Apologies to all my friends for calling them "ignoble" and "common". Realized that I was accidentally googling "medieval" household income. I am, in fact, living slightly above subsistence levels.
Apologies to all my friends for calling them "ignoble" and "common". Realized that I was accidentally googling "medieval" household income. I am, in fact, living slightly above subsistence levels.
it’s insane that nintendo gets away with selling a $500 piece of hardware that I use exclusively to play mario kart. not falling for that this time. (my kid discovers mario kart and we have a blast playing together) oh fuck
This sort of absurd, ultra-bleak reading of the remarkable prosperity of modern societies is not only embarrassingly wrong - and I saw a historian retweet this sincerely (!!) - but also helps fuel not materialist, left-wing politics, but rather reactionary right-wing politics ('RETVRN-ism').
December 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
This sort of absurd, ultra-bleak reading of the remarkable prosperity of modern societies is not only embarrassingly wrong - and I saw a historian retweet this sincerely (!!) - but also helps fuel not materialist, left-wing politics, but rather reactionary right-wing politics ('RETVRN-ism').
So thankful for that DFW commencement speech I was made to read by no less than 3 separate teachers & professors. I choose to believe that every time it was assigned the instructor thought the class had never encountered it before.
November 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
So thankful for that DFW commencement speech I was made to read by no less than 3 separate teachers & professors. I choose to believe that every time it was assigned the instructor thought the class had never encountered it before.