when I say that Americans and Europeans at matched income levels are still behaviorally very different (and that this shows up in our divergent health outcomes), this is *exactly* what I mean.
huh, a lot of responses! thank you.
please note that I am not making a moral judgment in either direction.
(I will point out that cars are used by many mobility-impaired people in the US for whom walking is painful, difficult, or impossible. they get left out of these convos.)
@AChillGhost
just because a substance is inherently inimical to human life doesn't mean oh wait maybe it does?
anyhow, you should read about fluorine compounds.
@AChillGhost
there was a group of chemists who tried isolating elemental fluorine gas in the nineteenth century. they're called the "fluorine martyrs".
remember East Palestine? remember how a parody *falconry* account made it into an apocalyptic crisis? remember the five-minute hate conducted against... the Secretary of Transportation?
of course you don't. you were briefly manipulated into thinking it was important.
yes. it feels like the mainstreaming of sectarian people who don't feel comfortable with uncensored material but who use secular and Tumblr language to express their discomfort.
it's combining with rule-based interaction and social risk aversion.
I can't say exactly how widespread it is, but there is absolutely a strong cultural backlash right now against any and all romantic storylines in film or TV from viewers younger than me.
actual embryology is kinda creepy! I've seen people tweet this already, but are lawmakers gonna charge one zygote with murder if it absorbs another in the womb? is the resulting chimera legally two people, even if it only has one body? which one is the evil one? so many questions
of course there's folk gynecology. some of it predates even the earliest scientific thought, but some of it is new, and vicious.
e.g., no fetus survives an ectopic pregnancy. it's like expecting one to survive in a glove compartment. but it is popularly believed that they can.
hating Buttigieg is an amazing way to shine klieg lights onto your personal insecurities.
please, dorks, never stop. if you really thought he was beneath notice, you wouldn't notice him.
@TheLincoln
tired: "eighth-grade boys are poorly behaved and we need to pander to their mindset"
wired: "we pander to poor behavior and eighth-grade boys emulate it"
@LuxAlptraum
@ztsamudzi
I was telling my stepdaughter the other day, I always do the count. if that count is too low, I know this is not a place I want to be. No place, no group, no organization gets that white by accident.
@Nicole_Cliffe
direct eye contact in Filipino culture can be *very* aggressive. even though I'm first (born here) generation, I once made a belligerent drunk back down at a bar in Brooklyn that way. he was so freaked out that he complained to the bartender about it, and was kicked out.
@madavis71415872
@paradoomer
you mean we have to *keep on* voting?!?!
NO NONO NO NO NO NO NOOOOO
next thing you know you're going to tell me we might have to become involved in the political process
why can't we live in a normal country where everything is already taken care of and we can sit in our vats
wait there's a controversy because a woman bluffed a man in poker?
maybe one out of a hundred men should be executed until we improve. oh wait COVID did that already.
hmm, this is a toughie.
oh shoot, the whole bizarre "why can't the AI use racial slurs even if it's to save the world" argument is taking exactly the form of the "why can't the US use torture even if it's to save the world" argument from the goddam W years.
which circles back to the first post. these people are *scared* of their feelings, and are trying to turn it into a politicized and medicalized identity. they're objecting to media representations that frighten them, like a Reverend Wildmon of an earlier generation.
thank you bored teacher for creating this meme-killing worksheet!
I hope that hundreds like it proliferate and destroy the concept of the meme from our public spaces, and we can go back to abusive chain letters like God intended.
@Caissie
the raw ageism on display. they've never seen it, which tells me how much time they've spent among the elderly about whom they speak so very, very confidently.
"how can a guy with a white supremacist ideology not look particularly white, that has to be wrong"
it's more fruitful to try to figure out what's happening from jackass's point of view.
you're just telling me you have a stricter definition of "white" than he does.
the (male) actor who no longer wants to perform in intimacy scenes out of respect for his marriage plays a serial killer on TV?
so the *killing* is okay but the *kissing* is out
the young people who like this trend aren't doing it out of morality but prudishness
why are today's men so angry about a woman partner's sexual past that they use serial killer terminology to describe her dating life?
what the hell is going on?
the ridiculous double standard, the transparent attempts to control women through shame, and for what?
"but but but I am a full member of the creative class! I make ironic cartoons about forgotten pop culture figures and my sales are terrible! how can you say the economy is doing better when my income is less than a gas station attendant's?"
@HeerJeet
the Republican far-right has been clear about its disdain for the Reconstruction amendments for some time, but they form the basis for most citizenship law in the US.
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@Nicole_Cliffe
"The opportunity cost of having a child that I'm financially responsible for significantly outweighs some abstract sense of morality that I apparently violated."
... she should have harvested his organs and raised the child on the proceeds.
like I've been saying for so very long: Greenwald is still a Republican.
yes, that makes you people who believed in his breathless billionaire-funded non-journalism... suckers.
oh well! try harder next time.
just going to point out that combined arms military operations are not social explosions, and that in many ways they're the opposite of social explosions.
even the smallest raid requires organization and planning. it's not a bar fight.
for young people, it provides the illusion of structure and equity over the chaos of human sexuality. it partakes of that godawful symptom of consumerism, the marketing category. and it creates artificial distinctions between friendship, romance, and sexual attraction.
it was originally a helpful taxonomy promoted by university LGBTQ+ centers to help confused young adults about their feelings in dating and friendship.
and it's become weirdly dogmatic and sex-negative, because it's useful for dogmatic and sex-negative personalities.
some 38-year-old who thinks hating the Secretary of Transportation is a substitute for a personality
"maybe I can cyberbully him into resigning"
get back to work, Jetson. Christ, what a bunch of losers.
this may sound tangential, but it isn't: "romantic orientation" is not a clinical category, but too many people (meaning greater than zero) believe it's a permanent state of their psychology. it's become thoroughly medicalized, in that bizarre American way.
JFC don't release the Uvalde photos. this ain't Emmett Till's time. have people not *seen* the gore hounds on Twitter with their pants around their ankles searching for atrocity photos from Ukraine?
the freaks love that sort of thing. this is what they *want*.
if I'm getting this, working from home tapped into a vein of highly productive workers who could not function in a workplace either at all or anywhere near their at-home performance.
it's necessarily a one-time surge, but wow.
@playedaroundwi4
Thanks and totally agreed and looks like WFH might be behind the surge in folks with disabilities that are now able to work (estimated at almost 2m in the US). No commute and much more agreeable working environment.
@jays_ear
@BeijingPalmer
a place where many people could get cheap but popular food quickly at the same time? a standard menu to benefit from economies of scale, but each individual dining place small and locally managed?
yeah that would be very positive!
the last five questions on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment test are...
naming the correct month, year, day of the week, place of the test, and city.
I bet Trump has difficult with those. his week is structured by golf.
Wallace told Trump that he also took the cognitive test and it's not very hard.
Trump sharply objected: "... the first few questions are easy, but I'll bet you couldn't even answer the last five questions. I'll bet you couldn't, they get very hard, the last five questions."
@LuxAlptraum
my new family teases me about carefully unwrapping and later reusing the paper.
but I grew up in a family that used to use the Sunday comics for wrapping. so.
@azforeman
I checked the Internet SF Database after seeing this poem, and this sonnet and a trippy essay on Vulcan society immediately before it are the author's only publication credits.
pure outsider art.
... the ways cishet men have traditionally talked about sex have been grotesque. let me tell you some of the things I've heard. hold onto your hats, people, because it's rough.
the boutique carmaker buys a network to eliminate its standards and practices and to charge its top content producers to appear on it, and doesn't understand why its top advertisers are dropping depth charges onto his brilliant plan
compare 2004 Kerry, who had a youth surge, while 2016 Clinton did not.
I think Obama just wildly outperformed, because he was a once-in-a-century-or-more political talent, and everyone assumed it was a new norm and anyone could do it.
@HeerJeet
@fmanjoo
... dude, you can't even get this right. It's the memories of the eaten dead, not ancestors. It's the second-biggest plot point in the goddam series.
why do you have a job?
people might ask me, why are you not aghast at Ocasio-Cortez or Warren's ideas, but think Sanders is a plague on American politics?
here's the thing: AOC and Warren are smart. Sanders is an airhead.
IN ADDITION, he's a white flight candidate who was mayor of a lily-white city.
@cstross
@GreatDismal
this is closer to warmed-over Vinge. soon we will experience the biggest step in consciousness since the evolution of metazoan life! and it will be memes of a monkey clapping cymbals in time to the Horst Wessel song
@noel_maurer
who knew that forty-plus percent of the country does not think the United States as described by the Constitution and legal precedent is a good idea, instead preferring an ethnonationalist state with an unconstrained executive branch
doing pretty well, given that constraint
do these "men" think their lives will be improved if they deflower (and sweet Jesus, what a word) a terrified virgin on her wedding night? maybe they can hang a bloody sheet from the hotel window to show the world they were first.
it's awesome that this kid is in the world championship at age sixteen
but I hope the Doctor destroys the laboratory where he was artificially aged into excellence because why would anyone trust Britain with that technology
here, you Internet weirdos. try organizing a simple one on paper:
plan a raid on your local car dealership. your mission is to liberate ten of the finest automobiles they have in stock for your exurban compound. assume complete surprise and all the police are in Atlantic City.
explaining the Arthur Funko to Michael Mann:
these little dolls, they look like Fisher-Price figures, they won't make one for this character Arthur, he's like Robin except he's a nervous accountant. yeah it's pretty good.
@blankcheckpod
@GriffLightning
wow, accidentally ended up rubbernecking at the train wreck of British gender anxiety Twitter for a solid thirty minutes.
the average gender-anxious Briton believes crazier things than the love child of Taylor Lorenz and Chaya Raichik. and it's all secular!
I'm kind of tired of low empathy 20-year-olds scolding their betters about their lack of morality.
you can see the ghosts of the authority figures they're reacting against hovering around them like an aura.
remember how the Bernie Bros brought an enormous inflatable joint to the Democratic convention in 2016?
look how little marijuana legalization has changed the political landscape. "whoever legalizes it will be in office forever maaaaan."
no, we get ridiculous ads for gummies.
anyhow, on my road trips I think about how to redesign this country to accommodate fifty million climate change refugees.
we've got Interstates going through big chunks of beautiful, thinly populated areas nominally in the *Rust Belt*.
@TheLincoln
she has a degree in English... and has never studied the process of composition of a novel?
writers document this stuff! sometimes exhaustingly! people used to get PhDs about it!
@BeijingPalmer
if we split up the sexual orientation spectrum just a little further, there's a huge tranche of men who are sexually attracted to the distinctive parts of women's anatomy, but who don't actually like women.
no they don't find relationships fulfilling.
as the word "copaganda" establishes itself, I'm going to put my marker down that "docaganda" will become widely used by the anti-medical right.
and then both will disappear as brief generational markers? one can hope.