Another Surprise: Harvard Students Experience Mental Illness at Double the Rate of the Normal Adult Population

Does communism cause mental illness, or are the mentally ill just unnaturally attracted to an ideology that says they can remake the world in their image if they just want it enough?

Both are in play but that second part is probably the bigger piece of it.

Harvard Students Are Twice as Mentally Ill as the General Population Amid Ivy Psychological Meltdown

Young and left-wing are part of 'emerging mental health political identity'

The Ivy League is having a mental health crisis.
"Forty-seven percent of surveyed seniors indicated that they experienced mental illness at some point in their time at Harvard, and 13 percent said they were unsure," according to a survey of the Class of 2026 conducted by the Harvard Crimson student newspaper. That's more than double the rate of the general adult U.S. population, which the federal government's National Institute of Mental Health estimates at 23.1 percent, noting that "Mental illnesses include many different conditions that vary in degree of severity, ranging from mild to moderate to severe."
At Princeton, a senior survey conducted by the Princetonian student newspaper found 60.1 percent had mental health counseling or therapy during college, with 36.3 percent getting help from the university's counseling and psychological services and 23.8 percent finding outside assistance. That's also much higher than the overall population; NPR reported last year on a study that found "the number of American adults getting outpatient talk therapy grew from 6.5% to 8.5%."
...
Potential causes of the trends are multifarious. As with mild autism and learning disabilities of the sort that generate eligibility for untimed standardized tests, it's unclear how much of the increase is in incidence and how much is in identification--that is, are today's students really more depressed, anxious, or panicked than previous generations, or are they and the grownups around them simply more likely to diagnose and label their maladies as mental illness? It could be that both dynamics are operating.

The article notes that leftwingers are simply more insane than the normal population, and, I would add, Harvard discriminates in favor of the factors for mental illness.

"Those more likely to categorize as having a mental illness are more likely to have a college degree; be a Democrat, liberal, and White; and have slightly lower family income," Van De Hey writes.
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The fact that the student newspaper surveys are even asking questions about the issue is a sign of its salience. The Crimson senior survey also found, "Seniors reported continued support for the pro-Palestine Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement as Israel's war in Gaza continues into its third year and after a sharp increase in Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon. More than 40 percent of respondents view the movement favorably, increasing 5 percentage points from last year's graduating class." Israel reached a ceasefire in Gaza in October 2025, so the contention that "Israel's war in Gaza continues into its third year" is itself a kind of delusion, and the support for BDS--a movement to wipe Israel off the map--from the seniors is evidence that Harvard is failing to educate the students. The survey found 65.6 percent of Harvard students identifying as either "progressive" or "very progressive."

Hello! I am still getting up to speed. I had a horrible night of sleep.

Hung out with the main-man crow this morning, NBD. He saw me eating and flapped over just in case.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:10 PM

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1 Wonderful

Posted by: ... at June 18, 2026 01:11 PM (ixZ1o)

2 Willowed:

There's an entire genre of "We've been lied to about America for YEARS" on youtube right now, and it's the best content on the internet.

HUNDREDS of Europeans posting their experiences and their love for this country.

This one husband was like - what do I have to do to get in? What forms do I need to fill out, what line do I need to stand in? We're raising our family in America. I'll trade with some of the people messaging me saying they hate America. Let's just do a deal.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 18, 2026 01:11 PM (rii+a)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2026 01:12 PM (2YhKe)

4 I nooded.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 18, 2026 01:12 PM (rii+a)

5 Nuke it from space, just to be sure.

FOR the CHILDREN.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2026 01:12 PM (2YhKe)

6 One day, it'll be socially cool to be normal.

And then everyone will be, "No! I'm more normal than you! Bask in my normalness!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 18, 2026 01:12 PM (Zn6QU)

7 I would rather be ruled by the first 50 names off the insane asylum patient list, than 50 professors at Harvard.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 18, 2026 01:12 PM (WjwG+)

8 She's sweet but a psycho, a little bit psycho.
At night, she's screaming, "I'm-ma-ma-ma out my mind."

She's hot but a psycho, so left, but she's right, though.
At night, she's screaming, "I'm-ma-ma-ma out my mind"

"Grab a cop gun" kinda crazy, she's poison but tasty.
Yeah, people say, "Run, don't walk away ..."

To try to beat The Blade to FIRST!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 18, 2026 01:13 PM (iFTx/)

9 Maybe living under a 15 year psy op intended to drive the "empathetic" to the brink of a mental breakdown has had an effect on people?

Nah it's probably "multifactored" and "layered".

Posted by: ... at June 18, 2026 01:13 PM (ixZ1o)

10 Ding ding ding

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 18, 2026 01:13 PM (Kt19C)

11 Chart says every conservative is VERY conservative.

LULZ

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2026 01:13 PM (2YhKe)

12 We are not crazier.

Posted by: Theodore Kaczyinski, '62 at June 18, 2026 01:14 PM (j7INY)

13 >>Does communism cause mental illness, or are the mentally ill just unnaturally attracted to an ideology that says they can remake the world in their image if they just want it enough?

Yes.

Also, get up early enough to see the sun rise.
Get some exercise.
Watch the sun set.

You won't have a problem sleeping.

Posted by: garrett at June 18, 2026 01:14 PM (An6iH)

14 Mental illness has been the hot, new victimhood flex for years.

Boring white women claim anxiety, OCD, whatever to offset their “privilege.”

Posted by: Lizzy at June 18, 2026 01:14 PM (4KUe5)

15 I look forward to the children's book:

Ewok and Crow

Posted by: bonhomme at June 18, 2026 01:14 PM (mkw2N)

16 Hello! I am still getting up to speed. I had a horrible night of sleep.

That seemed to be a trend last night. Neither First Woman here slept worth a crap.

Buffalo Trace ensured my slumber was alright.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2026 01:14 PM (2YhKe)

17 The Ivy League is having a mental health crisis.

"Forty-seven percent of surveyed seniors indicated that they experienced mental illness at some point in their time at Harvard

Define mental illness.
Are you fucking nuts?
Or are you depressed because you blew a test?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2026 01:14 PM (vHe/3)

18 Some of the dumbest people I have ever known are sporting Harvard Degrees.

Posted by: garrett at June 18, 2026 01:15 PM (An6iH)

19 That's only 'cause they're so smart only they can see what's wrong with the world.
The silver spoon and unfair economic advantages they've enjoyed their whole lives is a heavy burden to bear.

You stupids can't understand 'cause you didn't go to Harvard.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 18, 2026 01:15 PM (73/SM)

20 Water is wet.
Fire is hot.
Leftists are crazy.

Posted by: Bosk at June 18, 2026 01:15 PM (VMFAF)

21 Speaking of mental illness-chocolate flavored condoms for all! Reposted from the last thread:

Zohran Mamdani is promising free grocery stores, free housing and free everything, but the only free thing New Yorkers can really count on getting for free is an infectious disease.

And flavored condoms for the sickest city in America.

Gonorrhea rates in New York City have more than doubled in a decade and syphilis is ‘surging’ statewide. Mamdani’s Department of Health has responded to this crisis by rushing a free supply of lubricant and chocolate flavored condoms.

“Providing high-quality sexual and reproductive healthcare services is a priority for the Mamdani Administration,” explained NYC Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Helen Arteaga, an Ecuadorian immigrant who had been the CEO of a disastrous Queens city hospital where over a dozen patients had died of COVID in one day.

Posted by: beckster at June 18, 2026 01:15 PM (kX27y)

22 I would postulate that a lot of these kids are at some level aware that being future Harvard grads isn't going to score them many points on the Victimization Ladder, so they need to enhance their Victimization Profile with a bit of mental illness.

Posted by: syranch at June 18, 2026 01:15 PM (FsQPy)

23 12 We are not crazier.

Speak for yourself.

Posted by: William Gates, Jr. at June 18, 2026 01:15 PM (j7INY)

24
8

To try to beat The Blade to FIRST!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 18, 2026 01:13 PM (iFTx/)

You're getting more and more like me every day.

No one wants to be like me. You should stop.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2026 01:16 PM (2YhKe)

25
Ivy League Syndrome.

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 18, 2026 01:16 PM (OkYzo)

26 Brit Lass slept like a baby. A snoring baby.

Posted by: ... at June 18, 2026 01:17 PM (ixZ1o)

27 Some of the dumbest people I have ever known are sporting Harvard Degrees.

Posted by: garrett at June 18, 2026 01:15 PM (An6iH)

HEY!!!!!

Posted by: Keith Olbermann at June 18, 2026 01:17 PM (2YhKe)

28 "Forty-seven percent of surveyed seniors indicated that they experienced mental illness at some point in their time at Harvard."

The other fifty-three percent remain untreated.

Posted by: Reforger at June 18, 2026 01:17 PM (wjnjX)

29 Ignoring cognitive dissonance and intentionally living a lie makes one miserable.
Also, lefties can't do humor because humor involves subverting narratives to expose realities of the world, and you can't do that and cosplay The Road to Utopia at the same time.

(I loved The Road to Utopia, Bing and Hope had those patter songs, the usual nominal plot and Dorothy Lamour was always hot)

Posted by: Kindltot at June 18, 2026 01:17 PM (rbvCR)

30 Are the crazy attracted to attending Harvard? Or does Harvard make its attendees crazy?

Decisions, decisions...

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at June 18, 2026 01:17 PM (j7INY)

31 Also, get up early enough to see the sun rise.
Get some exercise.
Watch the sun set.

You won't have a problem sleeping.
Posted by: garrett

I get up 3 hours before the sun does.
Get to bed around 9:30pm.
Generally fall asleep between 10:00pm & midnight.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2026 01:17 PM (vHe/3)

32 Here’s a thought, eliminate social media and the Commie professors and see how much this clears up.

Also consider actually grading them accurately, instead of the long popular “ every student gets an A because they were smart enough to get into Harvard.” It was over 20 years ago that it came out that 75% of undergraduates graduated with honors.
If everyone is the best, no one is the best, IYKWIM.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 18, 2026 01:18 PM (4KUe5)

33 Everybody gets an A at Harvard. Doesn't seem too stressful.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 18, 2026 01:18 PM (n5tGW)

34 HEY!!!!!

Posted by: Keith Olbermann at June 18, 2026 01:17 PM (2YhKe)

Cornell

Posted by: ... at June 18, 2026 01:18 PM (ixZ1o)

35 I believe it.
The selling point of spending all that money to get into a college like that, is to "network". You make friends or at least allies and that gives you some leverage into your first job.
Well... what if you fail at that. This can happen earlier than you think. Now you can look forward to three and a half years (or more) with peers who shun you, and having no job after the ordeal. And parents who think you wasted their money (because you did).

Posted by: gKWVE at June 18, 2026 01:18 PM (5C538)

36 David Hogg has a degree from Harvard.

That should tell you everything you need to know about Harvard.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2026 01:18 PM (2YhKe)

37 There's likely a super-secret screening Ivy League admittance application that uses the LMI Index.

LMI - Leftoid Mental Illness.

Posted by: mrp at June 18, 2026 01:18 PM (rj6Yv)

38 When my son visited Kenyon College, the guide mentioned that the student health center could have very long lines of students seeking assistance with anxiety and other mental health challenges.

One of the parents asked if a student who was ill or injured might need to find help at another facility. The guide assured her that they had a separate protocol to address the physically ill or injured, to which a number of parents heaved signs of relief.

Posted by: Oglebay at June 18, 2026 01:19 PM (2ap+5)

39
Cornell
Posted by: ... at June 18, 2026 01:18 PM (ixZ1o)

I kinda knew I got that wrong, but went with it anyway.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2026 01:19 PM (2YhKe)

40 33 Everybody gets an A at Harvard. Doesn't seem too stressful.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 18, 2026 01:18 PM (n5tGW)

======

But they also have to deal with the fact that people outside of Harvard don't think they're special, that conservatives exist, all while worrying if they can keep their pronouns through the next half hour if they have to change them to reflect a shifting mood.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 18, 2026 01:19 PM (Zn6QU)

41 Didn't Bill Gates, Jr nope out of college?

Posted by: gKWVE at June 18, 2026 01:19 PM (5C538)

42 At least it didn't shit.

THEN you'd be doomed.
Posted by: Sponge

I got pooped on by birds twice when I was a kid.

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2026 01:19 PM (77rzZ)

43 Hello! I am still getting up to speed. I had a horrible night of sleep.

One thing I didn't realize that would happen as I got older is that my sleeping would get worse and worse.

And it seems the case for pretty much every advanced 29 year old I speak with

Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2026 01:19 PM (sKqQm)

44 Liberalism IS mental illness.

It is a form of cult and when you look closely you can see all the signs.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2026 01:20 PM (sKqQm)

45 The survey is easy enough to explain. To libs "mental illness" is just another category of victimhood that they can claim entitles them to special privileges and social status. And unlike sex, race, or physical disability, no one can say that you're not whatever you claim.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 18, 2026 01:20 PM (vTZFs)

46 >>The selling point of spending all that money to get into a college like that, is to "network".

When I decided not to attend Princeton, this was the ONE point everyone from Princeton kept trying to make.

I stand by my decision to go to school in AZ rather than NJ.

Posted by: garrett at June 18, 2026 01:20 PM (An6iH)

47 They make the younger kids crazy with the bullshit they push in public k-12 schools. Then the crazy are attracted to communism because "to each according to their needs" and "from each according to their abilities"

Being crazy makes you have low abilities and high needs. I am aware that crazy can enhance some creative things like art and music, but without a sane person to manage things a Van Gogh is nearly starving in a flop house.

Posted by: PaleRider at June 18, 2026 01:20 PM (PV+Zw)

48 Ohferpetessakes. You're going to an institution that has next to no academic workload, because it's just a very, very expensive social club where wealthy botflies send their mollycoddled maggots to chug White Claw and cock until they swarm forth to feed on the corpse of the body politic.

They must be so stressed out by the recurring monkeypox that they just can't even, I guess.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 18, 2026 01:21 PM (BI5O2)

49 No one wants to be like me. You should stop.
Posted by: Sponge

Well, you're a better role model than that illiterate TJM asshole.

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2026 01:21 PM (77rzZ)

50 Eh.

First off “mental illness” according to GenZ is like the word racism. It’s lost all meaning. Everyone under 30 has “anxiety” which is considered mental illness. For older people anxiety is “I get nervous sometimes in social situations. For Gen. it’s I have mental illness was because I’m shy around strangers.

And second a lot of this is on purpose to get things. Do you have ADHD? You get an extra hour on your exams. Gee I wonder if that leads to students saying they have ADHD when in fact they don’t.

And of course this will be used to attack Trump. His economy is so bad even Harvard students are suffering mental illness due to their horrible at job prospects.

It’s all an op. And gay.

Posted by: Heroq at June 18, 2026 01:21 PM (X+Nnd)

51
You hafta be rich to go to Harvard.
The rich can afford better drugs.
Ergo going to Harvard turns you into a squirrel.

Posted by: Speller at June 18, 2026 01:21 PM (pSotA)

52 But they also have to deal with the fact that people outside of Harvard don't think they're special, that conservatives exist, all while worrying if they can keep their pronouns through the next half hour if they have to change them to reflect a shifting mood.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 18, 2026 01:19 PM (Zn6QU)

Then you simply need to adopt the Texas A&M way!

Posted by: 75 Year Old Still Wearing His Class Ring at June 18, 2026 01:21 PM (2YhKe)

53 More shocking news!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 18, 2026 01:21 PM (N1DT3)

54 Also, lefties can't do humor because humor involves subverting narratives to expose realities of the world/i]

Liberal humor nowadays is presenting an uptight religious conservative as a gay pedo...while also arguing there is nothing wrong with being a gay pedo.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2026 01:21 PM (sKqQm)

55 I kinda knew I got that wrong, but went with it anyway.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2026 01:19 PM (2YhKe)

I think there was a thing where he gets mad if you get it wrong so I felt kinda bad bothering. But if you get it wrong go Penn State or something.

Posted by: ... at June 18, 2026 01:21 PM (ixZ1o)

56 Mental illness PLUS the freshman 15.

It'll be tough to land a husband that way.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 18, 2026 01:21 PM (Sco7b)

57 HEY!!!!!

Posted by: Keith Olbermann at June 18, 2026 01:17 PM (2YhKe)

Cornell
Posted by: ... at June 18, 2026 01:18 PM (ixZ1o)
===

Not only Cornell, but the Ag school. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Posted by: mrp at June 18, 2026 01:21 PM (rj6Yv)

58 When did the "Ivy League" schools start taking nekkid pictures of their incoming students?

What kind of retards would consent to that?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 18, 2026 01:21 PM (R+iUD)

59
Well, you're a better role model than that illiterate TJM asshole.

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2026 01:21 PM (77rzZ)

I accept that.

Posted by: 75 Year Old Still Wearing His Class Ring at June 18, 2026 01:22 PM (2YhKe)

60 Harvard > How Weird

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 18, 2026 01:22 PM (ebJJx)

61
Ivy League Syndrome symptoms:

Insomnia
Bed Wetting
Thumb sucking
Need for constant Praise
Erectile Dysfunction
Inverted nipples
Syphilis Mania
Student Debt
Antisemitism
Need to wear a Keffiyeh
Refusal to tip servers
Drive a BMW

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 18, 2026 01:22 PM (OkYzo)

62 > Everybody gets an A at Harvard. Doesn't seem too stressful.

Harvard faculty just approved a new policy that 20% of a class at most can earn an A. There's no cap on A-.

You're right that grade inflation has been a huge problem at Harvard. I read that 50-60% of undergrad grades in the past few years were As. That's ridiculous.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 18, 2026 01:22 PM (mkw2N)

63 As much as I dislike the idea, caffiene might.... maybe... potentially... have a smidgeon, a modicum, a skosh, a soupcon, a scintilla ... of impact on how quickly I fall asleep.

But that's probably just disinformation/malinformation spread by Big Water.

Posted by: RandomDave at June 18, 2026 01:22 PM (aJQbY)

64 The progressives are crazy? Who knew?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at June 18, 2026 01:22 PM (4focF)

65 But if you get it wrong go Penn State or something.

Posted by: ... at June 18, 2026 01:21 PM (ixZ1o)

Well, it IS likely he molested children at some point, so......

Posted by: 75 Year Old Still Wearing His Class Ring at June 18, 2026 01:23 PM (2YhKe)

66
That 65.6% figure for students is impressive given that profs and administrators are demonstrably 100%

Posted by: Auspex at June 18, 2026 01:23 PM (Y8DZL)

67 Damn.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2026 01:23 PM (2YhKe)

68 Humor involves truth - and leftards avoid that like the plague, only occasionally stumbling past it when it's "convenient".

Posted by: ... at June 18, 2026 01:23 PM (ixZ1o)

69 I'm looking forward to the next thread:

"Shocking surprise! Water is wet!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 18, 2026 01:23 PM (gnNyN)

70 One would think that I would simply look at my Name: before clicking post, but.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2026 01:23 PM (2YhKe)

71 David Hogg has a degree from Harvard.

That should tell you everything you need to know about Harvard.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2026 01:18 PM (2YhKe)

I'd rather hire a grad from Harfurd than Harvard. Equal education, but less snob training.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 18, 2026 01:23 PM (qx7Zg)

72 >>> 24
8

To try to beat The Blade to FIRST!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 18, 2026 01:13 PM (iFTx/)

You're getting more and more like me every day.

No one wants to be like me. You should stop.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2026 01:16 PM (2YhKe)

Maybe he wants to be Staff at the next TX MoMee?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 18, 2026 01:23 PM (R+iUD)

73 found 60.1 percent had mental health counseling or therapy during college

That's a lot of lone wolf snipers being groomed.

Posted by: t-bird at June 18, 2026 01:23 PM (x/Rva)

74 > Didn't Bill Gates, Jr nope out of college?

Yep. Gates was at Harvard and realized he knew more about computers and programming than his Professors.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 18, 2026 01:24 PM (mkw2N)

75 When did the "Ivy League" schools start taking nekkid pictures of their incoming students?

What kind of retards would consent to that?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Wait! We could have said no?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2026 01:24 PM (vHe/3)

76 Tom Lehrer was probably the last useful thing Harvard put out, eh?

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 18, 2026 01:24 PM (Sco7b)

77 Not only Cornell, but the Ag school. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Posted by: mrp

Cornell has an ornithology lab. It's pretty cool. We sent them money for a couple of years.

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2026 01:24 PM (77rzZ)

78 > Some of the dumbest people I have ever known are sporting ~~Harvard~~ Degrees.
---------
PhD's specifically. But generally speaking.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 18, 2026 01:24 PM (jehhT)

79 There's Harvard Before, and Harvard After -- i.e., related to some point in time when it all went to shit. My father and both my brothers went to Harvard. They went in fine, and came out fine. It was a rigorous experience in a good way. I guess those days are gone.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 18, 2026 01:25 PM (fZiTB)

80 Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 18, 2026 01:13 PM (iFTx/)

You're getting more and more like me every day.

No one wants to be like me. You should stop.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2026 01:16 PM (2YhKe)

Maybe he wants to be Staff at the next TX MoMee?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 18, 2026 01:23 PM (R+iUD)

Has he volunteered to trim the fuses for the fireworks display?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 18, 2026 01:25 PM (qx7Zg)

81 It's more a generational thing. You subsidize victimhood, you get more of it.

You are not special, unless you have some affliction that excuses your bad behavior and prevents you from acting like a civilized, compassionate adult human.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 18, 2026 01:25 PM (dK+Kv)

82 >>Gates was at Harvard and realized he knew more about computers and programming than his Professors.

Try growing up in the trades and then attending Architecture School.

You won't make it through a single semester.

Posted by: garrett at June 18, 2026 01:25 PM (An6iH)

83 They come from unstable homes and cannot cope in a disciplined environment of school work and perpetual associative cognitive dissonance.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 18, 2026 01:25 PM (51ygH)

84
Maybe he wants to be Staff at the next TX MoMee?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 18, 2026 01:23 PM (R+iUD)

THAT is a privilege EARNED over YEARS of doing chores and such for Rancher Bob and Cow Horse Queen.

It's no small task.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2026 01:25 PM (2YhKe)

85 Harvard Students Are Twice as Mentally Ill as the General Population

The next job fair should be interesting.

Posted by: t-bird at June 18, 2026 01:25 PM (x/Rva)

86 I'd vise youngins stay away from the Poison Ivy League, they don't seem to do much educatin' in them parts Cletus.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 18, 2026 01:25 PM (n5tGW)

87 Yep. Gates was at Harvard and realized he knew more about computers and programming than his Professors.

If your desire is to learn about computers and programming, you would probably do better at your local community college than Harvard.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 18, 2026 01:25 PM (vTZFs)

88 Maybe he wants to be Staff at the next TX MoMee?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 18, 2026 01:23 PM (R+iUD)

That job is how you say, taken.

Posted by: Paolo at June 18, 2026 01:26 PM (ixZ1o)

89 Maybe he wants to be Staff at the next TX MoMee?

Does that mean you get to be the guy that puts people in the barrel...or the guy that has to clean the barrel afterwards?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2026 01:26 PM (sKqQm)

90 > David Hogg has a degree from Harvard.

It was hilarious reading Hogg's tweets before he got someone else to write them. They were always full of grammatical errors, misspellings, and weird usages of punctuation. The logic errors and complete misunderstanding of basic facts was ever-present, too.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 18, 2026 01:26 PM (mkw2N)

91 >>>I had a horrible night of sleep.

Me, too. Video games will do that to you.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 18, 2026 01:26 PM (dK+Kv)

92
You hafta be rich to go to Harvard.
Posted by: Speller at June 18, 2026 01:21 PM (pSotA)

That’s out of date 50 years out of date. Families with income under $100k pay nothing to attend.

Posted by: Heroq at June 18, 2026 01:26 PM (X+Nnd)

93 If over 50% of people exhibit signs of something, is it actually an abnormality?

With physical ailments, we could certainly say yes. Let's say a healthy penis doesn't having oozing sores on it, so even if 80% of people get herpes, we can still point to a healthy penis and declare it the normal.

With mental illness, the line seems a bit fuzzier. I'd say well over 50% of people suffer from anxiety, but at what degree and to what end? When does it cross the line from being a clinical case of anxiety and just "feeling anxious". The same could probably be said of many personality disorders.

If just feeling anxious is categorized as anxiety, then I would say anxiety isn't a mental illness, but rather the normal.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 18, 2026 01:26 PM (qoEJr)

94 There's Harvard Before, and Harvard After -- i.e., related to some point in time when it all went to shit. My father and both my brothers went to Harvard. They went in fine, and came out fine. It was a rigorous experience in a good way. I guess those days are gone.
Posted by: Ordinary American at June 18, 2026 01:25 PM (fZiTB)

I'd blame the "beer summit" but Harvard was a shithole long before that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2026 01:26 PM (2YhKe)

95 >>It's more a generational thing. You subsidize victimhood, you get more of it.

This too is the story of the Trans Phenomenon in Primary Schools.

Posted by: garrett at June 18, 2026 01:26 PM (An6iH)

96 Harvard faculty just approved a new policy that 20% of a class at most can earn an A. There's no cap on A-.

You're right that grade inflation has been a huge problem at Harvard. I read that 50-60% of undergrad grades in the past few years were As. That's ridiculous.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 18, 2026 01:22 PM (mkw2N)
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Does Harvard use a "+/-" scale where an A- is worth less than an A and an A is worth less than an A+?

If all A's are weighted the same on the final transcript, then it doesn't matter.

Where I work, we don't use a "+/-" scale, but other campuses within the same system do. It's been a matter of some controversy between students and faculty for years.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 18, 2026 01:27 PM (gnNyN)

97 Getting all As isn’t stressful , but how hard are they working if an A is all but guaranteed. How much competition is there? Maybe this has shifted the focus to other things, such as who is the biggest victim and the best activist.

Curious about what it’s like to gather those deemed the best and brightest (conferred by their admission), confirm it in every class by near automatic As, yet each student naturally understands they are surrounded by other superstars, every person in each class was the best at their high school. How do you stand out? Bigger victim? Overcame more obstacles?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 18, 2026 01:27 PM (4KUe5)

98 I initially read this as Harvard Medical but I guess this would include that...?

Posted by: ... at June 18, 2026 01:27 PM (ixZ1o)

99 Harvard beats Yale in mental illness
60% to 60%

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 18, 2026 01:27 PM (A0HNO)

100 THAT is a privilege EARNED over YEARS of doing chores and such for Rancher Bob and Cow Horse Queen.

It's no small task.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2026 01:25 PM (2YhKe)
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I hope they toss in a pair of shit-kickers for that STAFF badge.

Posted by: mrp at June 18, 2026 01:27 PM (rj6Yv)

101 91 >>>I had a horrible night of sleep.

Me, too. Video games will do that to you.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 18, 2026 01:26 PM (dK+Kv)

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I started playing Bioshock Infinite again last night.

Runs super smooth on the Steam Deck (not a surprise, the game is 13 years old).

And just...quality gameplay. And Elizabeth is awesome.

Sure, Ken Levine is braindead progtard who thinks he's got sick burns on anyone he disagrees with politically, but he misses the mark so hard and so often that it's easy to ignore the attempts at obvious politicking.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 18, 2026 01:28 PM (Zn6QU)

102
I hope they toss in a pair of shit-kickers for that STAFF badge.
Posted by: mrp at June 18, 2026 01:27 PM (rj6Yv)

No, but I did borrow a jacket once.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2026 01:28 PM (2YhKe)

103 Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2026 01:24 PM (77rzZ)

There is a free ap from Cornell Ornithology Lab called MerlinBirdid . It identifies birds by their sounds and shows a picture . Spouse and I have enjoyed using it

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 18, 2026 01:28 PM (OYsYV)

104 Dang. Okay. Harvard brought this up. Fun with Google on the day before the LIBRARY OF DOOM opens.

Barack Obama's actual LSAT score has never been publicly released or verified, as law school admission files remain private. However, based on his acceptance and performance at Harvard Law School, admissions analysts estimate his score was likely around 167 or higher, placing him in the top percentiles of test-takers.

Sure it was....

AND

Barack Obama was elected as the first Black president of the Harvard Law Review in 1990, during his time as a student at Harvard Law School.

Is there anything published from Obama during his time as editor. Anything he wrote? Sit down Horde...

No, Barack Obama did not publish any signed legal scholarship or articles under his own name during his time as a student or editor at the Harvard Law Review.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 18, 2026 01:28 PM (Sco7b)

105 It's more a generational thing. You subsidize victimhood, you get more of it.

Crackers need not apply.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 18, 2026 01:29 PM (vHe/3)

106 If over 50% of people exhibit signs of something, is it actually an abnormality?/i]

There is a combination of things going on:

We try harder to diagnose these things now
We reward people for having them
but...modern culture and leftism both try to intentionally drive people nuts.

Take your average Karen ranting about global warming and have her live in a homestead community for a few years with no social media/internet access and I suspect she'll be cured.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2026 01:29 PM (sKqQm)

107 Oh, glad to hear their grading policy makes it harder to get an A.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 18, 2026 01:29 PM (4KUe5)

108 "My rich dad pays me to go here and do nothing but party for four years, so I can say I partied here for four years, and automatically get handed shitloads of money for life, because I was at the four-year rich kid party. The stress of it all has driven me mad."

LOL.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 18, 2026 01:29 PM (BI5O2)

109 If just feeling anxious is categorized as anxiety, then I would say anxiety isn't a mental illness, but rather the normal.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 18, 2026 01:26 PM (qoEJr)

I'm fueled by anxiety.
And hatred but mostly anxiety.

Posted by: Reforger at June 18, 2026 01:29 PM (wjnjX)

110 Socially maladjusted is not the same as mentally ill. Book learning is not the same as smart. Kids are ignorant, and some never grow out of it.

I didn't even go to Harvard and I figured that out.

Huh.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 18, 2026 01:29 PM (bl07w)

111 It’s been known for years that it’s hard to get into Harvard but once in it’s a breeze. Professors hand out As like candy. Basically don’t be a total screwup and you graduate with a 3.5 GPA.

Posted by: Heroq at June 18, 2026 01:29 PM (X+Nnd)

112 Sure, Ken Levine is braindead progtard who thinks he's got sick burns on anyone he disagrees with politically, but he misses the mark so hard and so often that it's easy to ignore the attempts at obvious politicking.

I'm reminded of the movie Don't Worry Darling where they present it as the 50s being some horrible patriarchal nightmare but...it looked pretty damn good compared to COVIDmania America...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2026 01:30 PM (sKqQm)

113 >>Take your average Karen ranting about global warming and have her live in a homestead community for a few years with no social media/internet access and I suspect she'll be cured.

This is no way to cure Hysteria.

Posted by: garrett at June 18, 2026 01:30 PM (An6iH)

114 Funny video here of a short auto dealer tech approaching and entering a customer's lifted truck.

http://tiny.cc/gaa5101

Posted by: bonhomme at June 18, 2026 01:30 PM (mkw2N)

115 I think most of the "trans" among the youngest is due to the predators preying on anyone who appears vulnerable.

I have a niece that is pretty severely autistic among other things and "they" (not the parents) tried to block her period soon after it started.

Full credit to the girl she said it's the only thing that makes her feel like a girl and she wants to be a girl, and no. Bastard fag pedo crank fucks. Roast in hell, then die.

Posted by: ... at June 18, 2026 01:30 PM (ixZ1o)

116 112 I'm reminded of the movie Don't Worry Darling where they present it as the 50s being some horrible patriarchal nightmare but...it looked pretty damn good compared to COVIDmania America...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2026 01:30 PM (sKqQm)

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"Men want to work hard and take care of their women!"
-sick burn against men

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 18, 2026 01:30 PM (Zn6QU)

117 We have a couple of millennial/Gen z "managers" here that never ever shut up about their supposed "autism"

It's infuriating because they are diminishing the symptoms of actual autism while waiving their stupid virtue flag.

They talk like fucking idiots and run everything through AI before they say or email anything

What the FUCK Happened to us?!

Posted by: Melodicmetal at June 18, 2026 01:31 PM (61TgR)

118 There is a free ap from Cornell Ornithology Lab called MerlinBirdid . It identifies birds by their sounds and shows a picture . Spouse and I have enjoyed using it
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

My wife has a similar app on her phone. Don't know what it's called, though.

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2026 01:31 PM (77rzZ)

119 No, Barack Obama did not publish any signed legal scholarship or articles under his own name during his time as a student or editor at the Harvard Law Review.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 18, 2026 01:28 PM (Sco7b)

Implying that he wrote under a pen name. He did not.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2026 01:31 PM (2YhKe)

120 I watched all of the sweet nieces on my side of the family go bonkers. One thing they all had in common was taking a Women's Studies course in college. It distresses me that none of these intelligent young ladies had the mental stability to recognize a load of bunk when they saw it.

I had no trouble recognizing baloney in college. What was different in their cases?

Posted by: Emmie at June 18, 2026 01:31 PM (FMtrg)

121 "Does communism cause mental illness, or are the mentally ill just unnaturally attracted to an ideology that says they can remake the world in their image if they just want it enough?"
_____________

I think this survey is misleading because it's self-reported. Whenever anything is self-reported, you get responses bases in part on what is considered desirable in whatever group you are surveying.

Liberals brag about their therapists and it's considered a badge of honor to have some mental or emotional problem. Conservatives are the opposite.

It's like asking dudebros how many women they slept with. The responses will be much higher than reality. The reverse is probably true with women.

So there's a huge bias built into these kinds of surveys that's hard to account for.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 18, 2026 01:31 PM (iFTx/)

122

What the FUCK Happened to us?!

Posted by: Melodicmetal at June 18, 2026 01:31 PM (61TgR)

Big Pharma.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2026 01:31 PM (2YhKe)

123 Boobs!

https://tinyurl.com/2h54sa3d

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 18, 2026 01:31 PM (qx7Zg)

124 You know the story next year that will my you cry tears ... of laughter, will be?

Of all the 2026 grads who can't find 6 figure jobs now that the charity/NGO/government glut of taxpayer-funded job market has dried up.

BTW, I saw a thing that Syracuse had to cut their tuition by something like 45% via discounts, grants, etc., to try and maintain enrollment.
They had projected 35% would be sufficient to maintain.
They still fell short of enrollment quotas this year.

And it's only going to get worse ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 18, 2026 01:31 PM (73/SM)

125 I caught an ad for Harvard Business School on YouTube. Almost all women, mostly black and some black dudes.

Posted by: steevy at June 18, 2026 01:32 PM (YwEeS)

126 111 It’s been known for years that it’s hard to get into Harvard but once in it’s a breeze. Professors hand out As like candy. Basically don’t be a total screwup and you graduate with a 3.5 GPA.
Posted by: Heroq at June 18, 2026 01:29 PM (X+Nnd)

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Harvard has been forced to develop remedial classes; getting in as a DEI has been pretty easy.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 18, 2026 01:32 PM (fgSb9)

127
My college German language professor died last week at the age of 100.

After the first day of his class he never spoke a word of English for the entire term, just Deutsch.

It pissed all us students off. We gathered, strategized, looked for ways to get around full immersion, and... learned.

What angered me 50 years ago fills me with admiration now.

Posted by: Auspex at June 18, 2026 01:32 PM (Y8DZL)

128 How do you stand out? Bigger victim? Overcame more obstacles?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 18, 2026 01:27 PM (4KUe5)

You get "chosen".

Think about it.

Posted by: ... at June 18, 2026 01:32 PM (ixZ1o)

129 Yeah, there's overlap.

Washington Free Beacon
@FreeBeacon
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Jun 17
Replying to
@FreeBeacon
I watched a lot of anti-Israel protests at Harvard, and even read some of the poetry and journal articles.

Without singling out any individual participants or casting any stigma on people seeking or getting needed treatment, it’s hard to avoid noticing the strong likelihood of some overlap in the Venn diagram between the 47 percent who experienced mental illness and the 40 percent who view BDS favorably to the point of setting up tents in a Harvard Yard “encampment” or interrupting classes with megaphones or occupying buildings in protests.

I’m not a forensic psychiatrist, but some people are just unmistakably crazy.

Posted by: beckster at June 18, 2026 01:32 PM (kX27y)

130 >>My wife has a similar app on her phone. Don't know what it's called, though.

Years ago I had an Indian guy as a fishing client. He was less interested in fishing and more interested in 'Birding'.

I got a good laugh at his expense when he was forced to google a 'Hairy Pecker' that he spotted.

Posted by: garrett at June 18, 2026 01:32 PM (An6iH)

131 Dang, … , so glad your niece fought off the trans fiends!! They really do go after autistic kids.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 18, 2026 01:33 PM (4KUe5)

132 Wasn't nobody remembering Obama at Harvard a thing.

Posted by: Reforger at June 18, 2026 01:33 PM (wjnjX)

133 I've had discussions with younger people with diagnosed anxiety and it is interesting.

I certainly fell anxiety before say an important meeting at work and it can be a VERY strong feeling, but over my life I've learned how to clamp down on it and just deal with the feeling without having it stop me from doing what I need to do

They claim they can't do the same. Is that really true or they just haven't learned how to deal with it by what is essentially emersion therapy?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2026 01:33 PM (sKqQm)

134 It’s been known for years that it’s hard to get into Harvard but once in it’s a breeze. Professors hand out As like candy. Basically don’t be a total screwup and you graduate with a 3.5 GPA.
Posted by: Heroq at June 18, 2026 01:29 PM (X+Nnd)
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Wow. Does the administration check political affiliations?

Posted by: mrp at June 18, 2026 01:33 PM (rj6Yv)

135 Is there a special hot/crazy matrix available specifically designed for use with Harvard chicks?

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at June 18, 2026 01:33 PM (rgnpf)

136
I'll admit to college causing me mental health problems. These surges of anger I feel even decades later whenever I think about my college professors and fellow students can't be healthy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 18, 2026 01:34 PM (BI5O2)

137 The rich kid stereotype at Harvard needs updating. Other than Chinese (from
China not from California) students, most kids there are middle or lower class. The push for diversity brings in a lot of peeps from the hood and barrio.

25% of students pay $0.

Posted by: Heroq at June 18, 2026 01:34 PM (X+Nnd)

138 If the mentally ill leftists are admitting to being over twice as mentally ill as normies, then you know it is more like over THREE TIMES the mental illness for them. More likely FOUR TIMES.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 18, 2026 01:34 PM (xvV+O)

139 Is there a special hot/crazy matrix available specifically designed for use with Harvard chicks?

Purple/Pink hair...go for it
Blue/Green hair...run like the wind

Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2026 01:34 PM (sKqQm)

140 Book learning is not the same as smart.

Depends on the book. (Derrida and Zinn will make you retarded.)
Depends on one's ability to understand the book. (You can probably leave a, say, Foucault book and end up smarter. Certainly Camus.)

Posted by: gKWVE at June 18, 2026 01:35 PM (5C538)

141 I had no trouble recognizing baloney in college. What was different in their cases?

Posted by: Emmie at June 18, 2026 01:31 PM (FMtrg)

Possibly an even more manipulative curriculum? Shouldn't work better in theory - but billions have gone into research on how to give people a particular opinion.

Posted by: ... at June 18, 2026 01:35 PM (ixZ1o)

142 Told you so.

Posted by: Rush Limbaugh at June 18, 2026 01:35 PM (V362x)

143 Also, get up early enough to see the sun rise.
Get some exercise.
Watch the sun set.

You won't have a problem sleeping.
Posted by: garrett

It starts getting light out at 345 am and isn’t really dark dark until 1030 or so, if then.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 18, 2026 01:35 PM (hqy4m)

144 135 Is there a special hot/crazy matrix available specifically designed for use with Harvard chicks?
Posted by: Dirac_Delta at June 18, 2026 01:33 PM (rgnpf)

Rule #1.

Posted by: Reforger at June 18, 2026 01:35 PM (wjnjX)

145 139 Purple/Pink hair...go for it
Blue/Green hair...run like the wind

Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2026 01:34 PM (sKqQm)

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*remains stuck, unable to decide*
-Scott Pilgrim, regarding Romana Flowers

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 18, 2026 01:35 PM (Zn6QU)

146 Wasn't nobody remembering Obama at Harvard a thing.
Posted by: Reforger at June 18, 2026 01:33 PM (wjnjX)
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Barry was a Harvard Law Review editor who never published an article. Has anyone else matched his record of achievement?

Posted by: mrp at June 18, 2026 01:36 PM (rj6Yv)

147 At Princeton, ... 60.1 percent had mental health counseling or therapy during college

60%? That's barely a "D". Try harder, Princeton.

Posted by: t-bird at June 18, 2026 01:36 PM (x/Rva)

148 It pissed all us students off. We gathered, strategized, looked for ways to get around full immersion, and... learned.
Posted by: Auspex

I hate immersion. I mean, it's fine once you reach a certain level of proficiency, but not when you're just starting out.

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2026 01:36 PM (77rzZ)

149 Thanks for all you do for us, Ace. We appreciate it!

Posted by: The Main Man Crow, on behalf of the other Crows at June 18, 2026 01:36 PM (0sNs1)

150 They claim they can't do the same. Is that really true or they just haven't learned how to deal with it by what is essentially emersion therapy?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2026 01:33 PM (sKqQm)

If it's chemical - say hormonal - no amount of clamping can do it. None.

Posted by: ... at June 18, 2026 01:36 PM (ixZ1o)

151 ... so basically what Emmie said.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 18, 2026 01:37 PM (5C538)

152 Again with the crows? Like cats, they'd just as soon eat you as look at you...

What does 'NBD' stand for? Acronym impaired here.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 18, 2026 01:37 PM (QGaXH)

153 What use to be biggest and brightest is now diversity
Too fkng bad I say

Posted by: Skip at June 18, 2026 01:37 PM (sgkY8)

154
21

“Providing high-quality sexual and reproductive healthcare services is a priority for the Mamdani Administration,” explained NYC Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Helen Arteaga, an Ecuadorian immigrant who had been the CEO of a disastrous Queens city hospital where over a dozen patients had died of COVID in one day.
Posted by: beckster at June 18, 2026 01:15 PM

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Covid, huh? I wonder what they actually died of.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 18, 2026 01:37 PM (XeO61)

155 However, based on his acceptance and performance at Harvard Law School, admissions analysts estimate his score was likely around 167 or higher, placing him in the top percentiles of test-takers.
--
"performance"
Oh?
Let's see his transcripts then.

Even then, it'll still be useless because he was on The Path and everyone knew he was on The Path, which guarantees top marks and insider advantages all along the way.

I mean, the number of accepted transfers from Occidental to Harvard has to be in the low single digits.
Accepted transfers are rare enough.
But this guy, from a 4th tier school, makes the cut?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 18, 2026 01:37 PM (73/SM)

156 152 What does 'NBD' stand for? Acronym impaired here.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 18, 2026 01:37 PM (QGaXH)

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Nighttime Bread Dispenser.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 18, 2026 01:37 PM (Zn6QU)

157 NBD = No Bug Deal

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 18, 2026 01:38 PM (xvV+O)

158 >>It starts getting light out at 345 am and isn’t really dark dark until 1030 or so, if then.

Sunrise was 5:45 am...
(3 days from the longest day of the year)

Sunset is at 9:30 pm.

Posted by: garrett at June 18, 2026 01:38 PM (An6iH)

159 Looking like another long day here again

Posted by: Skip at June 18, 2026 01:38 PM (sgkY8)

160 I dated a girl who went to Columbia. She was "odd"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 18, 2026 01:38 PM (A0HNO)

161 HEY!!!!!

Posted by: Keith Olbermann at June 18, 2026 01:17 PM (2YhKe)

Cornell
Posted by: ...
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When I was at school, we used to sing a little ditty:

High above Cayuga's waters
There's an awful smell
Some say it's Cayuga's waters
We say it's Cornell

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 18, 2026 01:38 PM (XeU6L)

162 The discussion of mental illness amongst Harvard men and women is overwrought, to put it mildly. Trust me.

Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard graduate at June 18, 2026 01:38 PM (0sNs1)

163 There's an entire gender that's attracted to remaking the world in their image. The Lego study probably explains more about politics than it does about toys at this point.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 18, 2026 01:38 PM (2ocoG)

164 Ain't nothing but a crow wing.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 18, 2026 01:39 PM (xvV+O)

165 130

A Hairy (Wood) pecker is actually a nice looking bird:

https://tinyurl.com/5xp7jpzn

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 18, 2026 01:39 PM (OYsYV)

166 >> Looking like another long day here again

Prediction: Tomorrow will be longer, still.

Posted by: garrett at June 18, 2026 01:39 PM (An6iH)

167 “Providing high-quality sexual and reproductive healthcare services is a priority for the Mamdani Administration,” explained NYC Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Helen Arteaga, an Ecuadorian immigrant who had been the CEO of a disastrous Queens city hospital where over a dozen patients had died of COVID in one day.
Posted by: beckster at June 18, 2026 01:15 PM

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Covid, huh? I wonder what they actually died of.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 18, 2026 01:37 PM (XeO61)
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Embarrassment?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 18, 2026 01:39 PM (gnNyN)

168 Seriously.

I'd be cautious saying things about autistic kids........

Posted by: Alex Jones at June 18, 2026 01:39 PM (2YhKe)

169 so basically what Emmie said.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 18, 2026 01:37 PM (5C53

Are you saying in my response to Emmie, all I did was repeat what she said without anything new? Just clarifying.

Posted by: ... at June 18, 2026 01:39 PM (ixZ1o)

170 “Providing high-quality sexual and reproductive healthcare services is a priority for the Mamdani Administration,” explained NYC Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Helen Arteaga, an Ecuadorian immigrant who had been the CEO of a disastrous Queens city hospital where over a dozen patients had died of COVID in one day.

Posted by: beckster at June 18, 2026 01:15 PM

Late term abortion, silly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2026 01:40 PM (2YhKe)

171 Emmitt, I think the feminist crap is socially enforced to a much higher degree. It’s not just in class, it’s all across campus.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 18, 2026 01:40 PM (4KUe5)

172 If it's chemical - say hormonal - no amount of clamping can do it. None.

Two things though:

1) If its chemical, where did this biochemical change come from?

2) And if it is something genetic that has a highly negative impact on reproduction. Those young people that won't leave their rooms due to anxiety aren't very likely to have kids of their own later in life...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2026 01:40 PM (sKqQm)

173 I think "Obama" was a Chicago political machine product.

Dumb enough to do as he's told.

No one will question him at Columbia but he needs bona fides. How about Harvard?

His gayness seemed well documented in Chicago and one of his own books. So they found him a "wife" and a couple to produce kids for him.

Harvard? Sure, we got him in, changed the rules to get him labeled editor of the review, and worked hard to erase his birth certificate and his most problematic comments in writing and on video.

He's an idiot puppet and it galls me that Ayers had such power over this country he hates.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 18, 2026 01:40 PM (fgSb9)

174 Acronym impaired here.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's Phone) at June 18, 2026 01:37 PM

NP, it's NBD. Just a TLA.

Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard graduate at June 18, 2026 01:40 PM (0sNs1)

175 Providing high-quality sexual and reproductive healthcare services is a priority for the Mamdani Administration

Mamdami looks like a more rapey version of Hasan Piker, so I'm sure he's very interested in such things.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 18, 2026 01:41 PM (2ocoG)

176 A Hairy (Wood) pecker is actually a nice looking bird:

I could look at hairy peckers all day long!

Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice at June 18, 2026 01:41 PM (sKqQm)

177 Hung out with the main-man crow this morning, NBD. He saw me eating and flapped over just in case.
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace

Longest employment interview evah~

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 18, 2026 01:41 PM (diia5)

178 LBJ passed the equal opportunity laws. They Ivy's said Ok we'll let some in. Then they, incrementally, discovered there was easy money to be made from this scam. That got the ball rolling.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 18, 2026 01:41 PM (51ygH)

179 >>It's more a generational thing. You subsidize victimhood, you get more of it.

This too is the story of the Trans Phenomenon in Primary Schools.

Posted by: garrett at June 18, 2026 01:26 PM (An6iH)

All of it. ADHD, Asperger's, Autism*, Furries, LGBTBBQ+++, Trans, Neurodivergence, My Grandma Stubbed Her Toe When She Was Three Syndrome. All of it.

We're teaching kids that they don't need to do the hard work, to be of strong mind, body, and spirit, and to be a decent human if you can just find a vanity affliction that elevates you above all that commoner drudgery.

* There are very few actual, valid diagnoses of what was once called autism. Now everyone has to be on a "spectrum" of Autism, because more pharma and government grant money.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 18, 2026 01:41 PM (dK+Kv)

180 ixZ1o, nah, I was underlining my own response to tcn on book-larnin'.
Ellipses are ambiguous here, I just found out.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 18, 2026 01:41 PM (5C538)

181 Possibly an even more manipulative curriculum? Shouldn't work better in theory - but billions have gone into research on how to give people a particular opinion.
Posted by: ... at June 18, 2026 01:35 PM (ixZ1o)

I have no doubts that a lot of curriculum is manipulative. But in my case, manipulation attempts made me more guarded, not less.

Posted by: Emmie at June 18, 2026 01:41 PM (FMtrg)

182 What does 'NBD' stand for? Acronym impaired here.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

No Butt in Dick. Duh.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 18, 2026 01:41 PM (diia5)

183 I saw No Bug Deal open for Orkin at the Termite Infestation in 2000.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2026 01:42 PM (2YhKe)

184 I bet any amount of money that a significant percentage of those claiming mental illness are play-acting in order to get psych drugs.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 18, 2026 01:42 PM (g8Ew8)

185
No Butt in Dick. Duh.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 18, 2026 01:41 PM (diia5)

Seems like that would be painful.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2026 01:42 PM (2YhKe)

186 I'm acquaintances with a recent Harvard Business grad. He's a good dude - solid leader, well spoken and a smart guy.

Sometimes prone to what one author labeled a "Trumpet Blast" where random utterances demonstrating his loathing of PDT make their way into conversation. I usually just ignore it.

I don't know if it was Harvard that did it to him - I met his mother and holy sh*t she was batpoo crazy with the TDS....

That may have been it.

Still like the guy - but I do know that one day I'm going to have to pull him aside and be like "you realize, that I voted for that guy 3 times, right?"

Posted by: Defenestratus at June 18, 2026 01:42 PM (WYStd)

187 I think "Obama" was a Chicago political machine product.

The Chicago machine as it was traditionally known was well into its death throes by 2005. Obama was an Ayers/Dorn project, likely with Soros support.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 18, 2026 01:43 PM (2ocoG)

188 Susan Colins apologized for voting to confirm Kavanaugh.

Posted by: Heroq at June 18, 2026 01:43 PM (X+Nnd)

189 They claim they can't do the same. Is that really true or they just haven't learned how to deal with it by what is essentially emersion therapy?

It's hard to say.

My father used to beat us on the regular for perceived errors. For instance as a small child (3 yo) I was beaten with a belt for repeatedly putting pajama pants on backwards. It's my earliest memory.

Similarly, my brother at about 7 years old was beaten for not throwing a horseshoe correctly.

These beatings would, of course, induce fits of crying and while frozen in terror, it's was impossible to assess what it was that was causing the punishment and correct it in a young mind.

However, after surviving the encounters, we both became very stoic in the face of intense pressure, only occasionally reacting with anger rather than freezing in the face of insurmountable pressure.

I believe that it can be overcome with proper conditioning.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 18, 2026 01:43 PM (qoEJr)

190 What does 'NBD' stand for? Acronym impaired here.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan

No Breakfast Delights.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 18, 2026 01:43 PM (dK+Kv)

191 Is it
Chemical?
Hormonal?
Enviromental?
Accidental?
Illogical?
Astrological?
Pathological?
Numerological?

Posted by: Reforger at June 18, 2026 01:43 PM (wjnjX)

192 It starts getting light out at 345 am and isn’t really dark dark until 1030 or so, if then.
Posted by: nurse ratched. at June 18, 2026 01:35 PM (hqy4m)

Technically the sun rises at 4 am and sets at midnight, but it never gets dark these days. These are the days of fishing all night long.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 18, 2026 01:43 PM (bl07w)

193 ***reproductive healthcare services is a priority for the Mamdani Administration
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Send her over here. We have a critical problem that needs adjusting.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 18, 2026 01:43 PM (51ygH)

194 I have no doubts that a lot of curriculum is manipulative. But in my case, manipulation attempts made me more guarded, not less./i]

In college I was given an assignment to identify the enduring values in a piece of communist trash newspaper called the People's World.

I entitled my report "Enduring the People's World" which actually made my commie prof laugh...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2026 01:43 PM (sKqQm)

195 NBD = Non Biggus Dickus

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 18, 2026 01:43 PM (A0HNO)

196 Seems like that would be painful.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Yeah, and Dick is such a nice guy. No respect, I tell yah~.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 18, 2026 01:44 PM (diia5)

197 The rich kid stereotype at Harvard needs updating. Other than Chinese (from
China not from California) students, most kids there are middle or lower class.

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1.) Perhaps the lower class, with grants and shit. Very few middle class Americans want or can afford these Ivy League trifles.

2.) None of those Barrio people are in this stat. Good Fortune Induced Depression is 100% an affliction of the affluent.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 18, 2026 01:44 PM (BI5O2)

198
Harvard? Sure, we got him in, changed the rules to get him labeled editor of the review, and worked hard to erase his birth certificate and his most problematic comments in writing and on video.

And yet, they let his poetry remain public........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2026 01:44 PM (2YhKe)

199 Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2026 01:40 PM (sKqQm)

I think potentially hormone disruption - low T for example has symptoms of both anxiety and depression. And the medical establishment doesn't even check. They go straight to SSRI etc.

And funnily enough long term effect of SSRI is sexual dysfunction which can cause guess what, depression.

Posted by: ... at June 18, 2026 01:44 PM (ixZ1o)

200 I have anxiety, since childhood, apparently, but never realized it until a decade or so ago. I thought it was normal. I have only started to get a handle on it fairly recently.

KTE has really bad anxiety; I am grateful she is getting help for it.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 18, 2026 01:44 PM (6U1c2)

201 I had no trouble recognizing baloney in college.

Me either. That's all I could afford to eat!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 18, 2026 01:44 PM (n5tGW)

202 No Breakfast Delights.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 18, 2026 01:43 PM

As long as no one says NAD.

Posted by: The Starlight Vocal Band at June 18, 2026 01:45 PM (0sNs1)

203 I mean, the number of accepted transfers from Occidental to Harvard has to be in the low single digits.
Accepted transfers are rare enough.
But this guy, from a 4th tier school, makes the cut?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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IRRC, he went from Occidental undergrad to Columbia for bachelors degree. Thence to Harvard Law. No one much talks about every seeing him at Columbia U. And his apparent Harvard Law Review stint was a DEI stunt where he did nothing apparently and the editor under him did all the work.

Posted by: whig at June 18, 2026 01:45 PM (E4rtv)

204 Iirc, it’s that no one remembers Obama at Columbia.

At Harvard he was such an annoying guy, always droning on and on, that his fellow law students created a measure to rate it: the Obamameter.

One of the gals from The Runaways was his classmate and she wrote about this in 2008.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 18, 2026 01:45 PM (4KUe5)

205 . But in my case, manipulation attempts made me more guarded, not less.

Posted by: Emmie at June 18, 2026 01:41 PM (FMtrg)

As Lizzy astutley pointed out, the social pressure has changed too, and also the reinforcement in media. None of it would have "got" you but it's powerful for others.

Posted by: ... at June 18, 2026 01:46 PM (ixZ1o)

206 I like Dune's take on fear/anxiety:

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain"

Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2026 01:46 PM (sKqQm)

207 See, Dick tends to butt in on Ace's posts. He's just excitable and all.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 18, 2026 01:46 PM (diia5)

208 are they mentally or just dumb

Posted by: Don Black at June 18, 2026 01:46 PM (b7F+i)

209 Our elite thought-leaders are become sociopaths.

This is old news.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 18, 2026 01:46 PM (RIvkX)

210 Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 18, 2026 01:13 PM (iFTx/)

You're getting more and more like me every day.

No one wants to be like me. You should stop.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2026 01:16 PM (2YhKe)

Maybe he wants to be Staff at the next TX MoMee?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 18, 2026 01:23 PM (R+iUD)

Has he volunteered to trim the fuses for the fireworks display?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 18, 2026 01:25 PM (qx7Zg)
________

Jeez. Tough crowd. Note how cleverly I matched the subject matter of the song lyrics to the subject matter of the post? That took some extra time to prepare so I knew I wouldn't be first.

So ... note how cleverly the tag line isn't the normal "The Blade is FIRST," since I wasn't going to be first, but how you gotta "run" to beat The Blade to first.

See? Tough crowd. Or maybe I'm just AI or ace in disguise?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 18, 2026 01:46 PM (iFTx/)

211 204 Iirc, it’s that no one remembers Obama at Columbia.

At Harvard he was such an annoying guy, always droning on and on, that his fellow law students created a measure to rate it: the Obamameter.

One of the gals from The Runaways was his classmate and she wrote about this in 2008.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 18, 2026 01:45 PM (4KUe5)

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They really should have stuffed him in some lockers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 18, 2026 01:46 PM (Zn6QU)

212 I think potentially hormone disruption - low T for example has symptoms of both anxiety and depression. And the medical establishment doesn't even check. They go straight to SSRI etc.

It's documented that it's far easier to get low-T treatment if you're a woman and express interest in no longer having boobs than if you're a man.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 18, 2026 01:47 PM (2ocoG)

213 The Chicago machine as it was traditionally known was well into its death throes by 2005. Obama was an Ayers/Dorn project, likely with Soros support.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 18, 2026 01:43 PM (2ocoG)

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I accept that my terms were incorrect. I thought Ayers, Dorn, and Obama's attorney general (can't remember his name but he wants to run for President) were part of the Chicago political machine.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 18, 2026 01:47 PM (fgSb9)

214 I mean, the number of accepted transfers from Occidental to Harvard has to be in the low single digits.
Accepted transfers are rare enough.
But this guy, from a 4th tier school, makes the cut?

Well, he did have other skills that he demonstrated quite well

Posted by: Some Harvard recruiter at June 18, 2026 01:47 PM (sKqQm)

215 In my case, turning to God has been the most helpful in dealing with anxiety.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 18, 2026 01:47 PM (woQqY)

216 I believe that it can be overcome with proper conditioning.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 18, 2026 01:43 PM (qoEJr)

I spanked my kid once. I felt like shit for weeks. I broke the cycle. I think the spankings are what fucked up my hips.

Posted by: Reforger at June 18, 2026 01:47 PM (wjnjX)

217 >>"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain"

In the absence of Fear, there can be no Bravery.

Posted by: garrett at June 18, 2026 01:48 PM (An6iH)

218 171 Emmie, I think the feminist crap is socially enforced to a much higher degree. It’s not just in class, it’s all across campus.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 18, 2026 01:40 PM (4KUe5)

I taught math at the college where two of my nieces attended. I was constantly amazed at some of the stuff the Humanities instructors would say. Buncha nonsense, and this is from me with a liberal arts, non-STEM degree.

Posted by: Emmie at June 18, 2026 01:48 PM (FMtrg)

219 2) And if it is something genetic that has a highly negative impact on reproduction. Those young people that won't leave their rooms due to anxiety aren't very likely to have kids of their own later in life...
Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2026 01:40 PM (sKqQm)

I'm not sure about that. My mom had five kids, and she was the most anxious person I have ever met. She "coped" by keeping control of every damned thing in her life, and by screaming at and hitting her kids. Even in dementia she was wound tight. She passed the trait on to at least three of her kids, so there's that.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 18, 2026 01:48 PM (bl07w)

220 1.) Perhaps the lower class, with grants and shit. Very few middle class Americans want or can afford these Ivy League

Harvard’s policy is any student whose family income is under $100k pays no tuition. And then above $100k there’s a sliding scale. So up to $150kish family income it’s either free or quite reasonable to attend.

Costs more to attend a UC as an out of state resident than it costs to attend Harvard for most people.

Posted by: Heroq at June 18, 2026 01:49 PM (X+Nnd)

221 I accept that my terms were incorrect. I thought Ayers, Dorn, and Obama's attorney general (can't remember his name but he wants to run for President) were part of the Chicago political machine.

They were involved, but they were first and foremost Weather Underground / whatever they were involved with after that.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 18, 2026 01:49 PM (2ocoG)

222 Probably already mentioned: all those women on the pill. That definitely affects mental health.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 18, 2026 01:49 PM (4KUe5)

223 Hey computer whiz kid:

I have a different hash every time I visit
wtf

also, what is the Newton's Telecom name for the 5 character group we call the hash

Posted by: Don Black at June 18, 2026 01:49 PM (b7F+i)

224 >>> Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 18, 2026 01:46 PM (iFTx/)

Just now seeing your current hash.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 18, 2026 01:50 PM (R+iUD)

225 IRRC, he went from Occidental undergrad to Columbia for bachelors degree. Thence to Harvard Law. No one much talks about every seeing him at Columbia U. And his apparent Harvard Law Review stint was a DEI stunt where he did nothing apparently and the editor under him did all the work.

Posted by: whig at June 18, 2026 01:45 PM (E4rtv)

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I believe the honored tradition was top of the class gets to run the Law Review. Obama was NOT top of his class. Not close.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 18, 2026 01:50 PM (fgSb9)

226 whoever gives me a real answer will drive home in a new Buick

Posted by: Don Black at June 18, 2026 01:50 PM (b7F+i)

227 I was friends with a girl from Berkeley, she was VN, and based, but she was all for affirmative action. Nuts. How the hell did the liberal nonsense infiltrate this hard working daughter of a boat person (refugee from the commies) to think that taking classes on tupac shakur was a productive use of her time? I knew then that CA was cooked.

I was also friends with a girl from Oxford. She was from Birmingham and not as based. Kinda brainwashed into that God is fake liberal world order. She got to ride with the RAF in a jet as a recruitment thing -- they wanted more of whatever it was she had to offer. This was 25 years ago, and I understood then that UK was cooked. No offense Bonnie, but the priorities were all wrong if they are begging her to join up.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at June 18, 2026 01:50 PM (WjwG+)

228 Do you expect me to believe some cock and bull story like that?!! Get your ass to class!!!

My house was fun to grow up in.

Posted by: Case at June 18, 2026 01:50 PM (IY9No)

229 225 I believe the honored tradition was top of the class gets to run the Law Review. Obama was NOT top of his class. Not close.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 18, 2026 01:50 PM (fgSb9)

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He was top of the intersectionality stack.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 18, 2026 01:50 PM (Zn6QU)

230 In the absence of Fear, there can be no Bravery.

The idea from Dune was that you can, and should, train yourself to deal with fear.

Your point is correct, but this is an example of pushing through fear to bravery or at least that's my take

Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2026 01:50 PM (sKqQm)

231 Ugh, Emmie, can’t imagine how radical it is on campus today.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 18, 2026 01:50 PM (4KUe5)

232 125 I caught an ad for Harvard Business School on YouTube. Almost all women, mostly black and some black dudes.
Posted by: steevy at June 18, 2026 01:32 PM (YwEeS)

Those inner-city looting videos.

They're stealing textbooks and school supplies.
The tv's are to make the medical lectures more tolerable.

I know most of you remember Mattress Girl who carried her 50 pound dorm mattress around as a protest. Like sane people are going to put up with that shit....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at June 18, 2026 01:50 PM (Sco7b)

233 All curriculum should be manipulative. It should guide and reward the student to pursue knowledge of the cours.

A simple view of that is the Rush Revere books designed for children to learn accurate history but also manipulate them to desire the acquisition of more knowledge.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 18, 2026 01:51 PM (51ygH)

234 226 whoever gives me a real answer will drive home in a new Buick

Posted by: Don Black at June 18, 2026 01:50 PM (b7F+i)

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Some ISPs change your IP on a regular basis.

The hash is derived from the IP.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 18, 2026 01:51 PM (Zn6QU)

235 I taught math at the college where two of my nieces attended.
Posted by: Emmie at June 18, 2026 01:48 PM

Skill and knowledge which aren't allowed to transfer to your avocation as a AoSHQ Commentator. Sad!

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 18, 2026 01:51 PM (0sNs1)

236 The main issue with Harvard, or any other lerning center is that they're not educating anyone. They're indoctrinating. Churning out brain dead socialists by the thousands. While I'm sure that's The Plan™ it certainly doesn't improve society in any way.

Honestly, we'd be better off closing the Universities at this point.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 18, 2026 01:51 PM (jehhT)

237
There's an entire genre of "We've been lied to about America for YEARS" on youtube right now, and it's the best content on the internet.

____________

Now start asking yourself what else they've lied to you about. Keep it to yourself and your nearest, lest you be arrested, but act accordingly.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2026 01:52 PM (O0L8i)

238 I think potentially hormone disruption - low T for example has symptoms of both anxiety and depression. And the medical establishment doesn't even check. They go straight to SSRI etc.

And funnily enough long term effect of SSRI is sexual dysfunction which can cause guess what, depression.
Posted by: ...

Yep. SSRIs are nasty shit even in this later generation of drugs.

Posted by: whig at June 18, 2026 01:52 PM (E4rtv)

239 He was top of the intersectionality stack.

Gay + black (ish) + Muslim. That's a triple word score.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 18, 2026 01:52 PM (2ocoG)

240 I started playing Bioshock Infinite again last night.

Runs super smooth on the Steam Deck (not a surprise, the game is 13 years old).

And just...quality gameplay.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 18, 2026 01:28 PM (Zn6QU)

I am a one game at a time person, and right now, that is Elite: Dangerous.

It's running fine on Linux Mint with Proton on an an Intel B580 graphics card. Before, it was running OK with an Nvidia 1660 card. One of my 1080 monitors recently took a dump, and now I have dual 4K, and 4K gaming is a gamechanger.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 18, 2026 01:52 PM (dK+Kv)

241 237
Now start asking yourself what else they've lied to you about. Keep it to yourself and your nearest, lest you be arrested, but act accordingly.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2026 01:52 PM (O0L8i)

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"Britain's GDP makes Mississippi's look like shit!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 18, 2026 01:52 PM (Zn6QU)

242 >>The idea from Dune was that you can, and should, train yourself to deal with fear.

Indeed. Just a little long for a true Mantra, imo.

That quote you pulled has always stuck with me. And I regularly point out its lesson to people who struggle with their Fears.

Posted by: garrett at June 18, 2026 01:52 PM (An6iH)

243 >>Neither First Woman here slept worth a crap.

'Neither' First Woman??

Posted by: Nazdar at June 18, 2026 01:52 PM (NcvvS)

244 Obama’s daddy was a graduate of Harvard. Back when Barry Jr. attended that was still enough to get someone in, especially for a diversity applicant.

Posted by: Heroq at June 18, 2026 01:52 PM (X+Nnd)

245 The other part of Obama's career that I like is how he was a "law professor."

Yeah, a 3L bullshit, quasi-legal, all-theory filler class for the wokes to round out the credit requirements before they took their job at a small boutique non-profit legal aid firm.

I bet it wasn't even graded via testing.

BTW, I should point out I have more legal publications to my name than "law professor" Barack Obama.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 18, 2026 01:52 PM (73/SM)

246 200 I have anxiety, since childhood, apparently, but never realized it until a decade or so ago. I thought it was normal. I have only started to get a handle on it fairly recently.

KTE has really bad anxiety; I am grateful she is getting help for it.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 18, 2026 01:44 PM (6U1c2)

We've had a wild swing in the pendulum for addressing kids with legitimate mental health problems. Back in your day (which I assume was roughly the same as back in my day) you were just labeled a problem and hit a lot by your teachers and your folks. Now it's gone to where nearly every kid is diagnosed with something or other and for the ones that aren't yet they're trying to actually induce mental illness. Neither of these approaches are acceptable.

Posted by: I guess rationality doesn't count at June 18, 2026 01:52 PM (TbWk/)

247 whoever gives me a real answer will drive home in a new Buick
Posted by: Don Black at June 18, 2026 01:50 PM

Questions seeking real answers should be directed to HordeSource (tm).

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 18, 2026 01:53 PM (0sNs1)

248 Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 18, 2026 01:47 PM (woQqY)

I was going to say that probably having a spiritual foundation woukd be of great help to these young people ( it helped me in school) , although it may be Harvard or Yale that has on their pastoral staff isomeone who identifies as an Atheist. "Hello, Kara. I'm sorry you're having anxiety. You realize there's no God and a lot of BS in The Bible, but how can I help you?"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 18, 2026 01:53 PM (OYsYV)

249 Another Surprise: Harvard Students Experience Mental Illness at Double the Rate of the Normal Adult Population

HI !!! Hello !!! Is this thing on ? With Smart comes Crazy. How much do you want ?

Now this is not new. Read anything - really ANYTHING - about the Greatest Generation or the generations before that or Robber Barons or Titans of Industry or whatever you want to call them. All high functioning insane. Pretty much soup to nuts. Sociopaths that got to the top before they melted down. Same story every fucking time.

Yet we ... OK - not we - but certain folks that just happen to live in that area ... still aspire to purely educate these minds of mush without any real world tempering. They're creating their own Yankee world version of Germans and Indians and Japanese that have multiple degrees. But can't turn a wrench. And can't order from the drive through.

Posted by: Howdy at June 18, 2026 01:53 PM (IdfaO)

250 232 125 I caught an ad for Harvard Business School on YouTube. Almost all women, mostly black and some black dudes.
Posted by: steevy at June 18, 2026 01:32 PM (YwEeS)
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Received a glossy proposal the other day. The only white person on the folder cover was obviously gay.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 18, 2026 01:53 PM (51ygH)

251 whoever gives me a real answer will drive home in a new Buick

Al Franken has entered the chat.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 18, 2026 01:53 PM (2ocoG)

252 240 I am a one game at a time person, and right now, that is Elite: Dangerous.

It's running fine on Linux Mint with Proton on an an Intel B580 graphics card. Before, it was running OK with an Nvidia 1660 card. One of my 1080 monitors recently took a dump, and now I have dual 4K, and 4K gaming is a gamechanger.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 18, 2026 01:52 PM (dK+Kv)

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1. MMO. Ew.

2. 1:1 Milky Way. Neato.

So, it's like No Man's Sky, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 18, 2026 01:53 PM (Zn6QU)

253 225 I believe the honored tradition was top of the class gets to run the Law Review. Obama was NOT top of his class. Not close.

To my knowledge, Obama was NOT the editor of the Harvard Law Review, but the President of the Law Review. They are different positions.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 18, 2026 01:54 PM (fZiTB)

254 I had no trouble recognizing baloney in college. What was different in their cases?
Posted by: Emmie at June 18, 2026 01:31 PM (FMtrg)
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I got lumped into an "Urban Studies" class in undergrad. I was on the road with the tennis team when they picked electives. I kept my head down (being the only white guy in the room)...until the mid-term paper...which I entitled "Racial Minorities and Majorities are a Construct". I pointed out that even identical twins were different in many ways (personality, intelligence, motor skills, freckles, even skin shade). So no race was a majority. No race was a minority. Surprisingly, the "black" female Prof complimented me on my insight. Found out later she loved Clarence Thomas.

Posted by: Orson at June 18, 2026 01:54 PM (dIske)

255 Not only Cornell, but the Ag school. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Posted by: mrp at June 18, 2026 01:21 PM (rj6Yv)
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SUNY Cornell, we called it.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 18, 2026 01:54 PM (amcLV)

256 I heard that there are shuttle buses in the DFW area for World Cup tourists to go to a buccees. Lol

Posted by: Heroq at June 18, 2026 01:55 PM (X+Nnd)

257 236 The main issue with Harvard, or any other lerning center is that they're not educating anyone. They're indoctrinating. Churning out brain dead socialists by the thousands. While I'm sure that's The Plan™ it certainly doesn't improve society in any way.

Honestly, we'd be better off closing the Universities at this point.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Save some money and choke off woke religion at the same time. For similar reasons, Henry VIII closed the monasteries of England--they were a rallying point for opponents of his separation of England from Catholicism. At the time, universities and colleges were much less a threat due to their movement away from taking religion so seriously. Now it appears the opposite---many religious orders pay lip service to religion since the 60's and universities have become devout monasteries of wokeness.

Posted by: whig at June 18, 2026 01:55 PM (E4rtv)

258
"Britain's GDP makes Mississippi's look like shit!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 18, 2026 01:52 PM (Zn6QU)

__________

Think of what Britain's per capita GDP would look like without Greater London.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2026 01:55 PM (O0L8i)

259 Obama “worked from home” for the Law Review.
He phoned it in, didn’t just not produce, no one saw him work.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 18, 2026 01:55 PM (4KUe5)

260 Getting accepted to Cornell’s hotel management school was the cheat code to an ivy league degree for non Ivy league caliber students. At least back in the day.

Posted by: Heroq at June 18, 2026 01:56 PM (X+Nnd)

261 Why do we parade at a drive thru but drive thru a parade?

Posted by: Mohammed at June 18, 2026 01:56 PM (ixZ1o)

262 I had a co-worker who went to Harvard, and he had a pretty low opinion of both it and the students. To hear him dunk on Caroline Kennedy (who was there when he was) would do your heart good.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 18, 2026 01:56 PM (amcLV)

263 assume everything about the JEF is a lie

Posted by: Don Black at June 18, 2026 01:56 PM (b7F+i)

264 Used to have a kid's book Little Bird Tweet, would read it to Mr Senegal. He would hiss and boo at the crow page.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 18, 2026 01:56 PM (Kt19C)

265 KTE has really bad anxiety; I am grateful she is getting help for it.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 18, 2026 01:44 PM (6U1c2)

There are different routes to treatment of anxiety. I found pharmacological did not work as well as breath-work, bio-feedback, framing and facing down small anxieties to practice facing down the big ones.
"you do not become brave by hiding from your fears, unfortunately"

I hope your kid finds relief, however she manages.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 18, 2026 01:56 PM (rbvCR)

266 263 assume everything about the JEF is a lie

Posted by: Don Black at June 18, 2026 01:56 PM (b7F+i)

====

He doesn't actually exist.

He's like S1mone from that one movie, but in more relationships with men.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 18, 2026 01:57 PM (Zn6QU)

267 Getting accepted to Cornell’s hotel management school was the cheat code to an ivy league degree for non Ivy league caliber students. At least back in the day.
Posted by: Heroq at June 18, 2026 01:56 PM (X+Nnd)
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They were at least learning something useful.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 18, 2026 01:57 PM (amcLV)

268 Posted by: Lizzy at June 18, 2026 01:55 PM (4KUe5)

Do you remember the story that came out from that dude who worked in the same office as Obama early, and said Obama was on the phone all day with his feet up on a desk? Never talked to anyone?

Posted by: .. at June 18, 2026 01:57 PM (ixZ1o)

269 240 I am a one game at a time person, and right now, that is Elite: Dangerous.

It's running fine on Linux Mint with Proton on an an Intel B580 graphics card. Before, it was running OK with an Nvidia 1660 card. One of my 1080 monitors recently took a dump, and now I have dual 4K, and 4K gaming is a gamechanger.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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Intel or AMD CPU? I have been eyeing the Intel GPUs for some time simply because of their video processing abilities but worried about an AMD CPU playing well with an Intel GPU using Linux.

Posted by: whig at June 18, 2026 01:57 PM (E4rtv)

270 231 Ugh, Emmie, can’t imagine how radical it is on campus today.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 18, 2026 01:50 PM (4KUe5)

I'm currently a student at a large SEC school, finishing up math requirements for grad school so I can teach college-level math. The kids seem to be pretty well grounded but of course I hang out mostly with STEM people. That's not to say there aren't any blue-haired lunatics but the proportion of normal kids is higher than I expected.

Posted by: Emmie at June 18, 2026 01:57 PM (FMtrg)

271
Obama: a man who appeared without a trace.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2026 01:58 PM (O0L8i)

272 250 232 125 I caught an ad for Harvard Business School on YouTube. Almost all women, mostly black and some black dudes.
Posted by: steevy

You can watch lecture on YouTube. Students shown in the background are maybe 20% white. Lots of Chinese though.

Posted by: Heroq at June 18, 2026 01:58 PM (X+Nnd)

273 "you do not become brave by hiding from your fears, unfortunately"

Jordan Peterson said something like, "We've found emersion therapy works well for most people. But, the interesting part is it doesn't make the anxiety go away exactly. Instead is makes the people braver and better able to deal with the anxiety they feel"

Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2026 01:58 PM (sKqQm)

274
People from Harvard are fuckin' crazy kookoo bananas? I have a great idea, let's put THEM in charge!

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 18, 2026 01:59 PM (y9nCu)

275 I like Dune's take on fear/anxiety:

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain"

Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2026 01:46 PM (sKqQm)

The obstacle is the way.

https://youtube.com/shorts/WU5aJ56ePJE

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 18, 2026 01:59 PM (dK+Kv)

276
Lots of Chinese though.

Posted by: Heroq at June 18, 2026 01:58 PM (X+Nnd)

_________

Hope they're PRC, so they can go back and ruin Chinese companies.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2026 01:59 PM (O0L8i)

277 For similar reasons, Henry VIII closed the monasteries of England--they were a rallying point for opponents of his separation of England from Catholicism.
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The fact that they controlled shit-tons of money and lands hardly figured into it.

(/s, if it's needed)

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 18, 2026 01:59 PM (amcLV)

278 Scavengers gotta scavenge. You've been marked.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 18, 2026 01:59 PM (9SpJJ)

279 I hope your kid finds relief, however she manages.
Posted by: Kindltot

Thank you.
Yes, she does exposure therapy, among other things. Her therapist gives her "homework" and she is excellent about doing it - ironically because she gets anxious about the thought of admitting to him at the next visit that she didn't do it.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 18, 2026 02:00 PM (tj+LC)

280
I spanked my kid once. I felt like shit for weeks. I broke the cycle. I think the spankings are what fucked up my hips.
Posted by: Reforger at June

I never spanked my children. I always felt like it teaches them the one who is supposed to love you the most is allowed to hit you. You are an awesome dad for recognizing this.

Posted by: Piper at June 18, 2026 02:00 PM (Wmg4n)

281 Leftism and hatred of America (birm) require a level of constant self-delusion that breaks the brain.

Posted by: 29Victor at June 18, 2026 02:00 PM (uIm2J)

282 265 KTE has really bad anxiety; I am grateful she is getting help for it.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 18, 2026 01:44 PM (6U1c2)

Obviously because you didn't beat her as often and severely as you should have when she was little.

Posted by: Bad parent! Bad! at June 18, 2026 02:00 PM (TbWk/)

283 To my knowledge, Obama was NOT the editor of the Harvard Law Review, but the President of the Law Review. They are different positions.
Posted by: Ordinary American at June 18, 2026 01:54 PM (fZiTB)

---

Well, I'm getting my ass kicked today.

But thank you.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 18, 2026 02:00 PM (fgSb9)

284 277 The fact that they controlled shit-tons of money and lands hardly figured into it.

(/s, if it's needed)

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 18, 2026 01:59 PM (amcLV)

=====

He stole from the old elite and gave it to the new elite to secure power.

Dude knew how to wield power.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 18, 2026 02:00 PM (Zn6QU)

285 The absolute worst manager I ever worked for went to UPenn. This dude was just straight up retarded. I so desperately wanted to ask how the fuck did you get in and graduate from there?

Posted by: Heroq at June 18, 2026 02:00 PM (X+Nnd)

286 Hope they're PRC, "

Precision Rifle Cartridge?

Posted by: man at June 18, 2026 02:01 PM (cGjQu)

287 Obama's father went to Harvard? I've never heard that over the years.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 18, 2026 02:01 PM (fgSb9)

288 Harvard Students Experience Mental Illness at Double the Rate of the Normal Adult Population

Awww, the little nepots have congenital metal defects.

Only the Hapsburg were more inbred.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 18, 2026 02:01 PM (/lPRQ)

289 To my knowledge, Obama was NOT the editor of the Harvard Law Review, but the President of the Law Review. They are different positions.

—

220, 221 whatever it takes.

Posted by: Heroq at June 18, 2026 02:01 PM (X+Nnd)

290 I had no trouble recognizing baloney in college. What was different in their cases?
Posted by: Emmie at June 18, 2026 01:31 PM (FMtrg)

Well ... then let me start the bullshit. Right here.

Was the "baloney" - as you call it - the uniform obedience to stuff like "If you work at IBM you must wear a tie" ? Because that's been full-throated supported here.

Or the "we all must sing the school song" shit ? That got me in trouble in high school. In '86.

Shall we start talking about the whole "hat indoors" thing ?

Here's the deal. Plenty of folks - plenty here, plenty with purple hair - love their indoctrination. Cause and effect ? Very few care.

Posted by: Howdy at June 18, 2026 02:01 PM (IdfaO)

291 271
Obama: a man who appeared without a trace.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 18, 2026 01:58 PM (O0L8i)

Not much of a man, more like a shitstain.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 18, 2026 02:02 PM (bl07w)

292 You've been marked.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 18, 2026 01:59 PM

We know our own, but we want everyone else to know, too.

Posted by: Big Penguin at June 18, 2026 02:02 PM (0sNs1)

293
I have a different hash every time I visit
wtf

Your public IP is changing. Your ISP has decided that your IP lease needed to be a lot shorter.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2026 02:02 PM (2YhKe)

294
Jordan Peterson said something like, "We've found emersion therapy works well for most people.

Immersion therapy works great for that special kind of Ivy League insanity. As long as you hold their heads below the water's surface long enough for the immersion to work.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 18, 2026 02:02 PM (y9nCu)

295 Intel or AMD CPU? I have been eyeing the Intel GPUs for some time simply because of their video processing abilities but worried about an AMD CPU playing well with an Intel GPU using Linux.

Posted by: whig at June 18, 2026 01:57 PM (E4rtv)

Intel I9-9900KF. Intel B580.

A new install of Mint should be smooth. I had to do an upgrade install from an older version, since the Intel GPU drivers are in the kernel (non-supported kernel in older Mint, IIRC). It was a minor adventure.

Word on Intel B580 is that it is not as useful for video editing as other options.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 18, 2026 02:02 PM (dK+Kv)

296 Well, I'm getting my ass kicked today.

But thank you.
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 18, 2026 02:00 PM (fgSb9)

Welcome to the party, pal.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2026 02:02 PM (2YhKe)

297 Obama's father went to Harvard? I've never heard that over the years.
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 18, 2026 02:01 PM (fgSb9)

Yeah got a masters degree there.

Posted by: Heroq at June 18, 2026 02:02 PM (X+Nnd)

298 231 Ugh, Emmie, can’t imagine how radical it is on campus today.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 18, 2026 01:50 PM (4KUe5)

One day while walking to class I saw a couple of LEOs and I asked if there was an event or something. They said yes and I thanked them for watching over us. I talked to someone representing the event and she invited me to join them in mourning Renee Goode and ICE's assault on Americans. I noticed that there were about 5 people at the event and three of them were organizers. I took that as a sign that lunacy has a difficult time gaining traction on our campus.

Posted by: Emmie at June 18, 2026 02:02 PM (FMtrg)

299 As a Catholic, I sometimes suspect that Henry VIII's actions has caused a sort of inherited karna on the whole of Britain.
To explain how they've fallen to their current state.
(Of course that elides over the peak of the British Empire so maybe not)

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 18, 2026 02:03 PM (yw9lQ)

300 244 Obama’s daddy was a graduate of Harvard.
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'Honorary' graduate because he was a foreign government official.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 18, 2026 02:03 PM (51ygH)

301 Obama's father went to Harvard? I've never heard that over the years.
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 18, 2026 02:01 PM (fgSb9)

His real dad or the fake one?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 18, 2026 02:03 PM (2YhKe)

302 Ha, no love for Renee Goode on campus!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 18, 2026 02:03 PM (4KUe5)

303 nood europe

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at June 18, 2026 02:03 PM (Zn6QU)

304 Well, I'm getting my ass kicked today.

But thank you.
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 18, 2026 02:00 PM

Dude. No one constantly tells *you* to shut up.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 18, 2026 02:04 PM (0sNs1)

305 Someone has confused manners and professionalism with indoctrination.

Posted by: Piper at June 18, 2026 02:04 PM (Wmg4n)

306 I never spanked my children. I always felt like it teaches them the one who is supposed to love you the most is allowed to hit you. You are an awesome dad for recognizing this.
Posted by: Piper

I tried to spank my son a couple of times for really egregious crap, but then I realized that it just made him madder and we'd have an ever-escalating "testosterone war," as my wife used to call them. So my wife and I found subtler forms of punishment that didn't involve hitting.

Posted by: Bulg at June 18, 2026 02:04 PM (77rzZ)

307 Yes, she does exposure therapy, among other things. Her therapist gives her "homework" and she is excellent about doing it - ironically because she gets anxious about the thought of admitting to him at the next visit that she didn't do it.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 18, 2026 02:00 PM (tj+LC)

That's the way. Make it work for you. Never push a rope, make it pull.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 18, 2026 02:05 PM (rbvCR)

308 Never laid a hand on my kids.

Posted by: Heroq at June 18, 2026 02:05 PM (X+Nnd)

309 Obama was the President of the Harvard Law Review. That's the guy who arranged parties. The Editor of the law review is the smart person

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 18, 2026 02:05 PM (A0HNO)

310 The Blade on fear vs afraid:

Maikoh [the wolf chief] considered these words for a moment. "Let this dog's own words determine her fate," he said. "Lady Everest, if you answer the next question justly, I'll listen to you. Answer wrongly, and I'll not hear another word. Do you accept these terms?"
Maikoh looked Evy in the eye. His blue eyes seemed more sinister now. If Evy answered justly, there was a chance to stop a war. That might save lives. On the other hand, if she answered wrongly, it could cost lives.
"I accept your terms," Evy said.
"Very well then," Maikoh said. "My question is: Are you afraid?"
Evy pondered the question, but knew she could not delay an answer. "I feel fear," she said. "But I'm not afraid."
Maikoh's piercing eyes softened, a little. "Explain yourself," he said.
"I’m a dog surrounded by wolves," Evy said. "Of course there's fear. Even the smallest wolf could tear me up. I'd be dumb not to feel fear. But I conquered it. I came to the wolf den, and I'm still here. I faced my fears. I'm not afraid."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at June 18, 2026 02:05 PM (iFTx/)

311 287 Obama's father went to Harvard? I've never heard that over the years.
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 18, 2026 02:01 PM (fgSb9)

Which one? Biological or supposed?

Posted by: Emmie at June 18, 2026 02:06 PM (FMtrg)

312 Long story short on Intel B580 on Linux: Do your homework.

Hard to say definitively due to difference in time, driver versions, OS types (Windows versus Linux), and video platform you are attempting to run. The feeling I got is that there was cause for apprehension and further research, that, at the time, was not applicable to my use case.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 18, 2026 02:07 PM (dK+Kv)

313 Someone has confused manners and professionalism with indoctrination.
Posted by: Piper at June 18, 2026 02:04 PM (Wmg4n)

The man of many handles has a "thing" amongst other things about being told that he should remove his hat inside.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 18, 2026 02:07 PM (n3VHW)

314 "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain"

Great book. Shitty passage.

Rig up a cable. Run back and forth - 100 feet up - until you free your mind of the fear.

Write quickly the first time you fall. You won't get to pen a second chapter.

For other exercises ... chant before you enter bear dens. Handle venomous snakes. Do live electrical work at the big voltages and currents.

I could go on and on. But by all means. Face that little death.

Posted by: Howdy at June 18, 2026 02:08 PM (IdfaO)

315 227 I was friends with a girl from Berkeley, she was VN, and based, but she was all for affirmative action. Nuts. How the hell did the liberal nonsense infiltrate this hard working daughter of a boat person (refugee from the commies) to think that taking classes on tupac shakur was a productive use of her time? I knew then that CA was cooked.
Posted by: bob
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Glittering prizes were offered to minorities via DEI that personally were too much benefit to them that they would reject it. Takes a strong person to make their own mark in the world without reliance on someone else to give them a leg up. And that is often why good immigrants or working class natives that are entrepreneurs do it better like Musk, Tesla, or Edison. They have a drive to prove themselves by pulling themselves up from their own bootstraps also see Clarence Thomas.

They also have instinctual dislike of nepots who got there by connections, not hard work and brains.

Posted by: whig at June 18, 2026 02:08 PM (E4rtv)

316 Someone has confused manners and professionalism with indoctrination.
Posted by: Piper at June 18, 2026 02:04 PM (Wmg4n)

At this rate ? Not putting out your Pride Flag will be considered "bad manners". Not holding the door for a dude dressed like a lady that want to take a piss or a grope in "your" bathroom will be considered "behind the times".

You - and many like you - just can't wrap your head around the idea that the norms you like will be turned into the norms you don't.

Posted by: Howdy at June 18, 2026 02:10 PM (IdfaO)

317 Re: AMD CPU working with Intel GPU - I have not seen any mention of difficulties in my prior research on the Intel B580.

The main issue was early Linux drivers, and that seemed to be resolved shortly after release. It's a great, 12 GB budget card for about $300.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 18, 2026 02:10 PM (dK+Kv)

318 312 Long story short on Intel B580 on Linux: Do your homework.

Hard to say definitively due to difference in time, driver versions, OS types (Windows versus Linux), and video platform you are attempting to run. The feeling I got is that there was cause for apprehension and further research, that, at the time, was not applicable to my use case.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Mainly video processing into a Jellyfin media server. CPU based AVX512 is slow so I either go to 10-11th Generation or later Intel platforms or use current AMD systems. I dual boot and both are a common Linux variety.

Due to the memory crunch, I had to put off putting in a container system to run a bunch of legacy software--still retaining about five systems that run those (off the net of course). To get some data off a dying hard drive, I had to put Debian 32 bit Trixie on an old Seattle BX2 Pentium build system circa 2000. Interesting project last summer fixing up the old computers and applying all upgrades to them that were possible.

I have a lot of old stat and math programs that I do not care to dump plus too lazy to learn replacement Python and R commands to access data on old research nowadays.

Posted by: whig at June 18, 2026 02:14 PM (E4rtv)

319
I'm okay with corporal punishment when it's used dispassionately and with restraint. Striking a child at any time while in the heat of the moment does more harm than good. When my dad was still drinking, there was enough of that to make me hate his guts at the time, even though I absolutely deserved virtually every spanking.

Once he got sober, spankings were separated from the offence, and became an occasional ritual rather than an act of emotion. He'd send me to the laundry room to fetch the paddle and bring it to him for appropriate use. I didn't find those spankings to be a matter of Dad being mean, it was a regrettable punishment that I'd brought down on myself.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 18, 2026 02:16 PM (y9nCu)

320 Bringing it over to next thread.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 18, 2026 02:16 PM (dK+Kv)

321 The main issue was early Linux drivers, and that seemed to be resolved shortly after release. It's a great, 12 GB budget card for about $300.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

I avoided the earlier ones because of shaky drivers reported on Phoronix which I frequent. Some of it related the resizable bar requirement for systems but not all. AMD's GPUs until the 9000 series simply were horrible in video processing and Nvidia drivers can be hit or miss on Linux. That left Intel.

Posted by: whig at June 18, 2026 02:16 PM (E4rtv)

322 Willowed:

There's an entire genre of "We've been lied to about America for YEARS" on youtube right now, and it's the best content on the internet.

HUNDREDS of Europeans posting their experiences and their love for this country.

This one husband was like - what do I have to do to get in? What forms do I need to fill out, what line do I need to stand in? We're raising our family in America. I'll trade with some of the people messaging me saying they hate America. Let's just do a deal.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung, DURING PRIDE MONTH IS EVIL! at June 18, 2026 01:11 PM (rii+a)

Even before that there have been Ameri-curious families and couples who have started by watching videos on America, then cooking American recipes or trying US foods shipped to them by viewers, and ending up by visiting here. I've been seeing a few from England, one from Jersey Is, one from New Zealand, and more recently a family of defector women from North Korea living in South Korea who have started visiting here on their own and posting about it. It is fun watching them go from fearful to comfortable about people here they can hardly communicate with without a translator app.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 18, 2026 02:17 PM (uhVAy)

323 I'm reminded of the movie Don't Worry Darling where they present it as the 50s being some horrible patriarchal nightmare but...it looked pretty damn good compared to COVIDmania America...
Posted by: 18-1 at June 18, 2026 01:30 PM (sKqQm)

That's increasingly what bubble propagandists run into these days. The company in the UK that made that game where a woman gets the protagonist in trouble by having him exposed to right wing "wrong-think" is supposed to be the villain....but instead was lifted from the game and made a heroine of the national movement in the UK, and copies were made in half a dozen other countries as well.

The leftist hellscapes look pretty good to normies.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 18, 2026 02:30 PM (uhVAy)

324 My last vacation in Cancun, the resort had a small unkindness of ravens that hung about the beach restaurants. They were exceptionally well-behaved; they had clearly learned what behaviour was going to get them chased off and what would get them food.

They wouldn't set foot on any tables, or the garbage receptacles, or the table clearing stations, regardless of how much food waste was sitting there. Any food on the ground was fair game. They'd perch on the back of one of the chairs at your table and wait for you to finish in the hopes you'd toss a french fry or something on the ground for them, but they didn't caw or harass you.

I fed one of them for a week. He was a charming lunch and dinner companion. I called him Pedro.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at June 18, 2026 03:52 PM (LgYtf)

325 >Great book. Shitty passage.

Tell me you don't understand the Litany without telling me you don't understand the Litany.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at June 18, 2026 03:53 PM (LgYtf)

326 Which only proves that Leftism is a mental disease.

Posted by: Tim William McFall at June 18, 2026 03:57 PM (OXWQ1)

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