That sounds expensive. Have you considered taking up smoking to save money? /s

Free market folks love to crow about the invisible hand and market corrections (and they’re not completely wrong). They just forget that, in the real world, “market correction” often looks like people dying.

Once the technology exists, we need clanker laws.

Make it illegal to generate ML output without a positive watermark.

That’s a 5 from me

I believe that religion, at its best, gives us the vocabulary to express experiences that are beyond words. They spill over into music, song, art, poetry, and ritual. At the largest moments of our lives, we can feel disoriented by experiences for which we have no context; extreme loss or love, the birth of a child or the shock of illness. Religion can give us a connection to countless generations who have shared those experiences. It can give us a connection to something larger, outside ourselves.

Religious institutions can offer a social fabric that is often missing in modern life. There is no other place I can think of where you find a single room filled with families, children, elderly, across ways of life, incomes, and all sharing equal parts in one purpose.

Projectivity is another great option, especially if you want a few more options without anything you don’t want.

Not what you asked, but if your email client is showing you ads, just get a new email client.

I. Am. So. Ready.

Even the font got skinnier!

There is none, but here are some that show just the opposite:

Male Circumcision for the Prevention of Acquisition and Transmission of Sexually Transmitted Infections (2010)

Male Circumcision for the Prevention of HSV-2 and HPV Infections and Syphilis (2009)

The Medical Benefits of Male Circumcision (2013)

Circumcision impedes viral disease (2009)

Circumcision Curbs Risk of Genital Herpes and HPV Infection (2009)

Not at all what the article says. The herpes connection has nothing to do with the act of circumcision, and was a review of individual case studies, not an overall rate.

How ridiculous. That’s literally not even something that falls under the powers of the president or federal government.

These things are notoriously difficult to measure accurately, but this is from Statistica Statista, which has a reputation for pretty good metrics. At the very least, one would expect their metrics to be comparable across the analysis, if not necessarily a perfect measure of absolute numbers.

Edit: thanks for catching the typo.

Why do either?

Wikipedia is suspect now too. They’ve sold the site to AI search. Hard to say that they had much of a choice, but the sure did it swiftly and gleefully.

Okay, all of that was for the mastectomy pun? I’ll take it.

Still better than ghosting I usually get.

Meta’s “financial model is to reward content creators who get engagement, and as we know, the best way of getting engagement is to produce rage bait, extremist material, aggravating material: anything that will get people upset and arguing is the best way to get engagement.”

That tracks.