Right. We could argue details but that’s more or less acceptable to me.

But getting to somewhere like that from here is a real uphill battle.

I’ve posted it a bunch lately but it really does feel like people hate all the pieces of capitalism without realizing they’re all connected.

This feels like an origin story for a Punisher reboot.

I really hope we get through this, and all the people who supported trump are convicted of crimes against humanity or something. We can’t just keep letting conservatism break out every couple decades like a herpes infection.

For many of then, if they were capable of looking at the world and drawing good conclusions, they wouldn’t be conservative to begin with.

I wouldn’t say it’s hopeless, but something as basic as “facts” and “evidence” isn’t going to be enough to reach someone who’s a fragile, terrified, ego wrapped in a thick blanket of emotions and lies.

I’m ~40, so I don’t date or spend much time with people in their 20s.

I have seen the occasional profile demanding a certain height, but I just skip on it immediately.

I wonder if it correlates with other attributes? I’m also very left wing so I don’t interact with conservatives much, for example. Maybe “I need a tall man and I’ll say it out loud” happens more there?

Well, better late than never. The question is if they’re going to connect the dots and realize everything else the right wing says is nonsense and projections.

Recommendations for…? Just any music?

Caroline Rose’s new album is very good and very human: https://carolinerosemusic.bandcamp.com/album/year-of-the-slug

Tagged as “alternative psychobilly acoustic guitar alt-country alternative pop art pop folk indie indie folk indie pop indiepop rock n roll shoegaze Los Angeles”

“Use a different language” is a common defense of javascript, but kind of a weird one.

Yeah. My last job, a PR with commented out code typically wouldn’t get approved. Either leave it in version history, or stick it on a branch

Not to my face. But as someone else said, it’s rare for you to be told the rejection reason (for early dating). There are a lot of reasons for this, but part of it is people kind of suck at taking rejection. And on top of that, a significant portion of men are dangerous.

No one wants to risk the man flipping out, spewing cruelty, or worse. A gentler letdown seems safer.

Do you think they realize that they made her look fun (smiling) and him look awful (scowling, wearing a school child backpack, bad haircut) ?

The bar is set REALLY low

There’s a saying “the bar for men is in hell”

I thought it meant there was a drinking establishment for men in hell. They go and drink with the devil, and that’s where they get all their bad ideas. They’re doing shots and the devil’s like “say she’s fat”, and the guy is like “good advice bro”.

Turns out the saying just means the bar is super low. So low you don’t even have to jump. It’s so low, it’s deeper than the depths of the earth and in the fires of hell that burn below.

But yeah, so many men are so horrible, it’s shockingly easy to rise above them.

One of my queer (bi) women friends today said that she thinks she’s done with dating men. It’s just too much a minefield of danger and stress.

Meta should be broken up and its leadership barred from working in tech (or politics)

Conservatives should be listened to on nothing. They have zero credibility. A toddler would make better policy decisions

I think that’s the “two Santa” strategy https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartmann/two-santas-strategy-gop-used-economic-scam-manipulate-americans-40-years/

they’re scum that should not be allowed to hold office.

I don’t think they thought about it very much. It’s like that spongebob meme where patrick has the wallet. Or the Friends one that I don’t know the name of the template. You could go point by point building up a case for why there should be government regulations, but as soon as you say like “regulation” they go “Nope bad”

Though some people really do believe they as a rugged individual will be able to research and test all of their food without an FDA or whatever. If they buy bread that has sawdust in it, they’ll be able to tell, and somehow get a refund, or buy some other bread that doesn’t have sawdust. That seems like a lot of work and optimism compared to regulations and inspections by qualified professionals earlier in the process.

enough people are like me that carrying guns should not be as easy as it is. We can trade counter anecdotes all we want, but I think the frequency of mass shootings and other gun violence in the US supports my position better than yours.

The point of the anecdote was that when people get really mad, they don’t think rationally. If I had a gun, it would have been really easy in that moment to pull it out and use it. That’s too easy.

(Though yes, I did briefly consider picking up his dog’s shit with a plastic bag of my own, and hitting him in the face with it, but by then I had cooled down enough to realize I didn’t want to potentially ruin my life by assaulting a guy on the street.)

Sure, maybe that would help, too. But like any system built by humans you’re going to need consistent, rigorous, investments in education or in a few generations you’ll have idiots tearing down chesterton’s fence. “I don’t see why monopolies are so bad” -> “oh no why is everything so expensive and dangerous??”