The Democrats are always a minority party in Congress even when they have the majority.

I don’t think they actually had any interest in winning the Senate, and that they accidentally did because of Stacey Abrams in Georgia was very disappointing to them. Totally useless party and only exist to be the pleasant face of global predatory hyper-capitalism.

U.K. records over 10,000 Covid cases for first time since February.

Delta variant is genuinely pretty bad, but you better believe this is going to be used as the excuse to keep prison countries going.

The answer is vaccination, not lockdown life and prison countries. If we didn’t have vaccines I’d say something else. We’ve been hiding inside for more than a year. Time to end that and let the people who wish to cower inside wailing do that bullshit.

Most people seem to be concerned with being legitimate or being respected.

Mostly, I am concerned with being right. Trader instincts.

I don’t think I will ever understand or be on board with the modern insistence that an artist must be some exemplar of au courant morality and ethics.

I just could not care less what an artist gets up to outside of their work, as it actually relates to the work itself. I expect artists to be boundary-pushing louche louts, anyway. Tends to make them better. I guess this misplaced desire for artists to be saints partially explains why there is so much boring soporific art around lately. Compulsive moralizing never produces anything worth a damn.

E.U. Recommends Opening to Americans to Rescue the Summer.

Open up all prison countries. That’s no way to live.

The Great Unmasking. Most Americans want to go back to normal, but some wish to make permanent the ‘temporary’ COVID controls.

When can we send them away, and how far away can we send them? Elon, you got any rockets ready?

I think one of the reasons the Fat Acceptance movement is pushed so hard is that if food corporations can convince you that having no self-respect is its opposite, that makes it all the easier to shill terrible food that compensates for this lack. This becomes a self-sustained cyclical frenzy of self-hatred where you attempt to salve this revulsion and alienation from self with more poisonous pabulum intended to addict you. And it never ends. Thus, the food conglomerates have to spend comparatively little on propaganda as the cycle creates its own catalyst.

And that so many attractive women who would never let themselves get fat promote FA nonsense…well, another example of eliminating dating market competition. You telling your sisters, “It’s ok to be a land barge” is a sure way they are never, ever going to be competing with you for any men, or women, that you yourself desire. So it’s a smart strategy in that respect. Clever, even, because I think it does work in microcosm and macrocosm.

There is a common belief, even pushed by scientists, that you cannot read in your dreams.

Well, I just woke up from a dream where I was reading in French, which is not even my first language. And bizarrely, not only was I reading, I was translating French text for Tom Hanks.

Yeah, don’t ask me. That is no fantasy nor ambition of mine.

What Apple’s new iMac lost by getting so thin.

And it can only have 8GB of memory, which is just absurd. I can barely function with 16GB, 32 or 64 preferred. Complete piece of shit that can not be used by anyone who needs a real computer.

The last machine I had with only 8GB of memory was in 2006 I think, so for me that machine would be a regression of 15 years.

forever indebted to whichever one of you tweeted

i.e. = in essence
e.g. = for egzample

— anxiety at bar prep (@ANXIETYATLAW) June 15, 2021

Why not just learn the Latin?

(Ok, Ok, I am a huge snob.)