Ancient Roman slavery is fascinating because it's so, so bad, but also utterly blasé in execution. You're talking about an unqualified meat grinder and they basically didn't think it was a big deal at all. It was very nearly pet logic. If you really liked a slave they might sleep at the foot of your bed. Aww, they're allowed on the furniture! Martial talking about going on a walk, alone, only to offhandedly mention the slaves that were with him. Words for pet child slaves that didn't "do" anything, companions.

The elephant in the room is a lot of the "social policy" of Project 2025 is actually outlining a sexual fetish. I mean that literally. The "perfect Christian world" they're imagining is the material to which they sexually masturbate but it's disconnected from reality. It's like that "proposal" for a little ranch for pregnant single moms to lovingly rear their towheaded little white children. It's not a proposal any more than "big titty furry island fox babes for all" is a proposal.

DoorDash has, for many people, become a substitute for frozen meals, despite being less convenient and radically more expensive. And a lot of frozen meals taste fine, plenty of chain restaurants are actually serving that. You can get a Stouffer's whatever or a Marie Callender thingy and it's still like $4 and you can heat it up literally whenever.

sometimes capitalism is not what is holding you back from the successful life you deem yourself entitled to; sometimes, it is that you are an unambiguous sociopath in a socialist community, you will have a worse time, not a better one, because social capital will be more important, not less, and you will be lucky to make second-chair turd wrangler

starting to think pelosi just did it for the thrill of watching all of china wail and convulse at her proximity like you're old, you've done a lot of things. but then you're like a ha ha, one last one for the road, i'll make china attempt to do donuts with its two shitty ass aircraft carriers in the *judge doom* EAST SEAAAAA

For those of you who are smart enough for your curated internet experience to deny you a window into this, a pretty big chunk of teens and even college-aged kids have gotten weiiiirdly and viciously puritanical. And it's not the really hyper-christian ones it's the other ones. Like, "you aren't allowed to consume media starring someone under 18 even if it has no sexual or sensual content, or else you're a pedophile" weird.

Years ago, I saw a pitch on one of those Shark Tank type shows for "watermelon straps". Pretty sure I'm not making this up. I dismissed it at the time, but for some reason, it has remained lodged firmly in my brain. I think about watermelon straps all the time. Let me explain: Watermelon straps were some straps connected in such a way they'd let you easily carry a melon. My 1st response is: this is not a problem that needs a solution. However, it always gives me pause because I think... is this a *truly* unnecessary product? It feels right on the line.

This joke in #rescuerangers flashes so fast but oh my god. I think I got them all! #ChipandDaleRescueRangers #chipanddale

In Victorian times, they believed fiction was unsuitable for a lot of children because they could not distinguish what was real and what was not. It was the biggest shock of my life to realize that they might've actually been right about this, but with respect to many adults. There are, and I mean this extremely sincerely, a lot of adults--who are not even the especially stupid ones--who fundamentally fail to grasp aspects of what fiction is and how it works.