What is that saying, those who can’t provide a cogent counter-argument go with an ad-hominem?

MFW tsunamis are basically quantum particles

Should Americans be free to love boobs? Are you conservative (whatever that means to you)?

No I’m pretty sure it’s the grocery bill

Community notes has not read Seveneves, what a complete travesty

I typically alternate between boss and slave-driver

There are now so many papers in the thread — 73 of them! — that it’s become entirely unmanageable. I am starting a new thread here. Please consider sharing if you find economics interesting.

I promise I’m an adult

Very much recommend this conversation. My stance, contra Douthat, is that embryos do not have moral status. But the argument that early abortion/discarding embryos is not different from early miscarriage is obviously ridiculous. Also, while genetic testing is an incredible

A million times this. Enjoy your unprecedented freedom. Be good to each other. Fully own yourself.

But let’s give Russia all of Crimea and Donetsk

Are we not doing the whole dehumanizing language thing anymore? I guess dehumanizing language is not a thing anymore. Cool. Mr. Eldin, you are such a eunuch, so utterly without affect or agency, that you are being genocided by a woman in midtown, which is pitiable.

Again, please read Helen’s entire thread, and also: Remember that less than 300 years ago, a country founded by *Christians* thought it so important that the church be kept away from institutional power that they wrote it into the Constitution. I’ve no doubt that, in the 2-3

They just jammed a flag in that kid's back because that's what we did back then.

And we liked it. We loved it!

Weapons

Ah yes, I’m sure an organization that depends on viewership for half its revenue made this decision specifically in order to upset its customer base.

IDK but I noticed that my husband gets incredibly tired when I tell him his wife wants sex. He’ll be like “But I just gave it to you like half an hour ago” — excuses, excuses…