I wish gender weren’t so emphasized in society, but at the same time fighting against gender is like fighting the ocean. It’s mostly a waste of time and won’t change much. Most people believe in gender, a lot of it is fun, and it’s probably ineradicable. Most likely small changes can be made on the margins, but gender will rotate around an axis (or several) and not change much over time, just vary a bit in a cycle.
Day: November 2, 2019, 10:02 PM
Failed State
It’s not so odd when somewhere already very poor — like Somalia — becomes a failed state. But it is strange when it’s somewhere extremely rich, like California. Then there is no question that it was a choice, that it didn’t have to happen but enough people wanted it to occur, so it did.
Sent
Presentation Matters: The Effect of Wrapping Neatness on Gift Attitudes.
Better headline: “Representing Sentiment Present in Presenting the Present Presentably.”
Histayours
All history is false, but some of it is useful.
Aurora A
Aurora, you might well be an alien, but that only makes you better.
Streamed
Music writers are always like, “Streaming services have every song EVER RECORDED so there’s no reason for MP3s EVER AGAIN!”
And then I look on there, and half the songs I want to listen to aren’t there. Why would I use those services?
Maggie
That first note and phrase she sings. What an open.
SNL has lovely mics, great sound design, excellent sound techs. Makes great talents like her sound just that much better.
No Ween
It’s telling that a lot of progressives want to ban Halloween because (they say) it’s all about people trying on identities that are not “authentic,” as if anyone knows what an authentic identity is. As if any of those mooks have a clue about anything.
What they really want is to arrogate power to themselves, to control how people live and what they think, who they can strive to be.
In their view, which is very Zuckerbergian, we are always supposed to present some ever-present authentic identity. Just as we should only write about people exactly like us in every way, we should only showing our real face, our real self, to the world at all times. This, to them, is the only way to avoid being offensive. Personality and selfhood, however, doesn’t and never has worked that way — but let’s ignore all that for a moment as it’s too deep to explore in a blog post tossed off in three minutes.
Really, the progressives want to take away Halloween because it’s fun, and most of them are not just sexual prudes, but are in fact all-encompassing prudes who deeply desire to be dull bores. Identity bullshit is their excuse, their entrepôt into making us all as dirt-boring as them by using contemporary stylistics to force a bit more prudishness into our lives.
OKB
‘Being Careful’ Won’t Prevent Revenge Porn.
Good story, though I 100% disagree that Hill should have resigned.
And to Nancy Pelosi: OK Boomer.
Decline and Fall of the Moron Empire
Firefox to Discontinue Sideloaded Extensions.
Ahahahaha. What a piece of shit garbage can browser. What a useless turdsicle. Could these clowns be any bigger fucking bozos?
Joy
I’m overjoyed that there has been more of a backlash than I thought there would be to the liberal utopia of living in pods, packed in like sardines, eating bugs and slurping algae out of bottles.
Soon enough, the comms channels that allowed that will be shut down, I guess, and all the objectors banned. But it has been nice to see while it lasted.