Anti-Drug Talking Urinal Cake

"Sharks as a clade are older than the rings of Saturn" is one of those things that should be untrue but is not

No disagreement! I have an ur-theory that starting in the 60s America drifted away from institutions and towards self-assertion/expression, and the final product was a bunch of low-trust reactionaries.

I went to Westlake Park in Seattle religiously in this period, hung out and talked to folks, and though we were on the event horizon of Getting It

The internet and social media were tools of liberation, not surveillance. Phones hadn't taken over the world. The permanent liberal majority was imminent, or so we thought. Pre phones, pre Gamergate, pre Trump, pre Covid.

Yeah...but as a mid-millennial, it is really hard to convey the optimism of that period, and how it faceplanted.

When you read people like James Kunstler, John Michael Greer, Ivan Illich, etc. its pretty obvious that their beef with modernity is related to women's liberation.

Eliminating smallpox is humanity's finest scientific achievement, bar none.

Technically, Medina (a toy town on Lake Washington full of giant mansions)

My mom used to put on Law and Order as background noise and there was an episode where he played an autistic locksmith at barely 30

The jamon hanging in certain restaurants smelled so rank I didn't eat meat for another two weeks when I came stateside and considered permanent vegetarianism.

Looks good! I went to Spain for two weeks in 2019 and I expected to be blown away by the food but with a few exceptions, wasn't.

To be fair, it seems that only in the US and Canada are leftists universally socially liberal and generally align with liberals. Whereas you have people like Galloway, Jean-Luc Michea elsewhere

I use mine for my Switch and watch the Seahawks and Mariners in bars and that's it.

"TV." One of the bummers is realizing that TV has actually profoundly negative effects on cognition, community, and mental health at the "boob tube" people that didn't have them were right

People drinking and crying themselves to oblivion while their sons rot in mass graves

What I will always find funny is that the generation of their sons to WWI under the "sun will never set" "bad thing will not happen" ; left people.

They need to have a few stiff drinks with their local Yugoslav, Northern Irishman, or ex-USSR resident (or an Italian that remembers the Years of Lead) and learn how ugly and awful it is

One of the things that strikes me is how differently people talk about political violence in societies that never experienced it

I am still pretty financially unstable but still glad to be my age. Born too late for lead poisoning, too early for algorithmic social-media poison.

My "Portugal Is Not A Small Country" t-shirt raising questions already answered by the shirt

Millennials are mostly OK now and not signaling that way anymore.

I would say it wasnt that, but about elite-overproduced Millennials trying to find an angle to get a prestigious job

Cloud computing and smartphones hit the world at the same time as every other US economic institution was failing (energy, finance, government, manufacturing from the China Shock) and Silicon Valley came along giving people something new and shiny to believe in

The first human p-zombie.

Meanwhile drunk Dad (Trump) is funny and he lets us have a second pizza before he passes out because of grownup juice

The American people elected Mom (Biden) who they believed could fix the damage from Covid and make it 2019 again, and it was more satisfying to believe that she couldn't because she was a bitch and not because it was impossible.

May my children never know these words

Never forget the spinoff (Rhizzone) that Sam Kriss and Merzbow both posted on where someone photoshopped the former like the schizophrenic DeviantArt poster whose fetish was Rescuers characters being transformed into deli meat was

I genuinely hope DO YALL WANT A HAM was Klein

If Southern whites voted for the Dems like in Wisconsin and Michigan Alabama and Mississippi would be deep blue