Cantankerous M0use

Trump has horrible numbers among under 30s but they don’t participate in No Kings stuff. I wouldn’t want to commiserate with insane boomers either.

White people will pronounce McConaughey perfectly and struggle to say ‘Qatar’ properly

matthew mcconaughey yearbook photo (1988)

This is how 100% of Indians feel about you. Yes, I checked. I never met an Indian who did not feel this way. They feel entitled to be above you in your own country and they constantly belittle you for wishing to keep your way of life instead of gifting it to them for stinking up the place and shitting everywhere. It was cute when there was like 10,000 of them here and they ran their little restaurants but they need to go now. All of them.

RW twitter right now, for some reason:

The degree to which complete strangers are now surveiling each other is unreal. 4 days ago, it was 39f, no wind. We parked 250' from the door to the meat store. The walk took 45 seconds. Our baby was in (light pink) thick wool tights. This random lady whips her phone out, snaps a picture, and lambastes us publicly online. She had no idea we were only walking 250 feet, nor that we were only outside for 45 seconds. She clearly couldn't tell that the baby was in light-pink tights, nor that they were thick wool. And she didn't know that our baby SWEATS when she naps, takes her hat off, and literally coos with joy when she finally gets to cool off. So we figured a 45-second cool-down was totally harmless. This lady disagreed. These days, you are always being watched and graded on your *perceived* conduct by parochial social media vigilantes armed with cameras. It's like the paparazzi but for normal people. Who knows what could come of this kind of thing? How easy is it to be misinterpreted in public? There is no grace, no chill -- the judgements are instant and damning. This is very common. I don't really care what the woman thinks about us, but I do understand why some young people are nervous to have kids. If you have kids, you'll be watched on an extremely granular level when in public -- and there will be photographic evidence for even the smallest perceived misjudgement.

実は日本人、特に福島に暮らす私は、もっと海外の人に嫌われ差別されていると思っていた。最近でも、「反差別」「多様性」を訴える「人権先進国」欧州の国が、釣り目ジェスチャーで我々を侮辱し開き直っていたからな。 今は米国からの伝統的で旨そうなBBQと、相互のリスペクト交流がとても心地良い。

How the Japanese timeline cleanse on X has felt to us Americans