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My Ordinary Life: Improvements Since the 1990s A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers.

i'm frequently about the doom and gloom regarding the present day (justified!) and nostalgia for when i was young in the 90s (also very justified!) but if you're a cranky gen-xer like me this is your feel-good link of the day

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training. FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Wtf is wrong with this person? Just about everyone I’ve ever met loves cash.

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

Since the mainstream discourse stipulates that extremism must be “fringe” in these United States, anything that has broad support is reflexively sanitized as *not* extremism. This apologist sleight of hand is often deployed to provide cover for extreme forces within the Republican Party.

History repeats.

a bluesky post from ungoliant @gorgol.bsky.social generals gathered in their masses / president calls them all fatasses (to the tune of war pigs by black sabbath)

I can’t tell you how much good could be done right now by average citizens socially cold-shouldering anyone tangentially working for ICE.

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

That asymmetry is not some feature of nature. There's no law of nature that says that a candidate like Trump can get away with calling Mexicans "rapists" and being caught on tape bragging about grabbing women's genitals while one Clinton gaffe will sink her campaign. That requires explanation.

CHOTINER: And you call them steamed hams despite the fact they are obviously grilled.

Isaac Chotiner has invited me to sample some delicious Amontillado wine and I don’t know guys but I think I’m going to come out of this interview seeming like *quite* the wine expert

CHOTINER: You enjoy a late night snack.

ME: *chuckles* guilty as charged

CHOTINER: You mentioned previously that plums are a favourite.

ME: Oh. This.

CHOTINER: Straight out of the icebox.

ME: I can assure you that I was not aware that they were for breakfast.

CHOTINER: okay, but this note...

A back and forth between Isaac Chotiner and Captain Janeway made to look like a screenshot from The New Yorker.

Chotiner interviews Janeway

BREAKING: In place of Jimmy Kimmel’s return, Sinclair and Nexstar will broadcast 90 minutes of Ezra Klein criticizing you for not reading “The Bell Curve”

I first learned this on a hiring committee when we got a resume from someone who graduated from such a school. Institutional policy prevented us from even considering them.

imo a fair conclusion to draw about dem leadership's obstinance in the face of revolt from their voters is that they'd rather win an intra-party fight with their left wing & their own voters than maximize potential electoral gains in the midterms

Cardinal Timothy Dolan failed to report direct admissions of rape by multiple priests, lobbied against extending the statute of limitations for sex abuse, and moved money off the church books to hide it from victims of sex abuse. In case you were wondering.

Stop trying to teach the GOP that Antifa is a concept and not a group.

They know this, they just need a label for the people they’re going to shoot in the head and bury in a lime pit behind a Home Depot.

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

Just so I'm clear:

TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal

TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft.

TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism.

Free speech, everyone.

It can't be said often enough: the contemporary US right simply does not accept the background presumption that "we all have to live here together." They want to eliminate liberals! They're very vocal about it!

Hannibal Lecter and I talk vegetarianism

You do have to give it to Ezra Klein for giving us a good example of what King was referring to as "white moderates"

I'm not gonna lie I didn't take gamergate serious because I thought the name was stupid. I didn't realize it would unravel society and being about the downfall of modern civilization.

Hitchcock’s cameos are getting ridiculous.

If Pope Leo has not canonized Charlie Kirk by April 20th we will prosecute.

by Pam Bondi