Dang who thought the libs would be the ones that became the anti-joy and the anti-fun contingent? Did NOT see that coming.

I wish everyone who is fat and weak could get a chance to have the experience of what it feels like to be fucking ripped. Feels pretty great in a way that’s impossible to explain to the fat and weak.

Kids get boosters, DOGS GET BOOSTERS, boosters do not mean the immunization is ineffective, truly how has this understanding slipped away https://t.co/ZizgiZoRCz

— Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) January 28, 2022

Here’s the problem: most people are very, very dumb and cannot think at all.

The movie The Shallows itself is not that good, but the cinematography of the surfing scenes is really lovely.

Even the scene where Nancy gets knocked off her board and attacked by the shark is beautiful in its own grim way.

I do recommend the movie because the photography is great and Blake Lively gives a very good performance.

Was just talking about this yesterday. Nowadays it's so easy to locate people online that dropping by their house with no warning feels unnecessary and creepy. But back when you didn't know where anyone was, it often felt friendly and spontaneous! https://t.co/oBKQbhiaub

— Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇 (@Noahpinion) January 27, 2022

Yep. It was totally not unusual for friends to drop by unannounced and spontaneously in the 1980s and even into the 1990s. Happened all the time and was very welcomed by most. And it wasn’t just young people — everyone did this and it was nearly ubiquitous. “Hey, let’s go see what [insert name here] is up to” was a very common phrase and occurrence back then.

It only started becoming considered creepy in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Much was worse then, but much was also better. It’s a world that most people — even many who lived through it — cannot imagine now. And it wasn’t even that long ago.

Why do dating apps bring out the worst in men?

The worst in men? LOL. Like women are any better. Often worse, but in (sometimes) different ways. Nancy is just pissed that some of the vast power imbalance in dating where women hold the high ground got leveled out a little, at least for the top 10-20% of men.

Of course she has a book to sell, so she must exaggerate and distort as much as possible too. Anyone writing a book must make the problem sound 100x worse than it is. And I do think a lot of women like Nancy would love to go back to patriarchy. “Unfettered access to women?” What the fuck does that mean? Maybe these women should be escorted by a male relative everywhere?

This is a real good example that when a power imbalance is equalized, the group that no longer has nearly all the power (in the case of dating, women) feels like they are being oppressed. It’s funny if you aren’t in the dating world because she’s so put upon yet so, so wrong.

She’s amazing on banjo. So fluid.