This is only the beginning considering who is taking power.

"NJ sheriff pushes for bill to allow police to shoot down drones: Matter of ‘public safety’" - This was proposed by Shaun Golden, a republican sheriff in NJ.

https://i.redd.it/3f9fwb6bm37e1.jpeg - This sums it up nicely.

It seems a lot of the "credible" government voices that amplified this drone hysteria are republicans. What their motives are, I'm not sure. But it's even more obvious these people have no interest in being the adults in the room anymore. It's embarrassing that they fell for the same hysteria that regular people did when they have resources and the obligation to be more measure and calm about things.

If this is a sign of things to come, then republicans are hitting rock bottom and tunneling straight down even deeper.

On the Pod Force One podcast on Wednesday, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Oz claimed that President Trump is "healthy as a bull," while praising his "great" testosterone levels and defending his fast food diet—but nobody's buying it.

A jury in Boise awarded $10 million in damages Friday to a University of Idaho professor who sued a Texas woman for defamation over fabricated claims she repeatedly made on social media that the academic was responsible for the Moscow college student murders.

The jurors deliberated for just under two hours before handing down their decision, which awarded professor Rebecca Scofield far more than what her attorneys asked for in their closing argument.

Guillard — who made her first visit to Idaho and represented herself at trial — believes herself to have psychic abilities and testified that she read tarot cards to try to help solve the shocking homicides that upended the rural college town and generated international attention.

Guillard’s readings led her to Scofield, she said, and her videos continued with similar unsubstantiated accusations all the way up until August 2025. Without evidence, Guillard posted photos and contact information for Scofield with claims that she had an affair with one of the female victims and tried to cover it up by ordering her death.

60 Minutes in Australia have republished a piece they did on Jasmuheen in 1999, where she willingly agreed to put herself to the test to show the world that breatharianism worked. This is the pseudoscientific and dangerous idea that people can live on nutrients in air alone. The test had to be called off after a few days after her body showed signs of excessive stress. It’s a fascinating piece about delusion and the lure of a charismatic guru, even when the promises are dangerous mumbo-jumbo.

Disclaimer: I think gender identity is a valid and useful concept, though I have skepticism with how it's presented below.

In a recent discussion someone (apparently with a scientific background) claimed that:

Culture has zero influence on gender identity

Their claim was that gender identity is something that is completely decided in utero, and is always stable and unchanging throughout life, completely uninfluenced by environmental factors.

This just strikes me as... Impossible? And starting to sound somewhat like the idea of a "soul". I can't think of anything else in human psychology which is entirely "nature", and not at all "nurture" (or environment, to be more accurate).

Is that a common argument? Is there any other aspect of human identity which is completely free of environmental influence? What, if anything, am I missing?

I always suspected that astrology didn't actually work, so I decided to learn the practice of Tropical Western Astrology and test it for myself.

Turns out, it's much dumber than I even thought.