You have to keep the timing and context in place. It was the mid-50s, the economy was roaring, and they finally invented a way to hang walls and windows off of the structure itself, the curtain wall. This gave way to the International Style, which actually has some interesting and lovely buildings, but many of them look like gross sterile cubes, and they loved that at the time. Ornate buildings like the gothic skyscrapers (we adore so much today) were suddenly seen as old and dirty and dilapidated, giant sheets of glass were “the future,” sterile and gleaming and just unlike anything else, at such a massive scale. And of course so much cheaper than masonry buildings with complex upper floors and decorations, and faster, you could throw them up very quickly.

Of course after 70 years of this we’ve got a lot different impression. If I were old-money wealthy I’d definitely have a penthouse in one of the old gothic towers, with the outdoor gardens under archways. I don’t even care what city.

The cancer is now running the lab

Step back and think about why that regulation exists to begin with. No one said it’s perfect but it’s better than what was.

Everyone has been put under a normalization spell, the trauma was too intense too long. I tried explaining to another liberal my fears about this term’s version of the January 6 insurrection, he looked at me like I was crazy. People are trained to believe the ping-pong will go on forever, save and easy.

Having no way of finding out if you’re telling the truth or not, I choose to believe

omg welcome to being gay, yeah you can have sex instantly 24/7 but it’s absolutely soulless and soul destroying in a lot of cases. Intimacy is what people what but can’t figure out how to have. That’s true in every form of relationship.

When my husband and I travel through certain towns in Northwest AR, one of us takes our matching wedding rings off, and we’re brothers, in case the car breaks down - you want to plan your story ahead.

I remember being in a small casino watching Steve-o perform on a tiny stage, like 5 feet away from me. He wound up staple-gunning his scrotum to his thigh. I blew chunks all over a police officer, and had to be rushed out because I was drinking, in a casino, on a fake ID. Steve-o thought it was hilarious. Good times.

Discovered this when I had to find a hedgehog specialist and wound up in a bunny doc’s office instead. Lagomorphs.

I think if you do what she did for as long as she did, there’s no real coming back from it.

Except at the Supreme Court, of course.

Here’s a great Atlas Obscura article about it.

edit: lol y’all can google it but you’re being taken in by a 40-year-old myth, downvote away

So dumb, you can just order 8,000 discs and then order another 9,000 to your neighbor and they won’t even know 🙄

Good news readers can help you get lots of the content you want with only a quick passing glance at the headlines so you can still carry a conversation/contemplate the inescapability of this planet

This is mostly a myth propagated by the idea of “posing stands” which were actually meant to keep living people still for portraits that took a long exposure time. Victorians loved some goth shit like hair jewelry tho.

It might be 5%, it might be 16%. Those are basically the same number, moving along

The #1 thing Trump taught me is, if you talk with the shabbiest-false machismo and bravado, and you throw a certain amount of common-sense-racism-and-chauvinism in, people will just fully disengage their frontal lobes and register whatever you say as gospel. Especially people who claim to love gospel. Should Liberals be taking notes on this? Yes. Are they?

A lot of people, Fox News and Truth Social people, just never saw this shit in the first place. The bubble is very strong. Now we’re doing Trump the Pedo King’s Greatest Hits as a whole new group of fans tunes in.

That is a very cool story and I like it, even if it’s got nothing to do with this at all, the things they can do now.

There has always been a theoretical fear of someone loading up a Cessna with TNT and low-flying that into the oval. When civilian GPS first came about, they had to fuzz certain locations to make this less attractive. So far no one has tried with small automated planes.

These airspaces are controlled by the Air Force tho who would probably notice and implement countermeasures.

I eventually got tired of seeing the fucking gnats so I got some of the mosquito bits and made the tea, and they were gone the same day. Just have to remember to do subsequent treatments for 3 weeks so you get each stage in the life cycle.