Dr. Guy Incognito DDS

No one wants this. The conservative suburbanites don't want it, the farmers don't want it, the construction guys don't want it. The people who aren't hardcore nazis voted for this because they thought mass deportations meant millions of totally hallucinated dick tracy villains getting rounded up

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1. Internalize that all people have their own needs, wants, and desires.
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This is all I see.

I realize there’s some context here but describing your teaching at Harvard as being “in the belly of the beast” is objectively hilarious.

My school had like six guns confiscated last year so settle down, Jill.

I think this is exactly right and why I worry so much about millennials getting nostalgia poisoned. There really are a bunch of quality of life things that have gotten worse in our lifetime. It's just not the dumb consumer culture nonsense that's the subject of so much attention.

Not one of these goddamn assholes could survive alone on $350 a month for food, let alone feed a family.

I don't see the problem. A lot of things are digital now and Heinz doesn't even sell staples.

This is a good way to put it. I'm not going to write anyone off as an irredeemable human being but as a political matter, the American right is animated by bigotry and misinformation. It just is.

That exact "scull and crossbones" has not, in fact, been around for centuries. It's the SS totenkopf. It's unambiguously the SS totenkopf. It's not even a variation on the SS totenkopf. It's literally the exact SS totenkopf.

Attention historians of the US:

The median voter is a person who deserves rights and dignity. The median voter is a person who deserves rights and dignity. The median voter is a person who deserves rights and dignity. The median voter is a person who deser...

I'm thankful I have church to bolster my faith in democracy because otherwise this kind of shit would catapult me into thinking Park Chung Hee had some good points.

Don't go to grad school.

Cracked out on Pez and Pepsi Max, I have received the outline of the last four paragraphs of chapter four in a vision.

Grainy black and white picture of a middle-aged white guy with a 60s crew cut, glasses, and the most rectangular head I've seen in a long time. Caption reads: Dr. Harold Buttram, Blooming Glen, Pa.

@actualnames.bsky.social

The president who probably enacted the largest number of socialist policies and programs in the country's history and people responded by hanging his picture in their house next their picture of Jesus.

I'd rather get past writer's block with a bullet to my own brain

I haven't, but I'll add it to the list! I got my Jarvis loathing from being a public school student in California in the late-90s/early 2000s.

Howard Jarvis stole the future. We must take it back.

Screenshot of text. Text reads: Students and families from Alpha School Brownsville who spoke to WIRED say younger age groups at the school lacked a dedicated social studies or history curriculum, though older kids learned those subjects. Brownsville parents said they also saw other gaps in their kids’ educations. One parent says that when their son left Alpha as an 8-year-old, he could read words quickly but didn’t comprehend what he was reading. When he enrolled as a third grader at his new school, the parent says, he was writing at a kindergarten level. And when writing by hand, he would get to the end of a line and curve down into the margins, not knowing he was supposed to move to the next line. “All Alpha taught him was read fast, learn your vocabulary, and move on,” the parent says.

Seriously. [3 lines not declassified] at minimum.

Parents Fell in Love With Alpha School’s Promise. Then They Wanted Out In Brownsville, Texas, some families found a buzzy new school’s methods—surveillance of kids, software in lieu of teachers—to be an education in and of itself.

There is so much fucking rot we're going to have to cut out of society. Doing this shit to kids and calling it "education" makes me want to [3 lines not declassified].

History is just one damn thing after another (laudatory).

Man, you're the last goddamn person anyone needs to hear from right now.

It's staggering to me how Microsoft managed to essentially solve things like email or word processing and has spent the last few years working to re-break them.

Final first draft chapter is finally getting close to finished and Word just...doesn't work any more? Restarts, reinstalls, a million different changes to settings, and it still barely responds in a minuscule text document.

Now I'm in Google Docs and I want to quit and go live in a cave.

Revolutionaries: "The people are rising! The revolution is at hand! Submit, tyrant! "

Nicholas II: "Okay."

Revolutionaries: "Wait, really? Shit. Uh..."

Holy typos, Batman.

What does it look like if the GOP commits to repeatedly telling people directly: "On behalf of President Hoover, I think you if you really didn't want to get sick or starve, you'd work harder"?

Not to give him too much credit, but Hoover knew there was a crisis and tried doing things to address it
(even if they were stupid or inadequate). The result was the GOP being blasted into the Phantom Zone for a generation.

Highlighted quotation: “As an economist, Low searched for a more precise term to describe how she and other working moms often find themselves stretched for time and energy. She came up with “the squeeze”, and it’s backed by data that shows how women often get burnt out trying to manage competing demands at home and work, especially when they are parenting young children.”

BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name