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I cannot believe that Bluesky is a less pleasant experience than this game.

8. Evil city / pure countryside is an example of what Jeremy Lent calls a “root metaphor”: an idea so deeply implanted in our minds that we don’t even recognise it as an idea.

@Tormny_Pickeals: I made the Black Panther communist tweet as a warning

A Lot of People on the Internet: At last, we have enough people on our side to make bullying some creators into making the Black Panther communist tweet a reality

A funny thing is that Pittsburgh’s biggest sports shouter, who’s made a career of being boorish, loathes McAfee, and specifically because he thinks he’s not dignified enough for ESPN.

The hell you say!

Extraordinarily repulsive. As bad as or worse than the worst 4chan edgelord, and he obviously believed every word. Good riddance.

Oh my fucking god

We’ve been talking about needing to reinstate shame among the elites. This is part of the work: associate them with the concept of shame, and then kick their asses in the public square, so acting shamefully looks like loserdom.

Also, the Obamaspeak is so weird.

After one particularly egregious set of comments by Watson about blacks and Jews, I and the other authors got legal advice on how to add wording to our contract that would make sure Watson would not be able to insert any deranged ideas into our book

You'll feel awful when this thread screws up her probation hearing

I get that, I just think the R Senators are far enough gone now that many of those insane bills actually would pass both houses. At least 40 or 45 Senators are just as bugshit as your average House R.

I mean, they confirmed Sean Duffy. They're not serious people.

True, but an R Senate doesn't automatically pass whatever lunacy House Rs may come up with. There's definitely a sour spot where politically suicidal ideas are nevertheless such core R beliefs that they could pass both houses, if they have votes to spare.

Like, who blinks on a nat'l abortion ban?

I like Nick Cave's line: "People come up and ask who I am. I say, 'If you don't know, don't ask.'"

FOUR PINOCCHIOS!!!

Right. This congress, in particular, doesn't have the votes to pass insane shit that could get 50 votes in the Senate.

But a 230-seat R House probably does. (assuming a Senate with 53 or more Rs).

Photo of postwar public housing high-rise facade: windows repeating in a grid over brick. There is no ornament or variation of design except some windows are bigger or smaller.

What's funny is that I see writers of those critiques also sharing examples of buildings that they think are good, where the massing is absolutely broken up—because that's a normal thing to like. But they're negatively polarized into pretending 1950s projects were great.

St. Peter Dinklage

CLT and passive structures tend to have thicker walls, which makes inset windows easier, but typical 5+1 facades simply offer no depth to work with—a window recessed 6" would be inside the apartment!

Modern terra cotta has actually seen a bit of a comeback as a brick alternative, so it's not entirely fantastical, but historicist ornament isn't viable for a bunch of reasons.

Recessed windows aren't unheard of, but flush are easier to detail & install, plus modernists are still draw to them.

I mean, glazed terra cotta was very much a cutting edge, industrial-age product, and it was designed to be installed by lightly-skilled labor (eg journeyman mason, not a master).

But once a technology like this goes out of usage, it becomes bespoke. Same with Carrara glass tiles.

He's so reliably bad that I'm genuinely surprised when he occasionally has a good take.

Aside from terrible instincts, he's also prone to absolutely sneering displays of arrogance over basic governmental function that he objectively misunderstands.

I was going to say that I was 95% certain I heard that phrase long before Schumer was a major pol.

Although tbh I doubt I would've heard any iteration before '95.

I don't think he even had any intent, I mean it's literally subconscious instinct at this point. If the Butler shooter had made a loud shutter click before pulling the trigger, Trump would've looked straight at him.

As I noted yesterday—and you can see in the photo in this article—he initially watched what was going on (while RFK2 ran away). Then the photogs started taking a lot of pictures as they were ushered out the room, and his camera-facing instincts kicked in.

PER DATA

they also believe they’re savvier than normal people so they think “I’m impressed” and “this is impressive” mean the same thing

In some ways, sitting in the terminal looking at the plane is better than being on the plane up in the air.

Like, you're definitely not going to have trouble with your ears popping, or crashing.

Does anyone on here work with race and medicine in the southern US in the early 20th century?

Niche, I know, but I came across something very weird in my late father's stuff that might be of interest.

Feel free to share.

Isn't this just the reverse Habsburg?