I used to get mad when people misused "decimated" to refer to things that weren't 1/10th destroyed, but I've given it some thought and now I've done a complete 360 on it
Agree there is a middle muddler who accepts that virtue might exist in a few saints, or in distant time. But lives themselves in a shriveled present without it. Virtue exists, but not here, among us.
“Emotional labor” itself morphing from a specific term related to the service industry into a term referring to emotional attachment and investment within personal relationships was a bad development.
It is amazing watching people line up to do business with him. His entire first term cabinet is on the record; a lifetime of stiffing vendors; and still.
As a private business owner, Trump got around this by having a large enough pool of potential contractors and business partners to stiff that he could just cycle through them. That doesn't work when you're bound to the same handful of counterparties - over and over again.
Not these days. Hasbara routinely call photos of dead babies a blood libel
I think the argument is disproportionate focus. Something like “Sure we kill a lot of babies, but so do lots of regimes. Why aren’t you showing the Ukrainian dead babies?!!!!”
I would have liked to have filmed the inking of this tiny wren and the shrub's very fine branches with this brush, but I needed to get especially close to the piece for this and it would have been too awkward.
When we first started talking about working “above the algorithm” (FAANG easy street) or below it (gig work race to the bottom), I never thought people would choose to live below the algorithm. Eager to surrender their will.
We accept that we are limited beings who lack the power to remedy the world’s ills. But most of us do not accept that they are anything but ills. American guns are a great example. So many are bewildered, and powerless to stop the tide.
Yeah, but. There have always been do-gooders horrified by the common lot. Thomas Coram established the Foundling Hospital in 1739. That we can banish these thoughts doesn’t mean we don’t have them.
