GOOD TIME COMING, BOYS

Yes, I’m aware building robots that can do your chores is insanely hard, as compared to making a genAI tool that can make pictures of five-boobed-ladies - which is why all those techbros who constantly masturbate to their own genius should stop fucking around and do something actually impressive

I can't believe that not only did I narrowly escape Twentieth Century WASP food, I apparently also came of age exactly as my culture rediscovered the idea of a good cocktail? Hashtag grateful and frightened

This is actually why I think you should make any of the food you regularly eat at least once because you'll have a much greater appreciation for the time and skill that goes into it or you'll realize you're being scammed

Income transfers that make Scandinavian benefits look puny. Mandatory parental leave for everyone. Lower and more flexible work hours. Free or heavily subsidized group-setting care. A Manhattan Project for making pregnancy safer and easier (and maybe robo-wombs).

It has boggled my mind since I was sixteen that the moral hazard of driving does not weigh on literally everyone all the time. I hate it! I don't want to risk ruining or ending someone's life just to get to the damn grocery store, but where I live, I have to, every day.

declaring that being religious allows you to have access to your own set of facts is a poison pill for societal tolerance of religion

we as liberals don't actually need to cede the idea of military effectiveness to the right. we should point out that these meathead morons are going to lose us a fucking war.

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day, still here for some reason

So this is really it. We’re very close to a line being crossed that is going to be clarifying for a lot of people who have either not been paying attention or who have been in denial.

lol

The police are not an army and Pritzker isn’t the commander in chief of the police organizationally or structurally, and culturally/politically there’s problems with them doing what he wants anyway, and I don’t think it’s a good idea to let Trump dictate our feelings about our own politicians.

just guess

A good and useful article!

My most carceral urbanist take is that getting to drive is a privilege, not a right, and there should be a one strike policy for things like child endangerment. If you manage not to seriously hurt anyone and you want your license back, maybe you can take driver’s ed again in six months.

A mom: “I’m completely burnt out from full-time work, parenting, nightly cooking, endless laundry, supporting my family of origin, tending to my partner, and creating fun enrichment for the kids. I’m exhausted and have no time for self-care.” Everyone: “HAVE YOU TRIED QUITTING YOUR ONLY FUN HOBBY”

unironically adopting this position now

if literally any country on earth had responded to the imminent death of millions by saying "i think that shouldn't happen," then -- fine. the era of american hegemony is over. but no one did that. that's still a need unserved. and if we abdicate in 2029 (or whenever), it will continue to be.

They‘re not groypers but they’re still popping out of the same stew. The groypers are losers who, in many ways, do aim for the 20th century form of fascism but are too lame and pathetic in their own ways to ever achieve it. This is something different but just as bad.

It's definitely not generational, I definitely do think there are interesting (largely but not exclusively bad) things happening right now wrt sexuality and socializing and whatnot And also has anyone ever actually NOT felt that there were too many too blah sex scenes in (mainstream) movies/TV?

In a functioning society we would observe that women with small kids are struggling to find work that fits around childcare and is sustainable. And then we’d do something about that idk

american english effectively has a high and low dialect, in addition to its various regionalisms, and when people say "working class" they frequently mean that the person speaks Low American English in public appearances, and not anything else

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

This seems more like a problem with Ezra Klein than the Democratic Party. The actual Democratic Party is made up of Democratic primary voters, who largely do not and will not nominate anti-choice candidates.

almost the other way around really. people who fundamentally hate body autonomy and view it as a direct subversion of their divine right to power feel extremely threatened by the idea of trans people's human rights bc they more or less accurately view it as a threat to their supremacy

Another example of the same phenomenon; they are killing people so they can make videos of them killing people. There is not actually any policy that Venezuela or Colombia can enact to satisfy them, because the purpose is just content creation. Podcasters with the power of the Federal government.

I think the reason for this is pretty straightforward: the largest cohort of cross-pressured swing voters in the United States are people who are cross-pressured because they are secular but racist

The fact that “issues specific to the majority of the enfranchised population” are now taken as simply weird niche concerns, and that it’s assumed women just don’t care about misogyny, is an engineered state of affairs. It’s not how things ”naturally” are

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

A revised SFW version, which I'd really like to see on teeshirts and mugs if any bots are scraping me

They killed Google Reader.

I think, every so often, about how the student protesters in South Korea figured out there was a finite supply of tear gas, and then staged retreating marches that caused police to burn off most of it, before the big "bring your auntie and kids" marches that ultimately toppled the dictatorship.

This man is one of the campaign’s super volunteers, the nicest dude you’ll ever meet, wildly dependable, and apparently capable of taking the coolest photo of 2025.

on the bright side, maybe we can have a long overdue conversation about how tofu is Good Actually.

Trying to be more vegetarian is going to be a super power and will drive who knows how many right wingers into nihilistic terror sprees because there is no resolving these contradictions

EVEN NEW HAMPSHIRE ACTS RIGHT nobody is ever allowed to impugn we new englandish ever again, that is all and thank you.

Much like Target there are certain things that every middle class politically active liberal has enjoyed using but know they don’t actually need

my shameful confession is that google glasses were the only whizbang gizmo of that ilk I have *ever* actually wanted to possess, and I have always taken the fact that they got nixed as A Statement on such gizmos

Don't worry guys, I have a genius plan to stop political violence. Step 1: Make elite consensus be that the mild peaceful disapproval be treated as equivalent to violence. Step 2: Have the government openly violate the law in a manner which proves it nonbinding. Step 3: Crash the economy.

You've heard of trans exclusive radical feminism, now it's time for trans inclusive radical misogyny!

Okay yes this is unfairly weighted to D and then G, but I approve of this meme format and we should experiment with moving the node around too

Must we do this every effing big indivisible protest day until the heat death of the universe, do we think?

this is an object lesson in why praising Dems when they do the right thing - and not just castigating them for doing the wrong thing - is good politics for those of us who want them to fight Van Hollen raised his profile by doing the right thing and the lesson he learned was keep fighting

It is my considered moral stance that lying to get a vaccine that you should be eligible for and would be eligible for if we didn't have a bunch of vaccine denialists in major roles is always morally correct! Protect yourself and your community: get vaccinated!

We live in a strange country, where we deem the right to hold the ability to conduct tremendous violence as sacrosanct but have agreed that the effects of said violence should be shielded from the public view.

The modern Trump movement believes that a bad person—defined as someone they do not like—has no rights. For someone on the left to say, “I think Charlie Kirk should not have been shot; I also do not think he is worthy of honor,” is, to the right, a contradiction in terms.

Tyler Robinson Was Practicing Web Browsing Exactly Right, By Ezra Klein

oh wow, almost as if the whole thing was a blatant lie that was obviously cooked up from the start, and should have been reported as such by any responsible news organization.

[the shooter is unidentified] the left must be purged with the sword [the shooter is, again, a compulsive masturbator who loved Hitler] I believe it was pascal who said that the heart has reasons that reason may not know

instantly. not a breath in between. found out it was a white cis het republican man and they did the chip replacement meme.