Everybody (I assume) gets annoyed by itchy tags. How annoyed by the tag helps a doctor determine if you get a diagnosis or not.

Which probably cause a variety of cancers, but not autism. The increased rates are almost entirely the result of better diagnosis criteria.

When JFK’s nephew hears 1 in 36 kids is diagnosed, his mind jumps to someone more disabled than his Aunt Rosemary after Walter Freeman was through with her.

But almost all of the increase in diagnoses is made up of people who have a favorite train livery, want their food to have a specific texture, and get pretty upset about the itchy tag in their shirts.

In Rome, during a triumph, the celebrated general would have a slave required to remind him that he would one day die.

These globe striding tyrants need this now, but one guy reminding them during their parties simply isn’t enough. Every moment of their lives should feature that reminder. Like tinnitus but “Memento Mori” (or its equivalent in their native tongue).

He already lost the primary and now he gets to lose the general where Mamdani’s least embarrassing opponent is the guy who wears a red beret that he hasn’t taken off since the 80s.

The Epstein powder doesn’t need to be fired.

I know there’s been a lot of talk of ‘peasant mindset’ lately, but can we not do a new corpse synod?

We have jury nullifications (this guy isn’t the only one to have a grand jury refuse to indict amid the Trump administration’s occupation of DC) happening before the case even gets to go to trial. It’s not enough (anything short of removal of the whole administration and their enablers isn’t enough) but it’s a step in a good direction.

It’s happening again

The grand jury that would not indict a ham sandwich.

Because the “have fun being poor (as I gamble my life savings on a website with pump and dump basically in the name)” crowd outnumbers and is much louder than the “I am using this decentralized currency because authoritarians will inevitably strangle anything with a single point of control” crowd.

It makes what they did to Murphy to create RoboCop doubly evil, but I’ve been led to believe that that’s one of the big messages of the movie.

Their plan? Bring it about so that Rocko’s Modern Basilisk can torture the unbelievers (as if hearing their inchoate speculation about what the-computer-that-can’t-even-do-math-consistently will one day be able to do isn’t already torment enough).

These dumbasses have reinvented premillennial dispensationalism.

For the rest of us, I guess Butlerian Jihad is always an option.

Resonance on a bridge is only able to become an issue if you have everybody actually marching in step (and it’s worth noting that these days they make sure bridges can handle way more than they’re expected to). Getting a crowd of protesters on a bridge walking together is just gonna have the weight of the protesters.

Oh good, the Burrito Taxi app’s gonna tell me I can order the Whopper from McDonald’s.

Also, this is the exact kind of transaction they had in mind when they created the tech, but everyone decided it was only ever for drugs, because that’s what the Wall St owned media told them to think

What were the completely legal products that had Visa and Mastercard standing on the sidelines in 2009? Because without a real life example, I don’t think big media had to do much to get people to ignore this use case at the time.

If people had used cryptocurrency as a currency instead of as a “it’s totally not a security, we swear, even though we’re only saying that to evade SEC regulations a little longer” there’d be a lot fewer people calling it a scam.

For sixteen years, crypto’s only use cases seemed to be buying illegal goods and securities fraud. Finally, we have another use case presenting: perfectly legal transactions that credit card companies have gotten cold feet about.

Demanding that businesses not poison people downwind/downstream from the factory is not giving an unfair advantage to businesses that have good processes.

Yes, they saved the businesses having to train new employees to replace the dead ones.

Redraw California, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Washington, and Oregon districts to overwhelm the handful of Republican districts there.

Then

Take full advantage of the fact that the R’s are pushing a very unpopular agenda and will have to weaken their advantages in red districts (making them a bit swingier) in order to get rid of blue districts.

Every time I pull the string on the back of this doll it says something nice to me. Is this true love?

It’s decidedly not suspicious. However, considering how hard Trump has been trying to hide the well-known fact that he spent an awful lot of time with his good buddy the child rapist/trafficker, I’m certainly not going to complain that it’s making people look at all of that. And I’ll mostly not highlight how not-suspicious it actually is.