Gee, I thought these people were the ones who were like âIf you donât like it, you can just move to a blue state.â
And now theyâre mad the guy is doing just that?
You canât oppress and discriminate against someone then be mad when they take their highly useful skill elsewhere.
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A Tweet by NBC News @ NBCNews that says, âOne of Louisianaâs few doctors specializing in pediatric heart conditions is leaving the state after the Legislature passed a variety of bills aimed at restricting rights for LGBTQ people.â Attached is a photo of a pale-skinned man with a cut-off headline that says, âGay Louisiana doctor says heâs leaving the state over its âdiscriminatoryâ legislaâŠâ
Bret Reichert @ BretReichert has replied, âJust let the kids die so you can make a point. Great guy.â
Itâs called âenvironmental amnesiaâ and itâs an actual issue environmentalists discuss how to combat. The climate crisis makes it more widespread but itâs been something thatâs happening for generations. The story of The Lorax describes it beautifully. The idea that what you remember is what you consider normal, but if the changes happen slowly over generations, you donât see how large they are because you donât personally remember them being very different, even if you were told stories about it.
That feeling where you go â didnât we used to have four seasons? It wasnât this hot when I was a kid was it??â And then you have to figure out if itâs just that youâre getting older. And then it turns out no the entire planet is falling apart.
“[The older generation of writers who had established the rules for modern fiction under the assumption that their experience was “universal”] gained the ability to write stories where they could “show” and not “tell" … They had this ability not because they were masterful stylists of language or because they dripped with innate talent. The power to “show, not tell” stemmed from the writing for an audience that shared so many assumptions with them that the audience would feel that those settings and stories were “universal.” (It’s the same hubris that led the white Western establishment to assume its medicine, science, and values superior to all other cultures …) Look at the literary fiction techniques that are supposedly the hallmarks of good writing: nearly all of them rely not on what was said, but on what is left unsaid. Always come at things sideways; don’t be too direct, too pat, or too slick. Lead the reader in a direction but allow them to come to the conclusion. Ask the question but don’t state the answer too baldly. Leave things open to interpretation… but not too open, of course, or you have chaos. Make allusions and references to the works of the literary canon, the Bible, and familiar events of history to add a layer of evocation—but don’t make it too obvious or you’re copycatting. These are the do’s and don’ts of MFA programs everywhere. They rely on a shared pool of knowledge and cultural assumptions so that the words left unsaid are powerfully communicated. I am not saying this is not a worthwhile experience as reader or writer, but I am saying anointing it the pinnacle of “craft” leaves out any voice, genre, or experience that falls outside the status quo. The inverse is also true, then: writing about any experience that is “foreign” to that body of shared knowledge is too often deemed less worthy because to make it understandable to the mainstream takes a lot of explanation. Which we’ve been taught is bad writing!”
Pensions sound so fake as a zillennial. You work for one place for decades (already sounds fake) and then afterwards you leave and they just. keep paying you. the same amount of money. to do nothing. for the rest of your life. if i wasn’t already aware that this was something that readily and commonly existed during my grandparent’s days then it would sound like some kind of socialist pipe dream
American pensions sound incredibly fake as an Australian, you just expect your fucking employer to put aside and manage your superannuation all by themselves and it’s with them until the second they pay it out to you? It sounds like someone scamming you out of your own retirement money.
good news! they do scam you. like all the time.
Australian super funds were scamming people by charging too many fees so we started a royal fucking commission about it and it completely changed the industry.
our banks and corporations got together and explained very nicely to the government that they want to keep all of our money for any reason they can make up and our government said ‘sure’
I remember in my Arabic class we were going over the alphabet and the teacher was like there’s no ‘P’ etc and this white girl was like wait what but my names Paige and my teacher was like lol then we’d pronounce it as beige and she was so offended I’m crying thinking about it
One of my mom’s friends, Hugh, went to France and they had a lot of trouble pronouncing his name because the entire thing was silent.
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lol when I lived in France my host family had a friend names Hugh. We saw him and his family a lot.
They pronounced it “oog” and I didn’t know until the day before I left France that his name was Hugh. I just thought he had some weird caveman nickname 😭
that is hands down the funniest addition to this post
