WATCH: As shops continued to be looted in Paris, France, tonight, a local resident dumped pots of hot water on the rioters.

University debate: "The most vegan meal on earth is a grass-fed steak." Vegan: "I'm sorry, I've read the motion three times. Is it a misprint?" Anthropologist: "No." Vegan: "You're going to stand in front of four hundred people and tell them a steak is vegan." Anthropologist: "The most vegan. I'd like credit for the full claim." Vegan: "It's a dead cow." Anthropologist: "One. What did you have for lunch?" Vegan: "A lentil and rice bowl. Nothing died for it." Anthropologist: "It came off a ploughed field. Mice, voles, ground nests, every insect in it, cleared out several times a year by a machine the width of this stage. One bullock feeds a person for twelve months. I'm on one death. You lost count at the starter." Vegan: "Those are accidents." Anthropologist: "I'll let the voles know it wasn't personal." Vegan: "Fine. The planet. Cattle take up enormous amounts of land." Anthropologist: "Hill, rain and grass. Land no plough can touch. He eats what grew there by itself and nobody has to clear a thing. Your lentils needed the field emptied first." Vegan: "We could rewild it." Anthropologist: "With what?" Vegan: "...Grazing animals." Anthropologist: "I've brought some." Vegan: "This is absurd. Humans can get everything they need from plants." Anthropologist: "There's a lawn outside. Help yourself." Vegan: "We can't digest grass." Anthropologist: "He can. Four stomachs and a vat of bacteria. He's the only system on earth that gets everything out of a plant, and he hands it over as protein, iron and the B12 you're taking as a tablet." Vegan: "So your argument is that the cow is vegan." Anthropologist: "Strictly. Never touched meat in his life. I'm simply eating a plant-based diet that's been finished properly." Vegan: "You cannot call that vegan." Anthropologist: "Fewest deaths, no plough, no supplements. If you've a better word for what you were after, I'll use it." Moderator: "Time." Vegan: "I'd like the motion read out again." Moderator: "It's still not a misprint."

You punish bad Republicans in the primaries. You vote to save the country from leftists in the general. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

Covid. My first child never got a college graduation ceremony after working her whole life for that day. My father died in May '20 and never got a memorial service or a funeral. I am white hot to the end abt this sinful robbery of our humanity & spirit. I'll stay on it, Dad

If you believe that gas and diesel prices are high in late September 2026 because of Biden and Zelenskyy, then you might be a Trump supporter. And a moron. Which is pretty much the same thing.

America’s corporate governance system is broken, and it’s killing public companies. Look no further than Cracker Barrel: Decades of brutal mismanagement have seen one incompetent CEO after another walk away with a massive paycheck while customers and actual shareholders take a beating. Why does this keep happening? Because proxy advisory firms like ISS are corrupt. They blindly rubber-stamp failing boards year after year, protecting the corporate elite while burning shareholder value to the ground. The root of the rot is index funds. There's no question that indexing one's money is a smart financial move for most people. But just because you passively index your investments doesn't mean your corporate votes should be handed over to the managers of your fund so they can play politics. Right now, passive funds hold massive, unchecked voting blocks while having zero skin in the game themselves. It is time for a simple rewrite of the rules: We need to index the votes of index fund investors. Passive index funds should be forced to automatically split their votes to proportionately mirror those of retail and active institutional shareholders — the people actually doing the research, risking their capital, and fighting for performance in the companies they hold shares in. No more rubber-stamping. A change like this will immediately strip corrupt gatekeepers like ISS of their toxic influence. True accountability happens when lazy, overpaid boards actually answer to the stakeholders they represent, rather than screwing them over. Actual, logic-driven governance when your money is passive happens when your vote passively follows the voting decisions of the actual market. We need to stop letting passive capital protect active incompetence. By stripping index funds of their arbitrary voting power and empowering engaged investors, we will finally torch corporate cronyism and usher American capital markets into a golden age of capitalism.

President Donald J. Trump announced that he has agreed to convert the planned 250 foot Triumphal Arch at Memorial Circle, near Arlington Memorial Bridge, into what he calls a "top grade Military Complex." President Trump said the change was made at the request of the U.S. military for national security purposes. He said the facility will store and rapidly deploy large numbers of drones and snipers on the roof and plaza areas, along with large quantities of sniper ammunition.

People who want to appear moral are attracted to the left. People who want to appear rational are attracted to the right. Effective Altruism lets you appear rational and moral - the ultimate ego trip.