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The trans-Trump slave trade does have a ring to it.

TLJ is just about the best movie in the whole series. The hatred is 85% pissed-off fans who thought the franchise belonged to them. And the rest is just anti-woke hysterics.

In time, TLJ will get the respect it deserves.

More hype nonsense. AI is going to be the thing we promised it'd be 4 years ago. Trust us bro.

It's probably the proximity of the bubble that's making them take up smoking.

If you want to understand guns, I'd recommend sociology not economics.

Do you suppose the father gave his kid all those wrong answers to make him score lower, or was Dad just a dumb motherfucker?

Jordon vs. the Town of New London tells a similar story.

A police recruit was dismissed because of his IQ score. Appeals courts ruled in favor of the town, saying it wasn't discrimination because all applicants were treated the same and that cities has a legitimate purpose in screening their officers for intelligence. You've probably already guessed the twist part: his score was too high.

Still, too smart to be a pig: delightful. https://abcnews.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836

In Germany, we’d probably consider this “weird” in case our politicians did that.

It's easy to see how this helps Russia, but what does it do for the US? The amounts discussed are less than 2days of US consumption. To drop prices, they need to increase refining capacity, this plan does nothing for that. Most people don't know that the oil is flowing. Not at pre-war levels, but much better than in the Summer. The problem isn't oil, it's all the refineries that have been blown up in the Gulf States and Russia.

You'd think we'd be trying to help the Gulf States repair the war damage. Since theirs a chance that won't just get bombed again. I think the reason Trump gave up on oil prices is because after the ceasefire deal with Iran collapsed, there simply wasn't enough time to undo the damage before the midterms.

The energy ceasefire is a good idea and would save the Ukrainian people a lot of suffering and death. It would also go a long way to solve the diesel crisis. It's just that high energy prices and Ukrainian suffering are good for Moscow.

Zelenskyi was on board with Trump's ceasefire from the beginning. He publicly agreed to honor it... if Russia would. This is about the 6th or 8th time Zelenskyi has pulled this trick. Making Putin be the one to spoil Trump's grand plan.

Art of the deal.

Executions should be public. Who benefits from it being done in secret? Why is State murder the only thing that doesn't benefit from transparency?

You all imagine the people who will whoop and cheer; I imagine the people who will recoil in horror. If we're barbaric, it's because we murder criminals, not because it's on Youtube.

It must be painful for language pedants to read English literature. All the best authors I know ignore grammar and use English like a whore. And that must hurt people like you twice; once upon noticing all the "mistakes"; and twice, upon realizing that they understand English better than you. To realize your stuck in the pupil phase of understanding. Where you struggle to enjoy, and cannot produce good writing.

The idea that people you don't like are biologically inferior is a pretty old idea. I don't know why it has such staying power. It's never been redeemed or justified; nothing good has ever come of it. Maybe it stays popular because it flatters the ego of those who believe it.