Antoine_St_Hexubeary [none/use name]

If the USSR wanted to keep workers in, that means it understood that it couldn’t function without them. Does your current country act like it understands this?

Sometimes the libs will coopt the left position and retroactively pretend it was the lib position the entire time (most dramatic example that comes to mind: the Civil Rights Movement) and that’s the best you can hope for.

“I should not have written this story.” -Ayn Rand

[Stares at inert pile of baseboard trim sitting in middle of garage, 8ft from the nearest plumbing, on a dry day]

[It begins leaking]

What in the goddamn

So does the Talmud contain discourse on every possible ethical conundrum?

What does it say about fudging the building code a little when you’re renovating a basement?

And maybe a Roma state somewhere east-southeast of there.

imagine in like 2110 someone makes a rap musical about Alan Greenspan

Thanks to ChatGPT, we don’t have to wait until 2110. Hell, we don’t even have to wait until the end of the day.

In fairness, most of the avant-garde jazz groups that came out of Ann Arbor, MI at the end of the 80s were Goopenists. Two of the best known ones have names that are anagrams of “Spontaneous Councilism” (Opossum’s Canticle Union and Numinous Calico Stepson.) In fact I’m pretty sure Jean-Baptiste Frazzwell played at Goopen’s fourth wedding, although I have no idea who the backing musicians would have been, since this would have been before the second Frazztones lineup came together but after the first lineup died of hantavirus.

Finland

Oh.

The truth is that life on farms from the Atlantic Seaboard to California bore little resemblance to the nostalgic ideal suggested by contemporary imaginings of the family farm. […] Camps, bunkhouses, lodges, taverns, and saloons were spaces rife with intimate and sexual relations that directly contravened dominant middle-class notions of sexual propriety: homosexuality, sexual barter and commerce, public and semi-public sex, and cross-dressing and gender fluidity.

If HBO made a show about this I would probably watch it.