you have this. you literally have an entire parallel media ecosystem that does nothing but make shit like this. what you actually want is this “and other people are forced somehow to watch and compliment it”
academics: the market is horrible. do not go to grad school. I have 36 publications and the only job I got was a 4/4 in a county where the primary industry is racism. I am suicidial daily
22-26 year olds: wow, that is so bad. it's a real problem. luckily though, I am built diffe
The reason republicans get so incredibly huffy when any of the tools of law enforcement are ever turned upon them is they think “criminals” as an inherent class of people (who they of course could never be part of) rather than a descriptor for someone who commits illegal acts.
The one thing I am a little bit of Taylor Swift conspiracist on is she did seemingly go from “generic pop artist
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this guy triggers so many reflexive alerts with threads on this topic and the statue avi, like you keep waiting for the screed about modern degeneracy to drop or whatever, but it literally is just an interesting thread about design language history
Why does our world look the way it does?
Because of the most influential design school in history: the Bauhaus.
From fonts to furniture, this is how Bauhaus created the aesthetic of the modern world...
I thought people were being kinda unfair to the unfortunate mini sub folks because going on a submarine to see a cool shipwreck isn’t something I’d be opposed to if I had the money, but then I saw the video showing that the thing was DIY’d and steered with a fuckin’ video game 🎮
How difficult laundry would be was also really oversold to me as a child. “Oh boy just you wait until you’re grown up and have to do your own laundry, mister!”…it’s like what 2 hrs of work twice a month to wash and dry clothes. You lied mother.
Americans will go on vacation to a place that isn’t a car sewer, walk and take public transit for 8-12 hrs. a day, notice a change in their health, and attribute it to “they must not have the Illuminati chemicals here”
Friend just texted me that he went to Europe for 2 weeks, drank like an animal, ate whatever he wanted and lost 10 lbs.
Europe proves you can be a degenerate and still be healthy…there’s something destroying our metabolism in the USA.
I can’t really articulate any kind of broader social or political reason for why I dislike Mr.Beast and I won’t pretend to, but I do find the guy and his videos instinctively repulsive
this is mainly ceremonial. the Irish Air Force, with only 23 aircraft, obviously does not have the ability to track, let alone intercept him should he violate their airspace. there’s a reason NORAD goes to great lengths to demonstrate they do have this capability each year.
BREAKING: After forgiving your student loans and decriminalizing marijuana, Pres. Biden has indicated that he has listened to your podcast, thinks it's "pretty good" and is going to "talk to some people he knows about it".
average chicagoan tweet: I live in a spacious apartment in a walkable hip neighborhood, surrounded with fun things to do and young people. my rent each month is a smile and a pat on the head. every winter I think fairly seriously about killing myself.
Elon exposing me to more conservative voices via boosting them on the platform has successfully burst my bubble and changed my views of them as a group: they're a lot fucking dumber than I thought, and I didn't think they were smart.
In retrospect I think early game of thrones had the exact right approach to magic stuff: establish early on that it’s real and terrifying, and then stay firmly mundane for a very long time.
In general government should do far more propaganda about well functioning services. Like you should be periodically reminded that your GPS is Uncle Sam for example. Public sector needs to market more.
fucking hate guns dude. this is what this shit actually looks like, a chubby middle aged blowhard dipshit doing spray and pray on a crowded highway because what, he thought his “life was in danger” and had to go John wick?
Miami-Dade State Attorney drops charges against man who fired 11 times in 2021 I-95 road rage incident under “Florida Stand Your Ground” law. FHP said another driver threw a water bottle at Eric Popper’s car, but he claimed it was gunfire.
#BecauseMiami
the decline of unionization in the US means that there's a whole generation of people who think that "real" unions are populated by characters from Springsteen songs rather than literally just the people that work at a given place
The way the American built environment is designed to make drinking & driving almost always the path of least resistance is one of those quietly monstrous things you can’t unsee when you realize it. We require bars to build parking lots & act surprised when people die.
twitter is great for feeling alienated from everyone because you’ll see tweets with 10k rts decrying what you previously thought were the most normal & universal human behaviors imaginable
We should allow homeschooling but also annually test kids in controlled conditions and if your child scores below whatever the median for your local public school is you go to jail.
undergrad educational experience should be less forgiving on a micro level and more forgiving on a macro level, in that instructors should probably fail more students, but universities should be built around (and communicate) expectation that failing a couple classes is normal
funny how in retrospect trump was pretty much almost exactly as bad as people thought he would be. like the more upset someone was on election night in 2016 the better their predictions have likely aged. the few things where he wasn't that bad were mainly due to incompetence.
It’s pretty bad that if the IRS got much better and more efficient and effortlessly/painlessly withheld the exact right amount from every paycheck the initial reaction from the public would be total fury.
It’s funny that two universal constants of civilization appear to be “people doing hard agricultural labor will try insanely hard to do literally anything else” & “after a generation removed from doing it, a significant portion of people start to fantasize about & romanticize it”
what do self professed nationalists actually like about America? you hate the govt, have seething contempt for most of your fellow citizens, hate most institutions, and think the culture is degenerate. what actually is left to constitute the “nation” in your nationalism?
The Columbia students having the discipline to only let someone articulate and sympathetic talk to the reporter rather than letting some random trust fund psycho scream about how Oct. 7th was good is honestly pretty impressive.
This is going to end up being the most easily preventable crisis in the history of American health policy
"experts" and politicians thought they could bully people into the Covid vaccine and ended up poisoning the incredibly hard-won cultural victories for childhood vaccines
original terminator aged very well. one of the worst things about all the endless recycling of nostalgia media is that it makes the main characters into these pseudo-legendary figures, whereas in the original media you very much get the impression that Kyle Reese is Just Some Guy
was a really good thread on here about how there's an entire parallel kind of conspicuous consumption (large trucks, guns, etc.) that gets coded as being "working class" despite often being objectively very expensive or even luxury goods consumed by relatively well off people
I don’t know what kind of middle class people you grew up talking to but the salt of the earth middle class types are always talking about being as practical as possible. Or they were at the very least talking about getting as low a payment and interest rate as possible
Ted Kennedy, an actual murderer, was the worst human being in American politics in my lifetime, & set the agenda of the Democratic Party for decades, an agenda it follows to this day. Every living Democrat would vote for him without qualm.
it’s like a guy who starts talking about how 5G will bring worse storms and you think he’s a crank but then you keep listening to him and realizing he’s a meteorologist talking about how it interferes with early hurricane detection technology that uses the EM spectrum
I think people pretending to never have liked the Harry Potter books now that they don't like Rowling are mainly being silly, they were obviously mega-popular for a reason, but holy shit are the non-white character's names just as bad as people say.
being a "critical thinker" is like being "happily single" in that tons of people totally are, but almost no one who goes out of their way to describe themselves as such is.
fascinating to look into the kind of mind of a guy like this. you bypass the blocked off exit, expecting to then do…what? did you think there was going to be perfectly normal road behind the DOT trucks? that they blocked it for no reason?
Dash cam video shows a road rage incident in June when a Portland driver plowed through barricades and nearly hit several people along the Rose Festival's Grand Floral parade route. Here's video & full story:
BREAKING:
A second plane owned by Prigozhin just landed at the Ostafyevo airport near Moscow.
Wagner supporters are hoping that Prigozhin cheated death by boarding that plane instead.
“DOXXING” is a recurring fear of many on the right not due to any principled commitment for privacy but because people who call gay teachers pedophiles want to be welcome in polite company among people who rightfully consider that abhorrent bigotry. That’s really just it.
I can’t even afford TOILET PAPER in this economy, like it’s a luxury these days to have my ass wiped😫
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ok yes I have it delivered to me and administered by a worker from the Wipr app, but the POINT is…
the hidden second half of 90% of the people’s gripes about “why doesn’t this media exist” is “in a way that is good with mainstream appeal and talked about positively by the chattering classes we publicly disdain but whose approval we desperately crave”
the comments are full of people saying “well what did you expect you’ve disrespected and demoralized them” and it’s really striking how conservatives think of cops as like, some warrior tribe whose folkways we must respect, rather than government employees
it’s funny how Americans will delude themselves into thinking they need a massive pickup truck when contractors in Japan who actually haul stuff every day use trucks a fraction the size
Very Greek tragedy that Operation Warp Speed is probably the single most significant unambiguously positive accomplishment of the Trump admin, his moon landing, & those who recognize that hate him & his fans oppose vaccination, so he’ll never be really lauded for it.
your story looks like trash, with bad dialogue and a predictable plot. unfortunately it touches upon one of my hyper-fixations so I have no choice but to consume it like a hog at the trough.
Dishonored does the Warhammer thing where there’s this incredibly despotic and corrupt state religion that regularly brutalizes people…also the devils they warn about are 100% real, and their faith is an effective countermeasure to them.
Wait the ‘indigenous math’ course that people were using as an example of ‘wokes gone crazy’ was a history of science course? That’s like a totally legitimate topic for that kind of course, come the fuck on.
Right wingers calling this a “humiliation ritual” and honestly, kinda, yeah. But what do you building these statues in the first place, many during the civil rights movement, was meant to be?
Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue has met its end, in a 2,250-degree furnace.
The divisive Confederate monument, the focus of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in 2017, was secretly melted down and will become a new piece of public art.
More on the process:…
It is generally considered unacceptable elitism to point out any of these objective facts:
-most rural areas are subsidized by urban ones in terms of taxes
-farmers are heavily subsidized by the govt
-rural people have more per capita representation in DC & are not “ignored”
We are random nobodies. No democratic politician says anything but praise rural Americans. Meanwhile Republican politicians have never said a single kind word about the areas of the country that pay for their constituents.
congratulations to all the prospective academics replying with with "I am built different tho". you successfully realized that this tweet is only about the applicants who are not special (unlike you). an Ivy league position awaits you.
I mean I don’t really have a problem with it, her music is fine, not really my thing but I don’t mind it. Just a little jarring how it went from “there’s no more mono-culture, we don’t make mega-celebrities anymore” to “OH YES WE FUCKING DO”
Unfair that Russians get stereotyped as alcoholics. Look at a map of drinking in the US, it’s clear that when you expose white people to cold enough temperatures a switch flips and we’re like “alright, time to take my alcoholism pro”
religious people who do this type of stuff have the most genuine faith, because trying to lawyer your way out of their shit based on technicalities is exactly what you would actually do if you sincerely believed in the existence of a higher power that had set laws
the replies are one conservative after another absolutely seething about any time another adult dared to treat their child as someone with any rights that should be respected whatsoever
@DrShayPhD
The same thing happened to me the day that my son turned 12. He had a skateboarding incident and we were in the ER and the nurse actually turned the screen so that I couldn’t see and told him to read it silently and answer the questions.
Immediately, she wrote something in his…
Y’all please watch this. It’s a CBS story that aired a while back about that submarine that is now missing. The creators of that missing submarine are DEEPLY unserious.
Honestly the unceasing torrent of scam calls and messages is a legit societial problem with all kinds of negative downstream impacts (everything from polling to contact tracing is harder), and it’s weird that there isn’t more national attention focused on solving it.
rather than teaching underlying fundamentals, the university should simply perfectly predict what tools will be employable in the next 15-20 years and exclusively teach those.
This happens all the time. Universities very literally are not training you for a job as a software engineer.
They are training you in the academic field of the science of computing.
man, I fully acknowledge that I don’t have any coherent ethical leg to stand on here because I still eat meat & everything, but I find this extremely gross on a level I can’t fully articulate. maybe because the suffering just seems gratuitous.
It’s also possible in China to get yin-yang fish: a fish whose body is deep fried while it’s head is protected. “Speed is the key — when you prepare the fish, you can’t hurt its internal organs, so when you serve it, it can stay alive for at least half an hour,”
amazing how incredibly unsympathetic every farmer protest is when you actually dig into the details behind it.
“we feed you! the elites are oppressing us salt of the earth!” and then you look into the grievance and it’s having to pay a fine for every laborer they work to death
every 2 months some european farmers decide to come out and protest climate change on the side of climate change and leftists cheer the aesthetic while rightists pretend their last 30 tweets about protests were not "drone strike them if they block a road"
The Inland Empire has gotta be the largest (both in population and area) region that receives basically no media attention. It’s larger than some countries, like 5 million people live there, no one outside of SoCal knows it exists.
a fun twist on the time loop conceit would be a guy caught in one, he behaves nihilistically because there's no consequences, and then one day with no warning....it just doesn't reset, time continues, and he has to actually deal with the aftermath of all the insane shit he did
I actually think you can explain a lot of the reactionary turn among VC types and their railing against the “laptop class” in these terms: they have to deal with a workforce that has relatively high amount of leverage over them and knows it, and they fucking hate it.
Y’know, short of creating actually bulletproof superheroes, most fictional super soldier projects really don’t seem worth it. Like a guy 300% stronger and faster than a normal man is still dead when an artillery shell hits his position. Captain America really doesn’t pencil out.
these people’s faith is just the petty cruelty and resentment of gated community gossips writ large. the primary attraction of heaven to them is that it’s a cosmic HOA they can’t wait to deny your application to.
Dear people upset Roe is dying. I want you to remember the feeling of dread you have right now. Now understand this is nothing compared to the feeling you’ll have on the day of judgment you think is a myth. Repent.
every time you read the context for one of these FARMER PROTESTS AGAINST ELITES it turns out to be something like "agricultural landowners are mad that they will no longer be getting public money to dump chemical waste in school water supplies"
JUST IN: Farmers in Ireland are protesting against the government's plan to slaughter 200,000 dairy cows to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
55,000 direct and indirect jobs are threatened 🚨🚨🚨
Why do governments push these crazy plans to reduce food supply?
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Jacksonville is weird. It’s like the 10th largest city in the country and it has basically no cultural footprint. There’s nothing that really comes to mind to mind when someone says “Jacksonville”. I guess they have a football team?
@AmericanFietser
Men are hunters, we need things that keep us in touch with our biological imperatives. This is why car culture exists. Your car is your hunting tool, you use it to hunt groceries, and jobs, and go on quests. You want to replace that with monorails.
Trucks basically the same as guns in that I understand the appeal, they are fun to mess around with occasionally, some people do legit need them for farming/ranching/etc, and also there’s many, many people who absolutely do not need them who have a whole complex about their hobby
guys, if you think AI is going to have negative effects socially (very possible, likely even!) you can just say that, if you keep this up you’re going to increasingly desperately be going “hahaha! if you freeze the frame at 7:53, you can see mismatched pixels” in like 18 months
I fucking love this stupid little video because they gave the AI a prompt and it followed absolutely none of it. Alien not blending in, doesn’t look like New York City, doesn’t look like a paranoia thriller, doesn’t look like 35mm film. Incredible stuff.
Biden being the first president in a long time that didn’t go to an Ivy League is kinda an underdicussed aspect of his public image and style of poltics imo. The President’s alma mater is a state school that admits about 70% of all applicants.
You had to be at least a little plugged in to realize how disastrous Iraq 2003 was going to be, but if you think war with Mexico to “get the cartels” is a good idea you would in a well governed society not be allowed to vote, operate heavy machinery, or use a knife unsupervised.
my money is on absolutely on zuck, who is exactly the obsessive type to take training/eating right seriously, compared to the idiot king, who will do none of those things.
Really stunning how Elon owns a company that sends rockets to space, was married to a beautiful pop star, and still isn’t cool, in fact extremely lame. Like, Bezos and Zuckerberg come off as cooler, and neither of them is exactly drowning in charisma.
House Democrats don’t get it.
This is an evenly divided country, but they act like half of America doesn’t matter. That half is mad as hell, and they’re fed up with being disrespected.
You got your warning in VA and NJ.
Ignore it and you’ll be 1994’ed and 2010’ed again.
The entitlement that NJ people have over NYC doing congestion pricing is nuts. Very clear illustration of how people in suburbs believe the city exists to serve them, as some kind of drive through service.
dems really should do the “they hate you” thing more with republican elites, because if you’re an educated normie lib living in a city, people non-trivially influential in the GOP *really* hate you, like psychotically hate you
I publicly push back on creeps who obsess over my mixed race relationship not because I think being in love with someone of a different race makes me special but because it makes me very ordinary, and it is good to remind y’all that we cannot let these freaks win in November
A criminal is a kind of person that you are, not a descriptor of the things that you do. Thus, there are criminals who they are disgusted to see get off on the technicalities such as civil rights, and good people who happen to break the law subject to very unfair arrests.
The actual thing to dislike about the sphere is that they built built something objectively amazing that even someone from like 100 years ago would worship as a god if you showed to them, and surrounded it with the shittiest car sewer sprawl urban design ever.
bears repeating that cons think “crime” is a kind of person you are, rather than a thing you do. it may be “against the law” to cheat on your taxes or park illegally, but it’s not Crime, Crime is what Criminals (Those People) do. It’s just flouting silly rules, as is your right.