One reason might be that they couldn’t even be bothered to say what the moment they enjoyed was.
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Yes, the name of the company, the logo, and the idea of “tweets” are all a charming evocation of a world filled with brief messages. Twitter has problems, but branding isn’t one of them.
I think we are in the midst of a worldwide epidemic of mental illness, and even the wealthiest and most powerful are not immune.
I’m just glad we have an adult at the helm and I don’t have to wake up the next morning to see what bat shit insane thing has just happened.
Exactly. For four years, practically every fucking day it was, “Oh God, what’s he done now?”
if you are saying that Sontag is wrong to use "magma" as "foundation"... I would have to say on what basis you claim that?
A foundation is usually a stable structure, not a liquid.
I like to think so, but a lot of intelligent people pick up on the meaning of words from context, and sometimes they get it wrong. I remember reading that Susan Sontag used the word “magma” as if it meant something like “foundation” or “basis”.
Yeah, I think it was Scorsese who said that he did “one for them, and one for me”.
Yeah, by the end of the story all the characters had been shown to be so awful that I didn’t care what happened to any of them.
Same here. I feel the same way about a lot of New Wave SF from that era. I like J.G. Ballard because he’s such a strong writer that he can pull off that sort of plotless “experimental” stuff, but the rest of them don’t do it for me. Why would I want to read an SF writer trying to write like William S. Burroughs when I can just read William S. Burroughs?
Like that ultra-cringe DeSantis ad from a couple of weeks ago.
Yeah, I figured that she was saying the things she does because it riles up her base, but this last bit has made me decide that she’s genuinely stupid. If she had any sense at all she would have noticed that the phrasing of her remarks could sound like praise, and would have changed it to something unambiguously critical.
Exactly. I can’t imagine a worse moment for a left-wing spoiler candidate to run. Our democracy itself is at stake. Fuck Cornel West, and fuck the Green Party.