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Feb 15 4 tweets 1 min read
me in fall 2001 watching the PATRIOT Act sail through Congress: you idiots you fucking idiots how do you think letting the government void law for anyone they decide to call a terrorist is going to end
shout out to the other five people who had this point of view at the time
i dont even have anything constructive to add. teenage me is completely vindicated once again and it doesnt even feel good im just pissed
protip for zoomers

probably anyone over the age of 35 is complicit in this shit. ask them about their views at the time. show them some polling. ask how it feels to have built this monstrosity by their credulous acquiescence

they deserve worse but its the least you can do

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Feb 13
wonder what the overlap is between people who are cool with this guy at work vs people who want to see ppl who use slurs on anon accounts fired, and vice versa

ha ha do i really wonder (no)
the stable compromise point is "actually dont take your whole self to work. at work you adopt the same bland and inoffensive work persona as everyone else because your job is not a vehicle for political expression. keep that shit off-hours and we pretend that self doesnt exist"
i dont want to know what my coworkers fetish preferences are in exactly the same way that i dont want to know about the way they vote or what gods they worship or how they make love to their wife

i just want them to be good at shipping code and responding to emails
Read 8 tweets
Feb 12
recent daughter developments

1. knows sign language for "all done." moon originally taught it to her for being done eating but baby quickly generalized it and now whenever she finishes playing with eg a toy she signs All Done to herself as she wanders off to play elsewhere
2. fear. she fears my microphone, she fears a broom, she fears excessively-lifelike victorian dolls, she fears grass
3. aggression. at the mall a boy larger than her was crying and she walked up to the guy and straight-up slugged him. last night she chased the cat around the room by pushing a full-sized clothes drying rack after her
Read 5 tweets
Feb 12
new vaporwave pfp from the endlessly kind and talented @monodevice
gang of four ImageImageImageImage
the first of us that changes their avi from this is gonna feel like a real dick for betraying the bond now
Read 4 tweets
Feb 11
there are effective ways of responding to this from female strangers in front of an audience but a certain amount of panache and a willingness to potentially come off as a dick is required Image
basically *performative* hysteria is generally a bluff, a demand to take an emotional framing seriously backed by nothing

if you call that bluff there are no good backup options for the performer. often it will result in a pivot to rage which only makes them look more unhinged
yes i spent years in relationships with women who had unexamined personality disorders why do you ask
Read 4 tweets
Feb 9
in monetary economics, greshams law states that good money drives out bad

ie: if there exist different currencies with the same _legally-mandated_ value but different market values--say, quarters made of silver vs zinc--people will pay using the shitty ones and hoard the others
this is almost trivially true, but an easy check of the law can be conducted by looking at the number of quarters in circulation from the years after 1965 and comparing them to the number of quarters from 1964 and earlier, when quarters still contained silver
oh yeah sorry baby is running amok

greshams law is "bad money drives out good"

anyway i have a related hypothesis about science that i dont quite trust but perhaps seems under-considered
Read 18 tweets
Feb 9
ok real talk. is this a feasible strategy. just send your (replaceable) head of state for a diplomatic summit wearing a gun or better yet a s**cide vest.

think about it. you dont make a HEAD OF STATE go through security right? no way youd pat them down.

i bet it would work
france has an immediate replacement for macron anyway because its a republic, leaders change all the time, etc

russia by contrast convulses!

diplomatic suicide is *only possible for republics.* a competitive advantage against over our peers!!!
the guy who replaced putin would put on a show of being mad but who cares. wed privately explain that he owed his new elevated position to france. and we have plenty more expendable NATO leaders to send to him if he gets our drift

theyd fall in line fast
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