I can understand (sort of) feminists wanting to ban men approaching women. It’s moronic and counterproductive, but I get where it came from, how the sickness emerged.
But of late their quest to make attraction itself verboten? That is a level of wild-eyed crazy I couldn’t have heretofore imagined.
I can’t speak for all of Europe, but certainly I feel very rich in the UK in a way I do not feel in the US. A lot of the sceptred isle is obviously shabby and declining. Even London has gone downhill a lot. It felt wealthy indeed (mutatis mutandis my own relative wealth) when I visited in 1989 or 1990. Now it has the atmosphere and sense of disarray befitting a third-tier American city in a lot of ways.
Europe is getting relatively poorer, and in many cases, absolutely poorer. Not all of it, but a whole lot of it. Krugman et al. are just wrong. They want to hold on to the fantasy.
I increasingly get these with no way to get around them when I visit various sites:
To see if could make it to the site, I temporarily disabled all the many, many things I block and tried it on six different browsers (Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Brave, Vivaldi, Edge) on three different OSes (Windows, Linux and Mac) on two different ISPs. No dice.
Guess they really do not want me to go to that site.
This is tons of fun and that bass player is tearin’ it the fuck up (yes, I know they are not really playing in the video).
I found a seashell in the middle of the desert.
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