Tonight, I encountered the drink order I trust least in the universe: JW black label and fanta

Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You

And I'm genuinely excited to see what Jetten and D66 can accomplish if he's able to form a coalition, which looks likely

Like, it's depressing that PVV still got that many votes when they're openly DOA because no one will work with them but like... Did you know everybody can just vow not to form a government with the racist populist narcissist dickweed? That's an option apparently

As an American, god it feels good to be living in a country where I can be excited about election results

Wavering in my motivation to learn Dutch just because of how much more tolerable street preachers are when you can't understand them

"It is okay to show up early" is not a flavor they have heard of, and if they had, I think it would be banned for ungezelligness

Dutch instructions seem to come in two flavors: 1. Arrive on time to your appointment. If you arrive more than a minute early, the police will be notified. 2. If you are running a little early, turn left at our entrance and walk 200 meters. There is a peaceful canal with a footpath. Isn't that nice?

Like, I get it as a riff on "gymshark" but we know what wolves are doing when they squat, yes?

Just passed a guy wearing workout gear loudly branded "squatwolf" and... that HAS to be a self-aware joke, right?

Should have taken a cue from Lupita earlier, old man.

They fantasize that in the societal collapse, they'll be revealed as heroes, like in the movies they've seen. It's the same fallacy of valor that has convinced people to rush off to get killed in every war in human history, but freshened up for the modern rube with a soupçon of jaded nihilism

And there are SO. MANY. GREAT. DOGS.

Nothing here is open at 8am except the parks. This makes sense to me, because no one has real business to do at 8am except the dogs

I'll miss you, Athens

Which... I didn't do? At most, I suggested that he should explain what he meant by "miraculous" since he kept using that word.

You keep saying "it's miraculous" without saying wtf you mean by that. Best I can tell, you mean "wrong factually but interesting metaphorically," and while that's arguably true, it's also just a dumb bug caused by processing inputs probabilistically rather than conceptually.

I think too many people see this as zero sum when it could be a virtuous circle. Guys who learn healthy ways to interact with women will have better luck in dating and sex while also making better partners.

Anyway "the left needs to get men laid" is a terrible way to phrase "there should be feminist dating advice," but I can at least see what the main character of the Internet today was getting at

When I was 16/17, after a coworker's brother met my gf, he asked "can you teach me any tricks?" Answer was basically "I don't know any tricks, we just have a lot in common & like each other. Maybe find someone you don't need tricks for?"

The people saying "it's obvious, be respectful and treat women like people" don't seem to realize: that statement IS dating advice, and it is very much in opposition to a lot of the advice that's out there

I gotta say, all of the "ew, helping young guys figure out dating and sex is anti-feminist" takes prove the point that this cultural ground has been ceded to alt-right grifters. No, politicians shouldn't weigh in (no one is saying so), but there should be feminist perspectives in that conversation

We've come a long way from the sexual revolution as a left victory if we're at "seeking out sex is intrinsically reactionary" levels.

Dear Nick, Good news! Today we received notification from the IND (Dutch Immigration Service) that your residence permit for the Netherlands has been approved.

Hell yeah

Single line that tells a whole tale: "The couple also have three sons from prior marriages who opted to remain in the United States."

How does addison rae manage to make slutty party girl anthems that are so consistently boring

i've given this a lot of thought and considered all the circumstances and here is my conclusion: fuckin lmao

Newspaper: no one ever thought constant surveillance could have downsides but now that a rich guy has been denied a handjob to Viva La Vida we are forced to confront the grim dystopia of modern life

My god I wish I were like 10% dumber what the world must be like.

If you were surprised to find out that ai companies were hiring third world workers to cosplay as machine intelligence, know that the same basic labor transaction has been happening behind the scenes of any intergenerational office for at least as long as I've been employed