sadposting in 2106: “ugh if I could just live in a little city apartment in 2025 with a couple of roommates, as much tap water as I can drink, making money by driving people around in my car all day, my life would be perfect. imagine getting to go outside all summer. they had it so good”
If this was 16 years ago I could write a killer 7500 word essay for the AV club about how “meeting expectations” has superseded “is it good” in the social media era
the second you realize Sinners is a musical instead of a horror movie it becomes one of the best films of the decade but you have to realize it
the biggest problem and greatest power of social media feeds is that it makes people assume the rest of the internet is seeing roughly the same feed as they are, because their feed is of course a representative microcosm of reality
it’s funny how when you open bluesky for the first time in 6 months they give you a bunch of posts of people eating soup and making sourdough as if that’s why you logged in
remembering that time a bunch of Stalin/Mao simps told me the Trump USAID deaths “don’t count.” yeah of course you’d fucking say that
It’s amazing how much easier it is to write when you’re getting paid to do it full-time. there’s no guilt! you’re not abandoning your responsibilities because it’s literally your job
it’s incredible
this is all so funny. notre dame benefits more from coddled brand bias than any other team without a crimson A, then the one (1) time they don’t get treated like royalty they throw a tantrum, quit, and try to pull a “you know how rich my dad is?” with the ACC while acting like condescending pricks
everyone’s treating this like it was a second grade opinion paper and ignoring the “article response” part which was the whole assignment. we don’t even know what the article was! the reason why is because she didn’t fucking bring it up
the idea that she wrote some brilliant pro-god rebuttal and was unfairly punished for dunking on her professor is bullshit and you know it.
look at the teacher’s response, which is kind (despite being called a demon) but firm and clear.
are colleges now so pathetic they can’t even fail bad papers?
1A doesn’t cover failing a homework assignment…
the assignment was a 650 word response to an assigned article demonstrating that you read it and can think critically. she gave zero indication she did either. barely even mentions the article and no article analysis
It’s neat how one day a year everyone in America attempts to cook the exact same multi course meal, we should have more of those
there should be a day in august where millions of Americans attempt to make a chicken pot pie from scratch
this made me wonder how many people read Brave New World and thought “damn I wish I could take soma and be assigned to a caste, shit sounds pretty sweet tbh”
China’s way ahead on pretty much all technology that’s powered by the sun, they’re also in their Breakable Car Gimmick phase which is pretty funny. But if their battery tech engineers and Toyota’s reliability engineers ever made a car together it would pretty much be game over for the world
I like how America has collectively decided that Mad Men is a Thanksgiving show
you’d think NIMBYs would be thrilled at the idea of testing out the hypothesis
either you get to angrily brag about being correct OR if you’re wrong, that means building did work! and a bunch more people have places to live! if you’re a left NIMBY isn’t being wrong kinda the best possible result
We’re already restricting building and it’s not working, so why not just try it? what is so evil?
if the result is either “a bunch more people have places to live” or “nothing gets better and some people I don’t like get richer,” that’s a very easy risk/reward decision?? we should obviously try it
left NIMBYs keep saying “YIMBYism is bad because it won’t actually improve the housing market!!” but I’ve never seen an actual logical explanation of why building more housing will make things *worse* than they are now
wait so some of the people who liked zohran (the guy who said he wanted to build a bunch of housing) are now upset because he is taking steps to build more housing? do I have that right
what’s that saying about news headlines like “every headline that poses a question can be answered with the word ‘no’”
I think we should put LED lights on all the buildings in Mississippi just to even the playing field
excellent work
tbh it’s nice and very bluesky but not in a bad way
the funniest part of mid-2000s Survivor was all the contestants who had never bothered to watched the show before lol. now it’s season 48 and every single Survivor is a millennial who’s run a Survivor podcast since 2014
nice to see twitter scud has seeped its way in here
ah yes. sodium intake hall monitoring on bluesky is what it means to be an “Independent thinker, attempt to see larger picture of events & why of things”
yep i’ve been there. which is why one of the rare standup bits that’s permanently seared into my brain is from Amy Schumer of all people, when she said “you know how people say ‘oh my god i was so busy i forgot to eat lunch?’ that has literally never happened to me”
wait were they just. like. out there
every time i consider getting grocery store krispy kreme i think about how the last time I had them I was 11 years old and if I ever have one as an adult it will invariably ruin the memory lol
you gotta just get the pound