We used to be a proper country.

This (and a lot of other reasons) is why I carry a handkerchief.

Maybe it’s my anarchism showing, but I’m not sure there’s ever really been a society full of justice and equality, or at least not for long.

When they’re curious and quick to acknowledge the limits of their own knowledge.

Someone who’s truly intelligent knows there’s always more they could learn, especially when it comes to their area of expertise.

As a little preface here, I teach philosophy and world religions at community colleges for a living, and so I spend a good bit of time reading texts from ancient cultures.

The relevant thing here being that it’s pretty common to find writings from just about every point in human history that talk about their own time as one of terrible injustice, iniquity, etc. often in ways that sound like they could have written today.

So, I’d wager it’s always been this way, and not just in the last century.

In the immediate, who knows? A ton of infighting among Republicans would by my guess.

In the long term, my big swing is that MAGA becomes a religion unto itself.

What I mean is that most of these people are self interested fools who are nowhere near as knowledgeable as they believe themselves to be.

Most in that category are also not very good at their jobs, which leads to administrative bloat, torturously ineffective bureaucracy, and teaching positions going to whoever is best at politicking rather than the person who is better at teaching.

I don’t care at all about economic usefulness.

Somewhere around the majority of people employed in academia are absolutely useless.

I say this as an academic.

Where would you put Pop!_OS?

Also, there’s a wide spectrum of Lutherans and they often don’t get along.

Cremate me and stick the ashes in a nice chunk of woods

Cox n’ Crendor: Two middle age YouTubers have a chat once a week about pretty much nothing. It’s been going for 13 years and has a cult following.

Do Go On: Australian comedians deliver reports on history to each other.

Tunnel Talk: Okay, this is a wrestling podcast and 99% of those are wildly toxic. What makes this one different is that the ladies who host the show don’t take wrestling seriously at all. That and how horny they get for the wrestlers (of all genders). A good number of their listeners don’t even watch wrestling.

I think that some very old men in charge of both countries should find a safer way to feel masculine again.

I’ve grown in appreciation for math in the last couple of years, especially when it comes to things that are necessary or practical in my day to day life.

I hated it in school though, mostly because of bad teachers, I think, and because it’s an area of study with cut and dry answers.

I always preferred subjects where there were many possible answers to a question, like philosophy and such.

My honest opinion is that Discovery is nowhere near as bad as its detractors say.

That said, I also wouldn’t call it good Star Trek and didn’t finish the final season.

It’s boring, not bad.

Legitimately, the straight edge people I knew in high school are all republicans now.

This’ll be an absolute shit show that accomplishes nothing, costs a lot of money, and generally makes life worse for everyone.

Sounds like the Trump admin. That’s for sure.

I like Pop!_OS. It was my first distro and has been the one I go back to the most.

The window management options were a godsend when working on my dissertation.

Ursula Le Guin.

That depends entirely on the story the game is telling.