Just another step on the euphemism treadmill honestly. And less accurate. Idk what's wrong with saying a country is developing or undeveloped, its much less ambiguous than global south or third world, when 99% of the time what youre trying to say is that the country lacks infrastructure, economic development, and law and order.

Imo "Global South" is actually the most problematic of the three because it implies that a country is undeveloped because of its geographic position. I.e. the implication is "if you're south of the equator, your country sucks." Any nation can move from undeveloped to developing or developing to developed, but you can't move your physical location on the map.

The same basis by which womens-only sports are legal at all I guess.

Correct. The particular swing among Hispanics can be directly connected to Trumps unpopular immigration enforcement.

Also, speaking with a couple former Trump supporters, the disillusionment with Iran goes beyond gas prices (or even inflation in general). There really was a belief among a lot of Trump supporters that the US shouldn't be messing around in the middle east. And, lets not forget about the Epstein files. That really took the wind out of the sails of a lot of his supporters.

You're too fat to fly on earth. On a hypothetical planet with 10x the atmosphere you might be able to fly!

That wouldn't stop a vacuum pump from working though...

I feel like a lot of places nowadays just take off the fill cap and vacuum pump it out.

There was one kid, maybe like 10, who was dressed as some sort of mad scientist, so when he came to the door I said "Doctor! Good to see you! Any good experiments lately? And completely in stride he just says "yeah, him" and he gestures to his little brother who's dressed like some kind of gremlin/monster thing with horns and wings. It was a fun coordinated idea and I just really liked his confidence, a lot of kids are too shy for that kind of thing!

Hard to tell but my impression is we had more kids come to our house this year than 2 years ago. We were out of town last year. I think a lot of it depends on weather.

I've got a fun home gym setup - just a bench, dumbells, and a functional trainer. There's no muscle group i can't hit with multiple different exercises. A squat rack would be nice, but too big heavy, and expensive. So I just do 1-legged squats instead!

With that said, if you are rhe kind of person that likes to always be doing different exercises then I dont know if I I'd recommend it. I dont really get bored with doing the same exercises, so I think I benefit from the extremely low activation energy of just being able to walk down the hall and hit the gym.

https://investor.redditinc.com/news-events/news-releases/news-details/2026/Reddit-Reports-Third-Quarter-2026-Results/default.aspx

They are still highly profitable, although yeah I agree their long term prospects are dimming.

It is a sound strategy for companies that need to reach a certain size to be viable, pretty much every mass-consumer tech company does it/did it.

Ah