PMC Vanguardist
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Patent attorney in Denver (views solely my own). Liberal. Erstwhile Rockies fan. He/him. Uphold Pee Wee Reese Thought: if you can take my job, you're entitled to it.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Most of what I did for the three days I spent in Hungary this summer was exactly this kinda stuff—eat goulash, watch "traditional" dances and horsemanship, etc.
It was fun, it was interesting, I enjoyed it, and Jesus fuck am I glad I live here and not there.
It was fun, it was interesting, I enjoyed it, and Jesus fuck am I glad I live here and not there.
JD Vance's ideal America is a place with half the GDP where everyone with potential and options gets the fuck out, a shithole that people from countries with actual dynamism visit to watch chintzy 'traditional' dances before going home.
November 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Most of what I did for the three days I spent in Hungary this summer was exactly this kinda stuff—eat goulash, watch "traditional" dances and horsemanship, etc.
It was fun, it was interesting, I enjoyed it, and Jesus fuck am I glad I live here and not there.
It was fun, it was interesting, I enjoyed it, and Jesus fuck am I glad I live here and not there.
Thanksgiving has many lessons to teach us, perhaps the most important being that Thursday is the GOAT day of the week for a holiday and we should move every holiday on the calendar to Thursday
November 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Thanksgiving has many lessons to teach us, perhaps the most important being that Thursday is the GOAT day of the week for a holiday and we should move every holiday on the calendar to Thursday
"The liberals want your kids to get a postgraduate degree and move to the big city and have an email job and eat $30 brunches with queer non-white people and never visit you in Podunksville, Iowa ever again!"
. . . yes, actually? Because that lifestyle fuckin' rules?
. . . yes, actually? Because that lifestyle fuckin' rules?
As I keep saying, the liberal left should be less defensive about the culture war. You're goddamn right we started the war, it's a holy war against millennia of oppression and we damn well mean to finish the job
The only major faction which does not believe it is the far right, which understands itself to be in a cultural battle for hearts and minds which is only glancingly correlated with economic anything. It’s worked out wonderfully for them
November 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"The liberals want your kids to get a postgraduate degree and move to the big city and have an email job and eat $30 brunches with queer non-white people and never visit you in Podunksville, Iowa ever again!"
. . . yes, actually? Because that lifestyle fuckin' rules?
. . . yes, actually? Because that lifestyle fuckin' rules?
"is bullying bad," the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate
November 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"is bullying bad," the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate
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What many men do not understand, because they’re timid conformists whose concern about the opinion of their peers would put teenage girls to shame, is that breaking other men’s rules gives you power over them
November 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
What many men do not understand, because they’re timid conformists whose concern about the opinion of their peers would put teenage girls to shame, is that breaking other men’s rules gives you power over them
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I think Stancil drives people particularly crazy because he breaks the way they expect social media to work. Like the way it's supposed to work is "you say something I don't like, I post a pithy dunk, my followers laugh, and you log off." But Will doesn't log off. He will never log off.
November 26, 2025 at 6:23 AM
I think Stancil drives people particularly crazy because he breaks the way they expect social media to work. Like the way it's supposed to work is "you say something I don't like, I post a pithy dunk, my followers laugh, and you log off." But Will doesn't log off. He will never log off.
My first memory of the UK is exhaustedly piling onto a tube train at Heathrow after a miserable flight and hearing—together with all my 16- to 18-year-old classmates—this announcement:
"This is a . . . Piccadilly Line train to . . . Cockfosters."
"This is a . . . Piccadilly Line train to . . . Cockfosters."
To be an American travelling around London by tube or the country by train is to encounter lots of place names one vaguely knows from books/ movies/ TV shows in which the place name is meant to immediately evoke some highly particular class/ culture/ accent/ norms matrix, understanding none of it.
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM
My first memory of the UK is exhaustedly piling onto a tube train at Heathrow after a miserable flight and hearing—together with all my 16- to 18-year-old classmates—this announcement:
"This is a . . . Piccadilly Line train to . . . Cockfosters."
"This is a . . . Piccadilly Line train to . . . Cockfosters."
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My grandparents, who were children of Russian-Jewish immigrants, loved Thanksgiving cuz it was a holiday that they could celebrate too
As a civil (and not religious) holiday, Thanksgiving opens the door to a lot of new Americans to be able to participate in a broader America in their own way. No other public holiday comes close to the assimilating force of Thanksgiving
November 26, 2025 at 4:57 AM
My grandparents, who were children of Russian-Jewish immigrants, loved Thanksgiving cuz it was a holiday that they could celebrate too
Norman Borlaug biopic baybee, get ready for 143 minutes of dialogue about wheat hybridization
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Norman Borlaug biopic baybee, get ready for 143 minutes of dialogue about wheat hybridization
also, I am anti-necktie, but if you are a *literal Cabinet Secretary* who uses the bully pulpit of your office to admonish the rest of us to dress nicer, wear a fucking tie to work
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
also, I am anti-necktie, but if you are a *literal Cabinet Secretary* who uses the bully pulpit of your office to admonish the rest of us to dress nicer, wear a fucking tie to work
one of the many reasons that Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday is that it is a rare instance of Yankee culture being imposed upon perfidious Dixie, instead of the lamentable and much more common other way around
For Decades, Southern States Considered Thanksgiving an Act of Northern Aggression
In the 19th century, pumpkin pie ignited a culture war.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
one of the many reasons that Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday is that it is a rare instance of Yankee culture being imposed upon perfidious Dixie, instead of the lamentable and much more common other way around
the Platonic ideal of a Bluesky post: two thirds of this is badly wrong, but the third that's right will infuriate Floridians specifically
Apple pie is bad. This is not really debatable. So is key lime pie, while we’re on the topic. Pecan pie is the 🐐 tho.
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
the Platonic ideal of a Bluesky post: two thirds of this is badly wrong, but the third that's right will infuriate Floridians specifically
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The full time job of the modal person with the title of "city planner" in the US is to be a steward of segregation.
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The full time job of the modal person with the title of "city planner" in the US is to be a steward of segregation.
I have had quite a few pies far better than the average cheesecake. And I LIKE cheesecake!
I get a lot of hate for this view and in turn I'd only ask if you've ever had a pie as good as a typical cheesecake. The answer is no, you have not. Cheesecake invalidates the whole pie category. Hell, regular cake barely survives the cheesecake onslaught on the strength of carrot cake alone.
The dirty secret of pies is that they have the lowest ceiling potential of all sweets. Your best pie is merely fine. Your median pie is bad.
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I have had quite a few pies far better than the average cheesecake. And I LIKE cheesecake!
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A roundtrip LAX-JFK flight in the late 60s was around $3K in today’s dollars. The people who wore suits on those flights were the people who regularly wore suits. Complaining about informally-dressed fliers is complaining that the wrong sorts of people are flying today.
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A roundtrip LAX-JFK flight in the late 60s was around $3K in today’s dollars. The people who wore suits on those flights were the people who regularly wore suits. Complaining about informally-dressed fliers is complaining that the wrong sorts of people are flying today.
Nobody, including Josh Barro, cared about this until the right manufactured a completely meaningless controversy out of Jill Biden's doctorate in education.
This guy has a lot of opinions for someone who hasn’t ever had a real job
November 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Nobody, including Josh Barro, cared about this until the right manufactured a completely meaningless controversy out of Jill Biden's doctorate in education.
Seasons 1 and 2 of ST:TNG include some of the worst episodes of TV ever exposed to the lights of God and man, and collectively they absolutely pants the entire Star Wars oeuvre.
You ever think about just how handily Star Trek has won the Star Wars/Star Trek war? Turns out making a lot of good content is really hard!
November 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Seasons 1 and 2 of ST:TNG include some of the worst episodes of TV ever exposed to the lights of God and man, and collectively they absolutely pants the entire Star Wars oeuvre.
The "there's nowhere in America where working-class people can afford to live!" talking point is based on whether a single(!) person working a full-time, minimum wage(!) job can afford the median(!) rent for a two-bedroom(!) apartment. By that standard I'm not sure anywhere on Earth is "affordable."
i truly do think that like 70% of cost of living discussions come down to the fact that a lot of people think "roughly 50% of Americans cannot afford the median American lifestyle" is an indictment of the economy instead of just like, math
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The "there's nowhere in America where working-class people can afford to live!" talking point is based on whether a single(!) person working a full-time, minimum wage(!) job can afford the median(!) rent for a two-bedroom(!) apartment. By that standard I'm not sure anywhere on Earth is "affordable."
Not gonna quote-post anyone because that feels like a recipe for hurt feelings all around, but apropos of today's Stancil Discourse:
If you have the kind of job that's easily transferable between metro areas, geography is to a large extent a luxury amenity that you can choose to pay for, or not.
If you have the kind of job that's easily transferable between metro areas, geography is to a large extent a luxury amenity that you can choose to pay for, or not.
November 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Not gonna quote-post anyone because that feels like a recipe for hurt feelings all around, but apropos of today's Stancil Discourse:
If you have the kind of job that's easily transferable between metro areas, geography is to a large extent a luxury amenity that you can choose to pay for, or not.
If you have the kind of job that's easily transferable between metro areas, geography is to a large extent a luxury amenity that you can choose to pay for, or not.
Back when my parents still had cats and my very-allergic-to-cats uncle hadn't yet gone full fash, Christmas Eve was spent vacuuming every square inch of every surface in the house and we'd usually order pizza.
I miss the cats and the ritual of the pizza. The vacuuming and the uncle, not so much.
I miss the cats and the ritual of the pizza. The vacuuming and the uncle, not so much.
what do you folks cook for Christmas Eve? We do tamales and chili in our family.
Cannot recommend Christmas Chili enough
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Back when my parents still had cats and my very-allergic-to-cats uncle hadn't yet gone full fash, Christmas Eve was spent vacuuming every square inch of every surface in the house and we'd usually order pizza.
I miss the cats and the ritual of the pizza. The vacuuming and the uncle, not so much.
I miss the cats and the ritual of the pizza. The vacuuming and the uncle, not so much.
Hey. HEY.
I have a sister, thank you very much.
I have a sister, thank you very much.
The Only Children of White Collar Professional Parents In The 1990s website is uniquely badly-positioned to have good memories or holiday food
November 24, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Hey. HEY.
I have a sister, thank you very much.
I have a sister, thank you very much.
You know who else demanded the military be loyal to him personally?
November 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
You know who else demanded the military be loyal to him personally?
I would challenge this person to tell me what, in the absence of money, he has that I would want
Going on any other social media site makes me realize that bluesky isn’t so bad
November 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I would challenge this person to tell me what, in the absence of money, he has that I would want