hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
5hr ago
Employers don’t want the things universities teach you, they want the evidence that you can function in a normal white collar office environment.
hydroacetylene
5hr ago
Isn’t art school typically a non-collège program focused on teaching technical skills?
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
It’s not really a slur, though. A slur is an unflattering term for a large class of people- for example, ‘bitch’ is a slur for women. Whore is a term for prostitutes, a smaller and mostly voluntary class, and it isn’t usually taken as offensive when applied to actual prostitutes. The offensive part was saying these women, who presumably have never had sex for money, were acting like whores. ‘Sailor’ is not an offensive term, but ‘so and so talks like a sailor’ might be taken that way.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
That is not transgressive, and they don’t think it is either.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
But many of them are operating within the paradigm that late capitalism turbo-charges human stupidity
No we are not, we are operating under the paradigm that people are not really independent actors and social norms need to be shaped to lead people to make good decisions.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Most normie drunk uncles are probably squishy rather than opposed, and consider that Trump likely doesn’t have a terribly good grasp of what ‘livestream’ means- to him it means it’ll be on TV, which normie drunk uncle thinks is, well, the criminal justice system should be transparent and if you don’t want to watch it you can just change the channel.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
TBF, op Ed journalists kinda do have to watch it.
hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Disclaimer that I didn’t watch it and he may have been saying things you and I already know, just with a pottymouth instead of ‘jokes’.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
The medievals were absolutely obsessed with evil rabbits; they drew pictures of them fighting each other, torturing people, etc, all over the place.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Comedians are in general smart, so it's unsurprising that lots of them have college degrees. But how many of those are degrees in things like theater, or communications? Generally these seem to be irrelevant degrees to being a comedian.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Yeah, women who aren't selected for priding themselves on their modesty are in general not ok with commentary on modesty. Why? Because it's one of those things where it's a rat race that you can never be comfortably ahead on, and women are real sensitive about it.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
As I've said before, when this came up- 'women in comedy' is the wrong framing. Ellen was a very popular and successful comedian a while back. But elite class proper ladies do not make good comics because comedy is inherently transgressive, and 'being transgressive' is not what elite proper ladies do. That's what this is about- these women are performing the social role of elite proper ladies, and they're rather unhappy about being excluded from comedy.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
It kinda reads like this was a Pete Hegseth thing which Trump signed onto and then dropped like a rock? Like my mental model of Trump is that he's pretty normie and has policy preferences like your drunk uncle in a diner. He wants the illegals out and doesn't really think about legal immigration. He wants things made in the USA and thinks we have to take out Iran. Etc, etc. Not 'bring back public executions'.
hydroacetylene
23hr ago
There were two papabile in their fifties in the last conclave. One was too radical to get elected and the other was too involved in secular politics.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Thé pope has lung cancer. Earlier this the lower lobe of his right lung was removed.
He is unlikely to die soon, but persistent poor health tends to be a limiting factor on the pope’s power- and all indications were already that pope Leo XIV was relatively weak.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
That movie failed because of ridiculous wokeness in place of plot.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Yeah no, nobody cares. Maybe if it's mispronounced.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Polling isn't correct, though. I'm not saying republicans are favoured... I'm saying there's lots of warning signs of a blue mirage, and Talarico almost certainly has advisors who are accustomed to the idea enough to try something high-risk variance, on the basis that the median voter hates ads enough to just vote on a party line basis, Greg Abbott will steal the election on the spot in a way that carries Paxton over the top, etc.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Talarico has generally poor health, apparently.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Eh, Galicia had replacement fertility before the war, and they're the properly 'Ukrainian' part of Ukraine. Nowhere near out of the question that they'd recover- after all, the children born immediately before the war are now turning four, and Ukraine might use some child soldiers in their late teens but it's not recruiting younger than that.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Indians don't want to go to Ukraine. They want to go to richer countries which aren't currently on fire and covered in snow at the same time(the US obviously the ideal, but Canada, Australia, the UK, even Russia all rank far above Ukraine). Indians don't want to live in an impoverished shithole which has been wrecked by war and in which the average citizen is incredibly racist.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The ukrainian people want to fight, though.
Now, I broadly agree with the idea that the ukrainian government should avoid further loss of life to preserve Galicia, because that's the only 'ukrainian' part of ukraine(I make no illusions about my ethnoreligious prejudices). But the Ukrainian public wants to fight to the bitter end, and I respect them for it. It's not the government making them.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
'Digger' is at least a funny joke- as a red tribe name it's close enough to be plausible but probably not terribly real.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I'm not going to see this movie.
I wanted to chime in with the often overlooked fact that the vast majority of wells, and possibly a majority of fossil fuel production, in the USA is done by small companies, often owner-managed, which are not household names and usually do not last multiple generations. The owners/executives are an elite group, the kind of gentry sometimes brought up by particularly intense blue tribe rhetoric(alongside car dealership owners). And these guys not only don't believe in global warming, they tend to believe in abiotic oil and a young earth as well- because their competitive advantage is in using engineering expertise sourced from politically incorrect communities to strip oil out of wells that the companies with their names on gas stations consider marginal. I was out filling deer feeders with these guys last weekend. 'Digger' is about a parable... there's an opposite parable to be told, and it's one a huge chunk of the country believes in wholeheartedly.
There are lots of funny ladies. Ellen has been funny for decades.
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