I want to hire a nanny. Not because we have kids, or even for any prurient Tiger Woods reasons. None of that.
No, just because then I can say we have a nanny and when people ask, “Oh, how old are your kids?” I can say, “We don’t have any kids.” And then just say nothing after that.
Now that would be funny.
There’s actually no scenario under which we have a booming economy without a plan to actually address climate change.
It’s wild how folks have really made an idol of the economy while refusing to take the actions needed to prevent certain economic disaster.
— Bree Newsome Bass (@BreeNewsome) October 23, 2020
She’s right — if we actually did what was necessary to address climate change, it’d be the largest economic boom in world history, exceeding WWII and the Industrial Revolution by about double (at least).
KFC selling its fried chicken-scented firelogs at Walmart.
OMFG no. Who wants this?
The first rule of working in infrastructure and design is that no one believes the infrastructure person about the thing that you told them won’t work until you design and build all the infrastructure and show them that indeed it does not work.
So many people don’t believe that the speed of light matters. But it does. Latency == doom for performance.
Other people are thinking about the same sorts of things I’ve been noticing.
Face asks: In a world where touch and physical intimacy is considered abhorrent, is it possible for family—and by extension, society—to function, and can we ever break free of the assumptions we make about race and class, and how those tie into the way we view our own humanity?
Yes, I understand that the post is marketing, but the summary is what I care about. And I perfectly well understand that the situation in our society is not likely to get this extreme, but the liberals are certainly trending this way.
Of course, this is not new ground; in the movie Demolition Man from the 90s, people had “sex” where little touch was involved and was in fact legally prohibited. I really like that film because it understood the bankruptcy of the “liberal” woke (before “woke” was even a thing) utopia and tackled it with good humor and the proper derision.
But I definitely think we could arrive at a world where the algorithm completely dictates with whom and how we relate to one another, and where any unauthorized relationships are highly discouraged or are outright illegal.