I don’t think gambling is immoral but I think enabling gambling on a mass scale is immoral

I was reading Diana Fleischmans stuff on eugenics and one of her main premises is that there are ideas that are eugenic in nature that are widely even near universally supported which I do actually agree with (she talked about how the early eugenecists pushed a lot to prevent infectious disease that led to disability and birth defects for example) but uh she has some very controversial views and I just learned an autistic husband with whom she has two children. Girl you can’t be talking about paying psychotic women to get birth control implants out of concerns for their future children’s quality of life when you’re procreating with an autistic person

If this were 2014 I think all the rowboats by Regina spektor would be a good song to put on a secret history themed 8tracks playlist

also the 90s/00s obsession with thinness is kind of interesting to look at in the sense that rates of overweight/obesity were skyrocketing at this time and that received constant news coverage. (Regardless of how you feel about these terms or the framing around the phenomenon, people were getting bigger). Now glp1s have made ultra thinness more “accessible” and the logical end point of that is it becomes less coveted, but that also assumes a lot about the long term effects of glp1s