this “walking pneumonia” is “walking” in the sense of “the walking dead”.
measure twice, cut once, tea steeping edition.
i mean, the french all have mistresses. it’s the same thing, right?
@seachanger he hates transit. the hyperloop was a giant red herring, to distract us from building transit.
@admitsWrongIfProven that is very kind.
(i am ill right now, which doesn’t help with optimism, so i appreciate it all the more.)
if the problem is we pissed off the plutocrats, the problem is the plutocrats, not the pissing off.
let them eat banana. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/crypto-boss-eats-banana-art-082216200.html ht @w7voa
On the one hand, prioritizing everything is prioritizing nothing.
On the other hand, we can walk and chew gum at the same time.
if spells actually worked, a very absolute First Amendment might prove ill-advised.
the private sector relentlessly talks itself up, so generally does a worse job than you come to think from its self-presentation.
the public sector broadcasts contention and controversy, draws contestation and criticism, so generally does a better job than you’d think from the shouty conversation.
The United States “needs to build up bureaucratic capacities that it doesn’t currently have.” @henryfarrell https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/small-yard-high-fence-these-four
// elon and vivek will get right on that, i’m sure.
what contemporary governments do you admire?
Faraday was the first quantum physicist because he finds himself in so many cages all at once.
the nazis had false theories about everything, but they were perfectly capable of building extermination camps nonetheless.
“The ideal of freedom and equality is something like the modern world’s official ideology—so much so that conservatives are always pretending that they’re the ones who honor that ideal best, even as they work assiduously to undo freedom and equality.” @Rickperlstein https://americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?action=social&chash=e22cb9d6bbb4c290a94e4fff4d68a831.3059&s=ce07d2b5feef04b26a83a61bce292370
sanity is mental illness now but thank goodness we have ketamine for that.
@scott splitting attention i’m finding challenging and time consuming. (i don’t think i’m sure i know who you are over there?)
@scott @seachanger i mean, it can. all that messaging actually doesn’t produce very much light.
but extravagantly paid consultants and others whose interests are not solidaristic devote most of their messaging to persuading people who fancy themselves smart and reason that it can’t.
@scott @seachanger solidarity can’t hold a candle to well-targeted messaging crafted by extravagantly paid consultants.