The flapper sounds both more fun and more space-efficient

He’s probably all for it. More persecution of Jews abroad = more emigration to Israel = more IDF troops and settlers for newly conquered lands. Everyone’s a winner!

I’m sure they just wanted them to wish them all a happy Hanukkah. Right?

Isn’t she some kind of right-wing influencer? The crazy was probably a plus.

America! Fuck yeah!

Pros for Saab: Sweden has neither the means nor the intention to threaten Canada

I can vouch for Mythic Beasts

Like all subcultures, it is largely arbitrary, at least to a lot of people. There’s an aesthetic code that informs how you present yourself, a cultural canon of music/art/film/literature (though with considerable debate), and a set of signifiers, which in this case come largely from horror fiction and mythology. As for the death/darkness thing, that’s a human universal, people have been commenting on the awareness of mortality and the inevitable end of all things in art, philosophy and culture for ages, and nodding to that is also a way of distinguishing oneself from the superficiality of mainstream society, with its brightly-coloured consumerist pep. A stance of affected despair/melancholy can be another accoutrement of this.

There are presumably goths for whom the stance does shade into actual depression, though if you’re seriously depressed, you might not have the motivation to lace up your knee-high New Rock boots and go to the club to shimmy spookily to the Sisters of Mercy. Then again, if you’re more mildly depressive, a subculture that acknowledges darkness may be more welcoming and accommodating than one that is relentlessly cheerful and upbeat.

Intelligence can’t keep the entire population under surveillance and run precrime on people who are otherwise not suspects. For one, the idea that anyone could suddenly become a suspect because an algorithm determines from their credit card record, instant messaging keywords and/or fitness tracker readings that they may be suspicious is incompatible with a liberal society. Secondly, it wouldn’t work: terrorism is so rare that even an accurate algorithm would get mostly false positives.

Making it harder to get and keep guns does work. Civilians don’t need military-grade assault rifles in general, farmers don’t need an entire arsenal of firearms, and sporting shooters can keep their firearms in a secure locker at an accredited club facility, as they do in other countries.

In Ottoman Turkey, burglars would set a tortoise with a lighted candle on its back loose in a house they were planning to rob, to check if there was anyone home.

Go to the woods. Walk deeper. Keep walking until you no longer see sunlight. Touch moss. Put your ear to the ground and beseech the old gods for their wisdom.

I wonder how many of those who aren’t inclined towards fascist authoritarianism ceased being registered as Republicans.

That sounds really… economically anxious

Correction: Adams’ cause of death was not prostate cancer as earlier reported, but autoerotic asphyxiation.

Update: the pornographic material found at the scene has been confirmed to be AI-generated Shrek mpreg.

No, they’re not going to let a bunch of Inuit have two senators, and there won’t be enough WASPs moving there to gerrymander a Republican majority. If anything, it’d be Frozen Puerto Rico.

The bottom one looks more like F2MJ

Somebody ought to sit him down and explain the Mercator projection to him.

If you’re willing to sacrifice cows and chickens to keep your cat fed, a few thousand humans is a quantitative change.