It’s fun to frame it as “the bloodline dies with me” because it suggests your family has some deep terrible lore or curse and then people will stop freakin hasslin you about it

Anyway, affordability is a problem (build more houses) and we need to bring down costs (build more houses) but I don't think that effort (building more houses) is aided by deceptive comparisons that imply no real increase in living standards since 1843, a thing which is obviously, laughably untrue.

The Cratchits can afford things - even in their poverty - that the medieval peasant could not. I mean, this is what Bob Cratchit is supposed to look like with Tiny Tim and *my goodness* look at all of that textile he is wearing!

Cloth got *way cheaper* but that doesn't make Cratchit rich.

Jake Tapper’s phone automatically texts Mike Johnson’s son every time somebody on CNN says “Department of War.”

@eleanor.lockhart.contact slowerpace.bandcamp.com/album/encard... i like vaporwave, it is partly inspired by the utopian promise of technology in the past

the democratic party would likely keep funding rural people that hated them because they felt like they had to as they were human beings, republicans will just let them get destroyed, people should be reminded about who started the process

Note: this is not good, it's fine if people want to study International Relations or History of the Ancients and then go on to be an accountant the point of a university education is to learn how to learn things not get a certification for employment

"YOU AREN'T OCCUPYING PORTLAND, PORTLAND IS OCCUPYING YOU!" *random dude in inflatable costume starts twerking*

of all the groups that can have issues they are the most worthy of critical support

if this was the worst case scenerio he clearly didn't catastrophize

sometimes science fiction inspired technologies can exist but are not as useful as you expected

some things like the metaverse like neal stephenson's snowcrash is possible but it has fewer use cases then they thought it would have

Every smartphone in the world contains a CPU descended from one designed by a trans woman in the 1980s. The Matrix is one of the most influential movie franchises of all time. Electronic music was pioneered and popularized by a trans woman. I could go on

You’ll never believe this, but one of the biggest names in comics/kidlit of the last decade is a trans woman!

Oh hey looks it's the exact same rhetoric about the billions of dollars pharmaceutical companies make from transing the kids appropriated to a new target

Couple of problems with this tweet...

1. A GP or general practitioner does not really exist in the United States. There is no GP residency for example.

2. Most family doctors believe in vaccines as much as pediatricians do.

3. Vaccine extortion mill? Big money? I drive a 2008 Toyota RAV4.

Wild West

i have both of them blocked i thought eli was interesting a while ago but he is pretty shit

they believe “criminal” is a kind of person you are, not a status contingent upon actions you take. J6 rioters going to jail was not an outrage because there are no laws they could break that would make them criminals, whilst innocence or guilt have no bearing on if others are criminals or not

Weber State administrators told student they couldn't present their research on the state's anti-DEI law at an on-campus conference on censorship(!) unless they removed all mentions of DEI from their slides

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

the NYT's Harvard thing is genuinely weird. imagine being obsessed with the politics and social standing of a school you went to three decades ago

my only issue with microaggressions was using it as an excuse to be mad at people and attack them. clearly the original idea behind them is still valid

not a fan of julia doubleday, she got a bad case of post-covid conditions and blames everyone for it, she said more stuff recently

Yeah you need to tax rich childless folks more so my neighbor's kids get free lunch. But the other preferences revealed are

1) teens want to avoid pregnancy (worth saying loudly we don't want to reverse this)

2) immigration is the easy solution people hate (worth saying loudly that they're wrong)