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I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
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Only the unloved hate in Those Public Entries
I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We ...
Jean Twenge is a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad researcher. in Those Public Entries
ETA: Title change. And I, for one, am exhausted by the fact that she has designated herself The Voice Of Reason between Millennials and older generations. From the author of Generation Me: My Res...
Can someone be too old to hold office? That age-old question was front and center last week after awkward episodes from two of the oldest members of the U.S. Senate. On Wednesday, Sen. Mitch McCo...
As this post I shared on Facebook says: America was such bitch on Friday and now expects us to attend her birthday party on Tuesday? I don't think so, sweetie.— Sophie Vershbow (@svershbow) July ...
The Witch Trials of JK Rowling in Those Public Entries
The TL;DW version: “Convincing JK Rowling that trans people are valid/not dangerous perverts is non-productive. She is not the Main Character of Reality, whatever amount of main character energy...
I want to show you one of my favorite scene from the Indiana Jones series. Let me direct your attention to one particular bit of dialogue: Elsa: Is that what you think of me? I believe in the...
"Come Fly the (Occasionally) Friendly Skies." in Those Public Entries
Biden administration proposing rule changes to compensate passengers for flight delays By Maureen Groppe, published 5/9/23 WASHINGTON — The Biden administration wants to require airlines offer co...
Conservative Snowflakes in Those Public Entries
I mean, me? I love being called a snowflake by the same crowd that craps its collective drawers over beer, children’s media, breakfast cereals, and the skin color of mythical creatures.
Some people wait a lifetime for a brassiere that fits in Those Public Entries
And some people are fucking idiots. It’s me, I’m some people. So, around the beginning-ish of the pandemic, I became aware of A Bra That Fits, a calculator that’s supposed to give you your real b...
PSA for Discord users: in Those Public Entries
If you have a Discord account, go through your transactions on your checking accounts and credit cards. I saw four different charges for Discord Nitro on mine, even though I’ve never given any pa...
Right in the truth in Those Public Entries
Brought to you by Tennessee Republicans banning drag shows, because the crowd that likes to sneer about “liberal snowflakes” being offended by everything are so threatened by women, LGBTQIA+ peo...
From Vice: "How bad of a norovirus wave is the US in for? " in Those Public Entries
Things could get real shitty. By Keren Landman, Feb 17, 2023, 11:21am EST Keren Landman is a senior reporter covering public health, emerging infectious diseases, the health workforce, and health...
Section 230 in Those Public Entries
I joined Nebula earlier this year, and most of the people I follow on YouTube are also on Nebula, which means there’s exclusive content there that isn’t on YouTube. One of them is a recent LegalE...
Millennials, Atemporality, and What Does "Adult" Even Mean Anymore? in Those Public Entries
Original Twitter thread here. Images from BoredPanda. This is from 2018, but I think it all still applies.
Buzzfeed doesn't always get it right... in Those Public Entries
But when it does, it’s a thing of nearly indescribable beauty. Posting because we all, myself included, need to hear these. 17 Pieces of Advice From Therapists that are Hard to Hear (not in the s...
Five (Plus) Songs Whenever: Election Day in Those Public Entries
Yup. I voted this morning. In-person, at the town hall in my teeny-tiny, rural Vermont town. There’s a lot I can say about this election, but most of what I want to say has already been said, mu...
From the Atlantic: "Why Quitting Is Underrated" in Those Public Entries
And grit is not always a virtue. By Annie Duke, published 9/27/2022 Siobhan O’Keeffe, one of tens of thousands of runners in the 2019 London Marathon, noticed that her ankle started hurting four ...
Yet Another Piece on How American Health "Care" is Awful in Those Public Entries
I went to the dentist two weeks ago, for the first time in over a year. What did the appointment include? Well, since my last dentist decided to only send over the records from 2014, claiming tha...
From AP: "'I Cannot Mourn': Former colonies conflicted over the queen" in Those Public Entries
By CARA ANNA, DANICA COTO and RODNEY MUHUMUZA Sept. 11, 2022 NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Upon taking the throne in 1952, Queen Elizabeth II inherited millions of subjects around the world, many of them...
"Quiet Quitting"? You Mean, Doing the Job I'm Paid To Do? in Those Public Entries
You’ve probably heard of “quiet quitting” lately and wondered either (a) why people are doing it, the lazy bastards, and (b) if it’s actually “quitting”. I’m not even going to define the employer...
The danger is not organized civil war but individual Americans with deep resentments and delusions. By Tom Nichols A Deepening Void Civil war is among the many terms we now use too easily. The Am...
By Farah Yousry, published August 10th, 2022 Early on a Monday morning, a group of young obstetrics and gynecology residents gathered for a daily meeting. The young doctors, dressed in blue scrub...
From Politico: "Why expensive gasoline is here to stay " in Those Public Entries
“Future presidents and administrations are going to be absolutely bedeviled by high gasoline prices. By Ben Lefebvre 07/26/2022 04:30 AM EDT The political pain that high gasoline prices have infl...
They're not "red" states... in Those Public Entries
They’re “states oppressed by a GOP government through gerrymandering, redlining, redistricting, and the shutting-down of polling places in rural/poor/Black and brown communities, all to make it h...
George Carlin: "Pro-Life is Anti-Woman" in Those Public Entries
He originally did this bit in 1996. Pray tell, why is it even more relevant today? “Why, why, why, why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn’t want to fuck...
