Habitually Lost

Ok so roads are important infrastructure. A lot of stuff that's important happens on roads. Now, let's imagine that quadrillionaire Matt Stench has decided that the next big tech innovation is the Wide Car. It's a car that takes up six lanes despite seating only one passenger.

The Wide Car is supposed to be the future, and everyone's going to be driving Wide Cars, even though nobody who makes Wide Cars is turning a profit. Employers are offering Wide Cars as an employee benefit, and getting "nah." Some employers are going as far as demanding their employees drive Wide Cars, and the result is that people take time out of their workdays to get in the mandatory gas usage for their Wide Car before driving home in a regular car.

In spite of the fact that the Wide Car is clearly set to fail, there's an enormous push to expand to twelve-lane roads to accommodate a bunch of Wide Cars that simply will not materialize. This is not an organic response to demand, but a speculative investment that amplifies the existing issues with road development for no good reason.

These cars don't fit into parking spaces and make pulling out in parking lots impossible

The weight of big cars is causing additional stress on roads and bridges

The number of big cars and trucks is directly linked to the number of children struck by cars because the drivers can't see over the hood!

And this is its even worse sibling from this year.

I do not think it should need to be said, but unfortunately it absolutely is, that nobody should ever be forced to become pregnant, be a parent or carry a pregnancy to term. Ever. This requires both complete and total abortion rights & access but also the dismantling of the gendered expectation of women to want and need children. Remaining child free should not only be possible for women, it should also be normal and completely accepted. Anything else is oppressive.

However, I am deeply bothered by how many people who share these views talk about children. I have come across many posts describing children in cruel and dehumanizing ways, emphasizing how gross and terrible children are and how much of a burden they are to their parents. This, I think is also wrong.

Children are a particularly vulnerable population. They often have very little rights and autonomy and are at the whims of adults around them, which makes then particularly vulnerable to abuse. Children are real, fully realized people who have very specific needs and considerations. Constantly discussing how disgusting and terrible children are, means attacking people who have no power and cannot defend themselves, legally or otherwise. These views cannot be separated from calls to remove children from public life, like parks and transportation, the practice of which is both dehumanizing and oppressive. This goes hand in hand with the gendered oppression of women who are unfortunately still often the primary caregivers of children. Forcing children out of the public sphere means forcing mothers out of it too. And the right to not have children needs to go hand in hand with the right to have children. Women need abortion rights and access but they also need the right and access to give birth for free. They need robust childcare and child & family friendly infrastructure. Otherwise the only people who can afford to have children are wealthy elites.

But from what i can gather thats Crystal Thierry, also known as page73girl. Who seems to have been a model for the now defunct biggestletdown.com…

to Immanentize the Eschaton means to bring about utopian conditions and create heaven on Earth

the phrase is first cited in the Discordian religious text, Principia Discordia (1963), for whom Discord (aka Eris) is goddess:

the first line of Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea’s 1975 The Illuminatus! trilogy: “It was the year when they finally immanentized the Eschaton.”

in Frederik Pohl’s The Eschaton Sequence (1997 - 1999), the human race is caught up in a galactic war between two alien races attempting to immanentize the eschaton

in Ken Macleod's The Stone Canal (1997), one of the chapters is “Another crack at Immanentising the Eschaton”

Basically just put a bunch of rocks in a container (a shallow bird bath, a metal standing tray, a tupperware container, etc), fill it with as much water as you can while leaving the rocks partially exposed (so that there is dry surface for bugs to land on or climb onto if they get stuck), and keep it clean and refreshed with clean and cool water especially on hot days.

I use one of these filled with a mixture of rocks and glass pebbles for a very cheap bug bath that the birds also enjoy AND I put a chair next to it for the squirrels to get drinks (which they do!) You'll find a bunch by googling "metal table tray" and they're surprisingly sturdy once filled with water and if you push the legs into the ground a bit.

I also use a large but fairly shallow ceramic serving bowl as a ground bath, with less rocks, which is mainly enjoyed by frogs, toads, wasps, and whatever critters take drinks from it as they walk through my yard. I've seen beetles take breaks to swim around in it and today, as I was refilling, a wasp was hovering nearby and took a drink as soon as it was full. It left and then a ton more wasps came to get drinks.

And I have this one (not my photo) on my deck for the birds but they've never used it (not enough cover, I think) but the little frogs are removable and hollow and mine are FILLED with earwigs?? And the bees that enjoy my deck plants really enjoy the bath's water.

this lore on the b/k wound kissing scene is crazy. Lee Tergesen basically had an identity crisis whilst filming it AND he wanted it to keep going...

Actors in The Wire (2002-2008) and Oz (1997-2003)

Casting Director: Alexa L. Fogel