Edward -> Ted is a pretty common preferred name. It’s very common for people to go by their middle or second name over their first. It’s also very common for Americans with non-English sounding names to adopt a more English-sounding name, whether it be a first name or a last name. For example, lots of Chinese people will have an English name they choose to go by, in addition to their legal Chinese name. And of course many trans people adopt different names post-transition, while not necessarily changing their legal name.

You may be right in your implication that Ted Cruz prefers not to go by his birth name for political reasons. I just don’t like the association because of how it can affect all the people mentioned above. There’s nothing wrong with having a different preferred name from your legal name.

There are loads of guys who want nothing to do with the fascist movement, are not radicalized, and have no interest in harassing or assaulting women.

All the discourse online would have you believe that you’re either an ardent feminist champion of DEI or a MAGA-screaming, ICE-boosting ultra-fascist, with no room whatsoever in between. In the real world there’s just a lot of regular people walking around going about their lives, except now they hesitate when before they might not have.

Asking a stranger out for coffee was an incredibly rare event in the past. Now it’s become pretty much extinct as a practice. The dating app conglomerate Match Group couldn’t be happier because now they can cash in even more on people’s loneliness.

I’m not going to say that the #metoo movement is solely to blame for this phenomenon. A lot of other social trends have headed in the same direction. It’s another brick in the wall.

The movement definitely created a chilling effect. A lot of guys now are simply afraid to talk to women in public. Everyone walks around in their own bubble. It’s incredibly lonely and isolating.

As for whether we should judge anything based on intent or on outcome, that’s a complicated question in itself. I’m afraid too many like to judge their friends/allies on intent but their opponents/enemies on outcome, always taking the least charitable interpretation. That’s altogether human, of course.

“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”

He could’ve been sharing that account with a friend or family.

If someone had spotted him in Israel that’d be one thing, but activity on accounts is not great evidence on its own.

Or a Mossad agent coming to execute him in his cell.

How many of these are they going to put in one house? Hopefully it’s not every brick in the wall. I feel like people would be upset if their wall had hundreds of birds nesting in it.

One brick per house would be nice though.

Shouldn’t that be “everyone is illegal on stolen land?”

Oh no, definitely not. The lack of thinking only enhances the bizarreness of the situation. When you have ideologies that lead to this kind of tail-chasing, self-defeating nonsense, you know you’ve got something special!

That’s implied by statehood. If they didn’t want Greenlanders voting they’d annex Greenland and make it an unincorporated territory like American Samoa.

The whole thing is just bizarre!

“Poor opsec” implies the 32k bet wasn’t random, it was insider information.

Pathogens and Politics: Further Evidence That Parasite Prevalence Predicts Authoritarianism.

Now who says the parasites have to be biological?

Git is not very efficient for handling a lot of binary files. Your best bet would be for hosting fanfic and erotic lit.

Wow thank you for the very detailed reply! I’m saving this!

Yes I’m serious. I think my issue is that I use hot water to brew the tea and then ice to cool it down which makes it too watery!

But that’s the case even for home made bacon (or any home made smoked / cured food for that matter).

Every time I’ve brewed iced tea it always tastes super weak sauce. Canned/packaged iced teas taste wayyyyyy too sweet to me. I just want ice cold flavourful tea with a tiny bit of sweetness. How do you do that?

I’m sure Lipton iced tea is full of artificial colours and emulsifiers and possibly even fats for some reason, in addition to excessive amounts of sugar. I’m not going to defend that crap. No one should drink that stuff.

They’re not. I was just trying to give an example of something you could swap out the Lays for that would not be “ultra processed food” but still be just as unhealthy.

So instead of Lays they’ll start serving the kids fresh cut fries, double fried and generously salted.

The problem with those is all the additives, such as nitrates. You can also get nitrates from eating bacon which is not nearly as processed.

I don’t apologize for or excuse anyone, I merely explain. Most people around here seem to prefer to hurl insults rather than understand the world around them. I block them.