Dude, who even knows.
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the first children who knew for a fact that their parents find mobile phones more interesting than them must be about ten years old now, I wonder how they’re doing.
Like the idea that parents were supposed to find the children more interesting only dates to the 1980s (or maybe mid-70s) in America, that coming after Roe regularized abortion such that “parents” were suddenly selected on having some particular investment in the relationship…
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The 26 major river basins of the world
been looking to found a major early civilization, this helps a lot
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ppl managing to live where they grew up is really bizarre to me
Hi! Croatian here. As an inland country, I found a job processing uranium. We have a lot of it.
God I wish I was processing uranium in Croatia
I think about this post every day
Hey, another Croatian here! Croatia has a coastline and I can’t find a single mention of uranium in Croatia. I don’t know what kind of paralel universe this person is from.
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“Wagner gets their own buffer state” would actually be a fairly well-precedented outcome, considering
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Actually kinda impressive that in all the talk about the iPhone all along how rarely anyone mentions the Newton.
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You know it’s kind of weird in The Boondocks that Tom DuBois and Grandpa live across the street from each other, given that Tom seems like he’d move to a “best schools” “favored quarter” suburb while Grandpa would not maximize cost of living. I suppose Grandpa could be doing it for the kids or Tom could merely be living in the best available neighborhood somewhere with better opportunities as a prosecutor, but in either case it’s unclear what Uncle Ruckus is doing there
Anyway the thing behind Tom DuBois, just like with Pierre Delacroix in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled (2000) was that black Americans with French names were likely descended from Caribbean immigrants who had occupied relatively privileged positions in their French colonial homelands, as contrasted with the Dixie slaves-turned-sharecroppers that most Blacks traced their ancestry to
(It was a point that “Delacroix” was an affectation in the direction of this tendency)
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We’re gonna start supplanting $20s with $50s as the basic bill before too long. Switching the ATMs over will be so easy it fucks with you.
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So texting my father he now only responds occasionally and in such generalized-back terms I’m pretty sure next time I see him in person I’ll be shocked to realize how far his mind’s gone.
Oh well, good thing I’m now totally incapable of feeling loss and starting a decade ago parsed all those people’s “I wish I had…” regrets to ask my parents all the questions that came to mind while they were still around to answer
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Oh my god, I just realized Taylor Swift growing up in the Philly suburbs would’ve been listening to the same country radio station I was, 92.5 WXTU.
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Silversun Pickups – Lazy Eye (2007)
The part of LA where I lived in the late 2000s was a really rich vein of just-breaking-through-“indie” music but then Daft Punk did that Coachella set and everyone sold their guitars and bought turntables.
This was the song coming out of there you’re most likely to recognize, “Silversun Pickups” was actually a reference to a liquor store at the cross of Sunset and Silver Lake.
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