That looks like something from Codex Seraphinianus.

It’s the only way I could get through Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” which is both verbose and repetitive.

I’ve read his treatise and I liked it a lot, but it appears to be full of wishful thinking. “Disenshittification?” Oh my sweet summer child, enshittification not only keeps getting worse, it seems to be accelerating. Also thinking the world would somehow, magically, unite against Trumpism, that there are cracks starting to form in the American digital hegemony… I don’t share this optimism at all.

Vanessa Warwick, one of my first TV crushes.

The “complete stranger” does a lot of the heavy lifting here.
That guy she is meeting might not be a total stranger; they might have been introduced earlier, and I think that is very often the case.
On their second date, they definitely won’t be strangers, so now, according to the statistics you showed, her risk of getting murdered is suddenly 9x higher! That’s not very reassuring.
Makes sense, then, to check on the first date for all possible red flags, doesn’t it? And to err on the side of caution, even if that means that many - most - perfectly fine men will, unfortunately, be unfairly rejected. The plight of women is the plight of men…

“It felt like a singular embarrassment”
“AI-fueled debasement”

We really need more of this type of scathing journalism and less of the phony type which is so widespread nowadays: hoping to curry favor and to gain inside scoops by sugar-coating even the worst of big corporations’ brainfarts.

A new, horrible torture method just dropped.

You mean like this?

(I must have too much time on my hands. Way too much.)

That appears to be one of the rarest medical conditions on Earth.
I hope you’ll get better.

I hope it’s not too cold where viking lives, because they’ll have to sleep outside tonight.

Awesome.

Mostly Virgo, some Libra.
Looking this up, TIL that, due to the Earth’s axial precession since Babylonian times when all of this was dreamed up, Zodiac signs and constellations already diverge very significantly from each other.

Seconded summer nights.
♪ Kiss me, beneath the milky twilight… ♪

The Roman dictators were unlike what we think of a dictator nowadays. From Wikipedia:

He received the full powers of the state, subordinating the other magistrates, consuls included, for the specific purpose of resolving that issue, and that issue only, and then dispensing with those powers immediately.

Worked out fairly well for the Roman Republic, until Julius Caesar became dictator-for-life which a lot of people didn’t like. You can guess how that ended.

We could call it… “Artificial Emotions,” or AE.

“Deep sea oil rig sand trap” sounds like an underground rock band song title.

It’s a handbag.
… stuffed with poo.

It’s the targeting itself that is bad. Very, very bad. It’s a blueprint for mind control and singling out opposition. In the current political climate, this spells bloody trouble.