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How did I not know this? It seems like the kind of fact you’d learn as a kid.

Read Charles Cooke’s post in full. Bengals reference and all.

Yeah, it’s doing them awake that’s the hard part.

But not very Healthy.

https://nypost.com/2025/11/22/us-news/what-is-felching-the-raunchy-sex-act-rfk-jr-texted-about-with-olivia-nuzzi-according-to-ryan-lizza/

I just think we’ve needed this thread for a while. Here’s today’s contribution.

If it’s not from the Carbonara region of Italy it’s just sparkling breakfast pasta.

He has a great line about how oppression doesn’t make people virtuous, it makes them resentful, which is quite dangerous if and when they actually do get power (and gives examples).

Another point relevant today is that those who think they speak for the oppressed think they hold a special moral position that often makes them feel justified in doing just about anything.

Lol. She’s not wrong.

Not with gmail. I’m at 90+ %full. Fortunately I can sort by size and get rid of useless attachments

Nice.

@Horace said in American Revolution on TDS...er.. I mean.. PBS:

The glorification of American Indians was probably the first lesson I learned in the fact that people see, in history, whatever they'd like to see. Not that there aren't facts there, it's just that the universe of facts is large enough that any narrative can be cobbled together. That narrative about peaceful and mystical Indians has been around as long as any of us have been alive. Those who propagate it are generally motivated to make a criticism of America.

Bertrand Russell wrote an essay called ‘The Superior Virtue of the Oppressed’ almost a century ago expounding on this. It’s worth reading asking ChatGPT to summarize it for you.

@Klaus said in Declaring email bankruptcy:

Also, many emails I consider irrelevant just from looking at the title or sender, so why should I read them?

You shouldn’t. That what the delete button is for.

For me the problem wasn’t the number being 7,000 instead of zero. The problem was I would occasionally - nay, often - see an email, know I needed to react to it but not have the time in the moment, and think “I’ll go back tonight and deal with it’. Then I’d forget, and soon it was lost among its 7000 mostly useless friends.

If I mange to zero that won’t happen. If I forget, its unread status will be there as an effective reminder that night or the next day.

Actually now that I think about it, in the early 90s daily life stuff still came in the US mail.

He presumably had a wife that handled daily life for him.

That steep slope in the 2005-10 era was when Americans started to need a passport to travel to US, Mexico, and the Caribbean

I’m curious what it looked like from 1960-1990. Obviously it didn’t have a slope like that.

No more jailhouse rock for the defendants.