I honestly think The Daily Show with Jon Stewart did more than the West Wing to break liberal brains with the notion that you can win in politics by being self-righteous and correct but doesn’t get nearly as much flack.
I appreciate about how BlueSky carves up replies to a single threads to make it look like someone is just ranting across your feed. Makes me feel like the gods are laughing at us
I feel like everybody listens to middle school music permanently now. I dunno how else to describe it. Disney Channel music became the main type of music
This “debates don’t matter”/“Trump was talking nonsense” cope is exactly that. Biden walks away from that debate looking unfit to govern; Trump does, too, but not any more than he already did and, frankly, due to temperament not cognitive acuity. This is bad.
For anyone looking to come up to Canada after whatever debate debacle just happened, you should know that we also have a liberal leader who has lost everyone's trust and a right-wing dipshit who throws out dog whistles, just to set your expectations a bit lower 😅
Suburban kids are wild. My 7yo had basketball camp thru the parks department and these young guys got all pissy about wanting to use the hoop. One guy addressed his friend as “L’il Murder.” When I told my wife she said, “Shut up. I grew up in East Chicago and never met anyone named ‘L’il Murder’.”
the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on corruption is basically at a point where the only thing that counts as a bribe is someone handing a public official a giant bag of money with a dollar sign on it while saying “this is a bribe” out loud
there’s something deeply funny about the fact that a platform led by cutting edge technologists, that exists due to their innovation and effort, managed to gather a huge cohort of people who use the decentralized protocol to argue that innovation and technology is bad
Sometimes I think about how in The Last Samurai Edward Zwick copied his own “soldiers emerging through the mist” shot from Glory and I get mad all over again
You say "must be created by a human artist", but a human most definitely did "create" this art in a sense; computers don't just decide to create art by themselves. These humans "cheated", but the distinction between what is considered cheating and what is considered original art is getting blurry.
i think it's cool and not weird at all that for all of its communitarian messaging every star trek character's ultimate dream is seemingly to live in a beautiful and enormous cottage on an otherwise abandoned planet
