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Re: Political Discussions
The man's a genius I say:
The latest chapter in this ongoing farce came when Trump showed us a picture of Abrego Garcia’s hand, with the initials MS13 tattooed apparently by an artist who has found a way to use a typesetter instead of a needle.
And these are magical tattoos, because the Mediate article includes a photo of Abrego Garcia’s hand taken during his meeting with Senator Van Hollen in which the letters are no longer present.
Re: What did you get today?
Sounds to me like you need to get another one then. Different finish or shape maybe. You’d be losing money if you didn’t.
Rdp77
Re: Upcoming cigar release
Asylum Announces Megalophobia, a 13 x 134 Cigar
Over half a pound of cigar, who's going to bite on this?
At $250 per box of two, this could be a hard cigar to swallow.
Yakster
Re: What are you reading?
An Age of Extinction Is Coming. Here’s How to Survive.
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Ross Douthat
By Ross Douthat
Opinion Columnist
April 19, 2025
Every great technological change has a destructive shadow, whose depths swallow ways of life the new order renders obsolete. But the age of digital revolution — the time of the internet and the smartphone and the incipient era of artificial intelligence — threatens an especially comprehensive cull. It’s forcing the human race into what evolutionary biologists call a “bottleneck” — a period of rapid pressure that threatens cultures, customs and peoples with extinction.
When college students struggle to read passages longer than a phone-size paragraph and Hollywood struggles to compete with YouTube and TikTok, that’s the bottleneck putting the squeeze on traditional artistic forms like novels and movies.
When daily newspapers and mainline Protestant denominations and Elks Lodges fade into irrelevance, when sit-down restaurants and shopping malls and colleges begin to trace the same descending arc, that’s the bottleneck tightening around the old forms of suburban middle-class existence.
When moderates and centrists look around and wonder why the world isn’t going their way, why the future seems to belong to weird bespoke radicalisms, to Luigi Mangione admirers and World War II revisionists, that’s the bottleneck crushing the old forms of consensus politics, the low-key ways of relating to political debates.
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Re: Whatcha smokin this morning?
@VegasFrank said:
Peter's favorite Ashton.
Got a box coming on Monday!
peter4jc
Re: Whatcha smokin this morning?
I might have to look at getting one myself. Just finishing this thing up now, two plus hours in.
Itsfine
