This reminds me of when we were reading Brothers K at school and people were saying Al-ee-oh-sha instead of Alyosha, and then they couldn't hear the difference
I love it when the internet starts to litigate which options you're allowed to use. "You shouldn't have responded to the nonsense 20k 30-follower accounts send you every day, now they're going to have 20k people talking at them." Gee that sounds tough, thoughts and prayers I guess.
I can't tell from here in a non-swing-state whether they're doing it but I have to believe, based on past performance, that they're not for some reason.
What is required? Is it possible to be chatting up an attorney and trick them into establishing such a relationship, and then confess to some crime and run? Like dine and dash?
Wouldn't Bouie leaving the NYT make it strictly worse? Are we worried that Bouie gives the Times credibility it does not deserve? Why wouldn't one want him working there? I want him to have the biggest platform available.
But also we've been hyping ourselves up for 25 years as super smart innovaters, here to disrupt everything and make it better, but most of the time we just make normal things shitty, shitty things necessary, and somehow command huge salaries for it.
There's an account around here who gets reposted into my timeline on occasion and all I know about them is that that pfp once posted a like 80 tweet thread about why neighbor chili was bad.
What is it about Extremely Democratic Posting that does me especial psychic damage? Why does Ruthkanda Forever hurt more than most republicans being genuinely awful?
It's like those Super Power Sour candies where people clearly _buy_ them but it's not clear that people _enjoy_ them.
I absolutely love Bojack but every establishing shot of S3 has that boat in it and it makes me jump every time.
I am reading a bad military space sci Fi right now where the author decided to throw in "and also there are horny elves everywhere" because, honestly, it's what the people want.
One of my favorite things about the internet is how it eggs people on to be just a little bit more every day, just a little bit edgier, a little bit weirder, until someone crosses an invisible line and everyone recoils in horror. No. That's too weird.
