LimesTheif
1yr ago
I’m a sucker for world building.
Proud of myself for not buying cheap Miskatonic University swag off Etsy.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
Did those people understand the board of a publicly traded company has a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders, whatever any employees may think, and Musk offered above share price, waived due diligence (legally-irrelevant public tantrum about bots aside) and assumed responsibility for clearing any objections from regulators?
A board would have to be able to sell shareholders on its stock being significantly undervalued to turn that down.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
Bluesky is interesting. Twitter was already working on it as a protocol, under which, users could choose from different algorithms to populate their feed.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
One of the really nutty things about the Cotton op-ed tantrum was where some of the internal pushback came from at the Times via Slack, Twitter, etc. The op-ed page weighing the concerns of the company’s tech workers was a big departure from the past.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
No scores is ace. I don’t mind reading comments, and don’t care for popularity contests. Feels chill, which is really nice.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
My sister has radiant heat for in the winter and mini splits for the summer. She loves that in the fall, she can use her mini splits to heat her house on the days it’s needed, and wait to fire the boiler up until winter has fully arrived.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
I remember all the claims of Jared Lee Loughner‘s motivation being tied to Republican campaign rhetoric that turned out to be nonsense. And that hot, hot take came out first, then the dig for corroborating evidence, however tangential (did he listen to talk radio?!) served up a nothingburger.
At least in the case of Pelosi’s attacker, his Facebook history includes a lot of Mike Lindell election-truther videos. There is some basis for suspecting a political motive that could be articulated.
Now, I’m sure there will be some overreaching op-eds that follow. But that CNN piece is fairly tame.
Marin County is an antivax stronghold, yo. There is more than one kind of Democratic voter.
It’s where RFK, Jr. holds luncheons about autism at wineries.
As a tangent, the Abe assassination was really interesting in that his assassin actually achieved change in the direction of his goals, with the Japanese government becoming less friendly to the Moonies.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
But perhaps such indiscretions are expected of '60s and '70s rock stars and aren't held against them.
These lists change as generations of critics do, and today’s critics would surely ding them for this, but their reputations were made prior to this stuff being a significant concern.
Bowie’s fascist-sympathizing period has not really dinged his rep. He was on heroin, then, don’t you know, and besides, he explored gender fluidity and took MTV to task for not featuring black artists.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
Kanye is as much a genuine Nazi as Manson was a genuine satanist.
Not everyone who is anti-semitic is a Nazi. Kanye is getting his talking points from the Nation of Islam and Black Israelites. That strain of black thought is deeply anti-semitic (and also believes some hilariously-improbable conspiracy theories). But he is also a bipolar guy off his meds, who is building conspiracies in his head surrounding his divorce, and is really mad at some Jewish lawyers that represented his wife, among a whole bunch of other things.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
Maybe Netflix is more fun than in-person social activities.
I guess this is subjective, but as someone with an active, meat-space social life, it takes time, money and effort to maintain. You can substitute time and effort for money (pasta, red sauce and a screw-top Barbera can go a long way). I know we Americans tend to informally socially segregate by class, but at least my social life bridges that pretty easily. I host a large BBQ with white and blue collar guests every year. It’s amazing what breaking bread together does to bridge divides.
I haven’t found online socializing to be more than a simulacrum for meat-space socializing. Nearly all my friends are current and former teammates from rec sports leagues, current and former coworkers, people I met in young-professionals arts organizations, the bar I used to be a regular at, a book club, etc.
My GF and I are having folks over for dinner, tonight. That involved a more thorough cleaning of the house than we normally do on Saturday morning, a bigger grocery bill to account for the extra food and wine, and starting work in the kitchen at 9:00 this morning to sear the roast and get the slow cooker going.
And, it’s not that we don’t subscribe to multiple streaming services and couldn’t just pop something on tonight and put our feet up. But as others have said, here, it’s instant gratification versus long-term payoff. And, Netflix can be like weed, where you can put a pause on thinking about why you might not be satisfied with how you’re spending your evening.
But hugs, handshakes, smiles, eye contact, laughs, etc. land much differently, in person. As do frank discussions requiring sympathy or empathy.
We try, as much as our schedule, energy levels, and finances allow, to make plans, get people together, host dinner parties, etc. And, while we have not gotten a 1:1 return, the more often we make an effort to be social, the more others do in our direction, as well. And it’s encouraging, how often when we set something up, how many people say, “This was great. We need to do this more often.” You also over time figure out who will reciprocate, socially, and can prioritize spending time with them.
I think so many of us get into a rut once out of school, and there’s nothing making socializing more of a default you have to opt out of.
Do women or black people control the NFL? No. It’s owned by old white guys. But Jon Gruden isn’t coaching anymore.
Did Jewish people just start working in the entertainment industry? Ice Cube appearing on the cover of the Nation of Islam’s rabidly anti-semitic newspaper ‘The Final Call’, years after his previous controversy surrounding his lyrics, didn’t keep him from being cast in family comedies.
I sincerely think you would like Farrakhan’s book where he cherry picks which Jewish bankers helped finance the slave trade, ignoring all the gentiles that did as well, and everyone else involved, and paints it as a coordinated “Jewish” effort.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
The electoral problem for the pro-AA side is that this doesn’t cut neatly across two-party divisions. White and Asian-Americans are both over represented relative to the general population in college admissions, and don’t want their kids’ chances dinged because of their census categorization. A lot of Asian Americans who were Clinton/Biden voters strongly oppose any quotas that will impact their kids.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
That’s what I’m pointing at. Asians are firmly in the Democrat camp, but many in that camp break orthodoxy on affirmative action. It’s an issue Republicans can use as a wedge.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
Does anyone know any higher ups in the Catholic Church? Maybe, specifically in Louisiana?
Still-current ‘American Conservative’ (the publication) blogger and former trad-cath Rod Dreher, who has spent a career moralizing to others, has divorced his wife and converted to Orthodoxy. I think it’s only fair and right the Catholic Church excommunicate him for his divorce and heresy.
Just wanted to see if anyone can put in a call, get the ball rolling.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
Derek Guy’s ‘Die, Workwear!’ is (IMO) the best menswear blog out there. But it’s not really a guide. His current ‘How to Develop Good Taste’ series, now on Part 4, is a good read.
Guy’s instagram account of same name has some funny inside-baseball memes as well. Like how Daily Wire pundits are now wearing the kind of #menswear-era cuts and styles made popular 15 years ago by Thom Browne and Tom Ford: https://instagram.com/p/CixgYj-LV-c/
As for a guide, it depends on what you want, because the internet has fragmented men’s fashion. There’s a bit of nostalgia for the #menswear era of the late Aughts, because it might be the last time trends for men all moved in the same direction.
Digging into Flusser’s and Boyer’s books and learning to pick cuts that flatter your (you, your specific body) are a great base. Guy touches on these in his aforementioned series.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
And if you have the stamina for it, there’s always the ‘Throwing Fits’ podcast and Instagram, if you want to try and chase fragmented trends based on the advice of two funny menswear bros.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
☝️ I’d be a little careful with a five year old guide from rMFA. Cuts and silhouettes are moving on from the #menswear era that spawned that subreddit. And watch out for the lack of a collar roll on the types of OCBDs they liked when that guide was written. Matt Walsh, as an example, dresses like a bad imitation of a gay guy from 2008. This stuff does filter downstream from the high-low world of tastemaking, even to guys who say this stuff isn’t what straight men concern themselves with.
rMFA isn’t terrible, but it’s mostly guys who reworked their closet 12 months ago giving advice to new people about to replace them on that forum.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
Could well be but that’s moot relative to the politics of this, in that there isn’t going to be a noticeable pro-affirmative action push for non-legacy, non-athletic, non-Jewish whites from any quarter.
…we're playing this "please let the blood be on their hands" game, we're not nearly as close to civil war as some might fear. I'd worry more about that if I were hearing more of the opposite.
The ‘Radio War Nerd’ hosts have talked about this in relation to Charlottesville and street clashes in Portland. If you have a nation where firearms are prevalent and people are fighting with improvised melee weapons, what you are witnessing is political theater.
I’ll start taking Blue-Anon scaremongering over the rise of fascism in America seriously when we start seeing Weimar-era daily death counts from street violence.
In the Charlottesville case, an incel wasn’t bright enough to grok this and inspired a backlash by crossing the line to premeditated lethality.
In the latter, Proud Boy/Patriot Prayer type groups are bussing people in to Portland because that’s where they can get video squaring off with the Black Bloc folks, while the Black Bloc types hilariously claim their street violence deters the former from gathering in public.
“Classics are forever with a flourish or fit change” is incompatible with “fit is king” unless you really learn what you like and flatters you, and are happy being out of sync with what is currently on trend in the mind of normies. If the average Mottizen thrifts a ‘50s Brooks navy blazer he’s going to feel weird about how square and structured the shoulders are if he’s looking to fit in, even though a navy blazer is “classic”, and even if he can’t articulate it.
You mention dark-wash jeans? That’s downstream of a niche Japanese interest in ‘50s and ‘60s Americana that the fashion world brought back over to the U.S. from abroad. I know no Mottizens were buying Momotaro selvedge in the Aughts, but Todd Snyder when he was still at J. Crew was, and then the GAP, etc. picked up on it. And now a five year old MFA guide recommends it, but the tastemakers that will determine what MFA is going to recommend in a couple years from now ditched dark wash a couple years back, and that too will filter down. It’s all going to churn, and churn, and churn, even for normies. A five year old MFA guide is already long in the tooth, and was itself born of trends — it didn’t opt out of them. And they ultimately won’t stick with them, either.
Also, dark wash jeans, in terms of “classic” rules, don’t offer enough of a contrast with a navy blazer, running a foul of not clearly differentiating pants from an odd jacket, even though that was (is?) an MFA favorite. MFA didn’t come up with some classic or objective reason dark wash jeans were preferable.
My point is, if you have the time, please dig through something like Guy’s series on developing personal taste because that has a much longer shelf life than an MFA guide and you’ll honestly be happier with the results.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
Rod does not want to discuss it and thanks you all for respecting his privacy.
The Chapo guys have baselessly speculated he’s running around Hungary with a group of male grad students for a reason.
LimesTheif
1yr ago
They’re very doomer, but still have enough yuks to keep me interested. Skip the most-recent episode (no. 675), in particular. They’re on tour, but still decided to still try and put out an episode, and it was a low-effort attempt guest hosted by an improv comedy duo that bombed. Not indicative of other recent efforts.
Chester Himes’ Harlem Detective series. Really enjoying it, particularly the grim bits of humor, like a dead body’s head banging around after sliding out of a coffin while a hearse is being used in a car chase. Currently working on ‘All Shot Up’, which is the fifth of nine books in the series.
A couple (?) film adaptations have been attempted. There was a blacksploitation version of ‘Cotton Comes to Harlem’ and Bill Duke of ‘Predator’ and ‘Commando’ fame directed an adaptation of ‘A Rage in Harlem’. I found the former a bit hokey and the latter a bit tame.
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