PertAndPlump

Jimmy Page is the Jesse Owens of blues

[PertAndPlump @PertAndPlump]

Had he not died the way he did, George Floyd would be dead today

[mzra @rhodes_mzra]

"What trade would you want your daughter to go into?" remains an absolute kill shot for any old person who insists on giving bad life advice to young men

[Reddit Lies @reddit_lies]

Daily reminder that Redditors "debunked" Starlink as "impossible" 8 years ago.

Just in case you start thinking a phone scratcher has a better mental model of thermodynamics than SpaceX engineers.

[Brotherhood @DiggingInTheDi1]

@reddit_lies These are the people who think it's possible to retool all of society perfectly into a communist enclave, mind you

[Planet Sardinia @Planet_Sardinia]

📸Photo taken by Thomas Ashby during his journey to Sardinia in 1906–1912, titled 'Traditional Sardinian Family'. The location is Fonni, the highest village in Sardinia, located on the Gennargentu massif.

[Lomez @L0m3z]

@xwanyex There are entire careers like this. Academia famously.

What’s interesting about the psychology of it is that the closer you are to the threshold that makes it just good enough to never leave, the more jealously you guard it.

[wanye @xwanyex]

Adam Carolla has an old line about how if you want to destroy somebody’s life, just give them free rent in a shitty little house. You’ll come back 30 years later and find them still living in that shitty little house, because it was just too good of a deal for them to go out and do all the things that they would’ve otherwise done to improve their lives.

[Mike Fellman @MikeFellman]

Rent control obviously comes at the expense of landlords.

When its implemented poorly and buildings cannot cover costs of capital improvements, it hurts future tenants by defunding affordable housing.

[Mike Fellman @MikeFellman]

Rent control is indeed unambiguously benefits tenants in rent controlled units.

Yes, units can fall into disrepair but the revealed preference of those stabilized tenants is to have cheap rent not a nicer place.

You can voluntarily leave a rent controlled unit.

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[PertAndPlump @PertAndPlump]

@DixieBarFight @Cernovich You can’t win if you don’t play

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

Mohsen Mahdawi is 34 years old.

He first enrolled at Birzeit University in the West Bank in 2008 and studied there for six years. In 2018 he enrolled as an undergraduate at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. He stayed there until 2021, and never earned a credential despite enrolling as a seventh year senior and being a full time student there for four years. Despite this extremely suspicious academic record, he was admitted as a transfer to Columbia University — a school which rejects over 97% of applicants — where he attended as an undergraduate for another four years.

Columbia’s rules explicitly state that students must be progressing toward an on-time graduation, but they accepted Mahdawi as an eleventh year undergraduate and allowed him to remain a student in good standing even though he was evidently not maintaining a full course load. His student status was a pretext; he was acting as a full-time anti-American, anti-Jewish and pro-terrorism activist. Since he claims to be a Palestinian refugee, it is unclear who was paying his tuition or providing for his rent and expenses in New York City while he was engaged in subverting American institutions.

He finally earned a bachelor’s degree in May 2025 from one of the top five American universities after 17 years as an undergraduate and was accepted to a master’s program at Columbia even though the State Department was already trying to deport him on national security grounds.

Democrats at every level fought hard to keep him in the country.

[John Rain @johnthenoticer]

It's always a lot easier to break something than to build or rebuild it.

The same is true for IQ and intelligence: we've never found an environmental intervention that reliably raises IQ in a lasting way, but it's very easy to permanently lower it, for example, by depriving a child of adequate nutrition.

Yet in Western countries, virtually no children experience those extreme environmental deprivations that seriously impair intelligence.

As a result, the environment plays only a very minor role in intelligence differences between individuals, and it's mostly genetic differences that show up.

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

Now that everyone knows how CRS-style narrative manipulation works, these statements are reliably having the opposite of the intended effect. Rather than calming the situation, the assumption is that the family was manipulated or coerced by simpering collaborationist eunuchs, which only intensifies the moral outrage.

Another button on the control panel has been broken.

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

"The man in the shop said these trousers were a perfect fit for me."
"The doctor said I should cut down."
"My friends all agreed I look better in short hair."
"The plumber recommended this epoxy for my damaged bathroom tiles."
"The psychiatrist recommended these pills."
"It is good for the economy, according to this opinion piece."
"My therapist agrees we need further sessions."
"My college professor said drugs were mostly harmless if used correctly."
"The president promised."
"I don't know enough about architecture."
"These are evil people, the media all says so."
"Our son's dentist recommended this treatment."
"My boyfriend said all girls do it these days."
"It comes highly recommended."
"Apparently the engine needs a tune up."
"Don't you trust the science?"
"It is the latest model."

[Orcbrand's Kojimaic Matters @kojimaicmatters]

I told a black woman today that a black woman invented the telescope and she said "I know baby we's smart like that," then I told her that a black woman invented the iPhone and she said "yeah that was my auntie she deadass smart," then I told her a black woman invaded Poland in 1939 and she said, "oh baby you know it, they was askin' for it too, don't even get me started about all that," and I marveled at her wisdom, "no please, do tell," I said and sat my ass down to listen, and she said "oh no you don't! the fuck wrong wit you that's a dirty ass floor! I am NOT doin' this shit again with you crackas sittin' on my damn floor, I ain't got time for this bullshit! order a damn donut or get the FUCK outta here NOW" and I apologized profusely for offending her and gave her my order, a large iced caramel macchiato with whole milk, and a French Cruller, and she said "mhmmm, we outta crullers you want somethin' else?" and I didn't have an answer for her I really wanted a French Cruller but I checked my privilege and said, "black woman invented macchiato," and she said "i know baby," and I was amazed, all the whiteness which had accumulated within my body over centuries of white hegemony simply melted away, like butter on a stainless teel pan... After thirty minutes she came up to the counter, "MACCHIATO WHO GOT THE MACCHIATO" and I approached and she handed me my iced caramel macchiato, and I took a sip, it was like the scales had fallen off my eyes and it was like I could see for the first time... "ma'am excuse me," I said, "what" she answered, and with the burden of white supremacy no longer weighing me down I finally had the courage to ask, "would you teach me how... to wash my legs?" and she answered, "I'm on my break." Truly at that moment I could feel with a great intensity incomparable to anything I'd known under the haze of hegemonic whiteness that now seemed so unfathomably distant, in the taste of a lukewarm Dunkin Donuts iced caramel macchiato, that black lives matter. From that day forward, the abolition of whiteness would be my one, and only, purpose. I was woke.

[PertAndPlump @PertAndPlump]

@LeahLibresco My claim is that a grown pig has greater capacity than you, but you’re a human and the pig is not

[Cole Maritz @ColeMaritz]

63 New Yorkers have been arrested 5k+ times for crimes on the subway.

327 New Yorkers were arrested 6k+ times for shoplifting in 2022.

Imagine how much we could increase quality of life in NYC by arresting a tiny population of career criminals

[wanye @xwanyex]

Maybe it’s 20 small things is equal to one big thing. Maybe it’s 100. Maybe the exchange rate is 500x or 1000x.

Whatever the number, the conversion is in principle possible. There is a point at which you absolute should execute somebody for “stealing a candy bar” or whatever.

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

There was a trend around 1998-2003 for young city gals to wear overalls. It was welcomed by a lot of young men - because of the loose fit and easy access downstairs. You could also flip the front buttons, and everything fell off. Maybe the Vances can reboot fertility.

[Lee (Greater) @shortmagsmle]

Accidentally re-inventing “thinking” from first principles

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

The most shocking thing from a Japanese perspective is not the crimes themselves.

It is that British people are being turned into second-class citizens in their own homeland — and they are still expected to stay polite about it.

Grooming gang victims were ignored for years.
Now, after another attempted beheading, the same pattern: downplay the attacker, crack down on anyone who gets angry.

You have elections. You have a military. You have history.

Yet your leaders continue importing the exact people who are destroying your safety, and most of you still say nothing.

In Japan, this would be considered an invasion. And we would respond accordingly.

Britain, you are running out of time to remember what it means to defend your own.