*yakety sax plays*
You can have democratic republics and autocratic republics and non-republican democracies and non-republican autocracies.
And the idea that direct democracy creates a more just system than a representative democracy, erm, assumes facts not in evidence.
I love it when people play word games with words they literally don’t know the meaning of.
Bookie McBookface!
idk man i think ripping out his intestines and using them as a jumprope on stage was a wee bit much
(narrator voice: it was, in fact, not a wee bit much)
I think decades of car-oriented development is the bigger problem but yeah, the takes don’t help!
This is very much implied in your post, but it is genuinely incoherent to accuse people of imposing “purity tests” at the primary phase. Like yes, primary voters will select the nominee that best reflects their values and positions! That is the entire point of a primary!
holy shit
We hire a professional for family photos once a year. I do not expect my spouse to take photos as good as the pros do. I do expect them to make the effort to approximate my own non-professional photos. I simply do not agree that this is an unreasonable expectation.
The complaint isn’t a lack of pro-level photography, it‘s women being frustrated that they routinely take better photos of their male partners than vice-versa. Obviously this isn’t something that has been studied academically but that so many women find this relatable should give some pause.
It isn’t always a thing, just like it isn’t always a thing that women do a disproportionate share of domestic labor. It is still a widespread phenomenon.
I also don’t agree that it is about unfairly asymmetrical expectations when we are talking about within-couple photo comparisons.
…my point is that this is a gendered phenomenon. That is a problem. There is no reason why men should be worse at taking photos of their female partners in the aggregate than vice versa. That tells you it’s about asymmetrical expectations.
That isn’t something that requires specialized training, though. Skill was the wrong word—I probably should have said ability. You can develop the skill a reasonably competent casual photographer with some effort. Moreover…
If the complaints are a lack of professional-quality or influencer-like photos, sure, that’s a problem and that’s unfair. But this reads as women complaining that their male partners who have the same level of skill and equipment they do making an inadequate effort compared to their own efforts.
Getting a pretty good photo (not professional quality) does usually take multiple tries! There will be bad shots in there. But I cannot tell you how often I have seen a vast asymmetry in, for example, the pics moms get of dad with the kids vs the pics dad gets of mom with the kids.
I disagree with your take here. The issue is the asymmetry between the effort men often take with getting photos of their female partners versus vice versa, thus the pics-my-gf-takes-of-me-vs-pics-I-take-of-her post highlighted in the article.
*point
Maybe it’s a historiographic poi about history books that are still out there but have been supplanted by more recent scholarship?
(Or, yanno, the algorithm generating these labels is stupid.)
(obviously not actually advocating for bringing police encounters into this shit but man, there is so much low-grade antisocial behavior that is just incredibly corrosive to living in a society in the aggregate)
and littering
and playing loud music/videos on transit
I mean one drink at the beginning of a party that lasts a couple of hours is not a barrier to driving. That’s my practice if I am driving (which isn’t that often because I live in a reasonably transit-rich area).
I agree about the 10 am bit tho.
(In case this isn’t just rhetorical—fyi, Nathan is cool and he is mocking people who appeal to “complexity“ to excuse unambiguous human rights violations.)
the block button is itchy today
Except “strategery” came from SNL (though Bush did joke about it later) and Trump actually did say “mutilization.”
I think it’s rich to claim bad faith and imply that students couldn’t possibly have been deterred by violent crackdowns, expulsions, etc. and then be too soft to handle some terse quotes and replies.
lmfao and that coward turned off quote posts and replies
Yes, I saw that after posting.
It’s also straightforwardly the case that the crackdowns on campus protests had their intended effect and most did not return in September of 2024 when classes were back in session.
Of course there have been other protests since then but the sheer flood of protest activity has drowned them out.
No fatalities reported, thankfully, but still terrible and alarming news.
Sweet and sticky. The good ones are divine, bad ones (too dry and hard) are kind of sad.
