few true neocons. He wasn’t in politics to be a corrupt, power hungry money grabber, but because he genuinely believed everything he preached. He truly believed we should bomb our enemies out of existence, and I respect him greatly for that.

@girlatlawstuff This used to be my mall when I was in Middle School. It was the best. There used to be a Cinnabon, an Au Bon Pain, an Arcade, a Model Train Store, a Model Rocket Store, two Computer Game Stores (Electronics Boutique and Babbages), a Caldor. Crossgates went crazy in the early '90s

Spotted at the local mall last week. What are kids supposed to do, exactly?

@JebraFaushay This really does look like a Victorian-era woman's nightgown. Grandma Georgina from Charlie and The Chocolate Factory wears a bonnet like that.

"Men's Ruffled Muslim Thobe Nightgown with Sleeping Cap."

She's a hot blonde chick amongst an entire league of nappy headed gorilla dykes. Hope this helps

@AcrossTimePod @SwannMarcus89 There's a lot of public housing and subsidized "affordable housing" in Cambridge. IMO there shouldn't be any--it's a huge waste of resources and real estate/housing stock.

@SwannMarcus89 Why is your culture so violent in cambridge? Thought it would be a bit more bookworm-oriented than pew-pew oriented.

Cambridge disabled Shot Spotter because they said it was racist. Then a black Public Works employee got shot, lay undiscovered for over an hour while bleeding out in a public park, and died because first responders didn't know a shooting happened cbsnews.com/boston/news/ca…

This is the 23 year old DSA Councilwoman Ayah A. Al-Zubi in Cambridge who proposed getting rid of shot spotter along with Burhan Azeem. Cost this man his life a month later.

@pegobry_en The Colt M1911 was used A LOT. It was noted as highly effective in close-quarters fighting or as a backup weapon. The .45 ACP cartridge had excellent stopping power, being more powerful than the 9mm Luger/NATO. Was used from the Philippine war in ~1900 through Korea in the 1950s.

1. What changed isn’t strength, it’s the availability and weight of chest plates. One-handed posture minimized silhouette. 2. Has there been a single recorded instance in the 20th century of a soldier in war using his handgun? They are basically a talisman.

In his free time John Adams, second President of the United States, was completely obsessed with manure. Not casually. This man filled pages of his diary with notes on his compost piles, hauling in loads of seaweed, marsh mud, and dung from Boston to build the perfect batch. He treated it like a science. It got competitive too. When he traveled all the way to England he went and inspected the manure piles at London's finest stables, studied them up close, and concluded, "This may be good manure, but it is not equal to mine." There's even an account of him touring fancy European gardens, spotting a dung heap, and cheerfully bragging that the one back home on his farm was better. And the manure was just one hobby. Adams was up by 5 in the morning and started nearly every day with a tankard of hard cider at breakfast, which he swore was good for his digestion. Then he'd go for long walks, mend his own fences, dig stumps, cut ditches, and cart the dung himself. He even grew hemp on the property. He genuinely considered "farmer" his truest identity, more than lawyer or President. So the real John Adams: wakes at dawn, cracks a morning cider, spends the day shoveling manure he's personally proud of, and travels the world quietly convinced no one on earth has a better compost pile than him. That's a founding father.

@PPL4roy @James32980438 My dad had me vacuuming at 8 and he was always pissed with the results because an 8 year old doesn't understand that you have to go over the same spot several times to get visible dirt/lint/crumbs/misc, or have the attention to detail to notice them.

@James32980438 My boomer dad would give me a chore and promise a dollar or five dollars. I'd do it and then he would say "you didn't do it all the way" then give me additional chores. Never got the money.

In the original test a greater indication of what the child would choose was how their parents/guardians behaved: if they were constantly being lied to or tricked by the adults in their life, they would take the marshmallow because they assumed the second one was a lie. Generational level of that going on now.