what's your cultural background, and what is the pinnacle of comfort food for you?
— Soleil Ho (@hooleil) October 7, 2020
North Florida white trash. I am not sure exactly what is meant by “comfort food” as my brain just doesn’t operate that way, but by far my favorite food is pizza.
My favorite food from my cultural background is deep-fried fresh-caught catfish, though.
Drinking wine and talking to friends about a time on the internet before browsers had tabs – how's your evening?
— Jen Gentleman 🌺 (@JenMsft) October 3, 2020
I remember the internet before it had browsers.
Those definitely weren’t the days.
What this about the stimulus means: they’re coming for every restaurant, bar, bookstore, theater, small shop, boutique, salon, café, concert hall, art space, and neighborhood gym you have ever loved.
— Matthew Kirschenbaum (@mkirschenbaum) October 6, 2020
People are interpreting this as simple incompetence, but it’s not. Sure, it might’ve been at first. But now it’s a plan. Not in the conspiracy theory sense, but a bunch of plutocrats have aligned and decided to do what’s in their own interest. And what is in their interest is to allow the economy to melt down enough so that any organization they do not control or cannot profit from, or that might oppose them, is eradicated from the face of the country.
All to be replaced, of course, with their already-existing oligopolies or preferred vehicle of profit. That’s what you’re seeing now, and it’ll go on for a long while yet.
And like, listen the white supremacist race war cosplayers that show up in lifted trucks, that own boats, that have on 40K worth of ammo & gear? Who told you that they're poor? WHO? Do you know how much all that shit they wear and drive actually costs?
— ❄Mikki Kendall❄ (@Karnythia) October 6, 2020
I’ve noticed that too. The dudes who show up at the Proud Boys and Trump rallies and such that the press describe as “working class” aren’t really at all. No one working class drives up in a brand-new $60,000 truck, nor sports weapons that cost $2,000.
These guys all own things like construction companies, landscaping companies, do high-end contracting, are landlords, and the like. Not really working class at all. No matter what you do, if you make more than 100K a year (in some areas, 70K) you just aren’t working class anymore.
Working as a janitor because you’ve contracted with another self-interested actor to exchange some of your time for the means to survive in an indifferent world
vs
Working as a janitor because you’re part of the Grand Project of human expansion into space and it needs janitors
— scientism (@mr_scientism) October 7, 2020
This is my philosophy, if I had to encapsulate it. Even if it isn’t this (I want it to be this), we simply must move beyond making money for other already-wealthy people to some sort of societal mission. It’s probably the only way we’ll survive long-term.
As to those who say this human expansion into space is impossible: the future is very long, and nothing about that violates the laws of physics. Many things that seem impossible just take a long time; there are many plateaus and many ways to eventually build other, higher plateaus.
🚨🚨🚨Key consequence of stimulus talks falling through:
— Close to 30 million jobless ppl to permanently see an income cut of ~50%
— 40% of restaurants face closure in ~6 months, per surveys
— Tens of thousands of airline workers will be laid off
— No stimulus checks 2.0
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) October 6, 2020
Winter is going to be about what I expected it to be: terrible.
Every company seems to be in some horrible competition to make their icons and logos look like the most amorphous, shapeless blob ever created.
Design is another realm of failed “experts.”
DO. NOT. WANT.