jtrek

I see this sometimes from a distance, even with children. The boys are wild and loose, the girls on a tight leash.

Unfortunately, trying to address that with the sledgehammer of The State is not easy to do safely.

I have a somewhat vivid memory of sprinting through NY Penn Station around midnight to get the last train home, back before I lived in the city. Was a deciding factor in me moving. Had to leave my friend's Halloween party at like 10 to get the last train.

But public transport won't make a handful of people rich, so that's a non starter for many.

And you might have to reckon with living in a society, with other kinds of people. You'd really ask someone to ride a bus with a {slur of your choice} just sitting there, like they're entitled to peace and dignity?

In other words, conservatives are fuck heads who make the world worse for stupid reasons.

Edit: fix autocorrect mistake

A lot of people died to get the pittances we got from the ownership class. Decades of

• labor: we want to paid in real money, and work less than 12 hours a day 6 days a week
• owner: no
• labor: then we're going on strike
• owner, to the state: HELP
• the state: sends police and troops to do violence to labor

The idea that peacefully asking for stuff on its own is effective is largely ahistorical. A happy myth sold by the people who would be receiving violence.

Also your local public library has a lot of stuff

I (a man in his 40s) pronounced Lathe wrong the other day in a meeting when referencing the le Guin story "the lathe of heaven". Someone privately messaged me after to say "great book. BTW, it's pronounced..."

I would so much rather just have a full timestamp. I can do the delta fine myself.

That sounds like something out of Idiocracy. Just... it can't all be highlights. Some things need to build!

I've encountered a surprising amount of seemingly intelligent, successful, people recently who of their own admission don't read books. They just watch short videos, maybe a movie, and read social media.

I'm not a researcher but I expect that their vocabulary is stunted as a result.

But they're so weirdly proud about it. Like a defiant 12 year old who doesn't want to do his homework.

Some people are just... not okay. Something in them in broken. Perhaps it could be fixed, but we live in the bad place.

Trying to date someone who's not interested in me sounds miserable.

Dating someone that I'm not into sounds cruel to them. Unless it's clearly a, like, casual or otherwise non-invested situation, and they're aware, but that also sounds hazardous.

My cat will go under the blankets in bed when it's cold out. He figured this out after many years of living here. Some nights it still takes him a while to figure it out. He'll jump on the bed. I'll lift the blankets. He'll peer under there like he's never seen this scenario before in his life. After several cautious minutes he'll usually settle down. If I try to speed up the process by putting the blankets on him, he'll run out of the room