Andrew Rettek

this is wrong. People ought to be able to bet on a game. the Prohibitionist mentality is tempting, but it doesn't work. but we have the technology and wherewithal to allow casual betting while stopping the downsides of gambling.

what do you mean lindy west's husband sent scaachi koul an insane email after her super polite profile and now i have to listen to a podcast

“Stocky” You cheeky cunt, Grok 😂

Afroman Lays Down Facts: Wrapping up his time on the stand, Afroman drops hard truths As his time on the stand wrapped up today, Afroman decided to let the prosecution hear it. If the deputies wanted to avoid public scrutiny, they shouldn’t have kicked down his door and stolen his money. “I have a right to kick a can in my backyard, use my freedom of speech, turn my bad times into good times. Yes, I do…and I think I’m a sport for doing so.”

The ‘SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY’ trailer launch was bigger than the first ‘GTA 6’ trailer launch. GTA 6 - 475M Brand New Day - 718.6M

Oh and while we're on it, while I think straight men prefer a certain set of physical features, but I think we way over index on them.

Tolkien was a pantser. He was probably surprised to find Tom in the woods too. As for deus ex machina, he does those on purpose and he calls them eucatastrophes.

I will back whichever 2028 candidate vows to put a stop to this "epic conclusion" nonsense and force them to film God-Emperor of Dune.

5yo, having lost all restraint at the end of an otherwise angelic day: "your toes are disqualifying! this is foot psychology! we need to cut it off with scissors in real life!"

dear apple, the iPod needs to come back. not for nostalgia. for the parents who want their kids to love music and audiobooks without a browser, social media, and the whole internet attached to it

Almost all of my married guy friends say they knew their wife was the one by the 1-3 date

My ancestors buried half their children. All mine are alive. My ancestors' house had a dirt floor. Mine is wood. I have indoor plumbing, I have hot water, I have never in my life hauled a full bucket half a mile and I probably never will. Do you know how rare it is, in human history, for small children to wear shoes? Mine have multiple pairs. I can speak to my relatives who live thousands of miles away, for free, at any time. Video, if we want video. With machine translation, if we speak different languages. The original Library of Congress had 740 books in it. I have more than that. If I run out of books in my home my local public library has 350,000. If I want to take a hundred books with me on vacation, they all fit on a device that fits in my purse. I have heat in the winter and AC in the summer and a washing machine and I have never, ever, ever had to scrub a dress clean by hand in the stream. I can look up recipes from more than a hundred different countries and I've tried dozens of them. I ride a clean and modern train across my city for $4, or take a robot taxi if I'm out too late for the train. I donate $40,000 every year to the cause of getting healthcare to the world's poorest people and even after the donations I never have to think about whether I can afford a book, or a pair of shoes, or a cup of coffee. There is a great deal more to fight for, of course. I hope that our descendants will look back on our lives and list a thousand ways they're richer. Maybe we ourselves will do that, if some of the crazier stuff comes true. But the abundance is all around you and to a significant degree you aren't feeling it only because fish don't notice water.