Audiences don't hate diverse characters. What they hate is being slammed as bigots for rejecting bad work from pretentious, unskilled activists posing as writers. If the demography of your characters becomes more important than the story, your story will probably suck.

Elon Musk

AC Arjun Blokes who like explaining things and also have low emotional intelligence - they can't read the room to know when their explanations might be wanted, and they can't read the person in front of them to know whether what they're saying is interesting to anyone else. But it's

Unethical life pro-tip: you can turn ANYTHING into a huge deal, just by constricting your awareness.

So many stories like this. I was booted as a reservist at my 15 year mark - would have boarded for O5 that year ... Still rankles that that part of my identity was yanked away like that. "There's an FDA approved shot (which is not available anywhere), so now we can demand you

Gavin Newsom

Perhaps it's because we passed Prop. 36 to make crime illegal again, we won a Supreme Court case restoring the right to remove homeless, and we finally have a secure border: all things you stridently opposed. It's called Newsom-Proofing California.

Also, Asians exhibit far lower adipocyte hyperplasia than people with African or European descent. If their diet/exercise habits go south, the resulting metabolic dysfunction is less likely to manifest as obesity.

The U.K. is not free.

Crucial nuance! Something can be necessary (oxygen) but not sufficient (to cause a fire).

This is so bleak.

When Graham Linehan 🎗️ landed at Heathrow, he was met by five armed police officers, and immediately arrested. His ‘crime’? Three gender-critical tweets. As Graham says in his Substack: “In a country where paedophiles escape sentencing, where knife crime is out of control, where women

Oh FFS. This is getting ridiculous. New study says that climate change is making people sad and “underscores the urgent need for climate policies that integrate emotional impacts and address inequalities in psychological climate vulnerability.” I don’t know about all that, but

The world is burning less, not more Contrary to standard climate narrative Satellite data shows that burn has declined this century 2025 is on track for lowest burn in 21st century And historical reconstruction shows that burned area has likely declined since 1900

Here’s an uncomfortable truth: it is the mark of a fool to despise correction, but it is the mark of the wise to welcome it. Psalm 141:5 says, “Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness; let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head; let my head not refuse it.” That same image of

This is most of the world outside of America And that's not to say American capitalism is pure and perfect and virtuous But the American ethos of win-win and "Let's BOTH make $$" is unique rather It's not just high trust either, there's a difference of world view in an

Not removed. A cover letter needs to be applied to these records that describes 1) why the order the service member refused was unlawful, 2) why it was right that the service member refused the unlawful order, 3) how the issuing authority was held accountable and 4) a copy of

Absolutely sums up this generation. Teachers have to put up with this stuff. Yes I know this is a skit but it fits so perfectly in today’s world.

In America, they want kids to get it because putting it on the childhood schedule triggers the 1986 Act to prevent anyone, whether child or adult, from being able to sue the manufacturer. There is a reason the US is an outlier and it has nothing to do with your health.

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