it is very sad to think there is a guy out there who is a big enough thomas sowell fan to create such a project
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, 5 May 2022 13:23 (two years ago) link
men will literally set up a thomas sowell quotes account instead of going to therapy amirite
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, 5 May 2022 13:24 (two years ago) link
yes and lol
― rob, Thursday, 5 May 2022 13:26 (two years ago) link
oh, I'm sure the effects of any of these things being overturned will never filter up to these columnists. Remember Welfare Reform? They said it would be a catastrophe, and then we did it and never heard a peep about it from any of our friends.
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Thursday, 5 May 2022 14:16 (two years ago) link
Finding out King Buzzo is a Sowellhead was a tough one. Next up, Keith Morris singing the praises of Ben Shapiro.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 5 May 2022 16:19 (two years ago) link
she will not stop
Yes, I think there's a lot to work out, but in practice, I'm skeptical that a lot of prosecutors are going to want to probe into a grieving woman's miscarriage; the optics are horrific.— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) May 5, 2022
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, 5 May 2022 22:20 (two years ago) link
ma'am do you know what prosecutors are
Oh, Ms McCurdle, are you familiar with the concept of selective law enforcement, especially used as a tool for intimidating poor people and people of color? If not, let me suggest you start living in the country where you currently reside, instead of the fairyland inside your head.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 6 May 2022 01:23 (two years ago) link
overzealous prosecutors? in MY uterus?!?
― mh, Friday, 6 May 2022 03:09 (two years ago) link
He’s so good at this, the perfect post to drive engagement by people explaining how you’re wrong.
I know you go more viral with indignant takes accusing Dems of being top to bottom political failures, but in the real world what’s so striking about losing Roe is that in almost ever other policy area the status quo has either moved left or stayed steady over the last 25 years.— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 5, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 6 May 2022 18:30 (two years ago) link
I know the Right really thinks we live in communist Russia now bc they have to see a biracial family on car insurance commercials now, but I’m starting to think a lot of commentariat libs believe these things are a practical stand-in for actual leftward movement. I literally can’t think of one thing outside of Oberfell where the broadly defined “Left” can point to a single noteworthy victory in my lifetime.
― OG Bob Sacamano (will), Friday, 6 May 2022 18:34 (two years ago) link
lol xpost
Reminds me of the twitter conservative who had to point to the show "Dear White People" when asked about what radical legislation the Congressional Dems are pushing
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Friday, 6 May 2022 18:49 (two years ago) link
"almost ever(y) other policy area"
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Friday, 6 May 2022 18:51 (two years ago) link
welfare? public ownership of utilities? antitrust law? labor organizing? show me the fucking money matt
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 6 May 2022 20:22 (two years ago) link
Matty's on a roll these days
ugh, missing out on so much trash spyware, heartbreaking
You know GDPR for creating those annoying cookie warning pop-overs but it seems to have also genuinely knee-capped European app development.https://t.co/79GUy5mvot pic.twitter.com/wcp2aPQNUo— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 9, 2022
lol retweet edition:
Jesus pic.twitter.com/3tomCtgL6H— ℮oin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) May 9, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 9 May 2022 22:25 (two years ago) link
wont someone think of the apps
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 May 2022 22:31 (two years ago) link
For all its very real problems, one shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that the contemporary United States of America is one of the best places to live in all of human history and there’s a reason tons of people of all kinds from all around the world clamor to move here.— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 24, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 23:21 (one year ago) link
the clamor is a rifle report
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 May 2022 23:26 (one year ago) link
Those people just want to come here to get away from the poverty, war, and corruption imposed on them by colonialism and capitalist exploitation and to get some small crumbs of benefit from the wealth that was stolen from them.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 00:30 (one year ago) link
that tweet = whatever the opposite of evergreen is. always timely to those who offer it, always eyeroll and rage inducing to the rest of us
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 15:15 (one year ago) link
I’m always reminded of a review Max Read wrote about Richard Seymour’s _The Twittering Machine_, about how social media creates these omnipresent idiots who just exist to spout off idiotic takes and can never be corrected, because being accurate isn’t their job:
On Twitter, the usual pundits and pedants sprang up demanding explanations for every slogan and justifications for every action. In these concern trolls and reply guys, Seymour’s chronophage was literalized. The social industry doesn’t just eat our time with endless stimulus and algorithmic scrolling; it eats our time by creating and promoting people who exist only to be explained to, people to whom the world has been created anew every morning, people for whom every settled sociological, scientific, and political argument of modernity must be rehashed, rewritten, and re-accounted, this time with their participation.These people, with their just-asking questions and vapid open letters, are dullards and bores, pettifoggers and casuists, cowards and dissemblers, time-wasters of the worst sort. But Seymour’s book suggests something worse about us, their Twitter and Facebook interlocutors: That we want to waste our time. That, however much we might complain, we find satisfaction in endless, circular argument. That we get some kind of fulfillment from tedious debates about “free speech” and “cancel culture.” That we seek oblivion in discourse. In the machine-flow atemporality of social media, this seems like no great crime. If time is an infinite resource, why not spend a few decades of it with a couple New York Times op-ed columnists, rebuilding all of Western thought from first principles?
These people, with their just-asking questions and vapid open letters, are dullards and bores, pettifoggers and casuists, cowards and dissemblers, time-wasters of the worst sort. But Seymour’s book suggests something worse about us, their Twitter and Facebook interlocutors: That we want to waste our time. That, however much we might complain, we find satisfaction in endless, circular argument. That we get some kind of fulfillment from tedious debates about “free speech” and “cancel culture.” That we seek oblivion in discourse. In the machine-flow atemporality of social media, this seems like no great crime. If time is an infinite resource, why not spend a few decades of it with a couple New York Times op-ed columnists, rebuilding all of Western thought from first principles?
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
Review is here https://www.bookforum.com/print/2703/a-psychoanalytic-reading-of-social-media-and-the-death-drive-24171
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 16:02 (one year ago) link
“A chronophage” seems a handy descriptor for some many people and platforms.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
like the langoliers
― adam, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 17:14 (one year ago) link
Spent most of the day finally getting the garage organized. Growing up in Manhattan, I never dreamed I’d be able to achieve this level of dad. pic.twitter.com/YWmIM4ew0c— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) July 31, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 1 August 2022 21:22 (one year ago) link
That is the saddest pegboard I've ever seen.
― DJI, Monday, 1 August 2022 21:28 (one year ago) link
https://queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-22-at-9.12.36-AM-670x438.png
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 1 August 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link
I never thought I'd feel sympathy for either of these fuckers, but this Atlantic piece by Klein's wife is fucking harrowing.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 1 August 2022 21:52 (one year ago) link
haha when we prevent this thing weve done absolutely nothing to prevent the haters are gonna be so mad
I guess some people are going to be disappointed when it turns out the world adopts enough policy to keep climate change to survivable levels without radically overthrowing capitalism or abandoning economic growth, but personally I think it's good.— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 8, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 8 August 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
Wouldn't it be even cooler if we did even less and it turned out to be almost survivable?
― F'kin Magnetometers, how do they work? (President Keyes), Monday, 8 August 2022 17:44 (one year ago) link
Matt just figures the democrats will be able to squeak just enough climate change policy and budget past the Republican death cult and their own clowns in the Senate that the US middle class won't die in great numbers, because, hey, how hard can it be? All it took this time was throwing some red meat to the hedge funds and billionaires and a 50-50 tie-breaking vote from the Vice President. No sweat. And maybe in another dozen years there'll be another bill to move the needle a bit. What more does anyone need?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 8 August 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link
From unperson's linked Atlantic article:
(My doctor) had a feeling about some pregnancies, she told me. Mine was one of them. Then she told me about two patients who had had severe pruritus (itching) during pregnancy. The first gave herself frostbite during a blizzard, ripping her clothes off and letting the snow numb her. The second threw herself out a window.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 8 August 2022 18:16 (one year ago) link
ok thanks
― lag∞n, Monday, 8 August 2022 18:23 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/QTuFPUYeW7— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) August 21, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 21 August 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
meanwhile, in real life, every university in the entire fucking universe keeps raising tuition constantly, every single year, far outpacing inflation, and they will keep doing it, and no one has any plan
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 21 August 2022 21:50 (one year ago) link
Heh. In Florida we're forbidden to raise tuition!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 21 August 2022 21:56 (one year ago) link
Thanks, Rick 'n' Ron!
Well, as I understand it you're also forbidden to teach anything but The Passing of the Great Race and The Art of the Deal, so raising prices would be unjustifiable.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 21 August 2022 22:05 (one year ago) link
that seems like a difficult law to repeal, politically, and something tells me it will be a Democrat who does it
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 21 August 2022 22:10 (one year ago) link
Now that Biden has delivered for his base on climate and student loans, I unironically think it would be smart to pivot to some bipartisan commissions.— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 26, 2022
Hell yeah Marty that would really seize upon the moment.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 27 August 2022 16:05 (one year ago) link
it's too late, it's already happening
NEW— Biden is taping with Jay Leno this afternoon. Pool is waiting for his arrival via Marine One at the James Rowley Training Center in Maryland, which is operated by the US Secret Service.— AlexGangitano (@AlexGangitano) August 26, 2022
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 27 August 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
it's about cars
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 27 August 2022 16:11 (one year ago) link
Leno finally gets to hang with someone who remembers Stanley Steamers.
― Mar - a - Lago, or 120 Days of Sodom (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 27 August 2022 17:59 (one year ago) link
Is that where a guy from Pittsburgh shits on your chest?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 27 August 2022 18:01 (one year ago) link
Joe and Jay have a history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP-hyDSlmUs
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Saturday, 27 August 2022 18:11 (one year ago) link
lol milo
― flopson, Sunday, 28 August 2022 00:56 (one year ago) link
this guy has come out of nowhere to be one of the worst guys
Worth remembering the vicious abuse that @ProfEmilyOster & others who made this argument were subjected to.Then think about other debates like that.You're not hearing from a lot of people on some topics because they don't want to deal with it.The result is worse outcomes. https://t.co/YLEok7ZyJW— Jason Furman (@jasonfurman) September 1, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 1 September 2022 14:34 (one year ago) link
lol remember when Emily Oster was platformed everywhere and continued to be so despite some people online being rude
― You can't spell Fearless without Earle (President Keyes), Thursday, 1 September 2022 14:37 (one year ago) link
they were vicious to her simply because she was writing dishonest sociopathic articles about a major public health crisis
― lag∞n, Thursday, 1 September 2022 14:44 (one year ago) link