I had a friend who doesn't care for sports sit & watch a basketball game & hes quiet for a bit & just barks out: "Yeah I dont think there are that many squeaks. They gotta be pumping em in"
That was over 10 yrs ago I havent watched a single game since without thinking of it
what’s the lowest stakes conspiracy theory you have? i think airplane mode is a hoax because they don’t want you texting your friends and telling them you’re not having fun on the plane
Listened to this BS, after describing one of those “I told off the evil racist and the whole restaurant clapped” stories about his grandkids being sad about players not wearing gay hats, he says the players have to recognize what city they’re in and be accommodating to it.
It’s so transparently one-sided. You have to capitulate to the anal-sex cult because their rights are more important than yours. It has never been about equality, it’s always been about cultural dominance.
The fact this made TV is the most insane part
They have put her in a spot to get ridiculed as well as the promotion
Just terrible optics
But I wouldn’t be too shocked if this was intentional just to go viral
Young people are entering a world with almost no aura left anywhere
There used to be aura everywhere: the New York Times, Harvard University, the Catholic Church, the Hollywood studio lot, Goldman Sachs, billionaires, the Pentagon, the United States Senate, the Peace Corps, the British Royal family, the trading floor. Places where you were a "made man" if you were on the inside and even on the outside made you feel a little special just to be in proximity to...
And even ignoring these big institutions, aura didn't need Latin mottos and mahogany desks and cufflinks, you could build aura by doing very normal things like being a teacher or accountant or a restaurant owner and living respectably in your neighborhood for 50 years and raising a family. You could have a local mythology. "She taught half this town how to read."
Now everybody's seen too much, nobody admires anyone anything, everything is "cringe," and the only way to have aura is to be hot on Instagram or become an astronaut
I feel bad for the youth
Assume the movie had flopped and the director lost his entire $750,000 investment. How many crew members would have voluntarily returned their fees to help offset his loss?
This is the fundamental asymmetry in risk and reward. When someone puts up their own capital and shoulders the real financial risk especially in a high-failure industry like entertainment they alone bear the downside.
Yet the moment the project succeeds, suddenly everyone who was paid upfront wants a bigger piece of the pie. The same people who would not have shared in the loss now feel entitled to share disproportionately in the upside.
If you accept payment for your work regardless of outcome, you’ve already been compensated for your risk (or lack thereof). Why should the person who risked everything not be allowed to reap the rewards when their gamble pays off?
Who Is America’s Homer?
If England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante, and Russia has Pushkin, then who do we have? Do we have a great poet who captures the American spirit, the American story, the American identity? We asked for contributions from @fxxfy, @DanaGioiaPoet, @zenahitz, Emily Wilson, @ae_stallings, @_Zeets, @JcScharl, @amjuster, @RossBarkan, Christian Wiman.
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