Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

What is the chief end of Mario?

To locate and rescue the princess

What is the chief end of Luigi?

To glorify Mario and enjoy him forever

Horton Hears an HR Complaint About Miswuse of Office Fuwrnishings

Suggested revision:

A Long Hard Day at the Orifice

Not many know this, but you can seriously reduce immigration by destroying your country’s economy

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This is the natural use case of generative AI.

With V*llas having no appetite for subjugation by race and gender, but having zero gag reflex against it either. He wouldn't advocate for it, but he'd absolutely accept it with a what-can-you-do shrug and a sheepish dad grin.

The leading proponents of a patriarchal model at all levels of society (e.g. tech moguls who want to run their companies, families, and towns of business and residence all as fiefdoms) publicly and financially support Tr*mp's attempts at patriarchal/royal government, and this mode of leadership.

The opening ceremonies feature a Power Ranger having a panic attack

All those achievements weren't enough without also being a tiny blonde, but because she was also a tiny blonde she will always have to fight the whispers that she flirted and charmed her way to the top without real achievements.

Upon reading more of this, that he & his wife hosted her at their house overnight more than once, I wonder how she feels reading this, perhaps having thought of herself not just as a student seeking mentorship & networking but as a family friend & perhaps future colleague. "Every...heterosex man."

Amazing that he namechecks Eisenhower. I regularly think of how Tr*ump, Mill*r, and H*gseth epitomize what Eisenhower held in lowest regard even when Eisenhower was doing Operation [Slur] deportations and lavender scare, and how they would deride his policies as RINO.

My dad grew up on a farm where they grew, raised, or hunted all their own food except sugar, salt, baking powder, and baking soda, plus cultivated a cash crop.

I've never met anyone less interested in gardening or hunting. His only planned return to the earth is as scattered ashes.

She is framed as his to transfer authority over by right *not* of academic mentorship but of *emotional conquest,* and the cited evidence is that she had friendly interactions with him in his area of scholarship & influence. There was no way for her to get the ref but avoid being categorized thusly.

An invitation to address a group described to administrators & the press as an "advance" in AD 2025...

If she hasn't cultivated the academic relationship, her diminished career path would be blamed on her not being a go-getter.

There was no route to opportunities without playing their game.

Recall the "put them in trauma" quote about federal employees mass layoffs.

For those who idealize hierarchical structures over egalitarian ones in *every* area of life & society, not as useful/necessary for some tasks but as the *goal,* it is vital to keep others too desperate to be generous.

The line that struck me was, "Every second I spend trying to do fun free things for the community like this is a second I'm not spending trying to turn the business around and make sure the people who are still here are getting their paychecks every month." This is the intended effect.

My "I would never kill Stiltman, because I love Stiltman" shirt is raising questions answered on...

There seems to be a concerted effort to eliminate any government function that could plausibly be done by the private sector. Curtail the USGS map making. Curtail NOAAs weather products. Eliminate the CIA from producing an encyclopedia. I could go on.

Newspaper advertising revenue peaked in 2006 at 49.27 billion dollars and then went off a cliff Estimated advertising and circulation revenue of the newspaper industry Total revenue of U.S. newspapers (in U.S. dollars) Source: News Media Alliance, formerly Newspaper Association of America (through 2012); Pew Research Center analysis of year-end SEC filings of publicly traded newspaper companies (2013-2022).

So, here's the thing about newspaper advertising vs subscription revenue…

www.pewresearch.org/journalism/f...

I need an existential crisis beret, the kind you find in a secondhand store.

I think a critical mass of Americans raised to believe not only in the ideal of but also in the present existence of an American work culture of meritocracy are learning that economic security is often completely unconnected to talent, skill, and achievements. "Rise and grind" is a false covenant.

I think the big problem is that we’ve been taught that you’re supposed to somehow balance staying informed with being mentally stable right now, and I am here to tell you that’s wrong, you’re all supposed to be losing your goddamn minds right now, so good news everyone you’re doing great

Didn't Starbucks have a goal that no American would have to walk more than two blocks to a Starbucks?

I *think* this is AI slop, but I also think the machines are better at simulating comma usage.

Good news, Honey! I found an end-of-life planning package we can afford.

The folksy description I have heard is, "like two ticks with no dog in between."

Put 'im on the Ritz

*complaining