every right wing take on masculinity sounds like this to me: "men are SOFT now because they don't like to do stuff that SUCKS like see who can hold HOT COALS in their hand the longest"

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Re Houthis gaining the coast in Yemen, my understanding is it's generally not good for imperial powers when they and their allies can no longer project sufficient force to control key trade routes. Can historians confirm? Cos if so I worry that perhaps the Iran war may have been a mistake for the US

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In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,

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I wrote all this up, so all the graphs are all in one places.

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amazing article

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