People are getting impatient with the old school "one side thinks this, the other side thinks that, and we'll give equal weight to both" idea of journalistic objectivity, because the right takes advantage to make ideas that should obviously be unacceptable look acceptable. The NYT isn't becoming more insufferable because it changed, it's becoming more insufferable because it needs to and hasn't.
"Don't worry America, some of us are lawful evil!"
I've been trying to figure out who the user-inactivated I've been seeing all over is for days. Pour one out for cgod, pubski.
Dude, could you quit it with the passive-aggressive community tags? All it does is force the rest of us to come up with a second tag so you don't put words in our mouths.
And nobody wants to break capitalism.
"Why does everyone run adblockers?" asks no one outside the advertising industry.
Waves of reddit refugees are an annual thing. A lot (most?) of us came on them. Hubski gets hectic for a while, we have a few giant threads sobbing about the injustice of muting, and then things go back to normal with the addition of a handful of new active users who fit.
I took 4 semesters of creative writing in highschool, because they fulfilled humanities elective requirements with minimal effort, and one of the assignments in all of them was letters to yourself 0... 5... five years intervals in the future. The teacher of those classes has consistently figured out my address where whoever the fuck plans class reunions and alumni associations fail, so I'm still getting regular letters from myself in the past. Contra all the essays you read from people who did something similar say, I've been more or less who teenage-me wanted me to be every letter I've gotten. This year, when I got sucked into the corporate world against my will, has been the only year I've been in a position me-of-the-past would disapprove of, but after a year of fighting the suits at every opportunity I've returned to where I started the year, hacking on what I think I can do the most good on with negligible input from parties not primarily interested in success and well-being my users. Whether that counts as success, teenage-me being unambitious or grownup me having stopped evolving at 16 I decline to think about.
Seize the means of discussion!
He's like the GOP Captain Planet. "Ignorance! Avarice! Xenophobia! Sadism! Misogyny! By your powers combined, I am Cheeto Benito!"
2016 has been a terrible year for music.
I live in NC, and Thom Tillis's and Richard Burr's offices both recognize me by caller ID and can tell me what I was planning to say before I say it at this point. Thus I called, again, knowing perfectly well it will do no good. It's worth calling your Republican senator, but only because it's not much effort and you get to annoy the kind of subhuman that's willing to be a staffer for a Republican senator. If they don't know you, you might even manage to ruin their day. It's the little things.
This has got to be Hubski's favorite essay ever. I approve.
"here are the facts, your interpretation is invalid because you're privileged."
It's more a combination of design by committee, "there are no stupid ideas", and business school fuckwits who feel compelled to prove their leadership by making their mark, so what you get is the centroid of "actual improvements" and "proof that not only are there stupid ideas, most ideas are stupid." The only solution I've ever come up with involved blunt instruments, and it has some obvious drawbacks.
-all western art before about 1400 kinda sucked, then we learned how to draw people
-all western art after about 1915 absolutely sucks, since we forgot how to draw people (and everything else)
-everything in between those years is so impressive it's almost baffling
