The Life and Death of American MallsSep 26
rip malls and the socialist who escaped nazis to create them, and the era when we had one perfectly air-conditioned place to hang out together irl
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Make America Jacked Again: The Case for Government Fat Camps
more americans are clinically obese than ever, and we can't find enough fit recruits to serve in the military. we need a manhattan project for fitness.
Oliver Bateman Does the Work
Jun 17, 2025
America needs a Civilian Fitness Corps: a government program that pays you to get fit, reversing the obesity epidemic that's plagued us for the last 40 years.
The concept is simple. Our federal government will recruit thousands of obese Americans, put them through 12-week residential programs combining fitness training with cutting-edge weight loss drugs, and send them home transformed. Graduates will return to their communities as certified trainers, seeding a nationwide fitness revolution. Think of it like the New Deal meets Navy SEAL training meets Ozempic.
The legal authority exists. The infrastructure is available. The drugs work. And we finally have a Health and Human Services Secretary who might be crazy enough to try it.
The Life and Death of American Malls
Men's Health: The Benefits of BleedingSep 22
from leeches to bloodletting, the ancients were right: modern doctors are overlooking the risk of iron overload in men, who evolved to bleed in combat (start donating, boys)
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Murder is Bad Sep 16
pirate wires #148 // on accusations of "fanning the flames" after accurately describing reality, and an earnest appeal to the center left: we must reassert a strong taboo against violence — together
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