Justin

Alzheimer's Sufferers Demand Cure For Pancakes

Morally opposed to this weather

Super good photos

If he’s as anti-democratic as he comes off, let him leave

Almost 50 years since they set the country’s fortunes on this downward track and most of us aren’t old enough to have known different. But the reason things are worse today for most of us than they were when we were growing up is that Americans back then, 50 years ago, decided to make things worse

You know what, almost 50 years ago Americans voted to defund themselves — to send their jobs overseas and get back products half the quality they themselves used to make, with less money in their own pockets — and prop up a class of ultra-rich man-babies to make all of their decisions for them

Hearing that the billionaire CEO of Columbia Sportswear might be persuaded to keep his company in Oregon if only the state government agrees to stop the county government from letting kids to go to preschool

Sure her writing is pretentious and weird. There’s an audience that loves that shit, same as she loved Bobby

Do basketballs float?

Felt my heart thump at a beautiful face and ache at seeing she was not alone. Almost forgot that thing is in there

I think the state should step in to protect investors from the AI bubble and bubbles of the future by taxing them and redistributing their money

Charter amendment to abolish the position of mayor

Wilson has shown zero interest in addressing homelessness beyond reducing its visible symptoms in very specific areas of the city. He plans to accomplish this with violence and coercion, because most people don't feel safe in his congregate shelters, and won't go there voluntarily.

And if these people who taught you about the world prove to have been ignorant or to have represented the world falsely on this point, everything else they taught you is likewise at risk of being invalidated.

This is because the world can only be the one that you yourself know and experience — else the people who taught you what the world is and what exists in it were either wrong about it or withholding information about it from you.

What’s experienced as a threat and destabilizing is the possibility that the option is a valid option and a thing that someone (anyone, even you) might choose. Because it didn’t exist as an option in the world in which you first experienced life, it must be a false option and invalid for everyone

Do it

If I take advantage of an option that recently became available, I’m doing it because the option exists and it aligns with my values or tastes. I’m not doing it “on purpose,” acting with the intention of upsetting a norm, causing scandal, or throwing people off balance.

Conclusion’s a bit tacked-on, though it follows from the turn he took discussing norms and psychology.

All he had to say is many people feel unstable if the world around them doesn’t exactly reflect their personal conception of it. Deviations are taken to indicate somebody’s trying to fool them.

Strange how IJ always ends up looking weird while The Pale King has not had a bad cover

Not liking that one either

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Seduced by the shop’s fine textures and substantial price points and prepared to experience clothing of a built-to-last quality, the kind worth spending on when poor, the materials proved suspiciously soft in hand instead of comfortably rough, because motherfuckers made that shit out of polyester

Despite my commendable personal qualities, kind heart, and disarming smile, I have failed to achieve the powerball

Picked up Ulysses, two later Pynchon works, eyeing IJ right where I left it on the shelf. May be the winter of the long read

Moreover if your vision for a policy involves 1) moving parts and 2) a domain you’re intermediate-to-expert in, and you’re up on the politics, it’s important to articulate the idea with them directly, clearly, and avoid the risk they’ll expect you to cosign an echo of the handwavy version you posted

A page from Ursula Le Guin’s The Lathe of Heaven: George Orr left work at three thirty and walked to the subway station; he had no car. By saving, he might have afforded a VW Steamer and the mileage tax on it, but what for? Downtown was closed to automobiles, and he lived downtown. He had learned to drive, back in the eighties, but had never owned a car. He rode the Vancouver subway back into Portland. The trains were already jam-packed; he stood out of reach of strap or stanchion, supported solely by the equalizing pressure of bodies on all sides, occasionally lifted right off his feet and floating as the force of crowding (c) exceeded the force of gravity (g). A man next to him holding a newspaper had never been able to lower his arms, but stood with

Reading Le Guin

I am versatile and my skills multiple and you can hire me

Copyediting an academic paper outside of any field I've done work in, not even a little, and I'm doing a fucking great job