I wrote and posted this to Instagram a couple of days ago and it became my most-read poem ever. I’m honored I get to feel big feelings alongside you all. I’m posting it here too and want to use this space more consistently. Hello friends ❤️
Someone's been playing Crusader Kings.
Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal.
Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big.
And here we are.
hot take: i think the move in the direction of a more explicitly extortion based international order is bad actually. I also do not especially relish the idea of re-boning up on mercantilism
“Nobody is a state unless they were a state before the state was invented in 1648”
We have a virtue theory of everything and a housing theory of everything and both explain 21st century America and both explain the fall of the Roman Republic. That suggests a grand unified theory of housing and virtue.
Skill issue
Just not on polymarket, at least without a vpn
The distinction between allegiance and jurisdiction appears throughout laws passed in the 1860s and probably further back. It’s why the Wong Kim Ark Court was so uninterested in the nonsense that “jurisdiction” means “jurisdiction” except when we don’t want it to.
And that was a mere eight years after US v Wong Kim Ark. People knew the difference between “allegiance” and “jurisdiction” in the 1860s. Hell, the Senate even considered *but rejected* “and who owe allegiance to the United States” in the Civil Rights Act of 1866!
The methodology on the whole idea that the 14A’s authors meant “allegiance” and not “jurisdiction” is in such bad faith. The distinction is in the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, and I’m sure further back than that.
Forget that I wanna know where he stands on sending Odo to the Link infected with a genocide virus
Not beating the stochastic parrot accusations
This is the old NSF building right? It’s open to the public by site plan condition, but building services still puts out signs saying the atrium is for tenants only.
And it’s never really ok to play “let’s have fun with denominators!” like it appears happened in evaluating per-room usage rates at Barcroft and comparing the Barcroft and Lubber Run facility usage (instead of comparing usage per sq ft).
Sure a mantis shrimp has more photo receptors etc, but we just can’t really understand what it means to see colors independent of our own existence of seeing and talking about and wiring our brains for seeing the wavelengths we see. Talking about the colors a mantis shrimp “sees” is just wingdings.
The human experience of color is fundamentally a *human* experience and a culturally-informed one at that. Even things like a person’s primary language impacts how many colors they can identify as “seeing.” The number of colors seems to grow the further we get from the Bronze Age.
The reason the mantis shrimp doesn’t “see more colors” than we do is that you can’t talk about how many colors something sees without talking about what it means to see color. To have the neurons and the connections in place to understand it.
The author even notes your objection: “It is indeed true that the mantis shrimp has a lot more types of color photoreceptors than humans do (12 versus three). Yet, the mantis shrimp does not have better color vision than we do.”
Good thread but you miss the point of the article I shared (which I admit seems hasty about its own points).
yes but no? They see frequencies we don't, they can differentiate polarized light which we can't identify at all, and they have way more primary colors. They have a lower resolution of colors, but there are lots of ways in which they see things in ways we can't and that is in-fact really cool.
DPR says the gymnastics program is underutilized, but it doesn’t even enroll half the people who sign up. It’s looking more and more like DPR just wants the program gone, and isn’t being honest with the community or the County Board about why.
www.dprdata.com
probably still pretty boring
If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.
they're where they are purely on luck, and they think they're the galaxy brains of the universe
one of the reasons I like this passage a lot is think it captures a kind of small c conservative sense of duty/heroism that's really different from the kind of contemporary understanding of those concepts where it's journey of self-discovery/self-actualization. not, it fucking sucks, but here we are
Well this aged well.
"A solid majority, for example, of rural electricity in the United States comes from consumer co-ops and from those kind of rural electrification co-ops that go back to the New Deal. So this isn't like calling for something that's strange or unprecedented." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-case-for...
