randbot.bsky.social
Weird dad, Philly adjacent, trying to doomscroll less and mostly not succeeding
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He got mad that someone called Cuomo a “rapist” and decided to go die on the hill next to the “technically that’s ephebophilia” people
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I agree, the overwhelming message in my feed has been “don’t rank Cuomo” — pro-Zohran content has been a distant second AT BEST
which doesn’t even seem like that leftist a sentiment: “hey the guy who resigned in disgrace for sexpestery? he’s still bad!”
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Sure, but if you said “the purpose of an automobile is to create air pollution” I would think it mostly gets you arguments about how that’s not correct, rather than getting people thinking about moving to EVs or whatever.
But if you’re using it as a rhetorical term of art, sure.
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That’s not the traditional definition of “purpose” nor how most people use it in practice. We have the terms “unintended consequences” or “side effects” to describe outputs of a system that were not part of the original intention.
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Did you guys actually read the thread or just get mad at the first skeet? Because it’s pretty wild to look at “But there is no comparison anywhere on the left with MAGA's regular legitimization of violence in our politics” and somehow conclude “he’s fucking bothsidesing the issue yet again”
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The ironic thing is that given LA geography, it would also be entirely valid to decline an invite to many things in LA with "I'm sorry, but I live ON Montana, that's an all day trek for me"
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really could not believe that one person who *completely typed out the premise of the joke* and yet the penny didn't drop
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don't worry, i think there's still room for ... one moooore thing!
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truly wild. yes, you all have gotcha'd AOC by correctly reading the word "everything" to mean "literally every aspect of the world from time immemorial to today," great job.
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"everything was fine" is a pretty common phrase, when you use it do you typically mean "literally every possible thing in the previous history of the world up until now" or could it perhaps have a more limited reference in this case (ie, the state of violence at the protests)
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lived in West LA in the late 80s-early 90s and Santa Monica was less fancy then, but definitely had no areas that were below "nice middle-class"
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let's be fair, he also means "there are unhoused people out in public"
100% chance as a teenager he constantly referred to his town as "the People's Republic of Santa Monica"
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He grew up in Santa Monica, a city that has some very wealthy parts but exactly zero areas that are "very impoverished" - Santa Monica High School is a large public high school that is well rated, in a good school district. He definitely would have had to see brown people and the unhoused, though.
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by the way, his bluesky timeline won't give you the whole picture; at least half his fame comes not from his informative menswear threads, but from the fact that he has remained on Twitter, where he is a legendary poaster, just nuking rightwingers from orbit on the regular.
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of the many ridiculous facets of his argument, my favorite is that he is writing this from FUCKING FRANCE, which I can only assume is currently a Mad-Max-style post-governmental wasteland based on his supposition.
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Gritty is, in fact, the sum total of both my "sports enthusiasm" and my "how much I embrace Philly-ness"
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Apparently the Philly Phanatic appears in Rocky Balboa, but that's the best I've got
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That's how you test if you have a Kwisatz Hogerach, I guess
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"see, MY culture is unique in that we have a food where you put filling inside a pocket of dough and then cook it"
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it does, however, give somebody the opportunity to show up in a white shirt, dark slacks and carrying a couple of shopping bags and do the funniest thing possible.
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But this goes back to his point about the information environment being a critical part of the problem; I'm pretty sure what a lot of those people THOUGHT they were voting for was to deport the millions of undocumented violent criminals that they were convinced existed.
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It's because child can both refer to "humans of a certain age range" but also a relational status.
I am an adult but I am still my mother's child.
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i mean, in this particular context it's merely "internet memes: if you don't know, strongly consider if you want to change that status"
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Ooh, good point! It also occurs to me that Sanctuary Moon also seems like the type of show that would end every episode with a dramatic cliffhanger...
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And if that phrase is meaningless to you, here's more context: knowyourmeme.com/memes/cuck-c...
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True, what IS the half-hour format if not the novella of TV? 😄
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I would say my only complaint is episode length -- this is the only time in recent memory I've wanted a streaming series' episodes to be LONGER, lol!
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Source: me, a dude who has been into urban folklore since the 1990s when Snopes was called the Urban Legends Reference Pages
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No, "Folklore scholars consider the popular explanation linking it to the Great Plague, which has been common since the mid-20th century, to be unfounded."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_a_...
blogs.loc.gov/folklife/201...
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the only potential South African immigrant I am in favor of accepting
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my generation had its own version, that "Ring Around The Rosie" was about the Black Plague. but we had to pass that conspiracy around person-to-person on the playground like cavemen, instead on these newfangled internets
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prefer CATTE to DOGE at least.
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this is low-tier for a Nextdoor complaint post, let alone a national pundit. embarrassing shit.
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Also, at the time he was signaling he would be a one-term president; if anything, going back on THAT is the "original sin"!
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for some context from people who actually looked at, you know, data instead of pure "but cities scary" vibes: www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/jus...
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That would be understandable and complicated, but unfortunately this was a less complicated story of "brokering company simply ignored their wishes altogether"
www.reuters.com/investigates...
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in this case, unfortunately no, straight fraud on the part of the broker company. Donor family specified Alzheimers and specifically checked "no military or non-medical testing," donation company immediately turned around and sold that body to the military.
www.reuters.com/investigates...