Alex

I get sick of being told “well, we have to take their concerns seriously.”

No we don’t! Their concerns are completely made up! We shouldn’t even gesture at maybe taking them seriously, especially when what they want is to take rights away from someone!

This was very good and spot on re: the dems complete inability to seize a cultural moment to push their agenda

I don’t even understand the forced position this was premised on. It can do both things. It often does both things. Art created solely as a consumable is how you get the exact slop they’re claiming doesn’t elicit a reaction

One year left in a job I hate before I’m fully vested in the retirement account and can leave with minimal tradeoffs

There is no moral high ground in unilateral surrender.

The proliferation of and ease of access to manosphere content is likely a huge component

It’s on sight with whoever decided to put a select() function in MASS

Claim: "Water vapor is a greenhouse gas!"
Reality: Yes, and there's more of it in a warmer atmosphere

-"CO2 is plant food!"
-pretty hard to eat when you're on fire

-"Climate has changed before!"
-We know, we told you that

-"Scientists don't know everything!"
- doesn't mean we know *nothing*

I once referred to Shapiro as being “morally bankrupt.” As time went on I felt I perhaps had overstated my distaste for him; I’m happy to report that my initial read was correct.

I cannot emphasize this enough:

fuck the moral high ground

The correct answer for this is to simply win the map war

Electric cars are an attractive solution because they basically allow somebody else to fix it & most people to carry on largely as they were before. The problem is that they still pollute (albeit less), still require massive amounts of land, still endanger other road users, etc. We need fewer cars.

What if everyone eager to throw money at a "liberal joe rogan" that doesn't exist instead bought one failing local newspaper and hired a handful of real reporters and simply told them to go do journalism and print it.

Especially around things like solar and EVs (or better yet e-bikes), which having cheap and easy access to is an objective good, industrial policy is better. Tariffs would mean more expensive across the board, so slower adoption

A friend of mine challenged me to find a concrete but trivial goal to work towards in the short term. Something that, if failed, carries no consequences and, if achieved, only provides the satisfaction of having been achieved.

I’m struggling to think of one

What a biker actually hitting a pedestrian looks like

A statewide 911 outage is crazy

Tripped on a step stool in the dark last night and now my big toe doesn't work

bsky.app/profile/amyh...

the rack is bad the placement is bad the parking is bad

it's so cool that everyone has just completely forgotten that the President doesn't have any legal authority to set US tariff rates

we're like six months into an illegal tax regime being set by imperial decree and everyone's treating it like a totally legitimate thing

Yeah I should’ve specified the harm rather than just calling it ineffective. I was mainly drawing a distinction between this and the other use cases listed. It’s still bad, but it’s more complex than “stupid tech dude does stupid tech dude things,” which is what the others are

Im by no means endorsing this route. I just wanted to point out that it’s a distinct case from the others mentioned here because of the very real reasons people might turn to alternatives to therapy

Other Supreme Courts also obviously did fucked up shit, but the Roberts Court is the only one to do so after multiple constitutional amendments and around 160 years' worth of precedent saying THIS IS SOME FUCKED UP SHIT

The therapist bit is a sad (but predictable) consequence of our insane healthcare system. I don’t blame someone for looking for a cheaper alternative, even if it clearly won’t work

I don't mean to sound hysterical but there are some pretty clear historical examples of "force the urban-dwellers to the farms," and none of them are great.

Anyway, I’m sure a term that was inherently political at the time of its conception has been applied more responsibly and with no consequences in the time since

…the All Saints Day mass but spared most of the poor residents of the Alfama district. How could god kill his loyal servants but spare the infidels, criminals, and prostitutes in the city’s old Muslim quarter?

Answer: he didn’t! It was a fluke of nature, conveniently separate from divine will!

When we visited Lisbon on our honeymoon, my wife and I took a walking tour. One of the highlights was learning about the Catholic Church inventing the concept of “natural disasters” to explain why the earthquake, tsunami, and fire of 1755 killed all the wealthy pious residents who were attending…

I do not want to hear a Democrat say the word “bipartisan” in a positive manner ever again