europe needs to grow the fuck up. grow. the. fuck. up. extreme heat is DANGEROUS and can be FATAL. enough fucking grandstanding against americans because you have a fucking inferiority complex. GET AC AND SAVE YOUR CITIZENS’ LIVES.
Started a new job and everyone kept mentioning "the incident" but nobody would tell me what it was. After three weeks I finally asked directly. Turns out my predecessor had a mental breakdown and threw a printer out the second-story window. Okay, weird, but whatever. Then yesterday our printer jammed. Without thinking I said "this makes me want to throw it out the window" and the entire office went SILENT. Dead silent. Someone whispered "oh god not again." Now they think I have printer-related rage issues. I've been moved away from all windows. There's a staff meeting Monday about "workplace wellness.”
Yes, NYC has become a cult. And so have London, Paris and many other cities.
A city is supposed to be transactional. You move there to get access to better jobs, smarter people, capital, culture, dating markets, ideas, luck. You tolerate the rent, noise and chaos because the city increases your surface area for opportunity.
But a lot of people now treat living in NYC/London/Paris as the achievement itself. They’re not building much, not saving much, not owning anything, not starting families, not necessarily living that well.
Social media (and short visits) made this worse. People not living in those cities romanticise them and feel FOMO, while people living there turn the city into their entire personality / personal brand.
Even San Francisco, which used to be somewhat immune to this, is starting to turn into a status symbol for wannabe entrepreneurs...
You’ll think you’re still young at 27 until you find out your mates in good countries already have 10 years work experience, are managers, already own a mortgage and are discussing tax and promotion.
La canicule est classiste : il n'y a que les riches ayant des piscines, des pergolas végétales, des clims etc. qui peuvent continuer de vivre normalement.
C'est absolument terrible pour le cerveau de vivre dans une boîte sans lumière naturelle à tourner en rond.
1. I went to Jewish school from kindergarten to 12th grade
2. I come from a deeply Zionist family
3. I’ve been to Israel on a number of occasions, including to places that border the West Bank.
I’m an anti-Israel Jew. It’s a genocidal apartheid state. Sue me
She’s a domestic violence survivor who thought her neighbor was being hurt when she heard the screams, repeatedly tried to get her attention, and called the cops as a last resort. The fault is with the cops. Not someone who tried to do what they thought was saving their neighbor
Israel killed Mona Khalil in South Lebanon.
On June 6, they dropped a bomb on her home in Mansouri — flattening it.
Mona, an environmental activist, dedicated her life to protecting endangered sea turtles along Lebanon’s coast.
She died of her injuries today.