Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

Halle Berry described it that way years ago, and when we had our kids I remembered the line and was like ‘yup. Thats it!’

And please never let my kids cry desperately at my floating, dead corpse as fear overwhelms them and they wonder why I dont answer.

When friends have their first kids and they ask me what its like, I tell them ‘prepare for gut wrenching fear that never ends, but is totally worth it’, because of stuff like this, or worse.

That became clear when I read the whole thing - I just found the particular bit so overwhelmingly hypocritically wrongheaded that I had to note it.

And, we have no common culture from which we all came, as did Greek or Roman culture.

Seconded. Got that for my 10 year old, very white, daughter - we make sure her reading list is balanced - and she loved it.

When I read it I was struck by this:

Went to a local BLM protest.

These are people who think NPR are biased because they ask hard questions of conservative guests... and liberal ones.

Expected Revenue = Price * Likelihood (of a buyer)

The price is way too high for a curiousity, as opposed to a classic.

Wouldn’t you rather have a beer?

This comment was pure perfection. Thank you!

And if memory serves, her employer actually responded publicly that she did nothing wrong and would not be punished.

You put your finger on it - the problem isnt a swastika in Asia somewhere, the problem is a swastika on an item offered for sale in the parts of the world where it is a very potent symbol of racism and slaughter.

Yeah, she did. Posting a video of someone trying to eat their damn lunch on social media to get them fired is an asshole move. If you want to go full Karen, call the CTA. Posting publicly is pinning a public target on yourself and your subject. If the public shits on you instead of them, you have no one to blame but…

Freedom of speech is not at risk. No one is getting arrested for saying shitty things, they are merely being shunned, which is in line with freedom of association.

Depends on what they did.

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