There’s a greenway by my house and I constantly have people zip by me at full speed missing me by inches without saying “on your left” or ringing a bell or anything. So their entire plan is that I will not deviate from my course at all and will magically sense them. It drives me nutso.

Also, I can’t think of too many situations where you had a minority who held the majority of power and did so by disenfranchising the majority where that worked out well. That is what scares the pants off of me - our options seem to be dystopic Christian fascist hellscape or whatever the fuck happens when people get…

It seems like that’s the end game. That’s why Gorsuch was held up, that’s why the rs are totally ok with Trumps fuckery. They get their supreme court justices that will ok their efforts to make it hard for people to vote and outlaw abortion. The upside is that once abortion is illegal, it is going to take the wind out…

Yeah, i’ve seen several people claim that a white dude would have been congratulated for this, but I can think of several white dudes at her level of starpower who have gotten flack for being “difficult” and biting the hand that feeds. women of color can be dickwads too. we don’t have to “but white guys!” every time…

Their first seven inch was rad, but I never got into their albums. I saw their reunion tour and it was meh.

Thanks for adding this context. I was a little confused about why someone eating on a train upset her so much. I mean, other than it is gross. I would be pissed too if I saw an employee doing something that I would get fined for. And public transportation tends to make people a little ornery anyways.

Which brewery? (I’m in the bay as well).

I have a receipt for a ticket my dad bought from Chicago to SFO in the late sixties. I think it was around $600, which is about what it would cost in 2019 dollars. Even twenty years ago flying used to be much more expensive that it is today. So.

Yeah, I’ve heard 25% thrown around as the amount you should tip. I generally tip 20%, by doubling whatever 10% is. If service is dismal (i live in a college town where waitstaff tend to be stoned college students), I’ll tip 18 or maybe 15.

The conversations around guns reminds me of the conversation around violent video games or offensive hip-hop or heavy metal music. The people against it generally know nothing about it, and the people into it have often based a lot of their identity around it and use it as sort of an outsider badge of honor, and so…

The NRA, like so much of U.S. conservatism, has taken a plausible point of view (people, in general, should have the right to bear arms) and gone totally whackadoodle with it, ignoring both facts and common sense. And anyone who criticizes their extreme viewpoint is accused of being an extremist. It is maddening.

One thing that really bothers me about her strain of Christianity is the emphasis on declaring Jesus Lord rather than on following his message and teachings. I think it allows people to label themselves “good Christians” solely by how they identify, and then they can just chuck 80% of what…

Yeah, even when he was doing stuff I liked (like outing the fact that the president paid off women he fucked to not blab about it), he was clearly a super dee duper tool of epic proportions, what I think the kids refer to as a “fuckboy.”

I don’t think the left does it because they are so determined to seem fair. I think it is partially unresolved resentment/tensions/lack of trust between people of color and white people, partially white people wanting to prove they are more woke than other white people by pointing out when other white people trip up,…

I don’t really have feelings one way or another for Duca. She had some good viral tweets a coupla years ago. I don’t really look to her for political insight, but if she gets young women riled up about the state of the world, rad.

The other hit pieces annoy the shit out of me as well. I think “one time this person did something kind of shitty” is a bad look, unless what they did was really really shitty, or was a pattern of shitty behavior.

Bad actions? She was kind of a dick to some people and wrote some childish bitchy emails. What restitution can people possibly expect from that??? How are these people so wounded five years after the fact? How is any of this something that should be public knowledge, or that should weigh in to how we feel about her?…

100%. This is some bullshit. Why we need to take down duca? who gives a shit if someone was kind of a dick on twitter that one time? And how does that not square with Duca’s brand, which is being mouthy and salty?

Did you just write a 4,500 word story about how a young woman who has become a figurehead for the resistance for other young women once wrote some bitchy anonymous emails when she was 23?

Most pop songs have a gajillion writers, generally from at least two continents. It’s fascinating to me, even more so that the songs often work. They are finely engineered products.