Brad L

Has anyone started innerpeacemaxxing yet?

I've seen a (still somewhat gender-coded) version of this in my career doing user experience in software. The technical building/testing of a product is the "work." Figuring out how to make it useful, safe, and addressing other human concerns is... something else. Usually an obstacle to "the work".

Works on so many levels!

Ok, just the two. But they are both really good.

Spitballing, but I suspect you could go a step further and connect a growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine to incipient fascism.

Halloween weed? (Halloweed?) In this economy?

Not included in the piece titled "Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump":

A single quote from a single libertarian issuing a warning about Trump at any point in the last 10 years.

Seems like an avoidable oversight.

Wait, are there people out there arguing for 100% unregulated marijuana, like you could sell it to kids? WTF is he arguing against?

Question for the author: who is the "you" in that statement?
Followup question: who were the libertarians?

Ok, I am sure the article probably gestures at the second question somehow. Who cares?

Like Kendrick, political as hell precisely because it doesn't bother to acknowledge the haters. They're irrelevant, beneath attention. And nothing is more intolerable to fascists than the thought that their enemies are cool, enjoying themselves, and not thinking about them.

Is Chappell Roan big enough yet?

I am genuinely grateful that my worst ideas and opinions have long since drifted off into the ether. I had some pretty bad ones!

Also, "a bunch of kids are claiming to be Jain so they aren't forced to spend ~$800/mo on institutional food" doesn't really seem like a cultural 'over-accommodation' problem so much as an outright rejection of specific food service offerings. Just a whole different kind of problem.

I think there is a real dichotomy between the "everyone should have to suffer as I did" and "I suffered in ways that others shouldn't have to" mindsets. At least the author is 21 and might someday feel differently.

"I’m often doubled over in agony from the problem, for which there is no known cure, so I decided to ask for a single room in a campus dorm where I could endure those moments in private."

This was me before I knew I had celiac. I later had surgery to remove intestinal damage. 'Gluten intolerance'.

"Some diagnoses are real and serious, of course, such as epilepsy, anaphylactic allergies, sleep apnea or severe physical disabilities.

But most students, in my experience, claim less severe ailments, such as ADHD or anxiety."

Mental health problems are made up, y'all!

"They had disabilities to get benefits or exemptions .. copies of lecture notes, excused absences and access to private testing rooms."

Notes! They got notes! And time/space to demonstrate what they learned. The perfidy! I can't speak to Stanford housing, but that isn't a universal problem.

Just a thought, but maybe the kinds of kids that have both the academic and financial support that gets them into prestigious schools also have better health care support, too. Parents and doctors that are more likely to actually notice and deal with issues like ADHD.

It's super weird that I have 2 of the 3 things listed in the subhead (celiac, not "gluten intolerance", ty). Of course, they weren't diagnosed decades ago when I was at college. I just had to fucking deal with it.

change a letter, ruin a cocktail:

Gun & Tonic

News gathering is not profitable. It never has been, it never will be. Ads subsidized it for a long time, but that model is over. Subscriptions and donations are what sustain good reporting. And the philanthropy piece needs to be broadly distributed or we’re at the whim of fickle venous billionaires

I suspect that having a propagandistic cheerleader for the man that can dole out federal money by the billions has a lot more economic value than reporting news, and the sports and literature desks (and about 80% of the rest of the paper) are completely extraneous to that.

The utter dismantling of once-great institutions, one after the next, has been infuriating and depressing in equal measure.

Never pick a fight with anyone who buys ink from a squid.

If it's not one thing, it's an otter.

"Let's fix the Kennedy Ce-- er, I mean the Trump Kennedy Center!"
"Ok, how"
"Let's demolish it!"
"Then what?"
(pretends to answer fake phone call)

Personal hypothesis, probably not that original:
A lot of folks that came of age politically (as I did) during a largely stable political equilibrium are very, very good at analyzing trends, and not very good at all at understanding shocks that materially change basic dynamics.

It's easy if you try.

"They suggested we were going to do something.

So we did something."

I feel like "That's why they are being ID'd right now" is very, very important here.

I am also curious how much 'ID'd' is a euphemism for detained, physically restrained, or additional harassment.

I especially loved "in hushed tones". Like, big loud talk about loving Melania (and Trump as a husband!), but suddenly shy about 'admitting' they don't trust Democrats.