Aaron van Dorn

They would be obsessed with Harvard whatever they were doing, why did they have to go into journalism

sure, that's just good practice

God can you imagine

The framing is "US culture is too sensitive and implicitly racist to do this" and that is probably true, but maybe "and we're neither the people nor is this the era to gamify" might also be true

I trust no one more than some French Canadian game devs to wade wildly into these sensitive cultural waters

And we've once again circled back to Fukuyama

I guess I was thinking of people defending "spiritually Israeli"

I have come to believe very strongly that corporations, media companies, colleges, and the rest feeling obligated to present a very carefully considered mix of diverse people, ethnicities, abilities, and genders, and policing people who transgress, is hugely loadbearing on pluralistic society.

And for new ones to creep in!

If you're doing something ironically, you're laying the same mental track to do it in earnest. The only difference is tone.

Christo no

One of the reasons I think Jersey Mike's is the superior sub shop is because they cut their ingredients so thin.

"What files did Trump have and why" is one of the questions that everyone across the spectrum just decided we were going to move on from because the firehose was too intense.

Trump DEMANDED THEM BACK good lord

Apple has the world's most extraordinary unearned PR bonus

I'm sure somebody has said it better than I, but I can't offer a source other than my own head atm

At some point, I assume, the fact that social media, the news, and the real world are all different is going to sink in, right?

I have made an end run around this by installing a GFCI that the garage door opener is plugged in to and then just not leaving anything else in there plugged in, but you're of course right.

People on this site do not understand the 2010s and they think they can understand the 1840s, incredible stuff

This really is the central problem of the west currently that economically marginal voters want one type of economy, but culturally they absolutely do want it.

It's also worth remembering that pastor's in the Lutheran context are more of a "first among equals" thing than in the catholic tradition where priests have a separate spiritual category from the laity. Pastors are (probably) more educated in religious affairs, but they aren't materially different.

No doubt! But do I want to pay for it?

"You're not talking about policy you're talking about your mental health" is just absolutely undefeated

Former Lutheran here, and it was always "pastor" in our church. There's a fairly broad variety of Lutherans in the US, though, and i think mine was fairly MOR.

Yeah, he's literate and has some arithmetic, he must have attended at least grammar school. There are multiple rungs of gainful employment below him before we can even start talking about "destitution" in an meaningful sense. Again, the whole *concept* of a "minimum wage" is throwing this off.

3% of the population of NYC in 1870 was made of of homeless orphaned or abandoned children. We just don't have a mental model for what pre-1900 destitution looked like because it's too horrific for us to consider.

It all bends toward crab

Good thread on how difficult it is to read our current world into history, but I also like to point out that the QT also evinces a real poverty of imagination re: pre-1900 destitution. Cratchit is not an allegory for destitution. He was solidly middle class by the standards of the day.

Also doesn't preclude the making of other arguments that might have more salience for different types of voters, which is where we run into trouble on social media, where there's just the One Right Take.

There is something in all of us that yearns for schism