Tim

Sometimes I just want to scream “words mean what they mean, even if that meaning doesn’t confirm your fucking priors”

It’s all so easy when demographic groups are just pieces on a board, and not actual people living real lives

You definitely just don't have to? Like why

Everything dies baby that's a fact
Maybe everything that dies
Some day comes back

Well I know all about it
You don't have to shout it
I'm gonna straighten it out
Some how

The reverse is also true - it should be acceptable to like stuff without your enjoyment of it/identification with it having to signal something about your moral code

A lesson more people need to internalize: we must organize in the conditions as they are, not the conditions as we wish they were

“Write in order to understand” is still the best advice I’ve ever received about writing and it’s not close

My grandfather was a lawyer on the team negotiated the Chevron-Texaco and was a card carrying, award winning leader of the Sierra Club. That’s San Francisco in a nutshell

As someone who was born there and lived there through early adulthood: i believe it as simple as “the real estate here is astonishingly valuable because the city is cool and historic and it has the best weather in the country, and everyone who is socially liberal nonetheless grows up ungodly rich”

Wait would this perversely incentivize people to use their phones less? Maybe there's something to this

Is this how we finally pass cap and trade

I kinda can't thinking of something that sucks more than this

Also, covers are not "copies" and they absolutely can improve on the original. "Respect" is a cover - Otis Redding forthrightly admitted that Aretha's version was better. Many such examples! Johnny Cash did this with like 15 songs on the AMERICAN series

Even if he is (somehow) neither of those things, I am struggling to think of anything more dangerously counterproductive than a forthrightly progressive US Senator with a Nazi symbol on his chest advocating for the cause of Palestinians. And no one wants to confront or talk about this!

This specific thought had not occurred to me but now it is all I can think about and I am *very unhappy now*

Which is the whole fucking point of the separation of church and state, to "keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries"

Gavin Newsom is incapable of having a secret plan to do anything

Genuinely think I said “oh fuck off” audibly at least 17 times in response to plot developments and events in that movie, I struggle to summon a movie I hate more

#OpenBorders means that the promises of this country are made manifest in word and deed: a nation of all the world, every race and every creed, with liberty and justice for all

Also really dumb that a team in *Oklahoma* is in the “Northwest” Division (yes, I know why, don’t get me started on the theft of the Sonics)

Should very clearly be New Orleans and Memphis, it’s *ridiculous* that two teams in the South are in the Western Conference, that is some Andrew Jackson shit

It's unfortunate because in the comics they have done really interesting things story-wise with Tony's alcoholism that would be really cool to see onscreen and are uhhhh pretty much the opposite of the individual in question

It will be worse, because we have built a society where substance use addiction flourishes right alongside gambling addiction, feeding each other in an endless loop of misery that ruins people's lives in compounding and self-reinforcing ways

I actually think it sucks way more than this which is that they can read but they willfully choose to do otherwise

(yes yours is pithier)

They used to do this and it was called Preston Sturges movies

No the fuck they did not

You also won't remember who won unless you are a fan or a hater of the team in question

I wish someone would let Bill Hader write and direct one (1) movie, they could win some Oscars I think

And I don’t really understand why? There is no logical explanation why this one very important portion of his best skill (defense) totally eludes him

Can’t imagine why the pope would care about Armageddon