Pongalh
13hr ago
Really? But we all know, or know of, losers who manage to shake off responsibility for bad stuff but embrace responsibility for good stuff.
Pongalh
13hr ago
I love comments like these that turn the entirety of Judge Judy-style Conservative Inc. on its head. The loudmouth baby mama with four kids by three abusive men who can't hold down a job is the societal winner; that is, in the competition with the childless professional with a good head on her shoulder. She managed to reproduce, did she not? Case closed.
Pongalh
1d ago
Stunning inability? Maritime insurance rates weren't through the roof five minutes ago. Now they are.
This isn't making excuses for someone who's been arrested 30 times. Don't abuse the agency argument.
Pongalh
1d ago
You get kudos for reading any of those as far as I'm concerned. Last time I read any fiction my midwit ass was reading those paperbacks based on the Aliens franchise, with cool space marines on the cover.
Pongalh
2d ago
Well, Trump didn't even bother trying to convince a domestic audience. Compact has a good overview of the collapse in basic propaganda efforts: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-GEcO360z1g&t=1484s
Pongalh
7d ago
It is beginning to look like the previous US presidents who for the most part did not bomb Iran were not just bleeding heart pacifists but had sound strategic reasons not to bomb them, and that attacking Iran was a mistake.
Hear ye!
Pongalh
8d ago
The Grok app no longer allows me to generate videos. It went from 50 a day (!) to zero. I have to pay 30 a month for Super Grok.
Thing is, on desktop I can still generate videos (though unclear if they're still so generous as to give me 50) with my 13/month Premium X membership. Go figure. It's interrupted my mostly mobile "flow" but at least I'm not cut off completely.
Pongalh
10d ago
State lotteries directly promote vice. Can we start with ending those? How much are people supposed to tolerate transparent hypocrisy? I know, I know, hypocrisy is not the worst thing. But you don't have to make it official and ludicrously overt.
Pongalh
10d ago
I remember a friend in the extra-lockdown-loving Australia being told by police to hurry home by curfew. He'd gone out to get some Taco Bell and got a bunch of shit for it.
Pongalh
10d ago
But did you see where he said he was like, in a field, around nobody, and that was still not good enough?
Pongalh
15d ago
Apparently, the zeitgeist has turned away from "bad boys." It's not the 90s anymore. Not going to college and having served time isn't hot anymore. This is what I'm picking up at least from black YouTube. (My ex - Boalt Law school-bound at the time - once said I was slightly hotter to her after explaining I'd gone to continuation school, didn't graduate on time. I don't see a woman saying that nowadays.) To what degree does this suggest that women don't in fact want jerks?
Pongalh
15d ago
An example of politics being interested in you. You can avoid alt right or whatever stuff, but the women you associate with will infer it from your statements nonetheless.
Pongalh
15d ago
Do you think that's literally the only example I've ever seen, not simply the most salient?
Pongalh
15d ago
and more likely to instigate divorce when the status differential is changed in their favor
Ok, my second anecdote in a row, but yea. Friend of mine's little brother is overweight, and was married to an overweight woman. Well, she lost the weight, he didn't, and you can guess what happened next. My friend's wife said she saw it coming, a tale as old as time.
Pongalh
15d ago
Looking hot is the number one determinant of whether people interpret you as fun charismatic and confident.
Oh come on. I had a friend who was quite handsome but mumbled and had the presence of wallpaper. Ended up drinking himself to death, creeping women out on the way.
Pongalh
15d ago
If the accusation is that women looking to hook up with guys outside clubs in Miami prioritize looks over the politics and social views of the men they hook up with, OK?
Miami. You don't say! It's sad that young men really just want a decent-looking Jesse Buckley-style female friend with similar interests that grows into a LOVE interest. But they're so adrift they're pining for the longstanding trope of superficial club chicks? Chicks who existed in the 80s too - when things weren't so bad - and so a constant.
Pongalh
15d ago
Two criticisms: This documentary is biased and trying to pile on young men, and, Where are the female equivalents?
Focusing on the latter maintains your good points here about just Theroux just letting these people speak.
Pongalh
21d ago
That's it. That's everything. In a parallel universe, crimes committed by illegal immigrants or other left-sympathetic figures would move from local news to a national roundtable discussion. But it consistently fails to be escalated to such. It stays local (and even there is massaged, see affiliate reporting on BART crimes, purely locally). Unlike Ferguson, Missouri, a local crime that made the big time.
Pongalh
23d ago
DoorDashing is like that, tipping an advance. You do it as an incentive to give great service, not as a confirmation of great service given. Predictably I'll leave a generous tip but they won't come to the door, wanting me to go out to a parking lot (I usually order only when at a motel) and forget things.
Pongalh
23d ago
Interesting. I was at the first Coachella that same year. It had a somewhat more electronic music focus than Woodstock 99, with one tent entirely curated by Warp Records. There was far, far less debauchery than apparently what went on at Woodstock. The composition of attendees was more hipster-y and presumably UMC, which explains some of that. I recall two guys from San Luis Obispo who helped procure Autechre for the festival.
Pongalh
28d ago
"I don't have much to say except it's disappointing how Americans are bound to precedents."
Lefty Damage Mag put this humorously: "Can We Have New Bad Things?": https://www.damagemag.com/p/can-we-have-new-bad-things
I think of young women's reaction to e.g. the character Jesse from Breaking Bad and feel your comment is spot-on.
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