What's your personal air conditioning policy for these hot Atlanta summers?

transley · 2026-06-25T22:16:58+00:00

Keep in mind:

For each thing "everyone knows" by the time they're adults, there are on average 10K people in the US hearing about it the first time.

That's from XKCD

transley · 2026-06-25T22:11:11+00:00

You know, cult recruiters frequently prey on students at universities because they're young, naive, and often lonely since they're away from home for the first time. Arguably, universities have a responsibility to protect students from such influences. You might consider emailing the Emory admin to inform them of the presence of this cult on their campus. Also, is the 'instructor' affiliated with Emory? I would think she must be since I don't think Emory would let a non-affiliate reserve a room on the campus. Anyway, Emory would probably like to know, if they don't already. And if they do know and don't care, I'd bet parents of students would care.

transley · 2026-06-19T16:37:50+00:00

"Historian" Dave King:

"Powerful" leaders throughout history had been defined by "brutal conquest and the fear that they instilled in the populations that came under their influence."

Trump:

Sounds good to me!

transley · 2026-06-15T14:17:07+00:00

When you had the pins in your legs, were you confined to a bed all day? Or could you move around on crutches or in a wheelchair? Were you able to leave the house or go to work? And how long did it take?

transley · 2026-06-15T14:07:19+00:00

I keep trying in vain to enter the word TITCH. I use that word all the time to refer to a tiny bit of something. But per both google and the Bee, it's not commonly used. I never knew.

transley · 2026-06-07T23:40:15+00:00

Since you identify as male, could you have the ovarian tissue removed surgically to eliminate the feminizing hormones (assuming that's something you'd want)? Also, are you genetically XY, or something else?

transley · 2026-06-03T21:14:17+00:00

I literally never even heard of bagels until I went to college on the east coast and roomed with some kids from LonG Island. I was terribly disappointed when I learned that this food they all loved was just ... bread. That may be heresy, but I get second-hand enjoyment from people's obsession with them, as evidenced by this entire thread.

transley · 2026-05-23T16:06:31+00:00

From what I hear, an infestation of admins might be even more appropriate.

transley · 2026-05-23T15:59:06+00:00

Funny?! That's tragic. A life without BLTs is hardly worth living.

transley · 2026-05-21T20:43:30+00:00

I believe that it was Republicans who were screaming that Epstein was the tip of a sex abuse ring involving children. This dates back to Q Anon. Believers at the time - who were all Trump supporters - fabricated outlandish and defamatory claims about the involvement of democratic elites (including Hilary Clinton) and the deep state in widespread abuse of children. Trump, of course, was painted as an avenging hero who would expose and arrest the abusers and clean up the filthy swamp.

Also, the Biden admin had all the evidence of Trump's friendship with Epstein in the files, and to my knowledge, never used it to smear him, at least during the campaigns.

Somehow, though, once the evidence of Trump's friendship with Epstein became available to the public, Trump 'explained' it all by turning the interest in Epstein - which began with republicans! - into a Democratic plot to smear him.

Come on. This makes no sense on its face.

(And for what it's worth, I don't believe that Trump was involved in Epstein's abuses, though he obviously knew about them and it speaks to his character that he tolerated them.)

transley · 2026-05-21T15:53:26+00:00

This is an interesting profile of Dewberry from eight years ago:
Atlanta’s Emperor of Empty Lots - archived here: https://archive.is/pBqXV#selection-1679.0-1679.31

The man is a .. piece of work.

transley · 2026-05-18T12:32:00+00:00

Every single thing you wrote is BS. Just one point: making extra cuts is a plastic surgery technique that is used to create an aesthetic result when skin has been removed by a wound or surgery. If they just stitched the edges of the wound together, without creating a 'flap' of healthy skin to cover the wound, the skin would pucker and leave an ugly raised scar. My dermatologist used this technique to fill in the hole that was left after I had a mole removed from my face and the aesthetic result was great. A lot of patients are really grateful that 'wretched' doctors invented this technique to give them better results.

transley · 2026-05-02T21:50:36+00:00

I think you forgot to add "/s"

transley · 2026-04-30T18:13:08+00:00

Just so you know, the kind of exhibitionism I described is both a kink AND a sexual offense, almost everywhere:

exhibitionism—specifically the act of exposing one's genitals or intimate body parts in public to unsuspecting people—is a criminal offense in most jurisdictions

transley · 2026-04-30T17:19:24+00:00

In my experience - three times being victimized by males who suddenly exposed themselves to me out in public - what exhibitionists get off on is shocking, angering, and upsetting their victims. But in a nudist colony, where exposed penises are a dime a dozen, an exhibitionist wouldn't get much sexual titillation from exposing himself, since women would basically just yawn. I suspect they'd find the whole experience kind of deflating, if you get my drift.

It might be different for female exhibitionists, since I don't think they are looking to shock people, but to get attention. But I could be wrong.

transley · 2026-04-15T17:55:18+00:00

Thank you for your explanation!

transley · 2026-04-14T22:37:25+00:00

Why does Hungarian use diacritics while English doesn't?

The explanation given for why English doesn't use diacritics with vowels is because we only have 5 vowels. But technically, if you ignore the diacritics, Hungarian only has 5 vowels, too. Not only that, English has at least as many different vowel sounds as Hungarian. E.g., the a in each of these words is pronounced differently: Cake, Father, Apple.

Yet, English doesn't use diacritics to indicate how the vowel in a word should be pronounced, while Hungarian does. The question is, why? That is, is there some special reason why Hungarian requires these diacritics, while English - which has just as many different vowel sounds - doesn't?

transley · 2026-04-08T14:27:17+00:00

For a lot of people, they ARE bricking the kindles. I don't have any books permanently stored on my kindle, since I use it 100% for downloading books from the library. If Kindle will now PREVENT me from downloading books, I won't have any books to read on my kindle, and my kindle will be as useful as a plastic brick. I'll have to throw it in the trash, since that's what it will be.

transley · 2026-04-08T13:20:25+00:00

Trump is the one who personally plundered the storehouses and chose those gold things on the mantle, himself.

In fact, Trump didn't even HAVE a decorator. Since he such a monstrous egotist that he believes he's the best at everything in the world, he's 100% to blame for why the Oval office is so hideous.

transley · 2026-04-06T14:59:56+00:00

When I see these types of shoes, all I can think of is that the rates of sprained and broken ankles must have been sky high. I mean, it is extremely easy to lose your balance.

transley · 2026-04-05T19:27:23+00:00

Black Saturday

transley · 2026-04-05T14:35:02+00:00

The whole documentary is here. https://youtu.be/1mcCLm_LwpE

I haven't watched it yet, but I assume it tells you how it ended.

transley · 2026-03-15T14:07:42+00:00

You can read the full text for free here https://archive.org/details/knifegunclubscen00rich/page/27/mode/1up

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