The thing I keep trying to help people understand is that there just isn't any ceiling here, things will get hotter and hotter until large swaths of the planet are actually uninhabitable, unless we rapidly end all fossil fuels. And also, that excess heat is basically permanent.
@jasmine_cosmic@Sturgeons_Law@SaddestRobots iirc he repeatedly used it in a straightforwardly racist context when commenting on other people's blogs before starting his own
"The entire inside of this house has been painted", "This house has a lot of closets", "Gorgeous driveway". "3 bars of cellular reception". Ok I think I see what you're trying to do here, but it won't work.
@allahliker I used to feel this way and then I got into Elliott Smith and now the Beatles are fine, like how I developed a taste for the detestable unmashed chickpea by eating a lot of hummus.
It's fine, just a poorly phrased generalization to build a rhetorical point for future generalizations, which is how you know it's a Real philosophy book.
Got a book by an Austrian philosophy professor written in 2014 and on the first page he starts marking the territory of the thesis by claiming people don't take astrology "seriously" the way they do religion.
Again, nothing against this woman personally but among more reasonable (but still inflammatory) things she also said the white aversion to gluten was a manifestation of white guilt. If not a right-wing plant for ridicule, she might as well be.
This is part of a 50 minute interview posted by Bar* W*iss where the interviewer is Kati* H*rzog interviewing some psychologist who says provocative things about white people and the whole thing is demented.
Look at this beautiful diagram - all the mergers that built up the big five defence primes over 20 years.
I know I'm a big military-industrial complex nerd but dang that's some nice data-viz 😍
I wrote about the massive Alabama coal miners' strike that's now entering its third month for @thenation. Greg, a striker who was injured in a vehicular attack by company goons, summed it up best: "I’m not going to give up, because that’s what they want." https://t.co/kLDmFSPL6d
FACT:Comedians wifes are 99.9% likely to survive being shot in da stomach because their abs are essentially bulletproof from laughing all day every day 🤣