The Obama memoirs are going to keep serving up anecdotes and observations that drive you absolutely crazy. This is part of the hell we have built
Better things aren't really possible and actually it's proof of your own wisdom and personal evolution that you agree. It's just the laws of human nature and science and markets. Dude is good at marketing an ideology of cynicism and despair as aspirational and progressive.
He really belongs in that unholy nexus of nonprofits, VC, and silicon valley. Dude needs to be the face of smartphones where every in-app purchase donates $.10 to a startup that converts tire rubber to food pellets that can be earned by street children in "upcoming communities"
"Every time you add points to your account at a rate of 100/$1, 10 of those points are deposited in what we call The Global Care Bank, and those points can be converted to ten cent vouchers by entrepreneurs in developing nations who have demonstrated that they want to make a diff
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So, if you drive out into the mountains in Bedford county you come to this very remote area. Aside from a ski resort and some state park infrastructure here and there it's pretty isolated. Only 40 minutes or so from Altoona or Johnstown but you have to work to get out here.
You wind around ridges and through valleys, woods, farms, and the odd tiny village for quite a while and then take a very long dirt and/or gravel road in various states of upkeep. Keep going for a few miles and you come across a small pull off, and a sign.
In 1856 this area was pretty wild, and one spring day two children, brothers ages 5 and 7, disappeared. Their dad had gone off into the woods to see why their dog was barking. When he returned they were gone.
Argue all you want about what is and isn't for kids and whether that's fine for adults but I cannot stress enough that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is not equivalent to mythology. They may draw upon mythological or folkloric elements but that really just is not the same thing.
They have wildly different cultural and historical contexts and purposes, the ownership and production of these things do actually matter, and "stories that have themes and fantastical elements" by itself =/= mythology or folklore.
Realizing this is just YA legitimacy discourse but for Disney. I have fallen into a trap
I made this joke and then immediately found it being expressed sincerely in the replies.
We celebrate thinfs like this because this sort of solidarity against forces of capitalism that are empowered to brutalize you is like a small glimpse of what an actual bright future looks like. There is so much risk here, and there will be consequences, and still they pushed.
sid just rolled off the couch in his sleep. he does this pretty often
he immediately stood up and wandered out of the room
he returned, jumped up on the ottoman, woke up fern, shoved her off the ottoman, and is now curling up to sleep. fern is sitting there wondering what just happened