Ben Steele

Incredible.

Also, as an ex-Texan, I have had negative energy bills all summer and only two days where I really thought "Huh, I should put the AC unit out." And we have some of the lowest electric prices in the nation.

Life doesn't have to be hell. Only Texas does.

“They’d say, ‘So-and-so has a big farm and they may not even use the library,’” he recalled. He would tell them, “Well, I don’t have children and never use the school.” With that sort of mentality, he said, “no one will do anything.”

this is the mindset of a consumer not a citizen, and it is evil

Watching the end times event they had, I'm genuinely enraged with the generation that continues to tell us their rapture mania inflicted upon their kids wasn't serious. An entire generation was traumatized mentally, and apparently physically too!

The thing about watching the Shiny Happy People Teen Mania series is that, like, 1) since a friend of mine is in the doc, I have to sit with this and 2) half of this is S&M fetish porn being done to teenagers (18+, but very much non-consenting) for Christ.

After a remarkable stretch when wage inequality fell substantially, wage growth at the bottom is now once again falling behind growth at the top.

This is bad news for working class Americans.

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again, i get how we got here and i'm not sure how to avoid it, but the shift in understanding "religion" as protected by the 1st amendment from "membership and participation in organized faith communities" to "whatever idiosyncratic beliefs you happen to hold" is potentially pretty destabilizing

Jeanine Pitro was born in New York. She went to undergrad and law school at New York schools. She was elected as a judge and then a prosecutor in Westchester County. She ran against Hillary Clinton for Senate.

She, like Donald Trump, is a born and raised New Yorker.

Farmers market fruits and vegetables are produced by absolute agricultural perverts. Lemon cucumbers. Plerries (plum-cherry hybrids). Disgusting abominations before god.

Keep it up, perverts. I will absolutely try all of them.

[This ad brought to you by my stone fruit and cucumber lunch bounty.]

The real low-wage-employer subsidy is work requirements/EITC. If you remove the ability to survive without the boss, then you lower bargaining power and wages (though this analysis is complicated by work requirements not actually raising labor force participation)
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Lmao dissolve this union. The East is incurable.

For the nights you invite a lover into the tornado shelter for a tryst and realize it needed some upkeep.

Gonna take a cue from the Veggie Tales Jonah Ninevites.

This is not about anything going on here and now, but this decade it's always coup o'clock somewhere.

Not that the meme fizzled very quickly for me but I missed the part of the coup where they dropped an Ampun Bang Jago remix with sirens and had to look up whether they were original or not after arguing that they should have been in the bridge to be relevant.

Lotta sexual reawakenings happening every few hours at SIFF Downtown these past few weeks.

Toshiro Mifune fashion club starting after watching High & Low.

The Many Faces Of Toshiro Mifune | Austin Film Society On this day, which would have been his 100th birthday if the world were a fair and just place, we present a gallery of photographs of a man who was not only one of the great actors of the screen – but...

Toshiro Mifune stan club forming after watching Yojimbo. share.google/v8H1zX9tUQSP...

It's almost like we should have a system that would allow the government, employers, unions, educators, and students to sit down to discuss future needs and assign resources to balance workforce needs, wages, and employment stability in educating future generations but that's dirty socialism

To get my vote in a primary a Democratic candidate has to promise not just to halt but to dramatically reverse this assault on higher ed. I want to hear about unprecedented investment in *public* education at all levels. And don’t meet them halfway on rhetoric or say they have a point. They don’t.

Massive owes me an elder discount, too.

I said what I said.

We must support our queer elders.

Well, it's energy that kills people, and energy is proportional to the square of velocity, so, yes it's absolutely the speed. Low speed substantially lowers the risk of death.

A particularly gut wrenching excerpt from this article:

The shirts continue to proliferate and I continue to know I'm right. They're $70. Have some self respect.

Or, in another world, why my friend would be willing to let it make market decisions for his money.

If I trust but verify, the verification process takes about as long as doing it myself, and so it feels like a waste of time to run it as inspiration.

I guess for me, the issue is that the letter counting gets to the fact that if I'm asking it to assist in pulling financial data and use it, I don't trust it. And if I'm using it to pull legal compliance data, I don't trust it. And if I can't trust it for my work and such, I don't get its use case.

Wall text for a painting called "Julia on the Swing, 1999. Oil on canvas. Private collection." Actual fun part: "'I don't intend [my paintings] to be spooky. I just get certain obsessions and certain things I want to do. No sort of, «Well, let me use dark colors.» It's just the way it ultimately turns out.' —Jamie Wyeth"

Jamie Wyeth is such an absolute goblin for this line. Like I fucking love him after the Frye Museum exhibition. Nonsense man. My current silly little guy obsession.

YouTube video by wheelsongenius Only Connect - Series 20 - Episode 1

The result of this connecting wall is my full feeling on how we should treat her.
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