Car culture is freely chosen by people all over the world the second they are able, and isn’t a nefarious trick played on us by Exxon. It satisfies deep human psychological needs for agency and self-determination.
This is the big divide between reactions to Smith's actions. I have no problem saying that cultures that police honor with violence are worse than ones that don't. And the degree to which young Americans live in an honor culture is extremely upsetting.
@mattyglesias
This "I didn't actually say that!" shit is so tired, both Pareene and Scocca gave perfectly accurate summations of your position. You coat yourself in a thin layer of protective smarm and expect to wriggle free.
Because he's a hidebound right-wing ideologue with a bone-deep commitment to maintaining the pillaging of the UK's social wealth by the financiers who rule the country
@bananafitz
"I will begin with the basics. You are hiking in the Japanese highlands. A pair of snow leopards is stalking you, and the blade of your katana is frosted into its scabbard,"
Wes Anderson can only make stop-motion films now because his whimsy levels are proving fatal to human actors. He's killed dozens and Hollywood is covering it up.
I had never even heard of this dogshit until like 2012, I don't believe anyone who says they grew up watching it. Fake classic, illegitimate place in the canon.
"There is no point being privately wealthy but publicly impoverished" is the message people have been screaming at Tories and Republicans for FIFTY YEARS to zero fucking avail
We're never going to have mass adoption of BEVs in their current state (limited range, long charging times). We'll make energy production more green and more cars will be hybridized, but all the "no new ICEs after 2035" stuff will be walked back
Twitter 2013: All your smartest and coolest friends are cracking wise about the day’s events
Twitter 2023: All your most grimly-determined friends are undergoing a grueling test of moral endurance
This country is chock full of violently deluded freaks, scared to death every moment of their shitty lives, desperate to shoot someone, anyone, for any reason. The worst people in human history.
Payton Washington is in the ICU after she was shot for getting in the wrong car in Texas
Kaylin Gillis was shot to death for driving into the wrong driveway in New York
Ralph Yarl was shot in the head for ringing the doorbell at the wrong house in Missouri
It’s the guns
Loneliness isn't a character flaw it's the predictable, engineered outcome of our tortuously atomized lives. I believe most pathologies follow from it or are exacerbated by it, so learning to identify this perpetually stalking beast was a good trick
This pointless exercise is just liberals seeking absolution for reveling in the demagoguery. Fact check: if you watched that shit for any reason, you're a mark.
These people are describing prisons, which is what they want schools to be, and work to be, and everywhere to be. It's what they want to live in, and do.
Texas Lt Gov Dan Patrick on "hardening" schools: "There should be one entrance in and one entrance out in all of our elementary and all of our middle schools. They're small enough to do that. There should be only one way in, and that should be a well protected entrance."
@TheSmokingTire
TST stands out from other male lifestyle kinda stuff because it doesn't traffic in misogyny or racism, not even the bro-y ironic type. The Canadian crybaby and his fans are precisely who we don't want around
This is how I feel about California and the more cosmopolitan places in America. I feel insane for having to make a statement in support of the multiculturalism that constitutes the very fabric of where I grew up and live. I'm so sick of hearing from fucking segregationists.
I'm something of a NYC nationalist—I really think it's a miracle that all the peoples of the world can live together in one city basically in peace and harmony—and this UES halal cart vendor story is only reinforcing that.
38 today, never been happier or healthier. Thanks to everyone who’s helped me get to this point, I love you all. Here’s me and Nicola at dinner last night.
Banning the jet account is funny cause of how it suggests cracked-out paranoia and fearing for his life. Never forget that Musk is exquisitely miserable, in an idiot Hell of his own making, and his continued suffering our barest consolation for the horror of his existence.
In the U.S., Sam Bankman-Fried is persona non grata. But in interviews across the Bahamas, residents say that his crimes were hardly comparable to the gang violence of the island, and expressed fears of economic fallout if crypto investors don't return.
This number (60 applicants/day) is basically an index of tenant power. The lower it is, the more leverage the tenant has, the less the landlord has.
There is only one way to make this number fall, and it is by building more housing.
Girls should bring up astrology on a first date.
Not because it’s an accurate measure of compatibility, but because it self-identifies men who are arrogant, condescending, and incapable of entertaining opinions they disagree with.
Too much demand and too little supply are basically the causes of inflation. It's unquestionably better to solve it with more supply. That's less pain on people and businesses. We're paying the price of underinvestment from shareholder short-termism and government dysfunction.
A truck carrying 40,000 pounds of toxic soil from the East Palestine train derailment site was involved in a crash and overturned in Ohio's Columbiana County
This band is why I met Nicola, and last night was the first time we’d seen them together. It was so special for us (even if the guys were a little low energy for the last show of their European leg.)
It appears our beloved brother & comrade Refaat
@itranslate123
has been murdered and has ascended to heaven.
What an absolute tragedy.
We will honour your memory.
Your name will be etched into the annals of history for future generations to admire.
One time I was heckled out of a Libertarian Party presidential campaign event at a Denny's in Fresno when I challenged the candidate on how he'd pay for roads and all the ponytail-and-pager sysadmin guys started booing me. 2004, baby's first election
Life in America in 2018 is having the distinct sense of being ripped off constantly, in virtually every sphere of life, and this goes a long way toward explaining why:
@revhowardarson
I had really bad warts all over my left fingers/cuticles for yeeears, one day over about 48 hours they just all disappeared. Body finally cracked the code, I guess.
The truth of this isn't about training or nutrition or whatever, but about the right tail of the talent distribution being so much larger today, with more players closer to the limits of human performance than ever.