And yet as soon as these pardons were announced, prison abolitionists on social media were furious. It turns out that if you commute the sentences of a whole category of people — non-violent offenders under house arrest — some of them will still be pretty awful criminals.
They’re calling it “Reeder for normies.”
The supposed danger of ultra-processed foods has resonated among the general public in the last several years, tapping into anxieties about industrial modernity and a sense that we’re being poisoned by big food companies.
Just saw a TikTok claiming that Philly’s Chinatown is “fighting for its life” and I’ve never been so relieved that it’s actually TikTok in that position.
The idea of a “monthly active user” of a product is so funny to me. “This looks great! I’m going to use it like, twelve times a year”
MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) similarly is a vehicle for all manner of disaffected people, from the crunchy to the paranoid to the chronically ill, who’ve been searching for a charismatic outsider to launch an assault against the powerful forces that have kept Americans unhealthy for so long.
If you have any appreciation for native Mac apps I recommend moving as much of your online content as possible into the new Reeder—it’s so good that every second you use it almost relieves the pain of having to use web apps for everything else. (As a bonus, the companion iOS apps are just as solid.)
Ironically, the killer contributed to America’s poor life expectancy in a predictable way: by killing a middle-aged man with a firearm.
Of all the possible outcomes available, the least shared, argued over, and considered is one that the shooter alludes to himself—that what feels to all of us like an era-defining event may ultimately be unremarkable in its brutality, in its inability to effect change, and in how quickly everyone moves on.
People still want to live in California and New York, but the cost of living must come down. If the Democratic governors of these states want to avoid a decade of electoral oblivion, they have one job: make their states places people can afford to stay.
Why do all the React people emphasize the “use” part when they pronounce the names of the hooks? Extremely Hermione voice, it’s “yooz uh-FECT,” not “YOOSS uh-fect.”
Whipped up a custom feed of breaking news updates from the official Associated Press account, since it looks like the existing bot mirroring those posts from Twitter has shut down.
These are conservative ideals with leftist wrapping paper. Of course, much like any good Republican chickenhawk cheering on a foreign war, Lorenz and the dirtbag progressives don’t want to get their own hands dirty — but they’re happy to encourage violence from their positions of elite privilege.
It’s what led some people to decide that if traffic cameras catch more violators in Black neighborhoods, that’s problematic discrimination. But is it? Or does it mean that traffic cameras are solving a problem (unsafe driving) that primarily threatens residents of Black neighborhoods?
If the vegetables are called water chestnuts then it only makes sense for clams to be called water pistachios
There are two types of people in the world: those who would let a stranger know their iPhone’s flashlight was left on inadvertently (and would want strangers to do the same to them), and those who would keep that to themselves after noticing (and would prefer others do for them).
“Let’s talk about everyone’s favorite topic: big scary Jewish billionaires,” Blatstein said, drawing incredulous “No”s and booing from arena opponents around the room. “Yes, three rich Jewish men own the 76ers and want to invest $1.3 billion into the city of Philadelphia. Isn’t that a good thing?”
Triumphalism is the belief that all you have to do is present a pure vision of what you believe is good and moral policy, yell about it really loudly, and then over time people will have no choice to but agree with you — and anyone who doesn’t today will be shamed into compliance tomorrow.
Want to read: Algospeak by Adam Aleksic 📚
Density is how lower- and middle-income people outcompete richer people for land area, for space. And if you can’t build higher density, then you simply can’t outcompete higher income folks for the land that the houses need to sit on.
Engineers love to tell me the things I want to do are impossible or difficult to implement. And if I took them at their word, we’d not even try. But because I don’t think it’s impossible, then we get to work it out together.
In the wake of a sweeping defeat, instead of vivisecting Harris’s performance as a candidate or concluding that electing a Black woman was unrealistic, Democrats should be thinking about how to channel the energies of the supporters who turned out for her, to wage the fight from the ground up.
Canada’s First Nations seem to have little interest in hewing closely to other people’s view of what their traditions are. Modern people do not want to live like premodern farmers. They are not mystical Tolkien elves—they would like to have shiny new apartment buildings and walkable neighborhoods.
Want to read: The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium by Martin Gurri 📚