Like, as quickly as humanly possible. My goodness.

I’ve thought about this a lot and I think it’s best explanation isn’t the inability to understand media, but rather the active reframing of anything they think is “cool” to confirm their preexisting biases.

Back in the day people like this would have to good sense or at least survival instinct to keep it to themselves. Now they can put bells on their nonsense and find enough like minded loons to support a delusion that they’re not absolutely nuts.

I'll be honest, I think the widespread use of gear from pretty vanilla TRT to fairly benign peptides to I-can-tell-myself-it's-not-gear SARMs to blasting full on tren is a pretty slept on feature of our modern reality.

trying to refrain from making a joke about Talcum X.

There is, however, a weird self-reinforcing beauty standard thing that is a lingering issue with this too. Some "beauty" is fairly universal, some is entirely a social construct. The more society's perceived "reality" is AI slop and Maralago butchery the more those traits may become favored.

ugh.

wat

well, stop paying attention to Marc Randazza for a few short years and boy howdy things appear to have changed, eh?

honestly, you'll be happier if you don't.

The missing verb in the quoted post gives this serious versatility.

Know? Post? Celebrate? Denigrate? Dance around a sacrificial flame invoking the death of?

It's so funny because the Pope is saying very very very mildly critical things about tech that almost every normal person hears and goes "yeah, makes sense I guess <returns to not thinking about the Pope>," and the SV set is responding like it's an existential threat to their very existence.

Crean from Marquette to Indiana. Had a few great teams with Oladipo for example but never had the NCAA success Indiana demands (but hasn’t really had in decades)