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cancel culture often gets lumped together with “woke culture,” but they’re not really the same thing.

“woke” originally meant being alert to racial and social injustice. cancel culture is the social pressure part: boycotting, unfollowing, firing, dropping sponsorships, or trying to push someone out of public life. and it can come from basically any political direction.

adidas ended its hugely profitable yeezy partnership with kanye west after his antisemitic comments. bud light faced a massive conservative boycott after working with dylan mulvaney and eventually lost its spot as america’s top selling beer. target pulled some pride products after customer backlash and confrontations in stores.

carnegie was already a pretty controversial figure while he was alive.

some people saw him as the ultimate self made success story. poor immigrant, massive fortune, then libraries, universities, and philanthropy everywhere.

others saw a huge contradiction. he talked a lot about workers and fairness, but after the violent homestead strike, his image took a serious hit.

he also had direct access to presidents and powerful politicians, regularly writing to people like theodore roosevelt about trade, peace, and foreign policy.

kind of wild when you think about it. he never held office, but he was rich and influential enough to have conversations with the people running the country.

art is what happens when a person takes something that only existed inside them and gives it a form other people can experience.

a painting, a song, a building, a film, even an empty room can become art if it makes us notice, feel, or question something we probably would have ignored otherwise.

the blizzard of 1977 was basically buffalo getting attacked by snow that was already on the ground. lake erie had frozen over with a huge layer of powdery snow on top, then violent winds picked it up and blasted it into the city, creating near zero visibility and drifts over 20 feet high in some places. one of those rare disasters where the sky wasn’t even responsible for most of the snow. image
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we have seen so many great brazilian players that he looks almost talentless by comparison.

some of the things he pulls off feel more like luck than skill, and his unusual physicality makes certain movements look more impressive than they really are. beyond that, there is very little elegance or football intelligence in his game.

he is simply very good at marketing himself.

even though i have gemini pro, this is still the first place i ask.

what do you really want?

a narcissistic diva who's decided to bring chaos to philadelphia.

condolences, philly.

that's me. if i were going to write three days later or wait for a reply, i'd send a letter.

right now if he wanted to, he could remove the president of argentina from office.

it's a condition where the feeling of hunger arises as a result of an emotional trigger like sadness, stress, loneliness, boredom, or anxiety, rather than a physical need. in this process, a person uses food as a coping mechanism to soothe their emotional emptiness or the difficulties they're going through. someone whose life plays out in a narrow space, who doesn't have many pursuits and doesn't have the strength either, when there are problems they need to solve and those problems "peak," turns to food for relief. putting off problems can lead to this too.

the situation the public, unaccustomed to rules being enforced, is reacting to. a rule is a rule. it should apply to everyone. what needed to be done was done.

the match where i'm hoping norway, who fielded a rotated squad against france and served up a totally one-sided game, gets thrashed and knocked out.

cristiano ronaldo and lionel messi are both physically spent. an outside observer looking at the two of them would see that portugal is the better team and would predict ronaldo being carried up to a point. but the exact opposite is at work. even though messi is physically spent, because he's a tremendous passing station in attack, argentina plays far more compact and like a favorite, whereas portugal is left with 10 men because of ronaldo and, since it can't press high up, is constantly left short on turnovers. they don't need haaland; if they had a forward even half as good as him and had the guts to not put ronaldo in the 11, i'd say they could see a semifinal, but it's going to be a short journey for them, mark my words. they're ruining a midfield and defense generation like this because of ronaldo.