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for those not in the know, "86" is longtime restaurant industry lingo for taking something off the menu because you've run out of it
this is why when I was a waitress and the chef told us to 86 the meatloaf we would all pull out our guns and shoot the meatloaf to death
just the latest in a series of brutal reputational hits for the T-Rex. when I was a kid this dinosaur was King Shit, now every 5 years someone's like "actually he didn't even hunt, he was covered in feathers, he was three low-quality dinos in a trench coat"
Researchers say the Tyrannosaurus Rex may have actually been three separate dinosaurs. bit.ly/4c3ZQkC
Readers added context
Misleading headline: Research points to Tyrannosaurus-"Rex" specimens diverging into three Tyrannosaurus species, not different dinosaurs.
The headline leads people to believe each skeleton is made of three distinct dinosaurs when every specimen is of a Tyrannosaurus species
link.springer.com/article/10.100…
scratch the surface of every cheerful trend piece about how teens are drinking less, smoking less, having fewer conflicts and less sex, and you will find this chart
I don’t support Donald Trump but I also don’t support journalists lying to their audiences, and when he says (paraphrased) “these pro-war people wouldn’t be talking such a big game if they were on the front lines” it is actually not the same thing as saying they should be shot
WATCH: Donald Trump suggests @Liz_Cheney should be fired upon
It's an escalation of his violent rhetoric
My open of today's @CNNThisMorning
Cheney just responded to Trump -- shown below
struggling to understand how, in five short years, we went from "this reference to 'boofing' in Brett Kavanaugh's HS yearbook proves he is an unrepentant rapist" to "idk guys the half-naked corpse with grievous pelvic injuries could have been like that when Hamas got there"
Don't criticize Whoopi's suspension because people shouldn't be suspended for controversial comments. Criticize it because it's the network's way of trying to worm out of any bad publicity it might cause for THEM. Even calling it a "suspension" is buying their cover story.
the Spotify/Rogan thing is such a case displaced aggression— it’s like if a bunch of nutritionists got mad at Shop Rite for stocking Doritos because it’s “platforming junk food”
you’re not really mad at Shop Rite, you’re mad that you can’t make people not like junk
amazing genre of tweet right now that's like "as war rages, the heroism of the Ukrainian people stands in stark contrast to how much this random group of people I hate, who have nothing to do with the conflict, totally suck"
not just that you *shouldn't* annihilate someone's life with a couple of keystrokes as punishment for being rude to you; if you *can* do this, if this option is available to you, it should trigger some introspection as to where the power in that interaction was actually located
