The Fact That Sir Patrick Stewart And Sir Ian Mckellen Are Best Friends In Real Life Makes Me So Happy

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by mkzero

"Unfortunately, your review of my book doesn’t offer many reasons for optimism. It is a strange document—avuncular in places, but more generally sneering. I think it fair to say that one could watch an entire season of Downton Abbey on Ritalin and not detect a finer note of condescension than you manage for twenty pages running."

—Sam Harris, “The Marionette’s Lament: A Response to Dan Dennett”

No fucking shit. (In case anyone cares, fucking Google keyboard won’t let me swipe that, instead comes out as “no ducking shut”, assholes. I mean seriously, I’ve been coding for 20+ years and Google wants to be my grandma! If that doesn’t make sense, fuck you it’s the Margarita!)

(via Princeton Study: U.S. No Longer An Actual Democracy)

Asking “[w]ho really rules?” researchers Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page argue that over the past few decades America’s political system has slowly transformed from a democracy into an oligarchy, where wealthy elites wield most power.

Reading the spec to understand a bug

by uaiHebert

Time for some kitchen charts to help you adult better ;)

Hahaha!!

The Push Up Muscle Shirt | The Flattering Man

OH. MY. VIRAL. GOD.

Fyi: that called the socratic method

I wish every white person at one of these protests would commit to doing one-on-one relational work with other whites to deal with their racism

That fact - that wars maximize a political leader's power - is a key reason they often crave war and why wars, under the Constitution, were supposed to be extremely difficult for presidents to start. As John Jay wrote in Federalist 4, "absolute monarchs will often make war when their nations are to get nothing by it, but for the purposes and objects merely personal" (that's also why the absurd contortions invoked by President Obama to fight a war in Libya not only in the absence of Congressional approval, but in the face of formal Congressional disapproval, belongs high on the list of his worst and likely most enduring civil liberties assaults).

Bruce Lee plays ping pong with nunchucks like a boss

this is that shit you reblog every single time you see it on your dash. this man is a beast.

holy fuck

my jaw actually dropped

It’s still there