“Please welcome the Vice President elect of the United States of America” and it’s Kamala Harris and she’s wearing a white pantsuit and I’m sobbing.
— Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) November 8, 2020
These people are pitiful. You can see why the Repubs win so often. Let’s celebrate the victory of a terrible cop who was running literal slave labor gangs in California, all because she happens to be the right color/gender.
Cool, cool.
Literally every adult spent 1970 to 2008 screaming at us to get a degree and now the exact same fucking people are like uhhhh I never said that, you should have studied HVAC if you wanted to live in a house
— arson welles (@dubsteppenwolf) November 18, 2020
That, and the Boomer “beat the street and find a job, just show up and put your resume on the desk.” They don’t seem to realize that these days that will get you arrested for trespassing and maybe even shot.
I was thinking about how modern liberals are safety obsessed. I am not, obviously, though more actually liberal than most of the “liberals” out there. However, no one would look at my life history and claim that my primary concern is safety.
Why this absurd mispricing of risk and obsession with safety over all other concerns? How did this pathology develop and why is it so prevalent now? I wish I knew the answer but I don’t have much insight.
Liberals weren’t always this way, though! As recently as the 90s, it was pretty much the opposite — conservatives were the safety-obsessed and liberals were out there pushing boundaries and expanding human experience. It’s a terrible inversion, though, and I do wish I knew what dark grotto of human frailty it crawled out from.
2000: wow i found schematics online to fix my tv. i can't wait to see how helpful the internet is in the future
2020: forced to watch 17 minute text-to-speech video to find hidden menu on tv that disables the "turn on by itself at 3am to play ads" function
— drewtoothpaste (@drewtoothpaste) November 17, 2020
We all thought the future would be cooler.
This is how/why calculus works, essentially.
Do you like having an economy? Because I like having an economy.
This is insane. The virus was always going to proliferate when fall/winter hit. Always. Lockdown might help a bit, but the economy cannot take another round of this mostly-useless (in the US) pantomime.
Resist this pod people madness.
You Probably Got This Math Question Wrong on Your SATs (Everyone Does).
I got nearly every math question wrong on my SAT. This one, I would’ve never figured out in a million years.
I wrote this a year and a half before the pandemic began:
I wonder when meeting in person and bonding over shared interests is going to become socially verboten. Probably not far away. We are already moving away from the world-that-was. These days, meeting not in an online meat market is becoming rarer, and having something “fraudulent” like a shared interest that prompts a connection and a relationship is becoming suspicious…because what if he (or she) only developed that interest to be a better person, and thus more attractive to others? Isn’t that deception? That’s deceit and dupery, right? One should only be judged on how one appears and nothing else. This is the world we are moving to, try to deny it all you want.
The incels are not completely wrong in their ideas — just that blaming and harming women won’t help in any way, and is morally corrupt.
The future really isn’t going to be cooler.
God, was I right or was I right?
The Gobbler is not only back but has stolen all my women.
The Gobbler cannot be stopped.
When I said that liberals were going to go full anti-hugging, anti-touch Demolition Man after the pandemic, I was not joking. It was inevitable.
These people will be lining up for the pods willingly.