Dan Watson

people being contemplative and cool instead of sloppy and aggressive

i think we can agree about driving drunk, high, or sober with a phone, or sober in an SUV without a phone, or sober above the speed limit ... all this shit is bad and should stop. i wouldn't aim at recriminalizing cannabis to address it, would be the main point here. the throughline is the cars

the problem here is individual vehicle driving itself, a relic of the 20th century that got much more stupid with larger heavier vehicles and cell phones

amazing how two of the biggest changes of our lives are legalizing cannabis and gambling, and cannabis has been revealed to be almost completely harmless except for stores being robbed and people not liking the smell, plus it's eliminated a lot of harmful policing, and gambling has been a huge mess

“born free” music video where they are hunting down the gingers. i remember nothing else about this

this is M.I.A.’s fault

Young women drawn to the cause in recent years for more traditional reasons — religious convictions, pro-life politics, a preference for conventional gender roles — are having a rude awakening of their own, finding that MAGA sexism is not the same as the old patriarchy. On the New Right, male licentiousness, violence, and domination are not only acceptable but valorized. “When Andrea Dworkin wrote about the draw of conservatism for women in the 1970s and ’80s,” says Katya Ungerman, who writes about online culture under the pseudonym Katherine Dee, “there was a certain plausibility to the pitch.” Ungerman has never been a conservative, but many of her friends are young MAGA and she has observed the milieu closely. Dworkin wrote that right-wing women were not deluded: “They see the world they live in, and they are not wrong.” In exchange for female submission, the conservative men of Dworkin’s era offered a refuge from the physical danger and chaos of modern life — or so they said. The right, she wrote, “tells women the rules of the game on which their lives depend” and “promises that despite their absolute sovereignty, men too will follow specified rules.” “That part is gone,” says Ungerman, at least in the segments of the movement with real momentum. The men of the New Right not only fail to be protectors, she says, “they’re not even symbolically protective. They’re very hostile.”

The other side of this is, in some ways, actually the more interesting one: that conservative men have increasingly completely given up on even paying *lip service* to the idea being constrained by defined social roles, even when there are women who are amenable to that

deadwood is one of the best subreddits. we talk about a show that went off the air 20 years ago and call each other cocksucker

Raymond Geuss, The Evansville Option — Sidecar On the Israeli question.

“The idea of population transfer opens up intriguing possibilities.”

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Mom’s Organic Market in Hampden closed due to rodent infestation A sign from the Baltimore City Health Department was on the door Thursday morning, noting Mom’s Organic Market in Hampden was closed due to a violation.

i was just there tuesday and already ate the food i got but sure 😑

Live at Leeds / Hull is so good

the only point of money is how it can be useful for humans. (if the billionaires building their bomb shelters get their way they’re going to run into the reality that they have a lot of something that is no longer useful to them in terms of controlling resources, compelling others into servitude)

“81 degrees today, snow tomorrow” goofy ass Maryland weather

this station is fucking great. the fidelity of the local signal, the wide variety and consistently high recording/performance quality of the selections and the context provided by the hosts, zero ads… could just play it all day but it has lately been almost always on when driving.

no baklavas allowed

burqa ban at the library? did someone come in and try to steal the free books?

this time at least they seemed to have finally figured out how to negotiate with lamar

Shout it from the rooftops

i reported a gas station that had giant piles of snow blocking the sidewalk on both sides and they closed it as not a violation

thinking again about the greatest scene in cinema history

i do not understand how keeping andrews for 3/39 meant we weren't competitive trying to keep likely instead who wound up getting ... 3/40. gee whiz. people were speculating that we signed andrews early because likely rebuffed us, but that might be made up.

did they rustle up the orioles doctors that did the team physicals in the duquette years

The Democratic party is as unpopular as it is because its own voters find the party feckless and weak.

prosecuting this crew in the US is the compromise position, rather than sending them to tehran to face justice there instead

If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job

the whole foods in harbor east baltimore always feels like it is crawling with SWAT team dudes standing around near the registers

adult catholic converts who hate the pope

i think the last time i played it somewhere it was free but i still got bored and gave up

if i recall the one in govans has the simpsons arcade game if you’re into side scroller fighting as marge with a vacuum cleaner