Middle of night insomnia thought: that the trope that people become more conservative with age had to do with steady progress being made over time. Add dentistry and pharma to Canada’s universal health care, add universal basic income as a bridge to universal basic housing and universal basic food, plus education to all levels of university and trades, and suddenly I’m a moderate conservative.
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"I stopped what I was doing out of respect for this 100 year old woman and put the cell on speakerphone and told him to talk. He started the prayer of the dead and he began to cry and could barely get the words out. And I saw she had numbers tattooed on her arm." pic.twitter.com/05jQ1Db8VV
— Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt (@avitalrachel) March 30, 2020
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It was friggin' decades ago, but I still remember working at a giant-sized supermarket to get through college, and having to retrieve thousands of carts from every corner of the parking lot, in all kinds of weather. Often with bonuses of sticky foodstuffs all over the inside, left to ferment in the sun.
So I don't know how good a person it makes me, but I return the fucking carts. Often all the way to the front of the store. And silently judge all the assholes who don't.
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"Her eyes in certain light were violet, and all her teeth were even. That's a rare, fair feature: even teeth. She smiled to excess, but she chewed with real distinction." - Eleanor of Aquitaine
I put a lead up tweet to this article in the Miscellany and it seems here last week :scatterbrain: but I’ve since read the article and find it important enough to signal boost:
I put a lead up tweet to this article in the Miscellany and it seems here last week :scatterbrain: but Ive since read the article and find it important enough to signal boost:
Part of the reason the phrase caught on, though, is that there’s a gesture of solidarity buried beneath the pessimism. Yes, so many things have gone so badly wrong that it would be a waste of time to list them, but the other reason it would be a waste of time is that most people already know which things have gone wrong, because we’re all wading through the same shit together. What’s more, since a frightening number of people have decided to respond to the ongoing collapses by sticking their fingers in their ears and denying anything is going wrong, it’s a compliment (sort of—the bar has been lowered to the center of the earth) to assume you’re speaking to someone who acknowledges objective reality. That belief—that we’re not alone in this, that other people can see what’s happening and will fight against it—is the foundation the future will have to be built upon.
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People affirming values publicly is how values propagate through a society.
I think about this a lot and I agree with the author. I don't know that I've ever seen "virtue signalling" used as anything but a presumptuous epithet.
because this wave of cyberpunk is the pop-punk version where corporations are trying to make money off aesthetic and not understanding the actual substance of what it's actually about? https://t.co/PJejCX02LS
The last one is wrong: both the truncated original and the "completed" quote come from the Torah, "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." However, it's still constantly (possibly always, including in the supposedly correct version) misused, since in the original context it was an upper limit on recompense, not a demand for equal bloodshed.
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"Her eyes in certain light were violet, and all her teeth were even. That's a rare, fair feature: even teeth. She smiled to excess, but she chewed with real distinction." - Eleanor of Aquitaine