This is roughly equivalent to "I like beer (which I do) but there shouldn't be open kegs in HS cafeterias."
This is roughly equivalent to "I like beer (which I do) but there shouldn't be open kegs in HS cafeterias."
She's also hawking some kind of smartphone specifically for pre-adolescents, so there's that. I used to think she was just ultra-neurotic, which she probably is, but she's also greedy and kind of evil.
And I'm sorry, but we need to collectively stigmatize illogical thinking at this point.
Yeah there is literally no logical connection to "my kid has a smartphone" and "they are safer in case of the occurrence of this black swan event"
I think it's more that they don't know what IQ means or what it is actually supposed to indicate.
Meanwhile, countries in Africa, full of people who speak three languages fluently and hustle constantly to stay alive, have average IQs of people who in the US can't hold jobs or go to the bathroom by themselves.
Seeing IQ maps by country is hilarious. Yes, sure, the 1 sd above Chinese or Korean definitely has a higher IQ than most lawyers, doctors, and scientists.
Liberal media is not actually liberal, regardless of whether or not they have liberal employees.
Liberals do not = liberal media.
The Japanese and Taiwanese were white in apartheid SA because they were economically successful investors in the country
Charlottesville is such a beautiful city in a beautiful setting.
It's weirdly common for leftists to become hard-right post-disillusionment. They just hate liberalism.
I was a Chapo listener before 2020, but afterwards, they never confronted that they were wrong about pretty much everything they believed in and hoped for, and descended into nihilism and apathy instead of confronting that and moving on
Just two vapid losers doing creaky voice for incels and MAGA versions of Enid Coleslaw from Ghost World who have the emotional maturity of teenagers who are desperate to look and feel cool
This made me very sad
If they hadnt, even with UK/Germany emigration levels, France would have 120+ million people today. They would have been by far the most important power in Western Europe. German/Italian Unification, WWI, WWII, Russian Rev don't happen. Unrecognizable world
Kind of unrelated, but it is interesting that "France beginning the demographic transition a century before the rest of Europe" is one of the most important historical phenomena people don't know about
There's a reason why people who have practiced "radical honesty" long enough end up losing all their friends.
And one of these things we've learned is that false pretenses collectively believed are sometimes quite prosocial, like it was probably good for people who secretly didn't believe in God to go to church when everyone did.
Biden's mistake was thinking the voting public were rational adults and not magical thinkers with fried brains from Fox News and TikTok
If you're a tall white man in a suit and say things in a confident cadence, lots of people won't notice if it's floridly insane.
Those three institutions made Covid way, way less awful than it could have been, but most people think in categories and archetypes, not in nuance, and especially not in quantitative nuance. Covid is endemic in both the US and NZ but the per capita death rate is still 2x in the former
A reverse Lisbon Earthquake. Then the sentiments of "how could a loving God do this" fueled the Enlightenment, today "how could science/technology/the authorities not have prevented Covid in the first place" -> Woo
He probably went back to whatever part of the BE he was from and died in obscurity
I've read (can't source) that people familiar with it said his accent was vaguely similar to New Zealand English, or he could have just been South Asian trying to fake AAVE.
Chapo IMO seemed fresh and insightful when it came out, but they turned out to be wrong about everything and between that, Sanders losing, and the pandemic their brains broke and they never updated their priors and turned nihilistic.
The thing about great kids movies/YA lit/whatever is that they speak to the problems, joys, and condition of being a kid. Adults have a completely different set of those
Is this Wes Yang
She's gearing up for a right-wing pivot IMO
Mutilating animals is a pretty well-recognized indicator of being a sociopath, alongside deep childhood trauma and neglect becoming one (and those things don't actually make you a better person, mostly a worse one.)
The thing about the guy is that if he were not a Kennedy he would have ended up as a cult leader, serial killer, or both
Granted, it was $6 and $4.50 in the Before Times, respectively, but that's true of everything
Dude I live in one of the most expensive cities in the US and if you can't find a good pint for $8 or $6.50 you can find a new place
The GOP gets that no one who isn't a dentist gets what Edward Bernays and Don Draper did, which is that no one actually cares about toothpaste. But if you associate your brand of it with what people actually care about (wealth, status, power, childhood nostalgia) paired with flashy images, it sells
The way I put it, Dems are stuck in the 50s era of advertising when a toothpaste commercial would be 5 minutes long and have a panel of dentists telling you about how much better X toothpaste is than Y and Z for your teeth
Im pretty sure that when John Milton wrote Satan saying, "I would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven," he was making a very good point about the desire for status
Good luck with your talk at Obec! I've never been but my bro and sister-in-law live in Ballard and love that place
I don't remember much about it but my takeaway is that guys like Pichai consider themselves smarter than the fash leadership (which TBF they are) but think that alone will put them in the driver's seat. Then when everything is ruined and their capital and fortune are gone they get they were played
My senior thesis in economic history was on industrial relations between major German industrial combines and the German state during the Nazi era
Counterpoint: Pinochet. Granted, he knew he was at risk of going the way of the Ceaucescus if he didn't step down.
People say this, but I kind of doubt more than 20-25% of Americans use gig services in any given year, except for Uber from the airport. I think its just general inflation.
Kids notoriously crave stability and dependability, and I think that might lead to a lifelong rate of inchoate conservatism
Gen X were kids and young adolescents during a period of wild cultural change (70s, race, gender roles, widespread divorce) as were Gen Z (explosion of smartphones and social media, and the pandemic obviously)
Another explanation: Boomers and Millennials were kids and young adolescents in conservative and staid times (1950-60s, 1980s-midOOs) and significantly liberalized US culture in the 70s and 10s
I only knew what Crumbl is because I work next to an LDS church, and of course, there's a Crumbl next to it. I looked them up online and did get a chuckle out of "This site uses cookies to improve your experience."
The soft suburbanites who think killing evildoers will make them feel something really need to talk to people who have actually killed people.
Also deep anger that MeToo activists asked them to relinquish the right of Prima Nocta on their interns
They see Trump as this larger-than-life Willie Stark figure and not as a real person hurting tons of other real people.
I honestly think part of it is that many political journalists who wanted to be novelists but US literary culture is basically dead now except for YA lit and IDK vampire rape smut. It's all a fun story to them.
Huh I thought you were originally Torontonian for some reason
Would you say it's like...RAYAN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY
It's driven by what will be lifelong resentment that the DNC didn't coronate Bernie Sanders in 2016 and/or 2020
Exit polls identified Israel policy as a minor voter concern compared to inflation/scary crime/scary transes.
He seems to have genuinely loved his brothers, while simultaneously, his sisters wanted nothing to do with him. I totally buy that his lifelong abstention from alcohol was due to Fred Jr. Other than that, he's the closest thing I can think of to a p-zombie in history
But voters wanted someone to throw against a wall, and Biden/Harris/Walz were the victims. Trump channeled people's anger, sadness, and sense of loss, and thereby revived MAGA
a) Voters didn't really want what they said they did. They liked cheap debt/consumer good more than low unemployment. b) One of Biden's mandates was to bring back the economic and psychological conditions prevailing pre-pandemic. This is like putting Humpty Dumpty back together. Impossible
I used to think she was just neurotic because of Covid but then I realized Covid was a pitch deck to keep kids as isolated as possible so their parents buy them the shitty phone-for-kids she hawks, and that she's just evil.
TIL California is pouring scarce water resources into a giant salty ocean because its Woke
The only conviction I support the death penalty for
This is literally why pellagra was extremely common in the US south and Northern Italy because no one took indigenous advice
Fuck the Medicis, MFGA
There are parallel figures too (in many ways Martin Luther was a 1500s Alex Jones) but I can't think of a parallel to Trump. Maybe Savonarola?
I am increasingly struck by the parallels between the introduction of the printing press and social media, in which people from very narrow fields with very specific communicative cultures (clerics, printers, administrators then, scientists and engineers now) imagined they could scale globally
I suppose there are edge cases like Hawaii (although I don't know what else their economy would be based on otherwise) where overtourism does have bad effects, but that's rare.
It really should be a slam dunk. Tourists inject a ton of money into local economies while demanding nothing in the way of social services or medical care
Liberals read "Amusing Ourselves To Death" as a warning. Newt Gingrich was insightful enough to see an instruction manual.
Although the added factor is in 2024 the public wanted a strong daddy who could reset the world to 2019 and Biden couldn't (nor could anyone) and since Trump is 6'3", wears a suit, and speaks in a confident cadence, he's back.
It really does just come down to this.
Also the "having phones" -> "safer from school shootings" which is totally logically unconnected. The kid is more likely to die in a car crash going to or from school.
Also David Austin Walsh. Not making us Austins look good
I suppose there's a use case if you have a chronic medical condition that might require immediate intervention that your spouse can coordinate on but otherwise...
I went on a huge hiking binge in the Cascades in 2021, and I would just text my girlfriend and after we broke up, my Mom, and go "I'll be hiking X trail today, I'll text you when I am back in range"
That people consent to having their whereabouts monitored is insane
It was basically a 90s-appealing ideology
A lot of Ron Paul libertarians became socialist or ethnonationalist after 2008 when the shit hit the fan and it became clear libertarianism wasn't up to face the challenges of the day
It's almost like a lot of professional leftists don't care about the working class and are just frustrated wannabe Mandarins who become bigoted reactionaries when they come into money. Weird
HP Lovecraft is so weird. He has the common link with J.G. Ballard where the extent of his weird insights exceeded his writing ability, but with Ballard it was "I grew up in a Japanese prison camp" and Lovecraft was like "the guy who delivered my ice was Portuguese"
Well, yeah. That's part of the problem.
Vance and Cruz are repulsive, bitter nerds with negative charisma, and Rubio is a toady, so they don't go anywhere. Kristi Noem could, but apparently Americans just don't see the presidency (specifically) as a job for women.
Trump's effective success is downstream from his instinctive understanding of media and spectacle. The media can't keep him out of their heads because he indulges them so well and they don't understand kayfabe.
Being a millennial (the first and apparently last generation to be remotely normal about gender) is fun!
The whole "standing in neutrality outside of the rest of Europe" thing and direct democracy leading to reactionary outcomes (regular voters are usually way more conservative than elites) explains a lit.
Yeah, that is very true. Can't have soft power without multilingualism. If we actually still had an effective state department/CIA, I would say those institutions should teach people language X in exchange for two years of service.
Humanities needs to pivot to a media focus, since the internet and social media are the most epochal media innovations since the printing press.
To say nothing of the fact that college enrollment is going to fall off a cliff in a few years because the birthrate never recovered post GFC and international students are not interested in the US.
I find this very sad, but the reality is that no one really cares about the classics anymore, US literary culture peaked in the mid-20th century and film culture in the late 20th century, and doctorate studies are professional training for professors when there aren't enough slots.
This guy and his family are fascist Wes Anderson characters
My ex, who was a descendant of Lithuanian Jews (95% of whom were exterminated in death camps), responded, "I'm not going with you" when I expressed interest in going to the Baltics. Hard to blame her.
I am doing gig work sporadically and struggling with work but if my great-grandfather could lose his dirt farm in the South and live as a migrant laborer though the Depression, I can make it
Three for me. All the bellyaching about "how could you bring a child into this fallen society" is pathetic.
The aftereffects of the pandemic put an end to cheap treats and servants, and voters were PISSED
A large part of it is that ZIRP and online ordering kicked off a crazy wave of consumerism that would have been inconceivable in, like, 1996
From Counterculture to Cyberculture was very clear on this, mostly about Stewart Brand, who is an idiot
Basically the wild Silly Valley people gamble made was that undirected self-expression and direct communication that scientists and engineers had could replace liberal institutions. It turned out to be a several-generations level disaster.
Common law in the UK descended countries should be abolished and replaced with civil code.
He's like Jake Gyllenhaal's character in Nightcrawlers. Believes in absolutely nothing except for his power to dominate others
I used to be neighbors with this dude in Seattle and interacted with him a few times
The woke left made Mommy put her hand over my eyes and she disappeared forever
It's weird that Rubio turned out to be the most nihilistic figure in US politics. Trump and Vance are at least narcissists who believe in themselves and their rights to wield money and power. Rubio is a cowed toady who covers his head.
Supposedly some of the dhabas at truck spots have the best Indian food in Canada