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Republicans got wiped out and somehow the Sticker Mule guy, who made a rap album called “Thank You President Trump” and gifted Trump a bronze statue of himself, is headed to Congress. That’s fucking hilarious.

I was really young when the Nintendo (NES) came out, so I recently tried playing some of those games again for nostalgia’s sake. Today’s games ease you in. Here’s how to jump. Here’s a little health. You died? That’s okay, you’re right where you left off. Nintendo was like, you’re six? Here’s three lives. That turtle throws hammers. Go fuck yourself.

I like Daniel Dennett. I read From Bacteria to Bach and Back and liked it a lot. Could follow it pretty well. Then I read Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, which was a little harder, but mostly I was still on board. Now I’m reading Consciousness Explained and half the time I have no idea what the fuck he’s talking about. At this rate, one more book and I won’t be able to read.

I always wonder if everybody at CNN hates Scott Jennings. Like, do they invite everyone but him out for drinks after work.

Best NES games of all time? My picks: Mike Tyson’s Punch Out Super Mario Brothers 3 The Legend of Zelda Mega Man 2 and 3

Moral question for you. Someone knowingly buys fentanyl and dies after taking it. The person who sold it to them is also struggling with addiction and made the sale to pay for their own use. Should the seller be held responsible for the death, or only for the sale? How much should the buyer’s choice and the seller’s addiction matter to that judgment?

Calling things “x-phobic” seems like a rhetorical trick to me. It borrows credibility from a medical diagnosis and suggests someone is afraid of something when they might just dislike it. I’m not defending prejudice or saying it’s okay to dislike people for who they are. Just saying it feels like there’s a judgment built into the word before the conversation even starts.

Scott Jennings is the obvious pick for press secretary. He’s the only person besides Leavitt with both the rhetorical skills and the complete absence of shame required to publicly dickride whatever line he’s handed. If he’s not hired, it’s probably because someone in the room said, “But secretary is a woman’s job.”

This needed one more person to read it before it went up.

First of all, based. Second of all, this seems like a really overly confident thing for Grok to say as fact.

He won’t. Admitting he was wrong and apologizing would go against everything modern conservatism rewards.

Religion teaches people from an early age that beliefs can be accepted without convincing evidence and are worth defending anyway. I wonder how much that shapes the epistemic standards they later bring to politics and other areas of their life.