Sounds good to me :)
Even if you believe that Bernie said a woman can't win, that's not a character flaw, it's at worst a misguided political judgment. There's a huge difference between "a woman cannot win this election" and "a woman should not be able to win this election." Do I agree that a woman can't win the election? No. Do I think it would be more difficult for a woman than for a man? Absolutely. Equivocating numerous sexual harassment allegations with a single alleged misguided political judgment is laughable. The degrees of harm really do matter.I don't take the fact that Bernie told Warren that a woman can't win the presidency to mean that he isn't a good person either. These are character flaws.
Vox: "Lucy Flores isn’t alone. Joe Biden has a long history of touching women inappropriately. "Biden
by all acounts, good people
Proud of you, buddy <3
Small Films of Quiet Beauty (collected by me) - The End of the Tour (2015) - Moonlight (2016) - Submarine (2011) - Absolute Giganten (1999) - Temporada de Caza (2017) - LuTo (2015) - Paterson (2016) - Tramps (2016)
Here's my thing about Harry Potter: It's a book series about a race (or group, or caste, or aristocracy) of privileged people (wizards) who have power (magic) over a race/group/caste/proletariat of the underprivileged (muggles). The villains want to enslave the underprivileged and prevent race-mixing, while the good guys are firmly against this--one of the protagonists is even mixed herself. So far so good. The point where you start to run into problems is when you start naturalizing this hierarchy. See Innuendo Studios on the origins of conservatism: conservatism (and eventually, fascism) is what happens when people begin to believe that some people are inherently better than others, that the natural world is full of hierarchies and so any attempt to produce a fully egalitarian society is stupid and counterproductive. We return to Harry Potter: the problem with even the good guy wizards saving muggles from Voldemort or whatever is that even in this scenario, the wizards are better than muggles. Even in this scenario, good wizards have to save the muggles from the bad wizards because obviously the poor disadvantaged muggles can't do it themselves. And why should the good wizards do this? Because racism is mean and those poor lil normies :/// It's aristocratic, colonialist, racist, Tory bullshit: a white savior complex in kid-friendly form. And these dumbasses call it punk?
(S/NF) President Zelenskyy: I would like to tell you that I also have quite a few Ukrainian friends that live in the United States. Actually last time I traveled to the United States, I stayed in New York near Central Park and I stayed at the Trump Tower. I will talk to them and I hope to see them again in the future.
I just don't know where to go for US news these days, tbh. CNN has never not been shit, NYT is pulling some grade A skullfuckery, WaPo is Jeff Bezos' clickbait baby (no offense to your friend). Where do I turn, Al Jazeera English?
Where are y'all on the NYT publishing this? Their comments section is chock full of people criticizing the decision, and I'm inclined to agree. Seems just to endanger the whistleblower without revealing too much important info--it's not like those who've been chanting "POLITICAL HACK" will be convinced of the complaint's legitimacy just because the whistleblower works for the deep state or whatever.
Dude, same. I'm trying my best.
But the headline, kb
Heart, oh heart, hold me down; when this cold hard life throws me round— It's so hard, so hard to hold on now. So heart, old heart, hold me down. --- Adapted from some lyrics I wrote in the back of my copy of Desert Solitaire. I have a chorus and a bridge but I need verses; we'll see if that goes anywhere.
And one I wrote last time I was here hills (10:32pm) so intensely— I cannot help but write. And yet I feel with an intensity that cannot be written. This hill country is my home. This is home. I am feeling
After reading this, I spent the morning avoiding work and playing Pro Skater on a PlayStation emulator. Highly recommend you do exactly the same.
Currently in progress: Moby Dick - yeah, idk man, it's fine. Not that far in yet. I have a poster of "The Lee Shore" in my room so I figured I should finally actually read the book. The Art of Fielding, for roughly the 6th time. Wonderful book. Kind of a silly story, but Harbach just gets baseball. Also another reason for reading Moby Dick (plays a relatively significant role in TAoF). Exhalation: Stories: thanks to mk for posting an excerpt. Chiang is amazingly deft at constructing sci-fi scenarios that are simultaneously fascinating in their mechanics and revealing in their philosophy. Reminds me of Clarke or Asimov at his best. Recently finished: Impossible Owls: Essays: an odd collection of travel writing that somehow manages to reveal important truths about the world, like the fact that tigers are real freakin animals that exist in the world holy shit guys how cool is that
Yeah, I read it. It's unnecessarily pesssimistic but also pretty damn funny. Ignore the Donald Trump essay and possibly the TERF one; I think the rest would be right up your alley. There's a little bit of genuine analysis of the alt-right, but mostly it's just pointing out how fucking stupid and inane most of these guys are, and how impossible it is to defeat an ideology that's so fucking stupid. What are you gonna do, argue with them?If one wanted to be snarkily uncharitable--and if it's not clear, this is very much the sort of book that does...
To be fair, I do love both of those things!
Don't worry, that's how native speakers do it too! We've just had more practice :D my own use of English articles is mostly an exercise in applying half-remembered rules and guesswork.
I'm gonna miss Inbox :(
She sounds like an incredible lady. So sorry for your loss; we'll all keep you in our thoughts. Sending love <3
i assume that someone with real knowledge will come explain this in a minute, but my understanding for now is that there are now 4 possibilities: - they keep negotiating and find a new brexit deal before the deadline and pass it in parliament (lol good luck) - they convince the eu to give them an extension on leaving (maybe) - they just up and leave the eu without any kind of deal, which fucks over british trade and immigration for, like, a while (nobody seems to rly want this, but it's what happens if nothing else changes, so it's a real possibility) - new referendum and hopefully a remain vote this time (seems unlikely? but maybe)
I can't decide if the strong lines of separation on the ground are oddly satisfying or deeply unsettling.
Couldn't find a turkey so I improvised. I like American breakfast better anyway. - Fried eggs - Good bacon - Shitty hash browns - Overbuttered toast - Glass of milk - Football. Happy Thanksgiving, y'all.
Love this: Be back later with a critique of the project as a whole though. Don't have time to type it out rn“It says in our Old Testament texts to treat refugees like your blood, and so I am not interested in politics,” Rogers says. “I’m interested that we as people can learn to embrace the immigrant.”
OH SHIT
I have a few thoughts! First and foremost: he's pinin for the fjords Ok, now that that's out of the way, I was absolutely fascinated by Bergen? so I did some googling and found this: http://www.mynewsdesk.com/no/news/ragnar-kjartansson-is-the-winner-of-the-art-competition-at-bergen-airport-188599 Which two Texas cities were you going between? Oh my God I love the Congress bats. Did you buy a bag button from the blind guy that sells on the bridge? He makes them himself! This is bringing back fond memories from my Europe trip at the beginning of last semester. Maybe I should finally put together that trip report…
Caught this one biking home Something about a train selfie seems far more interesting than a normal selfie Bonus: dog on a bicycle! Spotted last summer :)
Six years since release Haiku is still not quite dead New beta again
This is the one salient point I got from the documentary Minimalism before dismissing it as a long and very pretentious ad for a book tour: minimalism means being able to justify everything that you own, to you. Not to anyone else. If it makes sense, for you, to have something as part of your life, more power to you.