JRoth
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"The patriarchy hurts men too, but not enough of them if you ask me."
Architect. He/him.
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Architect. He/him.
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Every time I see this meme it does to me roughly what I suspect "fire in a crowded theater" or RICO does to Ken White. Please think of your local disability representatives before reposting.
December 23, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Every time I see this meme it does to me roughly what I suspect "fire in a crowded theater" or RICO does to Ken White. Please think of your local disability representatives before reposting.
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Yep. That’s the thing that leads to confusion and gets people upset and talking past each other. “Unskilled” means you can start the job without pre-existing skills and learn them on the job, not that there are no skills involved at all.
December 23, 2024 at 10:08 PM
Yep. That’s the thing that leads to confusion and gets people upset and talking past each other. “Unskilled” means you can start the job without pre-existing skills and learn them on the job, not that there are no skills involved at all.
This is well said.
The notion of skilled labor versus unskilled labor is a tricky one because it refers to a real distinction about training and prerequisites but it incorrectly suggests that the performance ceiling is low when it can sometimes be quite high.
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This is well said.
I think it’s been incredibly salutary for architects that the profession was broadly discredited by the failures of Modernism. You can’t see the demolition of Pruitt-Igoe without developing a healthy skepticism about groupthink and delusions of grandeur, for your own profession and others.
There's a whole lot of You Just Don't Understand our Norms and Incentives from many professions, but this one is striking for its public consequences.
November 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I think it’s been incredibly salutary for architects that the profession was broadly discredited by the failures of Modernism. You can’t see the demolition of Pruitt-Igoe without developing a healthy skepticism about groupthink and delusions of grandeur, for your own profession and others.
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When institutions fail, bad people amass unaccountable power. Most of the time, people who are both toxic enough to do this and ambitious enough to want to do this are....weird people. It's both.
November 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
When institutions fail, bad people amass unaccountable power. Most of the time, people who are both toxic enough to do this and ambitious enough to want to do this are....weird people. It's both.
The origin story of our friendship with our best couple friends is that the 1st time they had us over for dinner, the Thai pork they made fell to the floor as they brought it out. We all looked at each other, they scooped it onto the platter, and we ate it. “Floor pork” is essential.
My aunt dropped the gravy while preparing to bring it out to the dining room and she sopped it up with paper towels and squeezed it back into the gravy boat.
November 26, 2025 at 3:52 AM
The origin story of our friendship with our best couple friends is that the 1st time they had us over for dinner, the Thai pork they made fell to the floor as they brought it out. We all looked at each other, they scooped it onto the platter, and we ate it. “Floor pork” is essential.
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I am going to be thinking of this as the Quintessential LA Joke for years now.
November 26, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I am going to be thinking of this as the Quintessential LA Joke for years now.
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My public service announcement for today is that America’s Test Kitchen, which is infinitely better then NYTimes Cooking, has introduced a new gift link option that has no limit on how many you can share and each link lasts 30 days.
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
My public service announcement for today is that America’s Test Kitchen, which is infinitely better then NYTimes Cooking, has introduced a new gift link option that has no limit on how many you can share and each link lasts 30 days.
Listen, I know food posts are a mug's game, but badmouthing key lime pie is sheer madness. Utter perfection.
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Listen, I know food posts are a mug's game, but badmouthing key lime pie is sheer madness. Utter perfection.
Ack, I don't think there's time for my family to rewatch the first two before seeing the third in theaters (my college kid is only here 4 nights, it'll be out of theaters by the time they get back).
I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.
November 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Ack, I don't think there's time for my family to rewatch the first two before seeing the third in theaters (my college kid is only here 4 nights, it'll be out of theaters by the time they get back).
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Union forces had suffered some 5,800 casualties but inflicted twice that on the rebels. When a chaplain asked General Thomas whether the dead should be sorted and buried by state in the new military cemetery, the Virginian who stayed loyal replied "Mix 'em up. I'm tired of states' rights.” (21
November 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Union forces had suffered some 5,800 casualties but inflicted twice that on the rebels. When a chaplain asked General Thomas whether the dead should be sorted and buried by state in the new military cemetery, the Virginian who stayed loyal replied "Mix 'em up. I'm tired of states' rights.” (21
My dad, who regularly wore suits, did not wear suits for leisure flights. His dad, who was a tool & die man at a faucet factory, wore suits when he flew [Chicago>Vegas].
It was a broad social expectation set by wealthy fliers, but it also reflected a generation that was OK with respectability.
It was a broad social expectation set by wealthy fliers, but it also reflected a generation that was OK with respectability.
A roundtrip LAX-JFK flight in the late 60s was around $3K in today’s dollars. The people who wore suits on those flights were the people who regularly wore suits. Complaining about informally-dressed fliers is complaining that the wrong sorts of people are flying today.
November 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
My dad, who regularly wore suits, did not wear suits for leisure flights. His dad, who was a tool & die man at a faucet factory, wore suits when he flew [Chicago>Vegas].
It was a broad social expectation set by wealthy fliers, but it also reflected a generation that was OK with respectability.
It was a broad social expectation set by wealthy fliers, but it also reflected a generation that was OK with respectability.
OK, a few weeks ago I saw something suggesting that Behn is an impossibly long shot, & that it's weird that this is the race KH is showing out for. But she really seems to be putting in effort, so what's the deal? Is Behn a protege, is there reason to think she can win, is it some bank shot?
To the young leaders of Fisk University and the volunteers I met with the Tennessee Democratic Party: Thank you for using your voice to fight for our nation. Always remember, the power is with the people.
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
OK, a few weeks ago I saw something suggesting that Behn is an impossibly long shot, & that it's weird that this is the race KH is showing out for. But she really seems to be putting in effort, so what's the deal? Is Behn a protege, is there reason to think she can win, is it some bank shot?
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We know this is a bid for authoritarian governance and at this point it is clear it is failing
We know in other countries, such failures generally end with "and then he fled to Russia" or "and then he went to trial" or "and then he and his entire family were murdered."
Why would we be different?
We know in other countries, such failures generally end with "and then he fled to Russia" or "and then he went to trial" or "and then he and his entire family were murdered."
Why would we be different?
November 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
We know this is a bid for authoritarian governance and at this point it is clear it is failing
We know in other countries, such failures generally end with "and then he fled to Russia" or "and then he went to trial" or "and then he and his entire family were murdered."
Why would we be different?
We know in other countries, such failures generally end with "and then he fled to Russia" or "and then he went to trial" or "and then he and his entire family were murdered."
Why would we be different?
Most devastatingly effective intervention was when I was telling my mom abt the bad parents of my first ~girlfriend, and she casually dropped “do you think they’re really that bad?” And instantly my view snapped to “oh, she’s overdramatizing completely normal teen angst (bah).”
Indeed. Yeah, maybe your parents really are toxic and you should cut them out of your life. But everyone hates their parents at some point, how confident are we in the ability of that Reddit thread to give you good advice on this exactly
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Most devastatingly effective intervention was when I was telling my mom abt the bad parents of my first ~girlfriend, and she casually dropped “do you think they’re really that bad?” And instantly my view snapped to “oh, she’s overdramatizing completely normal teen angst (bah).”
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Not to give people ideas but there's probably a fundie church funding a problematic youth group trip to the holy land any given week a stone's throw away from anywhere in America. Weird how that never seems to quite generate the thrill people want.
Er yeah, you probably shouldn't protest a mosque as a non-Muslim either. Not sure why you thought this was some kind of gotcha.
If you’re not Muslim, don’t protest a mosque.
Regardless of what’s happening inside.
That’s what you sound like.
Regardless of what’s happening inside.
That’s what you sound like.
November 25, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Not to give people ideas but there's probably a fundie church funding a problematic youth group trip to the holy land any given week a stone's throw away from anywhere in America. Weird how that never seems to quite generate the thrill people want.
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incidentally, this is precisely what everybody said would happen with robotaxis, huge numbers of empty vehicles clogging up streets.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
incidentally, this is precisely what everybody said would happen with robotaxis, huge numbers of empty vehicles clogging up streets.
This is a few miles upriver from another church that's been converted to an indoor ropes course, complete with zip line.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This is a few miles upriver from another church that's been converted to an indoor ropes course, complete with zip line.
dragonsdenpgh.org
dragonsdenpgh.org
I can't believe I've only just learned that Maria from Sesame Street went to CMU—I suspect some snobbery around a kids show kept the school from trumpeting her*—but if we Gen Xers had been told, we would've lost our shit. A much bigger deal than most of the other famous actors in the mailers.
"Street Smart," a new documentary featuring Sonia Manzano (aka Maria from Sesame Street) is making the film festival rounds. Read our review and find out how you can stream it!
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Review – Street Smart: The Sonia Manzano Documentary - ToughPigs
The new documentary Street Smart: Lessons from a TV Icon, emphasizes how Sonia Manzano – best known for playing Maria on Sesame Street – is a Latina icon. She was one of the first leading Latina women...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I can't believe I've only just learned that Maria from Sesame Street went to CMU—I suspect some snobbery around a kids show kept the school from trumpeting her*—but if we Gen Xers had been told, we would've lost our shit. A much bigger deal than most of the other famous actors in the mailers.
I don’t know what the fuck is going on, but no matter how fast I scroll, I just keep getting more terrible fucking takes. Everybody needs to go to bed.
November 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
I don’t know what the fuck is going on, but no matter how fast I scroll, I just keep getting more terrible fucking takes. Everybody needs to go to bed.
Again: Tyler Cowen is a shameful hack as bad as the worst Heritage Fdn fascist, but he blogs about ethnic restaurants in strip malls, so he’s good people.
The rot isn’t just Nuzzi/Lizza types at the elite mags.
The rot isn’t just Nuzzi/Lizza types at the elite mags.
Tyler Cowen saying again that there is no threat to democracy marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo... because Trump is facing opposition and is sensitive to public opinion, but this is how competitive authoritarianism works. Please consult @dziblatt.bsky.social or @stevelevitsky.bsky.social!
November 23, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Again: Tyler Cowen is a shameful hack as bad as the worst Heritage Fdn fascist, but he blogs about ethnic restaurants in strip malls, so he’s good people.
The rot isn’t just Nuzzi/Lizza types at the elite mags.
The rot isn’t just Nuzzi/Lizza types at the elite mags.
Cynically: IAQ is the future, and has been for 40 years.
Does anybody remember Sick Building Syndrome?
Does anybody remember Sick Building Syndrome?
Ventilation was one of the original public health measures featured in early building codes in London and New York City. While contaminated water supplies were the real cause of cholera and typhoid outbreaks, airborne disease spread and high CO2 levels continue to plague modern buildings today.
November 23, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Cynically: IAQ is the future, and has been for 40 years.
Does anybody remember Sick Building Syndrome?
Does anybody remember Sick Building Syndrome?
You guys are going to love this: in 7th grade gifted, we were told to pick a career, with backstory. I picked a career and a school, and that’s exactly what I did. Straight line, 40 years.
November 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM
You guys are going to love this: in 7th grade gifted, we were told to pick a career, with backstory. I picked a career and a school, and that’s exactly what I did. Straight line, 40 years.
This is not what I, personally, would expect from a decadent society unwilling to fight for the liberation of others.
Since ICE invaded Raleigh, NC, walkouts and protests have broken out, and more than 600 volunteers have signed up to help keep residents safe in the city.
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
This is not what I, personally, would expect from a decadent society unwilling to fight for the liberation of others.
Goddamn is this cool
Martin Höhlig, Berlin, Tiergarten, light tower of the Osram Company, 1928
November 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Goddamn is this cool