Favorite Rejects 2021-11-01
Giving people a choice doesn't preclude that they'll make the same choice most of the time. The LDP plays the game fairly and usually wins, because it's generally pretty good at giving Japanese people what they want -- or at least, less bad than the opposition.
I kinda think we in fact *should* use facial recognition technology to catch minor offenders, and perhaps make the punishments less severe if we feel iffy about doling them out.
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The more I think about it, the more ridiculous it seems that the US was suffering from a big glut of homes in 2008. Housing shortages have one of the defining economic challenges for Millennials over the last decade.
So do prestigious directors just not want to make movies set in the present anymore?
Last Night in Soho, Dune, Paris Dispatch, and The Last Duel are all super different but it's all "anything but a character who checks Instagram."
@mattyglesias i believe quentin tarantino and wes anderson both made their last contemporary films in literally 2007, the year the iphone was released
The end of colonialism in one pretty graph
Dina D. Pomeranz @DinaPomeranz
I want a TV show about a conservative guy who gets transported back to the 1950s. Episode titles will include:
* "Wait, factory work is awful"
* "Where's the rest of my house?"
* "Why is everyone still picking on me, we're all white"
* "Ugh, bowling is boring"
TheValuesVoter @TheValuesVoter
