it's funny, I was paying for my subscription through Paypal and I removed authorization to charge it like, over a month ago, but never got around to formally cancelling the subscription.
every other day I get emails like "Second to final warning - your subscription will be cancelled", "final warning - we will cancel your subscription if we don't receive payment!", "final warning again, we mean it this time!"....been happening for like a month, daily threats, and still they haven't cancelled it.
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 21:30 (one year ago) link
It's like cable or the Mafia, you don't get out except feet first.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 28 March 2023 23:07 (one year ago) link
Check out the kicker in this despicable profile:
Ms. Statler agreed about Judge Kacsmaryk. “I just know he just has a real tender spot for caring for women,” she told The Times, “and particularly women who are pregnant.”
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 8 April 2023 14:50 (one year ago) link
Any article about that judge that doesn't lead with "That piece of shit" is a bad article
― Trout Fishing in America (Neanderthal), Saturday, 8 April 2023 15:04 (one year ago) link
What Happened to America? We Asked 12 People in Their 70s and 80s.
― rob, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 16:37 (one year ago) link
that “article” was so typical that it made me laugh— there might as well have been a quote about kicking a ball in the street. all of them seem to believe that people should just take the jobs that are offered and work them until they die. idiots.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 17:24 (one year ago) link
the headline alone feels like a lazy parody of what everyone already hates about their vox populi attempts
― rob, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 17:33 (one year ago) link
cheating b/c I did actually read this one, but was there really no one in editorial who saw this and had a dim recollection that the UK is—infamously I would have thought—not in the EU?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/opinion/microsoft-activision-ftc-antitrust-grail-eu.html
(and yeah their bios should have been enough of a red flag)
― rob, Thursday, 27 April 2023 12:52 (one year ago) link
this person is utterly useless
https://i.imgur.com/f9FYV5j.jpg
― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 June 2023 17:41 (one year ago) link
lol I saw that and was so dispirited I couldn't even post it here
― rob, Thursday, 1 June 2023 18:33 (one year ago) link
Chris Christie Is Doing Something Very, Very Important
― rob, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 16:09 (one year ago) link
Christopher F. RufoD.E.I. Programs are Getting in the Way of Liberal Education
― rob, Thursday, 27 July 2023 12:15 (one year ago) link
good lord
― jaymc, Thursday, 27 July 2023 14:35 (one year ago) link
I'm embarrassed to admit I am still capable of being mildly shocked at them platforming such an unambiguous and outspoken racist
― rob, Thursday, 27 July 2023 16:07 (one year ago) link
I know everyone needs a rufover their heads but do we really have to let this guy write op-eds
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 27 July 2023 18:35 (one year ago) link
at least put a pic of him under the byline with the caveat - "Warning, this piece was written by a likely Klansman" or something
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 27 July 2023 18:36 (one year ago) link
WaPo not to be outdone:
What happened in the decade before crime rose? ‘Broken windows’ policing stopped.Opinion by Charles Murray
― rob, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 18:15 (one year ago) link
Here are five key findings from a Times examination of Ron DeSantis’s educational backstory.
― rob, Sunday, 20 August 2023 14:23 (one year ago) link
I loved this for the big town small town angle(?): https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/19/business/media/kansas-newspaper-marion-county-record.html
― youn, Sunday, 20 August 2023 14:38 (one year ago) link
Ross Douthat
James Bond Is Now ‘Woke’
― rob, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 12:57 (one year ago) link
james bomb trans now
― van der gragt generator (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 13:11 (one year ago) link
I did think of James when I read that thing on some other thread about cishet men only wanting to sip their little drinks from phallic glasses
anyway, fuck Douthat for stealing my screenplay idea
― rob, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 13:14 (one year ago) link
total clickbait headline on that Douthat piece, which mentions a new Bond novel in the lede but only as a launchpad for some meandering thoughts about UK and Canadian politics
― jaymc, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 14:31 (one year ago) link
how does one doubt a hat
― Dinglebert Humperstink (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 September 2023 14:54 (one year ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/8f/94/82/8f9482771a7a3b8bc13dbcb1551f7e4c.jpg
― The Yellow Kid, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 14:59 (one year ago) link
is this the new bond by charlie higson of revered "post-punk" clatterers the higsons?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bec8XIycg_w
― mark s, Wednesday, 6 September 2023 15:02 (one year ago) link
pamela paul column about freddie de boer’s book
― mookieproof, Thursday, 7 September 2023 18:38 (one year ago) link
they had lunch together!
― jaymc, Thursday, 7 September 2023 19:46 (one year ago) link
tmi
― mh, Thursday, 7 September 2023 20:30 (one year ago) link
Two Families Got Fed Up With Their States’ Politics. So They Moved Out.
some incredible nyt pitchbot-ass false equivalencing in this one:
"After Iowa banned gender-affirming medical care for minors, criminalizing their son’s treatments, the Nobles — lifelong Iowans — concluded they had to get out."
"Jesse Jordan, of Tennessee, said he and his fiancée had considered moving to Oregon after Tennessee leaders adopted a near-total abortion ban, with no exception for a fatal fetal abnormality. “It has become kind of unthinkable for us to pursue a pregnancy in this state,” Mr. Jordan said."
vs.
“One thing I do like about Missouri, there’s lots of American flags,” Mr. Huckins said as he steered around a traffic circle where the Stars and Stripes flapped crisply on a pole. “In Portland, the American flag was offensive.”
"Matthew Krall, an accountant, has no regrets about moving his family in 2019 to Tennessee from California, where he was frustrated by that state’s Democratic governor and liberal policies. When Mr. Krall and his neighbors discuss politics now in his conservative suburb outside Nashville, “it’s more of an agreeable conversation,” he said."
― rob, Saturday, 7 October 2023 15:59 (eleven months ago) link
god this thing just gets worse and worse. it turns out that the portlanders who left OR supposedly because of the city's politics--the entire thesis of this terrible article--have *grandchildren* in the area of MO they moved to lmao
― rob, Saturday, 7 October 2023 17:01 (eleven months ago) link
lol okay
While there is no precise count of how many Americans have relocated because of politics and social issues, interviews with demographers and people who have moved or are considering moving, as well as a review of social-media postings and polling, show the phenomenon is real.
― mookieproof, Saturday, 7 October 2023 21:46 (eleven months ago) link
"some people are saying"
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Saturday, 7 October 2023 21:51 (eleven months ago) link
TEACH THE CONTROVERSY
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 7 October 2023 22:27 (eleven months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/mlaffBT.jpg
at the risk of defending david french, the column itself isn't horrible. but evidently the NYT's editors want people to think it is
― mookieproof, Monday, 9 October 2023 08:30 (eleven months ago) link
Not All Karens
― Prop Dramedy (Old Lunch), Monday, 9 October 2023 11:48 (eleven months ago) link
no the column is pretty horrible.
― a (waterface), Monday, 9 October 2023 12:09 (eleven months ago) link
But just as older Americans can have an obligation to let go of professions and power, young Americans can have obligations to hold on to their elders, to treasure them rather than shove them aside. Ancient wisdom can speak to modern conflicts, and ever since the onset of the generational conflicts during the pandemic, I’ve pondered a key part of the Westminster Larger Catechism, an almost 400-year-old statement of Protestant theology. It takes an expansive view of the Fifth Commandment, “Honor thy father and thy mother.” The catechism asserts that father and mother don’t merely refer to your biological parents, but to “all superiors in age and gifts.”
this is just shit
― a (waterface), Monday, 9 October 2023 12:12 (eleven months ago) link
yeah that column was execrable
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 9 October 2023 13:59 (eleven months ago) link
yeah lol that's a pure no way nyt for me
― rob, Monday, 9 October 2023 16:01 (eleven months ago) link
Do people even say 'OK boomer' anymore?
― jmm, Monday, 9 October 2023 16:05 (eleven months ago) link
well luckily for young Americans whenever older people lose their jobs they're willing to spend all day online imparting their Ancient Wisdom.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 9 October 2023 16:07 (eleven months ago) link
new borad description
― rob, Monday, 9 October 2023 16:11 (eleven months ago) link
I think many have moved onto "fuck you boomer"
― insert nothing here (Eric H.), Monday, 9 October 2023 16:35 (eleven months ago) link
listen, old people have a slower response time than younger people. apparently by 2-3 years
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 9 October 2023 21:53 (eleven months ago) link
"Don't trust anyone over 30": the ageist slogan that must be stopped
― jmm, Monday, 9 October 2023 23:39 (eleven months ago) link
don’t trust anyone under 30 or over 45
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 9 October 2023 23:43 (eleven months ago) link
I don't know but I got harrumphed at by several elders on FB for calling Jann Wenner a "prototype of white Boomer male entitlement" — there was a lot of "not all Boomers!" stuff. Boomers are very easily butthurt by this stuff. One guy told me that even using the word "Boomer" was a slur. lol.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 9 October 2023 23:55 (eleven months ago) link
I mean, I don’t see any reason to deny using Boomer as a slur, if it matches your intention
― insert nothing here (Eric H.), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 00:11 (eleven months ago) link
the truth is the truth
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 01:06 (eleven months ago) link