I don’t want to "download the app" to pay for parking. I don’t want to "create an account" to see a menu. I don’t want to "provide feedback" on a 30-second interaction. I just want to exist in the physical world without a digital leash.
Deciding your life is over at age 38 is exactly how many people end up spending the last 40-60 years of their life doing absolutely nothing, miserable.
It takes 19 to 21 hours on a daily train to travel between Chicago and NYC, which is roughly the same distance as Beijing to Shanghai, a trip that takes only 4.5 hours by high-speed rail and runs 41 times a day in both directions. Our infrastructure is so far behind.
had a moment washing dishes where i believed maybe for the first time ever that so long as i’m alive, i get to try again and do it differently, and it made me genuinely weep. then i picked up my phone and hopped between instagram and tiktok for 2 hours
republicans really do not understand the nuances of style bc this is not pronouns blue hair this is like a 42 year old rockabilly tattoo artist who albeit likes gay people and abortion but says the r word and has an edgelord conservative boyfriend
“My appendix burst in Mexico City/Paris/Rome/etc. and they took care of everything!!” But if left up to a certain political party, the US wouldn’t extend the same courtesy apparently
Telling emergency departments not to care for people who can’t speak English or whatever, is ironic bc of all those times you hear about Americans abroad getting food poisoning or some infection and getting great medical care while most of the time…not speaking the language