The DMV was where I suddenly became aware of how stark the IQ gap actually is in practice.
I went to ask a simple question. My first iteration was this, verbatim:
“The roads are covered in ice, so I know it’s not happening right now, but I wanted to ask about motorcycle road tests. You have to have a motorcycle to do the test, but you can’t buy one in this state without the motorcycle endorsement on your license. So, how does that work?”
First answer, verbatim: “Well… we can’t do them in winter.”
It took five increasingly condescending rephrasings to get an answer and I was so stunned by the experience that I can’t even recall the answer.
This incredibly ugly interface is specifically designed to cope with the fact that the DMV is a jobs program for the medically retarded.
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days.
ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
Some good career news! Christopher Nolan has hired me to personally write “dad” in every copy of The Odyssey, including the one in your house. I’ve already done it. Audiobooks and digital versions, too. I also gave Scylla they/them pronouns in early medieval handwritten copies
Let’s not forget that even if England win against Norway on Saturday they will then immediately have to march 200 miles south and play France without so much as a hydration break
Nolan’s adaptation of Homer looks all wrong. Old ships and wooden horses and mythical creatures. Homer works at a power plant and eats donuts. He’s friends with Lenny and Carl. I guess we’ll see. 🤷♂️
Meadow: it’s wrong and it’s corruption!
Tony: Enough! The red card was suspended and in this house Folarin Baolgun is a hero!
Anthony Jr: I thought you said soccer was gay?
Carmela: There’s nothing wrong with that.
Out of respect to Mitch McConnell, I’m not going to write a nasty post about what an odious piece of shit he’s always been until I know for sure that he’s dead.
not necessarily saying a president needs to know how to manage algae, but if the manager of a Super 8 fucked up the swimming pool so badly they had to call in the National Guard, my response would not be "hell yeah let's let this guy take a crack at brokering peace with Iran"
In the not too distant future, the politicians and editors and news producers will be parroting, for the rest of their pitiful careers, ‘The legal advice we received at the time’, to juries, to government committees, to the parents and the children of the murdered.#GazaGenocide
I never knew this but the middle finger insult comes from medieval archers. in those days they would hold up their middle finger because it meant "fuck you"
Pretty cool!