3+ hour, 2+ min ago  (694+ words) What is MMIWG2 SLGBTQQIA+? It might be a new, super-strong password. Maybe it's a Gen-Whatever code-like thing that's sweeping the internet, like "6-7" or something. If only it could be that mundane. For the record, as Jim Treacher'helpfully points out, it stands…...

4+ hour, 50+ min ago  (305+ words) The definition of a trade-off is "a balancing of factors all of which are not attainable at the same time." We know there are no perfect choices in anything we do or buy. It's like that old maxim about any…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (675+ words) On Tuesday I wrote about how young people seem to be migrating from mainline protestant churches to Catholicism." I analyzed the trend in terms of an outlook to personal salvation and evangelicalism." Among hardcore Evangelicals there is a term, "spiritual…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (859+ words) Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via Of Two Minds blog, A system that comes to depend on synthetic signaling for its "information" is doomed to Model Collapse, as its signaling has completely detached from the real world. That we inhabit…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (220+ words) The prime minister cited rising anxiety and sleep problems as reasons for the under-15 ban. Greece on Wednesday became the latest country to seek a ban on kids using social media The prime minister cited rising anxiety and sleep problems…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (660+ words) How to make sense of the insider jargon used by this sad, terrifying male subculture An incel who has "ascended" is someone who is able to "leave the bounds of inceldom and have sex with a woman (without payment being…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (658+ words) This brings new meaning to "male gaze." There's perhaps a reason people see the "man" " and not the woman " in the moon. Australian scientists found that humans are preconditioned to spot faces in inanimate objects, and that, more often than…...

2+ day, 48+ min ago  (501+ words) Only a quarter of Americans know when Earth Day is, according to new research. The survey of 2, 000 American adults, conducted by Talker Research on behalf of Avocado Green Mattress, found that without context, 23% believed they could identify the specific date…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (903+ words) Governments around the world are making efforts to crack down on teen social media use amid mounting evidence of potential harms, but critics argue blanket bans are an ineffective quick fix. Australia became the first country to enforce a sweeping…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (385+ words) The ITC perceives this as a type of contemporary idolatry: in attempting to replace the Creator, humanity risks being reduced to a mere "technical product" instead of being recognized as a person. The document emphasizes that human identity is not…...