it’s so funny that people keep trying to do “which super power would you like to have?” polls on tumblr and including “shapeshifting” and expecting anything else will get more than a small fraction of votes.
Re: sex pervert stuff. I think you're seeing something most people don't see. That can mean you're ahead of the curve, or it can mean you got sidetracked and are looking at something irrelevant, a small group of weirdos. I've had much the same thoughts about furries - cartoon animals fucking treated as normal without object- nor meta-level wink wink "isn't this weird?" lampshading, furbait vidya aimed at horny teenagers being the future, etc. but I don't think it's going to be _real_, y'know?
I mean if you went into the last 20 years eyes open obviously furries were gonna be real
The obvious way to reconcile “the primary driver of American homelessness is housing prices, not addiction” with “the homeless people in my city are largely addicts” is that the first to be displaced by rising housing prices are the most economically marginal yet not previously homeless residents, who were disproportionately addicts
“To explain the interplay between structural and individual causes of homelessness, some who study this issue use the analogy of children playing musical chairs. As the game begins, the first kid to become chairless has a sprained ankle. The next few kids are too anxious to play the game effectively. The next few are smaller than the big kids. At the end, a fast, large, confident child sits grinning in the last available seat.
You can say that disability or lack of physical strength caused the individual kids to end up chairless. But in this scenario, chairlessness itself is an inevitability: The only reason anyone is without a chair is because there aren’t enough of them.”
Jerusalem Demsas is so based. Plugged into american Econtwitter she’s the best itw at leaundering economist deregulation speak to make it palatable for libs. Regulatory capture is the biggest hole in the progressive conception of problems and solutions, hopefully she can help solve that problem!
Jerusalelas Demsas is a she?
Believable but not immediately obvious.
Yeah she’s on twitter as @JerusalemDemsas . Don’t know why her being a girl is surprising though.
The obvious way to reconcile “the primary driver of American homelessness is housing prices, not addiction” with “the homeless people in my city are largely addicts” is that the first to be displaced by rising housing prices are the most economically marginal yet not previously homeless residents, who were disproportionately addicts
“To explain the interplay between structural and individual causes of homelessness, some who study this issue use the analogy of children playing musical chairs. As the game begins, the first kid to become chairless has a sprained ankle. The next few kids are too anxious to play the game effectively. The next few are smaller than the big kids. At the end, a fast, large, confident child sits grinning in the last available seat.
You can say that disability or lack of physical strength caused the individual kids to end up chairless. But in this scenario, chairlessness itself is an inevitability: The only reason anyone is without a chair is because there aren’t enough of them.”
Jerusalem Demsas is so based. Plugged into american Econtwitter she’s the best itw at leaundering economist deregulation speak to make it palatable for libs. Regulatory capture is the biggest hole in the progressive conception of problems and solutions, hopefully she can help solve that problem!
Thoughts on “the info hazard” note that you’re several years post anxiety?
Oh, rapebaiting? Yeah thats progressed at about the rate I’d expect, building up below the radar so when the mainstream ‘90s-derived consent culture collapses they’ll be totally blindsided by the “we are dressing and acting like this cause we’re asking for it!”
At least we used to have pirate ravishment romance novels in the drug store to remind us
Something American urbanist praise of Japanese real estate development forms needs to grapple with is that the call for frequent construction and demolition is leveraged to sustain a small construction work sector as a sink for the would-be underclass, almost in place of a welfare system “floor”. (This interestingly means construction labor is often articulated with organized crime, but in a manner completely different from how it is in the US)
I mean given the postwar American administrative order the occupation authorities were almost certainly getting reports from labor economists on the distinctions with the New York and Italian systems at the time
calling up your catering supplier and asking them what’s the deal on airline food
My uncle was an executive at Aramark (that’s how I got tickets to Super Bowl XXX!) so I warmly appreciate this.
Cowboys vs. Steelers in Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona, January 1996.
There’d been some backlash to the Cowboys as “America’s Team” (which was really about the national mediated culture finally reaching past the northeast and “Rust Belt” industrial upper midwest, just like the “Achy Breaky” 90s country boom) and the Steelers were from my Pennsylvania, but while I would have rooted for the Eagles my general instinct to side with the greater aligned me with the ‘Boys and they won.
I’d been hoping for an onsides kick, but I think there was a good one in a semifinal game previous.
We had individual seat cushions on the benches, with a packet with a 2-sided color card and instructions how to flip it around to create manually pixelated graphics for the halftime show (we had practices!) and goodies, I remember this was my first exposure to BreatheRight nasal strips.
On the way out of the stadium the vendors already had Cowboy win commemoration gear ready to go; that’s why you hear about wrong-winner surplus clothes being donated to Africa.
I’m on a Facebook group for pictures of cats on pinball machines.
And though I knew intellectually how key the “home use” market is to the industry, and even joshed about how a lot of recent classic rock-themed tables were a hilariously on-the-nose play to this “midlife crisis” market, being directly confronted with evidence of how big a share of the operating tables in circulation are being hosted in mancave 4-table banks exhibiting no aesthetic or gameplay sensibility, just Funko-ass hoarding, is a revelation
I knew guys with basement machines, but like because they were pinball guys who would have tournaments on this collection of stuff they had assembled over at least a decade by being presented with occasional opportunities through iffy merchants and in response developing moderately deep curatorial knowledge
And like, my uncle had a pinball machine in his basement yeah, that was where our “barn finds” came from
Amusingly a game designer high-profile associated with the “Legend of the Five Rings” Japonisme CCG and TTRPG I was into in the 90s was named “John Wick”, so my overall impression of the franchise at this point is as if Indiana Jones had been coincidentally named Richard Garfield
