The “lesson” will be that the truly wealthy will stay so, and the rest of us will be pushed farther away, the discrepancy between our stations will diverge even further, and the relative wealth of the tippy top will increase just that much more. Don’t think for a minute that this bubble, or any bubble for that matter, is not egged on by those insulated from it’s poppings consequences.

This for me is the weird cishet paradox. So afraid to look “weak”, that they obsess over not looking weak. But you know what looks super weak? Being insecure about being weak. Like, the more you have to prove you’re a big tough guy, the less big and tough you seem.

Also, I feel like they’ve never considered that gay doesn’t necessarily mean effeminate. Or even that effeminate doesn’t necessarily mean weak/meek.

Blackmail

“A screaming comes across the sky.” -Gravity’s Rainbow

I think Run is Capadonna, not Ghostface, unsure if that’s helpful or not.

You’re more right than you may know.

An actual city wall existed on the street from 1653 to 1699. During the 18th century, the location served as a slave market and securities trading site, and from 1703 onward

Same reason all brats are brats. No one wants to deal with the tantrums so they take the “easy” route and placate instead.

Epstein files, yo.

It’s a real shame when they go old like that.

Yeah, the thing about this asshole is that he has no sense of humor. There’s no way he doesn’t mean it. And the fact that he proudly displays this in the fucking whitehouse is most troubling indeed. Best case scenario, he means one of his idiot sons, but let’s be real about who we’re dealing with here.

The pants may pose a challenge and require some preplanning, but 15° is probably perfect to make sitting cross legged pretty comfortable. Bonus benefit, they can’t identify you by your feet.

who knows

Better. We know they would look better. We could have elected a dryer with a magic 8-ball inside of it and done better.

His mismanagement of covid alone is damning.

Looks like a hodgepodge of hobo code.

Bach on organ in general, specifically BWV 565 reliably makes me cry. Also Max Reger’s Introduction And Passacaglia In D Minor.

And then on the other end of the spectrum, I once got some really bad news while listening to Pantera, and now I’m afraid to listen to them out of superstition. But that’s not really applicable here I suppose.

It’s quite clear the only way we’ll learn is the hard way. We’ll see how much smug entitlement we can sustain when the world moves on without us.

I don’t know, tow trucks still use gas, so they may still suffer some knock on effects.

Yes, but at the cost of long range visibility and wind, which I guess would only be a problem in certain specific circumstances.