I remember when electric cars becoming common was “impossible.” That was being claimed regularly as recently as five years ago.
It’s interesting how often the “impossible” becomes quotidian in a very short span of time. Something to remember when you see confident pronouncements about the future.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
To be clear about something, I’m not looking forward to Civil War 2.0.
However, I absolutely am looking forward to a wing of A-10s absolutely blasting the fuck out of a column of MAGA dipshits in F-250s. I’ll be hooting and hollering just like I somehow got the chance to travel back in time to see Big Mama Thornton perform “Hound Dog” live in 1952. No, I do not give a fuck about them, their deaths or its effects on their (mostly) wives or their kids. I hope they all die embarrassingly if they do something like begin another civil war and that there are no body parts left to recover after they are all blasted apart by 30mm depleted uranium rounds fired from the A-10’s GAU-8 Avenger gun.
As the saying goes, play stupid games, win stupid prizes. And they’re gonna win a helluva lot of those.
The one downside of spending a lifetime reading crazy fast in English is that I have developed zero patience when it comes to reading *slow*
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) March 18, 2023
God me too. I can read French, German, Spanish and now Italian to an increasing extent — but I am slow! Well, slow by my standards. I read English absurdly quickly. I can only read French half as fast as that, Spanish and German even slower, etc. It’s quite annoying and it’s difficult to feel like I’m crawling through something that I could go warp speed through in English.
But hey, I’m having fun (usually).
oh you know I agree with this take https://t.co/LW32KKcW7T
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) March 18, 2023
I don’t give a shit about guns, but you can have my AC when you take it from my cold, dead hands.
One of the most common questions I get from trans people and families is, “Where can I go to be safe?”
I made this risk map to help people make these decisions.
It shows the 2-year risk of the worst anti-trans laws.
Subscribe to support my work.https://t.co/sR0whXsYjn
— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) March 18, 2023
If you’re not trans, this is also a great map of states you should not fucking move to, and states that you should urgently move away from if you’re living there now. Most of them are going to go to absolute hell in the next decade.
Believe it. Because I’ll be right.
would be great if the VC class was even one tenth as mad about the government’s “let it burn” attitude toward those without health insurance as they are about the prospect of multimillionaire depositors losing 1% of their deposits because they didn’t bother to do risk management https://t.co/90dSQNJJrZ
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) March 19, 2023
As many people have noted, it was funny watching the ludicrous tears of all the pseudo-libertarians demanding a bailout after their easily-preventable failures. They got it, too. All of them should’ve been hung out to dry. For years they had styled themselves as too clever to need government, too intelligent to require state intervention in their provident lives. Then some minor inconvenience occurred and they were bawling like a two-year-old denied eating from the dog’s bowl.
They got what they wanted this time but I’m not quite sure they realize the contempt many people have for them, how ridiculous they look to most others not in the Silicon Valley bubble, and how that can quickly turn into real change. Let’s hope it does.