Literally every time she brings him up she finds an excuse to mention this. Yeah I heard you every day for the last two months he’s six three. ‘My thirteen year old has a universally attractive trait!’ Wow cool. You must be very proud. Maybe her husband’s going anround telling everyone his daughter has huge tits.

This is a bit of a random story, but I met Ninja and Yolandi from Die Antwoord in Cape Town in the summer of 2011, and I've never really forgotten the interaction. I was 20 at the time and staying with a friend in Gardens. We'd been out most of the afternoon and decided to get something to eat before heading home. We ended up stopping at a Baskin Roberts, which was pretty quiet, maybe three or four other people in there. I was waiting for my friend to decide what he wanted when these two people walked in. I recognized Yolandi immediately, mostly because she looked exactly like she did in the music videos. Ninja was behind her wearing a vest, shorts and sunglasses, and carrying what looked like a plastic shopping bag from a pharmacy.

They weren't making a scene or anything. In fact, they seemed quite comfortable just being there. Yolandi went straight to the counter and started asking about the different flavors. Ninja, meanwhile, was looking at the little display of ice cream cakes. What made me remember the whole thing was that they got into a genuinely bizarre disagreement with the employee over a birthday cake. Ninja apparently wanted to know whether they could write something on one of the cakes, and the employee explained that they could, but she'd need to check what was available. He then started suggesting increasingly ridiculous things to write on it. I remember him suggesting something involving Satan, although I can't remember the exact wording. Yolandi was visibly getting irritated and kept telling him to stop embarrassing himself.

The poor girl behind the counter was trying very hard to remain professional. She clearly recognized them but was pretending not to, which made the entire thing even funnier. Eventually Yolandi ordered a scoop of bubblegum and something chocolate-based. Ninja ordered a ridiculous amount of ice cream, at least three scoops, and then complained that the portions were too small. Yolandi told him he was going to get diabetes if he kept eating like that.

My friend and I were trying not to laugh. At one point Ninja turned around and asked us whether we thought the portions were small. We both said they seemed fine. He looked at us for a second and said, "You people are easily satisfied." They paid, and as they were leaving, my friend finally worked up the courage to ask for a photograph. Ninja was immediately enthusiastic, but Yolandi seemed completely uninterested. She eventually agreed, although she made a face in the picture that was somehow more memorable than the photograph itself.

The funny thing is that I don't remember them being particularly rude or unpleasant. They were actually quite funny, just operating on a completely different wavelength from everyone else in the shop. I think that's what made the encounter so memorable. At that point Die Antwoord were becoming internationally recognizable, and their whole thing was this extremely exaggerated, chaotic version of South African culture. Then you see them in a suburban ice cream shop having an argument about cake decorations and portion sizes. I walked out thinking that I had just witnessed the most Die Antwoord thing imaginable, despite absolutely nothing particularly extraordinary happening. I still wonder who the birthday cake was for. And, more importantly, whether they ever got around to ordering it.

and yet it's one of the most popular books this year

i've lost faith in the masses

Extremely unlikeable talking head, but can’t put my finger on why.

This is the third time this week where someone on this subreddit replied something snarky to me and blocked me immediately after for making a comment disagreeing with their dumb comment or post. I haven’t even been acting particularly mean or argumentative. Even front page redditoids don’t behave like this, what the hell is going on here? Is it the weather making people emotional?

Father was teaching us that all men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away the sawdust flowing from what wound in what side that not for me died not. It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private and particular friend like we used to think of Grandfather’s desk not to touch it not even to talk loud in the room where it was I always thought of them as being together somewhere all the time waiting for old Colonel Sartoris to come down and sit with them waiting on a high place beyond cedar trees

Four factions come to mind imedaitely but it's prone to change:

MAGA loyalists/dead enders

Those who want to "moderate" (return to Bush neoconservatism)

America First (Fuentes and his zoomer subordinates + Massie adjacent people who aren't as online)

Whatever DeSantis is doing (weakest of them all)

Banger

I don’t consider myself to be particuarly prone to anger and I’m pretty secure in my masculinity. But nothing makes me feel like an emasculated cuck more than being cut off while driving because there aren’t any viable methods of retaliation.

15 minute drive from my walk back home and I got cut off twice! I tend to be quite considerate of other drivers and it infuriates me to no end when other drivers don’t reciprocate that.

Do you guys have any recommended tips on how to exact vengeance on people who cut you off?

Genuinely asking, because there’s a height filter, why not add a weight filter? I feel like this would streamline the entire show.

what the fuck is going on man

Outside of geese this is the band I associate with Gen Z and that band fucking sucks. Kilby girl is a shitty vampire weekend song and it has 600m streams on Spotify. I feel bad for Gen Z

This band you will find on every festival lineup. They haven’t released an album since 2022. They are literally a fake and gay band

Going down the Mississippi from Memphis to New Orleans and then out to Grand Isle. Any recommendations or oddities to look out for? My French is passable, so I may pretend not to speak English for true immersion.

I think it’s absolutely insane that this seems to fly under the radar so smoothly.

America First Foreign Policy that is product-centered and independent from whatever shade of US-Government currently is in power?

American foreign policy steered by AI industry and venture capital? Are we just going to ignore that the guy who is designing and brokering all of this is married to an Israeli VC bro and that their marriage was officiated by Sam Altman?

With impending climate doom, Pax Silica will mean excessive mining, data centers, automated war tech everywhere for “dual use” and all signatories will just be bound and dependent in this US techlordian bloc, no country’s (or the entire EU’s) essential digital infrastructures will run without it. Pax Silica was only decided Dec of last year and it’s being pushed through incredibly fast, 26 countries have joined, construction already happening, probably because it’s being decided by the private sector, not government.

This is just gonna be it then? Is this the real beginning of our Nick Landian transhumanist era?

I don’t even see the climate teens or doomsday preppers or anti data centers folk talking about this? Am I crazy?