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One of my pet theories is that one reason for lasting bitterness about the public health measures is that we normally humor people who have bad, incorrect ideas, but temporarily we couldn't afford to do that. They're going to have feelings about it for the rest of their lives.
He lost his social status, citizenship, and all his goods and property, forcing him to live among strangers in extreme poverty among the dregs of Athenian society. He basically responded by saying "fuck it", embracing asceticism, and rejecting and roundly mocking traditional values and mores. 3/3
Classical accounts of the lives of philosophers are embellished, symbolic, and otherwise unreliable. But to the extent that we can rely on them, Diogenes was well-educated and came from good family in Sinope. He committed the very grave offense of debasing the coinage. 2/3
That's a funny idea, but y'know something even funnier? It's pretty much accurate. He wasn't LOCAL to Athens or Corinth, but the sources basically agree that he was a (kind of) bum who became a philosopher. 1/3
The original stand-up comedian/performance artist with many bits still undefeated after 1000s of years, such as when people yelled at him for jacking off in public and he replied by saying "if only I could relieve my hunger by rubbing my belly"
the legend about Diogenes releasing a plucked chicken in Plato's academy to mock his definition of man as a featherless biped is basically just that
I live in a very competitive Midwestern House district (R incumbent won by <800 votes in 2024) and the volume and content of political ads I'm seeing gives me the impression that, yeah, Republicans are really worried and Democrats are targeting the right vulnerabilities (for this region).
Their case will probably collapse at trial so they needed him to plead guilty. They offered him a safer situation in Costa Rica if he pleaded guilty to the false charges, but threatened him with Uganda if he tried to go to trial. Now they're doing it.
Do know the story about why he didn't get to play the lead role in The Graduate? www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/03...
Clinton's election cemented DLC control of the Democratic Party, but to carry out their agenda they had to marginalize the opposing factions (organized labor and the civil rights movement). Punching left isn't really about beating Republicans, it's about maintaining discipline within the party.
wrt to Sistah Souljah I think it's important to keep in mind that there's always more than one process working out. Clinton denouncing her wasn't significant in the general election, but it was somewhat important for the factional conflict within the Democratic Party.
I just realized something that I never put together before but feels in some way important: the Dirty Harry film series and the classic Columbo TV movies were contemporary works. I feel like you could get something from putting them in conversation, but AFAIK it hasn't been done seriously.
I'm fondly remembering the part in the middle where Harry tortures Scorpio for information but it's too late to save the victim, and he gets super mad that his evidence from the torture isn't admissible in court like the whole world has gone crazy
Even if the election was tomorrow, the strategic calculation makes no sense to me. Who is the voter both (A) highly activated by transphobia and (B) amenable to voting for a CA Democrat under any circumstances at all?
Climbing a political machine doesn't select for the skills to win competitive elections, and Newsom is hardly the only example. We just saw what happened when Andrew Cuomo was ready for a machine process but unexpectedly found himself in a competitive primary against a talented campaigner.
It's really simple: elections are radically different when they are competitive versus when they're not. Winning in a single-party environment is about ascending the party bureaucratically, paying your dues, and convincing power brokers that they can rely on you.
IMO the flip side of conservatives complaining about liberal cultural hegemony is they benefit from the mainstream having little idea what they're like. Every so often something briefly breaks through, like how the Speaker of the House and his teenage son are each other's no-fap sponsors.
Yeah, he was funded by the Mercers but IIRC they dumped him when he endorsed pedophilia, then he got a new hookup from a crypto bro who suddenly ODed and left him at loose ends.
Milo Y. also had one, and a major reason he fell off and moved to pretending to be a straight Christian was that his patron died of a drug overdose and the money stopped.
"im not owned! im not owned!!", i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a hitler
actual conversation I had last year My student: When I'm stressed I use my phone to cope, but I waste so much time on my phone that my grades are dropping, and I get more stressed but I use my phone even more. Me: You're literally looking at your phone while you tell me this, right now.
2005 Heath Herring vs. Yoshihiro Nakao. In the pre-fight faceoff Nakao gently kissed Herring on the lips. Herring instantly sucker-punched Nakao unconscious. It was eventually ruled no-contest. youtu.be/g-gKilvZZsU?...
reaching Kardeshev Type II energy capture just to make infinite fake pictures of heartwarming football men
apparently they have a menu of "Italian-inspired" cocktails that are just regular cocktails but one of the ingredients is swapped out for amaretto or whatever
if you look closely at the photo you can see that the curb behind the bollards is newer, which leads me to believe that they were added recently in response to one or more incidents of vehicles trying to enter the interior of the Waffle House
I really like the "people will definitely ram their vehicle into this restaurant whether accidentally or on purpose" wall of bollards
We're bringing 'em back. We had to destroy the postwar economic system and surrender global hegemony to China, but we're finally going to have job listings that say "Master's degree in related field, minimum six years' experience, starting salary $10.50/hour" again. laissez les bons temps rouler
idk. Center-Left parties consistently win >90% in the Southwest since the first real elections in 1987, and that's huge in South Korean politics so there's a lot of research about it. This by Ha-Young Chool (Korea Studies director at UW) is freely available: keia.org/wp-content/u...
Liberal and pro-democracy activism, especially around Gwangju, was a major factor in the eventual end of military rule and the establishment of democratic government in South Korea. So, apparently the answer to your question is yes, Southwest Korea is woke.
Park was from North Gyeongsang and he used his position to disproportionately benefit his home region. That's the extremely red part of the electoral map in Southeast Korea. Meanwhile, Southwest Korea was a centers of opposition and protest against his government, and faced crackdowns.
Park was assassinated by the head of the Korean CIA in 1979 and his legacy is controversial in South Korea. Many older people credit him with modernizing the economy, and right wing people admire his authoritarian conservatism. Younger Koreans and liberals do not.
Much later, South Korea was ruled by a right-wing military government under Park Chung Hee 1961-1979. Park was in power for a very long time during which South Korea developed massively from a poor, mostly rural country to a leading modern economy.
The Korean peninsula was ruled by separate rival kingdoms until about 1000 years ago. Silla (SE Korea) and Baekje (SW Korea) were bitter enemies. I don't know how much this actually matters today but various stuff I found online said that it is some kind of factor.
I didn't know this and I was really curious so I tried to find out, so maybe somebody who actually knows about South Korea can give a better answer, but apparently it's a historical legacy.
This tweet, but for dating as an incredibly rich single person. Starts out with your romantic dinner for two taking over a 3 Michelin star restaurant, but you get addicted to taking ever-stupider venues private until you're renting out the Las Vegas Sphere to watch Netflix together.
Oh my God. Cribbing date ideas from movies you saw because you don't have a real personality. "Only the Lonely", John Candy takes Ally Sheedy on a picnic in Comiskey Park. "Better Off Dead", John Cusack making out with Diane Franklin in empty Dodger Stadium. I'm sure there are others.
I agree with you. Yes, the conduct of the other officers shows there was no threat. The one with the baton was abusing his authority, but he would easily get away with it. I don't want people to interact with cops under a false notion of what the cops can or can't do, and what their own rights are.
I'm not saying what the officer did was right, because it wasn't. However, it was legal and if he had to account for his actions he would easily be able to say the correct words to present it as being an appropriate use of force. Cops get away with bad shit that isn't illegal all the time.
We saw the video. We know (A) the bystanders were not in proximity to the officers, (B) they presented no threat, (C) the officer escalated very aggressively and inappropriately. He was being a giant asshole because he didn't want to be filmed.
Law enforcement agencies have a "use of force model" or "continuum" that determines the appropriate level of force to use in a situation. You can find lots of these online; I attached one from Chicago PD. Drawing a baton is much lower on the continuum of force than drawing a gun.
When they're questioning somebody police are allowed to maintain a perimeter. That cop is abusing his authority to intimidate people who clearly aren't a threat, but if he was asked to justify himself he'd just say he needed to move them back for officer safety and that would be an end of it.
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I have to start teaching a current events class for 10th graders in 1.5 weeks and, buddy, I'm just gonna wing it
They're genuinely good and interesting and they also hit the note that OP was talking about. USCSB: "The chemical safety data sheet failed to properly note the risk of exothermic reaction if temperatures in the pressure vessel exceeded 450 degrees Fahrenheit." Me: "Oh wow that sounds bad."
www.youtube.com/@USCSB/videos The USCSB has a channel full of videos that are just detailed explanations of chemical industry safety disasters and how they should have been averted, with computer animations.
a tired observation but true, conservatism is ridiculous hypocrisy unless you assume the only thing that matters is preserving hierarchy they might talk about particular issues, and often even believe they mean it, but it's all just different approaches towards the one goal
I still remember the first time I played ME3 and he first appeared. I immediately shot him twelve times in the face with the most powerful pistol (adrenaline rush power). He became invulnerable halfway through and I lost the fight in a cutscene. I thought, "ah, so it's THAT way, huh"
McClellan expressed himself most honestly in his personal correspondence, and people at the time obviously didn't have access to that. Thanks to his memoirs and access to his private papers, we know what he was really like. He demolished his own reputation.
(6) He was popular with the rank and file under his command (7) He was able to portray his failures and removal from command as caused by politically-motivated interference from Republicans but most importantly (8) The public didn't know the real McClellan like we do. ...
(3) He performed well in peacetime service, or at least was able to conceal it when he erred (4) He was successful in civilian life (5) He was politically connected to Northern Democrats, who used their newspapers and influence to promote his career and public image for mutual benefit ...
McClellan is interesting in that respect, because several of those factors are easy to identify. (1) He excelled among his peers at West Point (2) He was an efficient junior officer in the Mexican-American War, and had close family connections to Winfield Scott ...
Heritage came in the '70s out of the Powell Memo push partly to pursue culture war and race stuff AEI wasn't pushing. Always much more comfortable with crank shit, so they went over to Trump enthusiastically. e.g. a lot of the startup $ for Heritage came from Coors, who was a Bircher nutcase.
AEI was set up by corporations in the '30s to fight the New Deal. Traditionally they're focused on whatever big business cares about, so anti-tax, anti-regulation, anti-environmental, etc. They also aligned very strongly with the Neocons, many of whom have been cool towards Trump.
directly on-point, Horst Wessel got shot in the neck over rent on his sublet, and he probably wouldn't have died if his friends had accepted treatment from a Jewish doctor who arrived quickly instead of waiting another hour for a Nazi-approved one
After the election of 2024 Partisans of the Democratic Party Posted extensively on social media To state that the base Had squandered the confidence of the party And could only win it back By redoubled work. Would it not in that case Be simpler for the party To dissolve the base And elect another?
when I was a kid I had a subscription to PC Gamer and in one issue they refused to review an EA NHL series release because it was just a roster update to the previous year's edition with no new features like, that was such a novelty at the time that the magazine called it out as a scam
Perfect, unerring instinct to scab for management even when it made no sense at all.
The Mayor Pete moment from 2020 that is seared into my memory is when he had to walk a picket line, visibly very uncomfortable. He tried to make conversation and what came out was "How's your strike fund doing?" The union guy looked at him like a rat had stood up and talked.
I don't know that one. Maybe. Anecdotally, I love sprouts I think they smell delicious during roasting or sauteing. But reheating them in the break room microwave is antisocial. Strong sulfurous fart odor that really lingers. It's a different smell but the same level of offense as reheating fish.
You may be a "supertaster". Like cilantro, Brassica cultivars are eaten for their strong flavor, but some people have an unusual sensitivity to the flavor compounds and find them overwhelmingly bitter.
He's an article from Eater, you can find lots of others if you look. www.eater.com/23620802/coc...
Premodern European medicine was based on balancing the four bodily humors, especially through regulating the patient's diet. This sometimes extended to medical cannibalism, as glands, tissues, and other substances harvested from human bodies were consumed for their supposed medicinal properties.
Most people know that the original recipe of Coca-Cola contained cocaine. Fewer are aware that coca is still part of the recipe because it contributes to the distinctive flavor, and the company has special permission to import it. The narcotic chemicals are removed during production.
Cabbage, kale, kohlrabi, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, and more (keeping the list manageable) are all cultivars of the same plant, Brassica oleracea.
if you look at historical records about cunning women or witches, one of the most common asks was help finding lost items or livestock hell, if you do a google search for "spell finding lost item" you'll find posts on reddit or Quora asking Wicca practitioners for help with it *now*
Yes. Illinois surveyed the site in 1830 and Chicago was chartered in 1837. It's also historically illiterate in a different way. The Erie Canal linked the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, with New York and (eventually) Chicago as entrepots at opposite ends of the same network of commerce.
Okay, you have numbers and statistics. But, have you considered that driving is something that I do and is ubiquitous, so cars are normal and not dangerous, whereas ebikes are new and relatively unusual and therefore dangerous and frightening?
I don't know all that much about theology but my personal take on American evangelicals is they've recreated the Christian-Pagan dichotomy from early Roman Christianity, with themselves in the role of the Pagans.
A best case scenario would probably be something like Hirohito realizing at some point that the war was lost and ordering a surrender while he still had the command and control to do so. A worst case scenario is apocalyptic.
In that chaotic situation, would the Japanese government even *be able* to surrender in an orderly way? Or would it just all fall apart, with some units surrendering with or without orders and others deciding to fight on hopelessly? How many people would die while that process worked out?
Operation Downfall would have disrupted the Japanese chain of command. Tokyo occupied. The Emperor and the cabinet in hiding, perhaps even prisoners of the Americans. Different regions and surviving Japanese military formations isolated from one another and under American attack.
Historically, Hirohito decided to surrender and the cabinet and military command carried it out. They defeated abortive coup attempts to prevent or refuse the surrender. But the Japanese government was still essentially in place and the military leadership was not disrupted when this happened.
Pending surrender, the Japanese government would be overwhelmed by millions of refugees and unable to move food and other critical supplies to meet civilian needs. Regarding surrender, factions within the Japanese military were determined to fight to the death.
US military planners believed taking Tokyo and the Kanto industrial region would force the Japanese government to surrender unconditionally. The bulk of the population and territory would still be in Japanese hands, divided into regions isolated by US forces severing their lines of communication.
The railroad system would also have been destroyed, severing transportation infrastructure overland. If Olympic and Coronet were completed, nearly all significant Japanese military industries would be in US hands or otherwise inoperative but the bulk of the territory and population would not.
By mid-1945 the US had reduced Japanese shipping by more than 75% from its prewar tonnage. To immobilize Japanese military forces, US forces during Operation Downfall would have destroyed almost all of what was left, and further disabled port facilities.
Outside the areas intended for US occupation, the population would have remained the responsibility of the Japanese government unless and until they surrendered. As you note, the destruction of Japanese shipping and the mining of ports was already causing widespread food shortages and starvation.
US military planners anticipated that large numbers of Japanese civilians would be killed or flee the American advance as refugees. Food, shelter, and medical care for those unable to flee (sick, injured, starving, trapped, etc.) would be the responsibility of the occupation force.
In this respect there are some important aspects of the planned invasion of the home islands. The US planned to invade and occupy the southern 1/3 of Kyushu (Operation Olympic) as a staging area for the invasion of the Kanto Plain, with Tokyo the main target (Operation Coronet).
My favorite thing about this is trying to imagine the scenario for which four pistols and a reload for each is the appropriate carry option. If a John Woo movie breaks out in the sandwich queue, he's your man.
it's an old photo from the height of the pandemic, I remember it going viral then
The company website indicates it's intended for heavy sauces. Their recipe suggestions are a thick sausage ragu or a creamy artichoke sauce. www.sfoglini.com/products/qua...
There's a reason for the saying "you don't want to see how the sausage is made".
particularly bad in this case because the counter-argument is right there: if messaging and policy are how you win, why does the Republican Party win? their messaging is just berserk racism and their policies are so shit that they spent most of the last election falsely promising not to do them
Oh, also I forgot because I never really watched it, but Sabrina spun off from Riverdale, which began featuring supernatural plot elements around the same time Sabrina ended and Wednesday was in development (2021-2022). Maybe a directive went out to put ghosts and goblins in the teen dramas.
I don't know, but around the same time Netflix was starting development on Wednesday, they were winding down Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. My guess is they wanted to carry on of what they thought worked on Sabrina into Wednesday. I've seen both and they're similar shows in a lot of respects.
It's infamous wife beater Dana White
The alt-text I put on the photo was "The basement of the Ipatiev House" which is pretty fast and simple to look up. If you just put it directly into Google the top result should be the wiki page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipatiev...
bonus: I almost went with this one but I figured it was too much of a deep cut
I wasn't even trying to be mean. Genuinely, I was hoping she would look it up and figure out that pretty much every time communists took control, they liquidated the previous ruling class. It's actually one of the main things that anti-communists were mad about!
It's a little easter egg for you to figure out! Enjoy!
It's not directly related but this story reminded me of when Wells Fargo stole billions of dollars and 25,000 cars from their customers and just had to pay a fine. The main business innovations this century are smartphones and doing fraud at such a large scale that law enforcement gives up.
It was a popular short con at the time where they would break $100 on a small purchase then give confusing instructions about how they wanted their change, to beat the cashier out of $10-20. The manager told me, you have their money. You decide how, and how quickly, they get it back.
If you run the Sopranos through this it has maybe half of them depending on how you interpret some of the vagueness.
lol Around 2005 when I was 19, I got a summer job at a truck stop. Part of the training to operate the cash register was that if somebody interrupted or tried to hurry me while I was making change, they were probably running a short con. I was told to stop and stare at them until they gave up.
Lost his career, first marriage fell apart. He adjuncted for a while chasing it but eventually he realized his side job managing a GNC was his real job and gave up on academia. He moved into retail banking and he's been doing okay, but class of '04 wasn't much better for him than '08 was for me.