“Islamophobia” never had the rhetorical power of “Anti-Semite.” The latter is really perfect. It has that strong internal assonance
The Onion’s fall has been well documented. But even in its severely diminished form, it’s hitting for a better average than the Babylon Bee
The Bee had a brief window of relevance during Covid, but it never reached the heights of comedy of the Onion. And even the Onion, the husked shell that it is, would never publish a joke this anodyne
These are basically colonials without any of the simple beauty
It wouldn’t take much to install windows with panes, group them properly, and add (functional) shutters
At least then, while you’re waiting for the trees to mature, you’d have an attractive house and neighborhood
We’re in the looting phase of decline. The debt will never be paid.
The dreamy neighborhood is filled with democrats, but they’re fundamentally unable to build it again because they lack the telos of the world that produced it
They love the aesthetic, but hate the spirit
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I learned from an old dictionary that two lines was the symbol for the peso and one line was the dollar
Pretty sure they’ve always been interchangeable though
I’m sure AI tools with be revolutionary and will alter the course of blah blah blah…
But anyone that’s spent significant time using these tools impairs their sense of judgement. When I’ve toyed around with LLMs, I find my own writing, and recognition of good writing, worse.
Roger Ebert basically died at the exact right time for a film critic. I mean, it was already getting bad, but it’s only gotten worse since 2013
Hitchcock hated unmotivated camera placement. It’s a proxy for the human eye, (or, occasionally, God’s eye).
What’s being implicitly communicated here? We’re identifying with the bouquet
