Foreign policy tends to draw out crazier views than most issues since the crux of conspiracism is excessive attribution of agency and intentionality to political actors, and nowhere else is there a greater mismatch between the perceived and actual agency of US leaders
Arthur Murray dance schools had a reminder sign on the wall of the importance of humility when undertaking a new endeavor: "You can't just waltz right in here!"
Fascism itself…, can already be interpreted as the "irrational" excess of mythic and political referentials, the mad intensification of collective value (blood, race, people, etc.), the reinjection of death, of a "political aesthetic of death" - Simulacra and Simulation, Baudrillard
When joining a Zoom meeting, everyone should start off by telling an uncomfortable blind item about a colleague, past or present, and close with “but what do I know.”
why can’t you pay people to have kids? well, the future is grim - and perhaps just as importantly, if you have children, that means they live in your house and scream at you a lot www.vox.com/23971366/dec...
These countries tried everything from cash to patriotic calls to duty to reverse drastically declining birth rates. It didn’t work.
HIPAA requires that a hospital send you an itemized bill within 30 days of you requesting it, but nearly 60 percent of hospitals violate this law. Great piece from @mmasnick.bsky.socialwww.thedailybeast.com/getting-an-i...
How a minor bike accident and a few stitches turned into thousands of dollars in medical bills and a months-long quest for a straight answer from somebody—anybody.
Midlilfe crisis, I guess?