you should think of modern agriculture like the oil industry: hugely necessary for modern civilization, massively damaging extractive industry, run by and empowering some of the worst people imaginable
It'd probably end up Leonard Cohen, lbr. Or even more realistically, Kate Wolf; Give Yourself To Love is probably the objectively correct funeral song
my first picks are all Cloud Cult though, which I probably wouldn't actually pick for reasons of it'd be like... the wrong degree of disjoint re: original subject, to use at an adult's funeral. Come Home is so beautifully Minnesotan though
y'know I'd never considered picking funeral music, but it is a fun exercise!
Ultimately, the incoherent whining about relativism comes from Peter Thiel's inability to actually accept that the post-WWII world did actually judge regressive cultures harshly, and that is why Apartheid South Africa, Rhodesia, and Nazi Germany went into history's dustbin.
the next democratic trifecta should be centrally focused, in every budget and bill, on increasing density, population, and quality of life in american cities, most of all in blue states
My latest.
I’ve been watching the media coverage of the murders of Dr. Cerina Fairfax and Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer.
One way media can fight back against male violence:
If you kill your wife, you don’t get to be called a “husband” any more.
You’re her killer.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
Child: I know your name. Mamdani.
Obama: What’s his first name?
Child: Mayor.
It's both beautiful and utopian and like, quite useful when thinking about how to arrange your house
Omg! No emoji needed, it's an out of print utopian architecture treatise and is, I've gotten the impression, either an "yes yes everyone's read it" or "what now?" book with no in between.
But you (all persons) should totally read it if you can (lmk if you want the PDF link!).
Yeeeeeeep
I've told you I read A Pattern Language at fifteen and it changed my life/set my worldview forever, right
However I suspect that last bit is a significant factor in y'know, holding the political opinions I hold on any number of matters, so. Welp.
I'm sure if god forbid I ever hit someone I'd rationalize with the best of them, I am human. But I really don't understand the need to do it for hypotheticals ahead of time, and even moreso when you're using preemptive excuses to argue against preventing the issue in the first place
As with, like, all of this, I want this infrastructure AS A DRIVER. I want it to be as unlikely as possible that an unavoidable mistake of mine *kills a child*. This preemptive self-exculpatory stuff (not the quoted post, the one it quotes) is... bad
We are right at the gates of Eden. We can feed everybody, we can deliver perpetual, non-destructive energy, we can prevent or cure most diseases. Instead we're like, "Nah."
My bill, the Restoring Judicial Separation of Powers Act would, among other things force SCOTUS to provide written, signed explanations of all their decisions. casten.house.gov/imo/media/do...
I'm so glad Pokemon persisted
Eating avocado toast with Sriracha and teaching my kid about Pokemon, millennial nirvana
Yes, and as someone who was a (remote) working single parent to an infant during that time, my version of this dark thinking is that I was/am furiously jealous and (obviously don't, but I trust we know what I mean here) sort of wish I got a shot at it now (with an older kid who would enjoy it too).
The American Way
"You can do everything right and still die (Be killed or murdered)"
(I'm very proud of my rationale for the housing thing, it may be my weirdest political opinion. the logistics/infrastructure/etc stuff is all true too, of course)
I'll do it quiet and all, I'll try not scaring normies and I won't make political demands beyond "please don't actively hinder society moving in the right direction", but. bad, those things. very bad
I am not and never shall be a politician so I will indeed be over here railing against red meat and single family housing as Actually Immoral No No I Do Mean Actually For Real
Honestly I'm about the same way on this as I am with casually tossing away any potential dreams of a single family house existence: Societally unsustainable over the long term especially when we're putting equal emphasis on environmental issues *and* high infrastructure maintenance costs
Exactly, there's a certain level of locking doors that you do based completely on density, because sure, sufficiently large numbers of people and somebody might help themselves to a bike.
But also Lake Of The Isles is where I walked alone at 3am as a teenage girl in a literal bathrobe sometimes
Lake of the Isles being a seriously fancyass neighborhood, but it IS within city limits, so you know you never can be too careful! /s
Bless her heart, but my friend who lived in Edina slept over one time at my house near LAKE OF THE ISLES only under the strictest instructions from her mother to park under a street lamp at all times, because The City
I for one believed this to be a Ralph Lauren ad due to the nearly identical logo and overall aesthetics. This belief made me think less of and be less inclined to purchase Ralph Lauren.
DOGE turbocharged the deficit.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea...
My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.
