Also your local public library has a lot of stuff

I (a man in his 40s) pronounced Lathe wrong the other day in a meeting when referencing the le Guin story "the lathe of heaven". Someone privately messaged me after to say "great book. BTW, it's pronounced..."

I would so much rather just have a full timestamp. I can do the delta fine myself.

That sounds like something out of Idiocracy. Just... it can't all be highlights. Some things need to build!

I expect that's some people, yeah. Accepting that climate change is real means accepting uncomfortable ideas. Like that they're responsible, at least a little.

Some people can't accept that they're everything less than a saint. You tell them that walking to the store is better for them and the environment than driving and they go berserk. Can't handle the implication that they're not perfectly faultless.

I've encountered a surprising amount of seemingly intelligent, successful, people recently who of their own admission don't read books. They just watch short videos, maybe a movie, and read social media.

I'm not a researcher but I expect that their vocabulary is stunted as a result.

But they're so weirdly proud about it. Like a defiant 12 year old who doesn't want to do his homework.

I think there's a bit riffing on that in one of the later seasons of The Boys

Once again, conservatives believe in hierarchy. Separate rules for separate people. That's it. That's the whole thing.

They don't see "the congress guy gets paid leave and the bartender does not" as contradictory. They see that as the rule of hierarchy being applied consistently and fairly.

Like, imagine if someone told you your alphabetically sorted bookcase was wrong because you had the colors all mixed up. The worldview they're applying doesn't even intersect with more typical ideas about fairness.

Many people would rather everyone suffer pollution and climate catastrophe than those people have a nice life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon_stereotype

After the American Civil War, in several areas of the South, formerly enslaved individuals grew watermelon on their own land as a cash crop to sell. Thus, for African Americans, watermelons were a symbol of liberation and self-reliance. However, for many in the majority white culture, watermelons embodied and threatened a loss of dominance. Southern White resentment against African Americans led to a politically potent cultural caricature, using the watermelon to disparage African Americans as childish and unclean, among other negative attributes

Fragile white people getting mad at their fellow poors instead of the rich assholes keeping them all in the dirt.

I vaguely remember reading about a nazi who was sentenced to death after nuremburg. He requested to be killed by firing squad, but they told him no. Firing squads are for soldiers. Hanging is for criminals, so he will hang.

I think a lot about a woman I used to know who adamantly refused to look up words she didn't know. If she couldn't figure it out from context, that's just what it was.

She had some weird beliefs. Also the worst DND player I've ever had, I think.