personally idgi. fresh produce in american supermarkets is quite bad and expensive, every major city in the world has decent markets, etc. i guess it's better if it's brightly lit and you can listen to an instrumental soft jazz version of after the gold rush? https://t.co/g3b5LOgBcD— joolsd (@joolsd) December 14, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 13:59 (three years ago)
which Publix plays that?!? I'm happy if I get early '80 Boz Scaggs.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 14:12 (three years ago)
I regret starting a thread that functions as an invitation to post the most depressing news you can find, but more narrowly the degree to which the US seems to be embracing core elements of the most prominent fictional dystopias is pretty striking! Sadly not cyberpunk this time:
https://pen.org/scope-speed-educational-gag-orders-worsening-across-country/
And it’s getting worse. In the month since the report’s release, state lawmakers introduced 12 new bills, bringing the total to a staggering 66 educational gag orders for the year in 26 states, 12 of which have passed into law.Here’s what’s happening: The recent group of bills includes seven in Missouri and one each in New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and South Carolina. All 12 of these bills target K–12 schools, four include provisions that would impact colleges and universities, and four include a focus on state agencies, other state-funded institutions, and “places of learning.” Six of these bills specifically ban “critical race theory,” making a total of 20 state-level bills introduced this year with such explicit prohibitions. Six of these bills contain explicit prohibitions against teaching or using curricular materials from “The 1619 Project,” bringing the total of these to 17 for the year.
Here’s what’s happening:
The recent group of bills includes seven in Missouri and one each in New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and South Carolina. All 12 of these bills target K–12 schools, four include provisions that would impact colleges and universities, and four include a focus on state agencies, other state-funded institutions, and “places of learning.” Six of these bills specifically ban “critical race theory,” making a total of 20 state-level bills introduced this year with such explicit prohibitions. Six of these bills contain explicit prohibitions against teaching or using curricular materials from “The 1619 Project,” bringing the total of these to 17 for the year.
― rob, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 17:04 (three years ago)
xxp I remember back in the 80s, we hosted some soviet kids. When we took them to the supermarket, they lost their shit.
I think the original tweet is referencing that, not that Safeway is better than a local French produce market.
― DJI, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 17:29 (three years ago)
we do have abundant food (not everywhere, of course) of mostly mediocre quality. it's ok.
the critical race theory mess is one of the factors in favor of dystopia
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 17:46 (three years ago)
to me
xxp I remember back in the 80s, we hosted some soviet kids. When we took them to the supermarket, they lost their shit.I think the original tweet is referencing that, not that Safeway is better than a local French produce market.
― mardheamac (gyac), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 17:48 (three years ago)
So was communism.
― DJI, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 18:00 (three years ago)
I guess that’s the kind of joke that lands better with boomers.
― mardheamac (gyac), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 18:59 (three years ago)
And that's the kind of joke that lands better with people from 2017.
― DJI, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 19:18 (three years ago)
the tweet is responding to libertarians tweeting photos of american grocery stores to prove a point
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 19:21 (three years ago)
american supermarkets are among the purest products of american capitalism and therefore accurately reflect all our most popular theories about health and happiness, from gluttony to asceticism, all packaged in convenient sizes for easy consumption. it's a design that's been copied all over the world, with appropriate modifications to suit local tastes and incomes. almost any praise or criticism you want to make about supermarkets can be justified using real world examples.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 19:26 (three years ago)
from gluttony to asceticism, all packaged in convenient sizes for easy consumption
cf. Randall Jarrell's A Sad Heart at the Supermarket (1960) and the companion poem "Next Day"
Moving from Cheer to Joy, from Joy to All
― Jeremy Ironist (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 19:36 (three years ago)
You want to know dystopia? Sometimes I have to go to three different supermarkets to get everything I need.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 19:58 (three years ago)
I regret starting a thread that functions as an invitation to post the most depressing news you can find
You cannot design a thread that wouldnt fall prey to this within ten mins have you seen this site lately
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 20:15 (three years ago)
no.
lol
― DT, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 23:31 (three years ago)
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 00:01 (three years ago)
whew I had doubts
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 00:22 (three years ago)
"I can't answer without sharing my personal definition of dystopia"
5 voters just laying it all down
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 03:24 (three years ago)
https://t.co/fFOE6vEXOc pic.twitter.com/PPoldWoOdT— District Sentinel (@TheDCSentinel) December 15, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 11:46 (three years ago)
we should maybe do a "worst living american" poll
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 15:26 (three years ago)
impossible. polls are limited to only 50 choices
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 17:37 (three years ago)
maybe a poll to make the poll
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 18:11 (three years ago)
a poll of polls? better update the list of lists
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 18:18 (three years ago)
don't visit ILB if you don't enjoy a poll of polls
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 18:36 (three years ago)
glad we got this settled
― chaos goblin line cook (sleeve), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 18:37 (three years ago)
got it sordid
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 20:07 (three years ago)
Is ILX a dystopia?
― aegis philbin (crüt), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 20:09 (three years ago)
just look around
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 20:11 (three years ago)
As of today, 50% of women in federal prisons are Indigenous.This is genocide.— martha paynter (@MarthPaynter) December 17, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 18 December 2021 13:08 (three years ago)
Is the fact that's about Canada the point you're making or a mistake?
― rob, Saturday, 18 December 2021 13:25 (three years ago)
At first assumed US then saw the link below and posted because
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 18 December 2021 13:56 (three years ago)
Kyle Rittenhouse takes the stage at TPUSA’s AmericaFest to thousands of cheering fans chanting his name. He even gets his own Kyle Rittenhouse-themed song to come out to. pic.twitter.com/PD7nkjpQ81— AZ Right Wing Watch (@az_rww) December 21, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 12:02 (three years ago)
Kyle has merely fulfilled every child's dream of running away to join the circus. Taking two lives in the process.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 21 December 2021 15:56 (three years ago)
Who could have seen THIS coming
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 15:56 (three years ago)
a really well-written explanation by patrick blanchfield of the current disaster pileup of american culture in terms of freud's death drive. (i will fp anyone who points out that freud is now widely discredited or whatever.)
https://late-light.com/issues/issue-1/death-drive-nation
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Sunday, 26 December 2021 21:15 (three years ago)
https://fair.org/home/a-for-profit-company-is-trying-to-privatize-as-many-public-libraries-as-they-can/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 26 December 2021 21:45 (three years ago)
i think it was around the time that i learned about ALEC, and realized it was clear and in the open what was happening and how the GOP was operating, and absolutely no one gave a fuck -- that was around 2 years after i realized the usa was a dystopia
― Karl Malone, Monday, 27 December 2021 04:23 (three years ago)
GRETAYes, dead. An apt choice of words. Considering the public is convinced that cigarettes are poisonous. If we can't insist that they're not, I believe my most recent surveys have provided a solution.(re report)We can still suggest that cigarettes are "part of American life," or “Too good to give up,” and most appealing "an assertion of independence".DONSo basically if you love danger, you'll love smoking?SALVATOREWe could put a skull and crossbones on the label! I love it!GRETABefore the war, when I studied with Adler in Vienna, we postulated that what Freud called "the Death Wish" is as powerful a drive as those for sexual reproduction and physical sustenance.DON: Freud, you say-- which agency is he with?
DONSo basically if you love danger, you'll love smoking?
SALVATOREWe could put a skull and crossbones on the label! I love it!
GRETABefore the war, when I studied with Adler in Vienna, we postulated that what Freud called "the Death Wish" is as powerful a drive as those for sexual reproduction and physical sustenance.
DON: Freud, you say-- which agency is he with?
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 05:34 (three years ago)
There's another covid outbreak on my prison unit. DOC has plenty of N95 masks now, but prisoners will get a disciplinary infraction if they're caught with one. Why? Because N95s also protect us from their tear gas, which they still freely use during a respiratory pandemic.— ChristopherBlackwell (@ChrisWBlackwell) December 28, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 22:16 (three years ago)
'The government and your boss put you in harms way. We took away paid sick days and unemployment supplements. Better get vaccinated so you don't starve.'I'm not a health comms person so I can't evaluate how effective this message is. pic.twitter.com/rHtsD4McYP— Justin Feldman (@jfeldman_epi) December 29, 2021
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 18:58 (three years ago)
For the sake of my own sanity and well-being, I'd rather not immerse myself in a poisonous sea of ill-feeling for no discernible larger benefit aside from self-promotion. The world doesn't need another smug, self-satisfied pundit trying to brand-build off political collapse.— Patrick Wyman (@Patrick_Wyman) January 6, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 6 January 2022 22:34 (three years ago)
opened my fortune cookie and i have so few words pic.twitter.com/b5roOyRR1Z— krista! (@madeup_artist) January 6, 2022
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Thursday, 6 January 2022 23:46 (three years ago)
That seems like low pay for a hitman
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 6 January 2022 23:49 (three years ago)
but the 401k has a 5% company match
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Thursday, 6 January 2022 23:51 (three years ago)
Reflecting on January 6, people are justifiably concerned about election subversion. But given the state of Biden’s presidency, the more likely scenario is a popularly elected, and therefore empowered, second Trump administration. https://t.co/ElodhslLPK— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) January 6, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 7 January 2022 15:21 (three years ago)
long on doomsaying, short on what to do about it
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 7 January 2022 16:32 (three years ago)
I believe Nero was an incredible fiddler and some people sang along
― Karl Malone, Friday, 7 January 2022 16:33 (three years ago)
little known fact - the friction from him fiddling too fast is what caused the fire
― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Friday, 7 January 2022 16:34 (three years ago)
nero fiddling 'everlong'
― Karl Malone, Friday, 7 January 2022 16:52 (three years ago)