Relatable Suffering

Yes Dr Rorschach

it's not acknowledged enough that a lot of the sleep deprivation, a really big number, that is seen in children and teenagers is due to their parents. "my kid's up all night on their phone" and why exactly is that? because nighttime, the time when they're supposed to be sleeping, aka unconscious in bed, aka not causing you any trouble, aka unable to be immediately put to work by you, is so much of the time the only true "free time" they have. that's what it is. if the moment they step out of their room you give them something to do and berate them for breathing; if every moment they're in their room you're calling them out to do work, and then chiding them for trying to lock their door ... when is there a moment for them to just do what they want? to have fun? to be happy?

Man, when you compare Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) to Les Misérables (1862) and realize just how deeply the June Rebellion and the February Revolution changed Victor Hugo and his relationship with power and poverty.

One like nitpick thing that drives me crazy is when people call Blue Whales the largest whales or the largest living mammals or some shit like that

Probably

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I just got tagged by one of these! Yikes!

Was driving with my grandmother and in broken English she says “no eyes… no nose… no face. Don’t trust.” To which I looked around wildly in search of this omen of ill portend.

the world that telegraph writers inhabit is so funny to me, i pop in sometimes to study them. some that are peak telegraph: