don’t you worry folks, we took out all her teeth

These bills have nothing to do with keeping young people from doing certain things or protecting the children or whatever. Their point is and always has been one thing: If your operating system knows who you are it is impossible to have any real form of privacy on the computer.

me: no live organism can continue to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality

My mother was not the most powerful person on the planet. Trump, as much as it makes me want to give up sobriety to say this, is the most powerful person on the planet. The president is not a regular person and if he has so much as a cold we should know about it. Much more so if he's having age related issues (and he very clearly does have some kind of illness he's being treated for). His health unfortunately affects not just the 350 million people here in the US but the entire planet because most of the world is economically or militarily tied to the US in some way.

This lady is dumb and rage baiting but I just wanted to say that I have an English degree and I could theoretically explain three forms of oppression in Chaucer or Shakespeare. 🙂

Like there are definitely more important objections here about the framing of the canon and blah blah blah fishcakes but what always gets me about this sort of nonsense is their absolutely batshit false imagining of a Serious, Considered Scholarly Past about these major figures. And speaking as someone who's got a special interest in Will Shakespeare I promise you, hand to god, that most of the people who graduated with English degrees back in the days she's bein' all wistful for didn't retain fuck all about Geoff and Will or even about Chuck except when it was some easily hagiographicalized pap, and that part they got wrong.

Trust me.