PMC Vanguardist

being able to run around the lagoon for 45 minutes without running short of breath the first week of every year of undergrad almost made not being able to climb two flights of stairs when I'd go home for Thanksgiving break worth it

Incredible.

The Hemingway house in Key West is nonetheless on our list of places to visit because I like Hemingway and my wife likes cats with thumbs.

The movie (I read the comic once, years ago, and agree that it's . . . fine). And that's saying something because I've had a colossal crush on Natalie Portman since I was 14.

This is basically exactly my history with V for Vendetta.

A very reliable way to put my wife in a stormy mood is to merely mention, in her hearing, the name Ernest Hemingway or the titles of any of his works.

I am getting very tired of people blaming “private equity” for changing consumer behavior.

Private equity didn’t degrade the quality of the clothes you buy, ultra fast fashion and online shopping where you sort by low price, then buy clothes without ever actually touching them did that.

[Hans Moleman phone booth meme] I need the most parasocial relationship you have. No, that's too parasocial.

I've been posting about this a lot recently, but I am using Opus 4.6 to help me plan and organize a big creative project that's been bouncing around my brain for years and every few hours I have to stop and take a deep breath because I am Staring Directly Into the Future.

oh, and that is also basically Madrid and then fifteen separate wannabe ethnostates held together with duct tape

a country that was a fascist dictatorship well into the 1970s, is still a monarchy in some ways that actually genuinely matter, and arguably has never had a liberal major party is as close as Europe gets to a model of good governance right now

it is honestly wild that Spain of all countries and PSOE of all parties has managed this

for possibly the first time ever, I am glad to live 20 minutes away from a major United hub

It is a conscious choice to trust @mahamama2001 with your child's life over someone who went through four years of medical school and three years of residency and would get a better grade on an immunology exam while fully asleep than you would while awake. Conscious choices have consequences.

they're gonna make another Godfather movie and set it in Egypt

all men who wear flip-flops, regardless of shirt choice, IMO

I know that, and I'm telling you that failing to villainize the kind of criminally reckless parent that would take parenting advice from a TikTok influencer incentivizes the TikTok influencers to generate ever more deranged and dangerous content.

This attitude literally incentivizes some TikToker to make a video that says leaving your baby in a hot car will protect them from autism.

"it made me so upset to watch them stick my child with needles"

Cool, have you ever heard the *sound* of a six-month-old with pertussis struggling and mostly failing to breathe? Your pediatrician has.

Edward Jenner died over 200 years ago, there is no such thing as a good-faith antivaxxer

counterpoint: the next Democratic Congress should work with the AAP to put healthychildren.org onto a brain-implantable chip, and then pass a law mandating that every new parent in this country be implanted with this chip (by force if necessary) before being allowed to leave the delivery room

"Intentionally trigger stagflation" is certainly an innovative strategy eight months out from a midterm election.

architecture is kinda similar but that's waaaay too many lines for Chicago (FOR NOW)

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

I'm starting to feel that most destructive and horrible of feelings: hope

Shanghai, I think

"God has a plan for all of us" is a pretty astonishing thing to say when someone set herself on fire because of you.

Anyway I'm glad that Graeber's writing was able to reach you while you were suffering through ennui while doing a laptop job, please stop trying to ruin the laptop jobs for the rest of us, they're fucking great, air conditioning is the best.

People defend Bullshit Jobs with a fervor that's almost religious but more ... have you ever seen someone moved by like really shitty art but they were 12 and going through a rough patch and they get mad about people criticizing the art but can't defend it?

It's like that, but for nonfiction.