that’s a good question but I’m not someone with an answer
Everybody who likes cool social sciencey stuff should follow @collapsedsquid, who always has good material to quote and interesting points to make. And thanks to the halo effect, I am forced to assume that they’re quite attractive and independently wealthy as well. A highly recommended follow.
collapsedsquid said: I feel like you should put a warning that I’m not actually qualified though
No, because I don’t want to also have to add all of the copious caveats that would be necessary for every single one of my Non-joke posts.
I consider him as legitimate a credentialing authority as any
“I mean, I can’t believe she said that, bitch we’re ALL poor, this is the restaurant industry”
- girl who on appearance and mannerisms has been to college before age 23
“our college is 30% from the Hawaiian islands, we – to take in students – ‘Asian’ – now totally in the old –”
- girl I am pretty sure was in the middle of telling an #intersectional history of missionaries
“I mean, I can’t believe she said that, bitch we’re ALL poor, this is the restaurant industry”
- girl who on appearance and mannerisms has been to college before age 23
“our college is 30% from the Hawaiian islands, we – to take in students – ‘Asian’ – now totally in the old –”
- girl I am pretty sure was in the middle of telling an #intersectional history of missionaries
“Well I don’t know if— is that a drawing of a tiger going down on a chick?”
- me
Edmond Booth
Atlas Pizza
Dvision St.
Portland, OR
vengaboys haiku
We like to party.
We like, we like to party.
We like to party.
Wait… is BF4′s DLC map “Operation Outbreak” a remake of Codblops’ “Jungle”?
Like, it’s scaled up maybe 3x along some dimensions bcuz BF is a vehicle franchise, but the topography, the landmarks, the flow, the flag locations, I really think.
One thing about Tinder, it sure made me realize how many young women in these stereotypically female jobs - stewardess, receptionist, dental hygienist, hairstylist, aesthetician/makeup girl, elementary school teacher - there were.
Maybe those jobs and the app both select for the same kind of extroverted charm and they’re overrepresented, but at any reasonable discount I’m realizing my sense from personal experience (for each role, once or twice a year I might be in a situation to be aware of up to four of them) was underestimating by a lot.
complementarily to my recent discovery of sci-hub i’ve also found books43.com, a website that scrapes scanned books off google books and delivers them to you as a pdf (the only caveat is that it takes a few days for each book as it cycles through the pages available in the ‘limited preview’)
it only lets you request 1 book per day unless you buy a ‘gold account’ for 15 bucks but even at that you guys might find it useful
~ Cottage Economy, William Cobbett, 1833
I wish I could come up with a caption funnier than this extract.
The thing is, we already laugh at movies like Reefer Madness for things like this. Anyone who doesn’t think that, a century from now, people are going to rofl about current attitudes to, say, cocaine is kidding themself.
Cocaine and pot were widely expected to be decriminalized in the US in the late ‘70s - at the time the two enjoyed the same “soft drug” identity, plates of white flake got the High Times centerfold a few times. What possibly derailed it was the FBI threatening to make a thing about Carter’s chief of staff doing blow at Studio 54.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stirred up controversy over the treaty that almost a century ago set the borders of modern Turkey, alarming both neighbouring Greece and secular opposition at home.
In a speech Thursday, Erdogan for the first time rejected the notion that the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne was a “victory” for Turkey and wistfully lamented the loss of Aegean islands which are now Greek territory.
The treaty — the founding basis of the modern Turkish state out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire — has usually been seen inside the country as a triumph of its secular leadership led by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
“You see the Aegean, don’t you?” Erdogan told local officials in the speech at his presidential palace.
“In Lausanne, we gave away islands (so near that) your voice can be heard if you shout across to them. Is this a victory?” he asked.
“They were ours. There are our mosques, our shrines there.”
Erdogan rounded on those who negotiated the treaty who included Ismet Inonu, Ataturk’s right-hand-man who would later succeed him as president and still a hero for secularists.
“Those who sat at that table could not make the best of the agreement. Today we are suffering the consequences.”
Turkey’s main opposition party leader spoke out against Erdogan’s comments, describing them as a betrayal of history.
“Don’t forget that you sit on that chair thanks to Lausanne,” said Kemal Kilicdaroglu of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), the party founded by Ataturk which sees itself as the guardian of his secular principles.
“Nobody has the right to betray their history.”
Yusuf Kaplan, columnist in the pro-government Yeni Safak newspaper, however described Lausanne as a “death warrant” and praised Erdogan for throwing “taboos on the trash.”
“Turkey could not be invaded from outside but was captured inside by being secularised from the top by secular elites.”
Wait, the French right-mainstream party renamed itself “The Republicans” last year?
Doesn’t seem any less random to me tbh. Wracking my brain I can only think of two things tangent enough to even bother sketching:
1) Gesturing vaguely towards the concept of social contagion and copycat transgression, examples being the wave of late-’90s mass school shootings following the Pearl High School attack in ‘97, with other rampages in the wake of the Amish schoolhouse massacre in ‘06, or how the 2002 Tampa and 2010 Austin kamikaze attacks were clearly inspired by 9/11.
In the course of getting my dates right, I learned that the first big school shooting/massacre happened in 1764, and inspired Pennsylvania to (re)institute a bounty on natives (with scalps as proof). Sounds about right. ‘Merica!
2) A history of circuses and other traveling performers (theater troupes, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Stage Show, revival preachers) in America, emphasizing just how huge and sparse and rural America was before WWII, and just how important railroads were to making that at all workable. Possible digressions include:
That’s not really about clowns tho.
You know it’s weird after My Big Fat Greek Wedding no one bothered to adapt Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding
Wait, they DID? With Mila Kunis? And it was terrible? Oh man. OK the premise is blown but I just want to remind people of Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding.
Which maybe I’m overestimating the universality of, I heard ads for it constantly… in a media market that covered Jersey tho…
In other Meg Griffin news, I played the Lost in Space pinball table for the first time today. Terrible ‘90s Data East, but I was like haha Matt LeBlanc wait damn, who’s that girl with the hair. Lacey Chabert!
Christ, I forgot how much I wanted to bend that girl over some furniture when I was 14.
