Huh, that’s a point I hadn’t considered before: requiring juries to be vaccinated or masked might render them unrepresentative and their decisions legally vulnerable.
immediately discussing your past with a new therapist is trauma dumping and is actually toxic because you don’t know if your therapist is mentally ready to receive such heavy information ahahahahhaha no but can you imagine actually arguing this i think it’ll be on tiktok within the year
It is an unironic sign of several shifts that over 20 years the things I learn from staying up on the internet late enough for Australians to wake up have gone from “how to be racist about Aborigines” (look out they don’t steal your shoes) to “what’s going on in Chinese pop culture?”
people cant just create a massively popular show/book that had a profound impact on popular culture and then just retire in peace anymore. they gotta wait until they’re older and get really mad about some shit that is not happening and ruin their own legacy by publicly humiliating themselves constantly
We don’t anymore have an information ecosystem where the acclaimed voices of one generation become the gatekeepers of the next such that they simply don’t let notions discontinuous ever become a thing, is the issue
Weeks before Virginia’s gubernatorial election, the campaign for Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe is reaching out to an unexpected constituency: Taylor Swift fans.
On Tuesday, the McAulliffe campaign launched a series of Facebook, Instagram, and Google search ads highlighting his opponent Glenn Youngkin’s role in the controversial purchase of Taylor Swift’s master recordings in 2019. The buyout of Swift’s masters has been a point of bitter contention for the singer and her fans and could be an unexpected liability in the upcoming race.
everyone in my family treats my uncle like he is crazy because he doesn’t really use a cell phone or computer but his reasoning is ‘the government and other people can track what you are doing and spy on you’ but its like… yeah, that’s pretty true
You know, “the ‘Arizona independent-appeal Senator’ role previously held by John McCain will now be played by the woman who dated Ms. Frizzle in college, except she votes for a Democratic Majority Leader and keeps the 'maverick’ stuff to like normal budget moderation instead of imperial war” is… about where you would have realistically hoped politics would be at by now.
Like, we are falling short of a complete fundamental refounding, and I suppose several factions have worked themselves up to considering that necessary (or else what? or else we go down the path where they don’t get their way) but things could be worse.
So we’re now at a point I’m still stumbling and slurring enough that bartenders and customer service workers try to cut me off and throw me out but when I explain it’s COVID nerve damage they get apologetic, and if you’ve never had the experience of making the snotty bitch realize she hasn’t been righteously upholding Proper Order with her meanness tantrum but instead mocking a cripple the whole time, whoo boy
I guess I must have missed this, but what originally happened to cause this maybe-nerve-damage? Did you get injured or sick or something? 😟
Yeah wow did you miss it. In what I’m increasingly suspecting is a post-COVID thing I had a total collapse of my mental stability followed by my physical peripheral fine motor control in 2020. After a year it’s mostly cleared but left marks: physically I exhibit signs of nerve damage but the way I relearned to use my legs I’m not flatfooted anymore; mentally I behave differently, with much reduced anxiety and inhibition. Also, hilariously, I’m bisexual now.
i mean this in the nicest way possible you guys but you NEED to take better care of yourselves online. getting severely anxious about mass quantities of horrible things you cant change every single day is normal considering the internet’s ability to educate on worldwide issues, it shows that you have empathy and that you truly do care. but relentless knowledge of constant suffering on this scale is NOT something humans are psychologically equipped to handle. it’s okay to shut off. it’s okay to just take a break and enjoy yourself for a while in your own localized space
It was half meant as a joke, but I recently read a post that was something like “If you’re not outraged, you’re probably setting understandable boundaries with the news you consume online”, and I still haven’t stopped thinking about it
So I commented on Facebook that the new “People You May Know” was reliably putting a feasibly attractive and life-stage-suitable friend-of-a-friend in the leftmost slot for me to get intrigued by and stop scrolling
And one of my friends snarked back and I pointed out it was usually *his* friends they were showing
So next time they came up I clicked through and… apparently totally valid cute polyamorists from Boston Google where he works, and so I contacted him joking I kinda expected more of the crew from our weirdo dorm to end up moving in this scene and it’s kind of funny really that it’s us, and we caught up and really renewed our bond
And that’s where Facebook is at in 2021: creating heartwarming moments between old friends by suggesting for inscrutable profit-driven reasons that I should want to fuck his girlfriends
