Cyrus Pilgrim

Popes Julius I, Julius II, and Julius III:

@NoblestCalling @jzux Some people are on substantially too high of a dose. Best practices would be for the dosage to start lower than people are currently getting, and go up if needed.

People are getting malnourished. We have several friends on it and most of them are basically starving themselves on it. The right way to do it is to continue working out and make yourself macro goals for each day so you don't end up like an anorexic. But as far as I can tell most doctors are giving no nutrition counseling and just writing scrips

can I ask a probably stupid but genuine question about ozempic? if the main way it works is by suppressing hunger and causing you to eat way less, are there strict guidelines to make sure you get enough nutrients in your diet? or are people getting malnourished?

@cowincrisis Yeah, because you haven't been eating it.

the grass is literally greener on the other side i can fucking see it

This isn't how I remember Les Miserables

@LargeInStature_ I don't disagree that some of our Christian brethren would persecute us. But it remains true, and ought to be noticed, that the gospel is freely preached across the entire Christian world, and the Muslim one forbids it.

This may be my most controversial stance as of late: we should befriend the Muslim. I really think how people treat the Muslims--it's a similitude of how people are going to treat us in the future. Suspicion. Hate. To many, we are just as "other" as them. I've never had a Muslim tell me my family and I are going to Hell (even if that's what they believe). Plenty of "Christians" have.

Cato the Younger was a petulant and obstinate fool whose egotistical indulgence of his own performative virtue ended the republic he claimed to love, all on behalf of a corrupt oligarchy that lacked any of the virtues for which he claimed to be fighting So no surprise libertarians love him, I suppose

@GarrettPetersen I don't think allied command felt that way about it.

After years of watching Ukraine war maps barely moving, the speed of this breakout and envelopment is breathtaking.

Sorry I meant RETVRN

@justalexoki You shouldn't get reveals about this kind of thing in your life from strangers on the internet. Return to a sense of the private.

who's gonna tell her

@eigenrobot I'm sorry I didn't see trebizond at first glance

@eigenrobot Did you intentionally give western Anatolia to Greece robot

may as well blow up iraq too i guess again

@GarrettPetersen Had a family member who went to France in the '80s and had complaints to make about French hygiene and the smell of Paris.

Greatest Generation guy: "Wow, all the French people I met in 1944 smelled terrible. I'm going to spend the rest of my life making jokes about smelly Frenchmen."

@oldyzach Very stupid, but I was in high school chemistry when I first heard this track and because of it his name is spelled Christopher Sn in my brain.

Baba Yetu. And as usual - I've got goosebumps. Thank You, Christopher Tin.

Didn’t read this until Friday, but I found it interesting, especially because it touches on something I’ve been noticing since I was a kid in the 90s. I remember visiting relatives in rural Utah and Idaho and being struck by how many locals were fully gothed out, and wondering why this aesthetic was so well represented in rural and impoverished places. Mariani has good observations and anecdotes, but I think the underlying dynamic is simpler than the framework he builds. The diner goth is one manifestation of what I’d call the “ethnically online.” Not something entirely new, but something that has become visible enough to register as a recognizable type. The internet didn’t invent cross-regional, self-constructed identities. Those have existed for a long time in subcultures, fandoms, and other mediated communities. What’s changed is that you can now clearly see a kind of person whose primary reference points, including humor, aesthetics, and norms, are shaped in and through the internet. And now we are seeing the first cohorts of people who have grown up online from the start, which gives this identity a kind of continuity and inheritance it didn’t previously have. What we’re seeing is something like an ethnogenesis. A group of people whose “homeland” is the internet, and whose sense of style, behavior, sense of sexual morality, and taste reflects what they learned there, much like earlier identities reflected what people absorbed from place, religion, or inherited culture. There’s also a practical side to it. For some, this functions as a kind of default or fallback identity. If stronger forms of belonging, rooted in place or tradition, are weak or unavailable, the Nation of Online offers a ready-made set of signals, norms, and affiliations that can be adopted with relatively low cost. I don’t think this group is dominant. In many ways it is still marginal. But it is increasingly legible. Seen this way, the diner goth sensibility is less an abrupt rupture and more the point at which this ethnically online identity becomes visible everywhere.

@eigenrobot The problem is that aggressively catering to the underclass is terrible but our elite class is retarded.

ive known too many educated people to give this even the slightest credence. the chud veto is essential to our nation's survival

@Daniel15305815 This is a serious discussion and ought to be given the weight it deserves. The F-35 cannot possibly be called the most beautiful plane while the F-22 exists.

It is that time again to make at least 50% of the aviation community mad. I have an extremely controversial opinion that is backed up by my BAC level. Or more that my BAC level is allowing me to share it because honestly...twitter is horrible for this kind of thing.

Zero political gain from indulging in this line of dispute btw. No reason at all to say this stuff, to quibble over words and argue about oppression tiers. Rufo says claiming most oppressed status is leftist thinking - so is hashing out the definitionmongering.

@DrewPavlou Even the Guardian headline writer understood what's going on here

lol

They're doing this to me on Monday.