The electoral equivalent of his Highway-Centric Warfare: voting to change maps and take away Republican seats.
Complex voter-flipping outreach? Phased deployments of talking points? Just drive around the fascists, you fools.
The next interview with the Ayatollah is going to be like "Tumblr and AO3, which I'm sure all Americans use daily..."
Someone really needs to study the theological equivalent of pareidolia, like...
If you spend your whole life with tech you'll find a god somewhere in tech and then, ta da, you've got a singularity cult.
There was a Kim Stanley Robinson book that contained the concept of "structured forgetting" and I think about that a lot.
I have a weird pet theory, from teaching writing, that AI models replicate the predictive intelligence humans use when doing procedural tasks or "autopilot" stuff but that writing interesting stuff is a second-order form of thinking that requires deliberately defying/gaming that predictive process.
The rest of us are going to leave haunted social media profiles and unclaimed Steam accounts and skeletons but Kirk is going to end up like Kilroy.
Charlie Kirk may achieve full information-theoretic death, since every single fact of his life is gradually being subsumed into bizarre memes. Future historians will wonder if that guy was even real.
Which feels deserved, really.
Exactly--which is kind of the problem. Democratic politics is affective rather than economic, which means either variety of precarity, "money not worth as much" and "not enough money" is liable to cause undesirable voter behavior.
(Kind of how Biden got cooked: a good economy with bad feelings.)
Honestly that's what I'm hoping--an FDR to his Hoover, amplified.
The problem is, people made the exact same arguments after Bush in 2008 (for a much milder form of GOP insanity) and it extremely didn't turn out that way. Within 8 years a new GOP effectively coalesced around Trump.
The problem is, with reduced state capacity, there's absolutely no version of austerity that doesn't result in, at best, a President Rubio/Whoever in the 2030s. Inflation leads to fascism, sure, but so does the sustained absence of the state.
Clinton was not followed by a Democratic successor.
You mentioned a cream sauce (or one finished with cream), so probably the farfalle.
(Save the gemelli for something like a pesto--a really tight sauce or something so meaty that you have to scoop it to eat.)
Life advice/shower thoughts that arrived while trying to amend poor garden soil:
Live your life in such a way that your chief benefit to humanity exceeds the value of the potassium in your body as fertilizer.
Hey @liberalcurrents.com if he'd published this two weeks later, we could have created an annual "Remember the Sustained Right Wing Campaign Against Education Day"
liberals have become much more agressive, pushing for sweeping reforms & 'nuremberg 2.0'
my latest for @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
A pope fighting with a mad king and the return of English singular they, all in the aftermath of a plague--welcome back 1400s, we didn't think we'd miss you but here we are.
If I were a developer for data centers, you'd best believe I'd be snapping up every defunct mine in appalachia, a region with excellent granite and limestone bedrock, a regular climate and tons of groundwater.
I would not be building an aluminum shed on a chicken farm in a hurricane zone.
Honestly I feel the same way about them I do about logistics warehouses, with the added critique that at least logistics warehouses have employees.
Also it feels like they're just slapping them down on the same kind of land even though data centers have very different logistical needs.
Oil markets reinforce my overriding investment philosophy: the average investor at all levels of skill is, emotionally, a seagull chasing french fries. This goes double for professional traders and bros.
450 of them will change direction to dive for a single fry that the leading bird hallucinated.
The description is like somebody scientifically isolated the exact combination of secondary flavors that would complement a pork chop and I actually leaned back from my monitor when I read it.
"Tax the billionaires until they're not billionaires anymore" should be the moderate position--like, they financed the campaign of a mad president, so they should finance the consequences.
And if they don't like the tax plan, there are always less moderate options.
I teach this every semester, but honestly people are very bad at contextualizing their normals--like, maybe if my experience of a thing disagrees with a bunch of data about it, I had an unusual experience.
But if a guy has Terminal Protagonist Brain then things are only real if it happens to them.
Living in a rowhouse and eating mushrooms like a Philadelphian granny is the future.
It's odd--the chart basically shows that stuff is more abundant but the kinds of things that form the core anxieties of traditional adult life--childcare, medical care--got less available. That kind of explains both the vibe and the demo that went the most vibe-crazy and voted for a madman.
For some folks, history is a fun story book they can fantasize about, and for others it's a pretty concrete explanation of why the village your ancestors came from no longer appears on maps.
How can [guy who was semi-accidentally on the correct side of the Second World War] be bad if Nazis were also bad?
There's a certain kind of guy who gets mad when you attack their emotional support historical strongman. It's like mentioning the Bengal famine to Churchill obsessives.
A non-trivial number of accounts flocking to tell me that "Stalin murdered millions" is a Nazi thing to say and equivalent to Holocaust denial. Unbelievable. Is no one teaching the purges. What the actual hell.
We are, where by "we" I mean "specifically New Jersey for some reason."
Even the Soviet Union stopped going to bat for Stalin the second his body was cold.