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Cool guy. Part-time dog pillow.

The thing from the Simpsons of a boarded up theater with marquee reading "Yahoo Serious Festival"
A screenshot of a graph with the description: 1. What is your position regarding the United States war on Iran? A significant majority of Iranian Americans oppose the United States war on Iran, with 66.1% opposed (48.4% strongly, 17.7% somewhat) and 32.7% in support (18.6% strongly, 14.1% somewhat), while 1.2% prefer not to answer. The footer states: The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) commissioned Zogby Analytics to conduct a mixed-mode online and live-operator telephone survey of 508 Iranian-Americans between March 24-27 2026., www.iranianamericanpoll.org NOTE: Based on a confidence interval of 95%, the margin of error for 508 is +/- 4.4 percentage points.
Secondary sexual characteristics include ornamentation, color, weaponry, and many other sexual morphologies that are not directly involved in reproduction. Although these traits are expected to be sexually dimorphic, there are many exceptions. For example, polymorphisms, both sex-limited and not, present a classic example of more than two sexual phenotypes (Mank 2022). The three male morphs of the ruff (Philomachus pugnax), a bird in the sandpiper family, exhibit extremely divergent size and plumage ornamentation, which correspond to alternative mating strategies and chromosomal genotypes (Küpper et al. 2016). In many odonates, there are multiple female morphs, consisting of one or more “gynomorphs” that vary in color, and one “andromorph” that closely resembles males in color, sexual ornamentation, and behavior, presumably to avoid mating harassment (Gallesi et al. 2015). These so-called “andromorphs” exhibit morphological and behavioral variation distinct from males and “gymnomorph” females (Paulson 1998; Fincke et al. 2005; Gallesi et al. 2015), resulting in an overall phenotype that does not conform to a binary distribution and likely arises due to a variety of factors beyond male mimicry (Fincke et al. 2005). For both primary and secondary sexual morphologies, there are many cases in which the distribution of these traits is continuous, rather than binary.
For instance, the multivariate model of sex attempts to incorporate multiple binary and non-binary traits to describe the sexual phenotype (McLaughlin et al. 2023), but it is unclear how different traits should be weighted and combined in a way that is general, biologically meaningful, and grounded in evolutionary theory.
The three male morphs of the ruff (Philomachus pugnax), a bird in the sandpiper family, exhibit extremely divergent size and plumage ornamentation, which correspond to alternative mating strategies and chromosomal genotypes (Küpper et al. 2016). In many odonates, there are multiple female morphs, consisting of one or more “gynomorphs” that vary in color, and one “andromorph” that closely resembles males in color, sexual ornamentation, and behavior, presumably to avoid mating harassment (Gallesi et al. 2015). These so-called “andromorphs” exhibit morphological and behavioral variation distinct from males and “gymnomorph” females (Paulson 1998; Fincke et al. 2005; Gallesi et al. 2015), resulting in an overall phenotype that does not conform to a binary distribution and likely arises due to a variety of factors beyond male mimicry (Fincke et al. 2005).
Lyman Stone posts: So far the Bluesky response to my NYT op Ed has been: 1) Lyman has bad tweets 2) cancel Lyman 3) it’s good birth rates are falling 4) nobody should have kids Notably missing as a response: Any evidence my thesis is wrong. Benjamin Ryan responds: Stern weighs in: [screenshot of a post by Mark Joseph Stern saying "Again. This is the author. What are we doing here?" with a screenshot of a post by Lyman Stone which begins with "The Somali community is ascourge on the republic."]
However, defining biological sex as binary does not imply that individuals necessarily fall into two classes, as they can produce male, female, both, or neither gamete class.
Nina Shaw @proudchicagoan · Nov 2, 2018 OJ Simpson got away with murder..do you bring that up everyone gets acquitted of a murder after him? SMH Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald If OJ Simpson went on TV and talked about how heinous murder is and how outraged he is at those who do it, and he pretended he never did anything like that and media figures treated him as having moral credibility on this topic, then yes: I probably would bring that up.
what this means is that you can no longer sell a spreadsheet model that doesn’t have a lot of industry knowledge built in. Something which was always a bit commodified is now completely valueless without having at least as much human input into adding non-data insights to it. Again, people who spend a load of time in other contexts talking about building “moats” seem to think firms will forget about the importance of this when they get a bit of AI.
If there is thirty per cent of the workforce willing to work but unable to find a job, that means someone can employ them and get rich.
The video further asserts that Jewish people created plastic surgery to "blend in,"
photo of Claire Valdez, Brad Lander, Zohran Mamdani, and Darializa Avila Chevalier holding hands in a line with their hands held up.
A screenshot of the top post in this thread
This election is about which candidate will nominate Supreme Court justices who are prepared to overturn the disastrous Citizens United decision which allows billionaires to buy elections and undermine our democracy; about who will appoint new justices on the Supreme Court who will defend a woman’s right to choose, the rights of the LGBT community, workers’ rights, the needs of minorities and immigrants, and the government’s ability to protect the environment.
On 25 February 1994, Baruch Goldstein, an American-Israeli physician and member of the far-right ultra-Zionist Kach movement, carried out a mass shooting of Palestinians who were praying in the Ibrahimi Mosque (Cave of the Patriarchs) in Hebron.[1] Goldstein, dressed in Israeli army uniform,[2] opened fire with an assault rifle and killed 29 people, including children as young as 12, and wounded 125 others.[3] Goldstein was overpowered and beaten to death by survivors.
screenshot of a table: Senators breaking from their packs on presidential votes When it came to President Donald Trump's nominees and legislative priorities in 2025, most members of the Senate Democratic Caucus were consistently opposed while Republicans were supportive at record levels. Below are the Democrats who were most likely to support Trump's position and the few Republicans who didn't side with him on every vote. Absences do not affect a senator's score. To be included, senators had to cast at least half of the chamber's 225 total presidential support votes. Senators with identical scores are listed alphabetically. Click here for every senator's score. Table with 4 columns and 10 rows. (column headers with buttons are sortable) Most supportive Senate Democrats John Fetterman (Pa.) 27.3% Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) 25.0% Maggie Hassan (N.H.) 22.7% Least supportive Senate Republicans* Rand Paul (Ky.) 89.4% Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) 90.5% Susan Collins (Maine) 94.7%
Screenshot of a page on Yahoo!Life of a story from "Bang Showbiz" with headline "Taylor Swift's fiance Travis Kelce has big plans for his Tommy Hilfiger partnership"
A picture of a cross with the sun behind it, seen from the perspective of looking out from a cave (I assume), with the text saying "happy Easter from the Declaration of Independence Center"
A still from the Simpsons where everyone is saying "Say the line, Bart!"
The appeal to Hegel is hand-waving. Chambers’s argument against postliberalism rests on the assertion that liberalism, with its logic of personal and private truth, is our fate. We can’t go back. The notion that we can recover metaphysical truth and shared loves “is really a summons for a return to childhood.” And it is futile: “The bell of individual subjectivity cannot just be unrung,” and “one cannot re-enter childhood.”
screenshot of a Wikipedia page on the subject of "Assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler": This is an incomplete list of documented attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler.[1] All attempts occurred in the German Reich, except where noted. No fewer than 42 plots have been uncovered by historians.[2] However, the true number...
wormtongue and theoden
'Transparent' East Pye has faced strong opposition from politicians in the other main parties on the council including the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats and Reform UK.
a photo of a woman who is definitely not smirking
screenshot of a Wikipedia section entitled "2023 editorial board changes": In December 2023, the Theory and Society editorial board resigned. The editorial board said that this was the result of Springer Nature, the publisher, bringing in new editors-in-chief without the board's approval.[4] In January 2024, the journal's corresponding editors also resigned.[4] The corresponding editors published a letter describing Springer Nature's actions as "a clear violation of our profession’s academic norms and standards".[4
A local official in Mashgharah told the AP on Friday that the airstrike killed Ghazali’s two brothers, a niece and a nephew at their home just after sunset as they were having their fast-breaking meal during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
First off, the "Priority Delivery" is a total scam. It was pitched to us as a "psychological value add." Like I said in the title, when you pay that extra $2.99, it changes a boolean flag in the order JSON, but the dispatch logic literally ignores it. It does nothing to speed you up.
We actually ran an A/B test last year where we didn't speed up the priority orders, we just purposefully delayed non-priority orders by 5 to 10 minutes to make the Priority ones "feel" faster by comparison. Management loved the results. We generated millions in pure profit just by making the standard service worse, not by making the premium service better.
Footnote 2: To be sure, libertarians and libertines believe drug dealing is good. In their view, the drug dealer does his customer a favor by selling something the customer wants, and if the customers’s mother, newlywed wife, or teenage son objects, that is none of their business. They are wrong. No man is an island, entire of itself.
a photo of a pot from an air fryer containing what looks like melted cheese
A rather smug-looking man with the subtitle "As you know, I've got a bit of a reputation as a pretty shit-hot [French absurdist] director"
So what happens is, this guy falls off right on his face, hits his head, and I thought he died. And you know what I did? I said, 'Oh my God, that's disgusting,' and I turned away. I couldn't, you know, he was right in front of me and I turned away. I didn't want to touch him. He's bleeding all over the place, I felt terrible. You know, beautiful marble floor, didn't look like it. It changed colour. Became very red. And you have this poor guy, 80 years old, laying on the floor unconscious, and all the rich people are turning away...
screenshot from Wikipedia: Antisemitic views and statements Investigators found handwritten journals expressing antisemitic views, including material about Adolf Hitler, "Nazi culture", and drawings of a Star of David and of a swastika among Thomas's possessions.[16] Authorities stated that his journals also included what appeared to be a reference to a fringe religious movement, Black Hebrew Israelites, which the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center have identified as linked to antisemitism, with Thomas stating that "Hebrew Israelites" have taken from "ebinoid Israelites".[17] On the Saturday before the attack, the suspect's mobile browser was used to access an article titled "New York City Increases Police Presence in Jewish Neighborhoods".[16] In recent weeks, Thomas had searched online for phrases such as "Why did Hitler hate the Jews" multiple times, as well as "German Jewish Temples near me". He had also searched for "Zionist Temples" in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and in Staten Island, New York.[16]
One of several of these tracking softwares, revealed here for the first time, is called “Where’s Daddy?” “You put hundreds [of targets] into the system and wait to see who you can kill,” said one source with knowledge of the system. “It’s called broad hunting: you copy-paste from the lists that the target system produces.” Evidence of this policy is also clear from the data: during the first month of the war, more than half of the fatalities — 6,120 people — belonged to 1,340 families, many of which were completely wiped out while inside their homes, according to UN figures. The proportion of entire families bombed in their houses in the current war is much higher than in the 2014 Israeli operation in Gaza (which was previously Israel’s deadliest war on the Strip), further suggesting the prominence of this policy.
Members of Neturei Karta holding Palestinian flags and placards saying that "Judaism condemns the state of Israel and its atrocities" in London, 2022
a screenshot from the Babylon Bee with headline "America's Obesity Crisis Solved As EBT Benefits Run Out"
In the palace that I imperfectly explored, the architecture had no purpose. There were corridors that led nowhere, unreachably high windows, grandly dramatic doors that opened onto monklike cells or empty shafts, incredible upside-down staircases with upside-down treads and balustrades. Other staircases, clinging airily to the side of a monumental wall, petered out after two or three landings, in the high gloom of the cupolas, arriving nowhere. I cannot say whether these are literal examples I have given; I do know that for many years they plagued my troubled dreams; I can no longer know whether any given feature is a faithful transcription of reality or one of the shapes unleashed by my nights. This City, I thought, is so horrific that its mere existence, the mere fact of its having endured — even in the middle of a secret desert — pollutes the past and the future and somehow compromises the stars. So long as this City endures, no one in the world can ever be happy or courageous.
The Constitution requires the President to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” This is a time for leadership at the department’s highest levels. Department leaders should direct that the ILVF quickly produce a list of ineligible Israeli security force units, including Netzah Yehuda and units for which there is credible information that they have committed violations in Gaza and elsewhere. Embassy Jerusalem should then immediately present the list to Israel, and, in light of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s comments, seek renewed assurances that Israel will respect U.S. law
Opinion I created the Leahy law. It should be applied to Israel. Requiring Israel to respect human rights does not imply “moral equivalence” with Hamas May 20, 2024 More than 1 year ago 5 min 1,014 A funeral held for Palestinian American Omar Assad in Ramallah, West Bank, on Jan. 13, 2022. (Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) By Patrick Leahy
Screenshot from the Washington Post: Opinion I created the Leahy law. It should be applied to Israel. Requiring Israel to respect human rights does not imply “moral equivalence” with Hamas May 20, 2024 More than 1 year ago 5 min 1,014 A funeral held for Palestinian American Omar Assad in Ramallah, West Bank, on Jan. 13, 2022. (Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) By Patrick Leahy
Steve Buscemi saying "how do you do, fellow kids?"
Screenshot from Wikipedia: Aversion therapy See also: Behavior modification Aversion therapy used on homosexuals included electric shock and nausea-inducing drugs during presentation of same-sex erotic images. Cessation of the aversive stimuli was typically accompanied by the presentation of opposite-sex erotic images, with the objective of strengthening heterosexual feelings.[35] Another method used was the covert sensitization method, which involves instructing patients to imagine vomiting or receiving electric shocks, writing that only single case studies have been conducted, and that their results cannot be generalized. Haldeman writes that behavioral conditioning studies tend to decrease homosexual feelings, but do not increase heterosexual feelings, citing Rangaswami's "Difficulties in arousing and increasing heterosexual responsiveness in a homosexual: A case report", published in 1982, as typical in this respect.[36] Other methods of aversion therapy in addition to electric shock included ice baths, freezing, burning via metal coils, and hard labor. The intent was for the subject to associate homosexual feelings with pain and thus result in them being reduced. These methods have been concluded to be ineffective.[37] Aversion therapy was developed in Czechoslovakia between 1950 and 1962 and in the British Commonwealth from 1961 into the mid-1970s. In the context of the Cold War, Western psychologists ignored the poor results of their Czechoslovak counterparts, who had concluded that aversion therapy was not effective by 1961 and recommended decriminalization of homosexuality instead.[38] Some men in the United Kingdom were offered the choice between prison and undergoing aversion therapy. It was also offered to a few British women, but was never the standard treatment for either homosexual men or women.[39] In the 1970s, behaviorist Hans Eysenck was one of the main advocates of counterconditioning with malaise-inducing drugs and electric shock for homosex…
Screenshot of a BBC article with headline "Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world's leading experts say" It begins "The world's leading association of genocide scholars has declared that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza."
A screenshot of a twitter post by Dawkins: "Listening to the lovely bells of Winchester, one of our great mediaeval cathedrals. So much nicer than the aggressive-sounding “Allahu Akhbar.” Or is that just my cultural upbringing?"
the lionel hutz "there's [frowning] the truth and [smiling] the truth!" thing from the simpsons but with "the truth" replaced with "democracy dies in darkness"
a picture of Mr. Snrub from the Simpsons
beagle boy resting his face on a pillow in a weird way
Streicher’s major antisemitic innovation was his accusation of Jewish sex crimes. Before Streicher, the idea that the Jew was raping innocent women across Europe was not a prevalent focus amongst antisemites. In 1938, the Nuremberg Chief of Police gifted Streicher with this propaganda album titled “Jewish Criminals,” a photographic collection of Jewish men and women accused of the sexual crimes about which he consistently warned Germany
"Hugh Mann" from Futurama