#uncharitable cw

[kata4a]

do people bemoaning the predominance of athleisure like. have real jobs? like literally everyone I know who doesn't work in software or academia is constantly complaining about the confusing and tedious expectations of professional dress

[moralitybog]

Me: Intelligence and knowledge of academic topics have basically no moral valence, everyone deserves to be able to live a comfortable and meaningful life and that shouldn’t be gatekept by our classist, racist, and ableist societal "meritocracy" Also me: I don’t want to talk to the general public anymore because they are so dumb 

[moral-autism]

Regarding those photos of empty grocery store shelves going around: [meme voice] "Banning the use of current price signals to optimally allocate a good is capitalist, and the more you do it the more capitalist it is."

Seriously, though, markets-based thing to do would be to raise the price of toilet paper a lot. There are arguments against doing that, and you can make them, but blaming capitalism for the empty shelves seems unfair.

[anonymusbosch]

a pity party but for misfortunes entirely self-inflicted

[a-point-in-tumblspace]

Today’s episode of “Opinions Nobody Asked For” is about pattern recognition (and, tangentially, software engineering)!

Complete the following pattern:

["name", "mode", "exists", "new"]  =>  {"name": "argv.c", "mode": 33188, "exists": true, "new": false} ["name", "mode", "exists"]         =>  {"name": "argv.c", "mode": 33188, "exists": true} ["name", "mode"]                   =>  {"name": "argv.c", "mode": 33188} ["name"]                           =>  ????

The answer is obvious, right?

I present Facebook’s Watchman, ladies gents enbies superpositions -- a tool created by people who thought the correct completion was

["name"]                           =>  “argv.c”

[silver-and-ivory]

Why Do You Hate Pebbles So Much?

Why Do You Hate Trans Women of Color and Appropriate the Oppression of Marginalized People To Discuss the “””Harms””” of the SJ Movement So Much? Only Privileged People Are Capable of Hating Things in an Actual Bad Way.

And By the Way It’s Because a Bunch of Pebbles Physically Murdered My Entire Family Including Me. Maybe Think About the Impact of Your Words For Half a Second Next Time, Asshole.

[mitigatedchaos]

datsharkcritic

*facepalms*

How did you get that from “Make America great again” means lets go back into the past?

I see you’ve blocked me.  (Either that, or Tumblr is glitching out again, but I doubt it~)

You ignorant fool.  Here you are, going all the way back to the founding of the nation...

Let me remind you all about America:

America was founded on the backs of enslaved and deaths of Africans and the Indigenous Populations by white wealthy men!

Yea, folks. Lets make America great again.

I’m never going to feel bad for any person who is stupid enough to prance around with a quote “Make America Great Again” on them ignoring how America was even made, acting like a victim because you get your kicks by being a racist and sexist fuck!

Remember your U.S. history!

This is exactly the sort of thing you’re talking about.

Since nearly every human on Earth descends from someone who took land from others by force, by your logic, no one is permitted to have any sort of government ever, even black people.

...was justified as a response.  Effectively every people of any relevance on Earth, including the first nations of the native Americans, are stained with the blood of conquest.

Trump’s MAGA slogan isn’t about bringing back slavery, and if you had even an ounce of understanding of his voters or even the right-wing in general, you would have grasped this.

It’s about the Post-War economic boom and the ideal of a household being able to sustain itself as comfortably middle-class in that environment.  This should be fucking obvious as the emotional sentiment behind it.  Building megaprojects, going to the Moon, having overcome a grand struggle against a great evil - that kind of greatness, too.

It isn’t even about the race relations of that time period.

The right-wing and conservative movements are built on rebuilding an imagined golden age.  You think that’s foolish, no doubt, but do you know why they do that?

Because people, even Leftists and Liberals, put a lot of stock in something that has stood the test of time.  It’s an instant credibility bonus, and if I were a politician, I, too, would seek to present my ideology as rooted in the past and connecting it to the future.  (At times, their attempts to rebuild what they imagined the past to be have been tangible improvements that the past didn’t even have.)

One can argue, I think quite effectively, that Trump cannot deliver this.  That without the factories of every other place of industrial relevance on Earth being flattened by global war, it just isn’t feasible.  One can even argue that his policies make the situation worse on this axis.

That isn’t the point.

If you had a modicum of sense on this matter, then you could better figure out how to outmanuever the Great Orange Demagogue and sway the Trump voters you so excitedly dismiss.  I’ll give you two hints: 

Housing prices matter.  A lot.

The number of housing units compared to the population in an area is important for determining housing prices.

[kata4a]

one of my least favorite kinds of really performative cynicism is that thing where you talk obliquely about some Event but when someone not “in-the-know” asks for details you talk about a big game about how they’re better off not knowing, and in fact you yourself wish you did not have this information, but alas, this is the cross you et fucking cetera