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The UK is, as a nation, simply too dumb to understand Duverger’s Law. The US is also too dumb to understand it but can hide behind a lack of parliamentary supremacy

after seeing the video I maintain the vibe is still there

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a facebook message from Ten Thousand Bees that says "come outside"

and frieren for the exact other reason

games getting worse because they're chasing the trends set by Mihoyo call that Genshittification

While Gen Alpha may have the mantle of the 67 Generation, in a much truer sense the Millennials have become the 69 Generation. In this essay, I will

Most popular music is counted in measures of 4 beats; 1, 2, 3, 4. A variety of Eurocentric music has historically emphasized the 1 and 3 beats (think a polka) while a variety of Afrocentric music emphasizes the 2 and 4 (think jazz).

Clapping on the 1 and 3 on a 2 and 4 type beat is… uncouth

can a brother get a highlight reel

not asking about it is also a great flag that they didn’t actually read your resume, because how could you not address the olive oil in the room

is that why you can’t listen to black people? :p

brother I have a second vertical monitor. i can see so much code. pair programming is mildly hell

America, JD Vance tells us, is merely a nation like many others ⁠– a “homeland”, he said upon accepting his nomination to the vice-presidency, for “people with a shared history and a common future”. That’s a vision of American identity that would have described bands of cavepeople in skins just as well or better. Stephen Miller’s proleptic defense of seizing Greenland last week suggests the Trumpists themselves know this. “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he declared. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” Miller’s laws are the laws of animals. It is true, obviously, that high ideals have long been deployed to obscure or justify predation, here and elsewhere. But Miller’s stance and the stance of the administration is that there aren’t, actually, any high ideals worth pursuing or even pretending to – that the human being, in itself, is nothing so much ⁠and that we are, fundamentally and forever, primitives. Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization – western or any kind – they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud. The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late – neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil.

It was evil – the standpoint that only might matters, that human morality, and our sense of reality itself, must yield to the turfism of the primates with the biggest clubs – that ginned up the propaganda that provoked an act of terrorism against our legislature and the policemen defending it five years ago. It is evil that undergirds pronouncements from the same voices responsible for that attack, in defense of the man who shot Renee Nicole Good, that those who disobey the commands of law enforcement, however unsound or unjust, deserve summary execution – that implies, as Fox’s Jesse Watters and others have, that Good’s killing was of trivial significance because she was a lesbian “with pronouns in her bio”. It is evil that sends innocent men to foreign gulags, evil that condemns hundreds of thousands of destitute people abroad to death without a moment’s discussion or debate about what the country they had depended on might owe them, or the furnishing of alternative arrangements for their wellbeing. The gutting of USAID remains this administration’s worst and least surprising offense against the human conscience – a president who rejects the idea that we might have obligations to all within our society can’t be expected to wonder or worry about whether we have obligations to those outside of it. This is also why, after all the noise and nonsense about the need to depose the Maduro regime, the Venezuelan people are now being told that regime will be left in mostly in place for as long as it takes to secure and extract the country’s resources on our terms – that Venezuela will not see democracy unless and until it is profitable for the United States.

Democracy has always been a useless abstraction to those who deny we have basic human entitlements – for those who believe, instead, that the idea of human liberty is a luxury for those wealthy and powerful enough to consider themselves our betters rather than the birthright of all. As many who’ve taken to the streets in protest have noted, the Trump administration’s assaults on liberty here at home are the kinds of abuses that spurred the revolution we will commemorate this year. But no grand revolution is in the offing this time around. The only just and plausible recourse for our situation is politics – understood not merely as the contest to win any given set of elections but as the broader fight to forge a republic that honors and strengthens our humanity. The American project must and will succeed. Its enemies stand for too little. Our lives are worth too much.

I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Man who built Korea's fried chicken industry dies at 74 Yoon Jong-gye, the founder of Mexican Chicken and widely regarded as the creator of Korea’s signature sweet-and-spicy fried chicken, has died after a long illne

the man widely regarded as creator of Korean fried chicken has died www.koreaherald.com/article/1065...

your rent is due uwu

I share my thoughts with my wife

It's also already on the Internet Archive for fans of small scale piracy

The year politics became brainrot You don’t bring a persuasive argument to a gunfight.

Killing in the name of… nothing

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

updated golshi #umamusume

No Sweetheart, Favoritism Isn't Driving ‘The Great Feminization’, Modernity Is And it’s a good thing for women and the world, contrary to claims of the neo-right’s new darling

it's easy to dunk on conservatives like helen andrews for being morons. in this piece i wanted to go a bit deeper. the great feminization is happening and it is world-historically weird. why is that?

www.theunpopulist.net/p/no-sweethe...

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sheesh, the only thing worse than getting kicked out of the polycule is finding out via jira ticket 😣

Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Snoop around in their medicine cabinet for clues.

it's crazy that the inside of the stata center is just as bonkers as the outside

Bottle of wine meme. Top: Thanks for having us at your lovely home. Middle: Look I just think we need to add more housing in the places where people want to live, like near jobs, schools, and transit Bottom: Single family zoning was explicitly invented as a facially race-neutral policy to preserve residential segregation and "local control" is the "states' rights" of our time.

Happy Thanksgiving

Sign outside an oil change shop in Brooklyn that reads BROOKLYN LUBRICANTS

This sounds like the country’s worst minor league team

If the software market truly falls out it's on my list of pivots

That's probably fair but I'd hazard a guess that kicks in much closer to the admittance rate of, say, NC State than Duke.