Social media is poison and since women use social media a lot more than men, women are more poisoned by it. QED.
It doesn’t have a thing to do with the (non-existent) inherent terribleness of women, just the demographics of who has experienced more of the most mind-rotting “innovation” of the past few decades.
I think I finally understand content warnings now. They aren’t effective at what they’re actually supposed to do. Studies show that pretty clearly.
Therefore, why they exist is, like many human things, for the purpose of signaling. Content and trigger warnings are used to convey that you are courteous enough to be concerned with the viewer’s sensitivities about something. They also communicate that you are embedded enough in a particular culture to know what its triggers and concerns in fact are.
Thus, they are used both for courtesy and to express status (these two are always closely related) and make a lot more sense to me from that sociological angle.
It’s an odd idea that because some women get bothered sometimes in public by the worst 1% of serial-harassing men, that no one should talk to anyone in public ever.
We always seem to come up with the most dumbass and harmful solutions possible to problems that are in fact easily solvable.
What About Pizza Hut Are You The Most Nostalgic For?
That it was a treat, mainly. Something special. My immediate family was poor; we did not go to restaurants pretty much ever. Pizza Hut was something that was affordable and pretty good for a small town. It was one of the rare times I had food I actually enjoyed rather than just tolerated. When I knew I was going to get to go to Pizza Hut, I looked forward to it all week.
Their restaurants also used to be vastly better; they had salad bars, higher-quality food and better service.
And I personally always liked that they were very dimly-lit compared to other places. Made them feel kind of mysterious inside.
Starlink (and tech like it) provides so much obvious and apparent benefit that despite the valid complaints of astronomers, I think it’s worth it to make earth-based astronomy a bit worse.
In some ways, it’s like saying cities shouldn’t be built because you can’t see the stars anymore. The idea that progress makes everything roundly better always and immediately is quite a stupid one, when you think about it for a moment.
Green Day’s SoFi Stadium show proves it’s officially a classic rock band now.
I never really cared for Green Day. I bought their second album, Kerplunk, sometime in 19921 and only listened to it once or twice. I believe I gave it to a friend a few weeks later. But the band has certainly stuck around, which befits our era of constantly-recycled and remixed nostalgia combined with culture becoming static.
It’s funny that Green Day’s first really popular song was about being bored, which is such a 1990s thing to do a song about. That’s what I mean exactly when I say that even the 1990s “pessimistic” songs seem optimistic in hindsight. “Oh, you’re so bored, all you can do is masturbate and lounge around all day, boohoo, so very sad.”
Seems like comedy now in retrospect.
I’ve also noticed that people have enormous difficulty understanding COL variance. It’s a bit mystifying. Of course you’re doing fine on your $60K a year in Crotch Shot, Nebraska. Houses are nearly free, hamburgers grow out of the dirt, and you can trade some empty Coke bottles for land. To show that I’m only exaggerating a little, here is a dead average house in York, NE. It’s $200K. In San Jose, that house would be $2 million. And if you don’t mind really living in the sticks (to most people in Silicon Valley, York would be the sticks) you can find a quite nice-looking place in Nebraska on nearly a third of an acre for $130K. Or you could buy 77 acres of land with a house and two outbuildings in Nebraska for $1.3 million. How much you reckon that’d set you back in San Jose?
There will be not-as-large but still quite notable variance in food pricing, gas costs, taxes, etc., between somewhere like York and San Jose. And people just have loads of trouble understanding anything about this.
Humans are more cognitively limited in the general case than we like to admit.
Sports betting is bad for America’s financial health. New data shows it.
Evidence of “snowball Earth” found in ancient rocks.
Artificial intelligence will affect 60 million US and Mexican jobs within the year.
Layoffs are proof that employees should reconsider priorities in life.
The Kids Who Didn’t Know Their Parents Were Russian Spies. So tragic.
Millions of seniors can’t afford their prescription medications.
Damn I hate that so much is in podcast and video format now. I don’t have time for all that. What a waste.
There’s quite a good chance that we’ll solve Global Warming with Nuclear Winter.
This is only up to the end of 2017. We are told this purchase of single-family homes has no effect because the percentage is so small compared to the entire market. However, that’s because those claiming that do not understand (or in some cases, do understand, but do not want us to) how house prices work. In short, homes are priced at the margin. Therefore, with a smart purchasing strategy, the market can be influenced fairly easily. This is exactly what is being done.
These days, all it takes to be classified as a bully is being better at something than another person and saying so.
What a world. What a world, my friends.
Airstrike on Russian positions in Vesoloe, Kursk region.
(51.2888146, 34.5462134)https://t.co/qBYsuBo4be pic.twitter.com/8zerENx2sS— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) September 15, 2024
I don’t usually embed Twitter stuff as who knows when it will disappear (just take too-large screenshots), but that is hella precise. It says “airstrike” but with what? I know the Ukrainians probably won’t release that but the explosion was fairly contained and had no pyro at all. My guess is that it was a bunker-penetrating bomb with minimal explosive yield to bring the building down but not do a lot of collateral damage.
But nice strike. Wonder what platform that came off of.
I will never live in an apartment again, but agreed, that is a good building for those who want to live in it. I like it.
