The Real K.L.T.

I’m a social media influenza. 

@staff Settings toggle idea: "I'm not interested in any communities."

I don't know about the son of God stuff, but I think Jesus was a social scientist. When he said to love your enemies, he may have understood that ostracization accelerates further radicalization. Then again, that quote is from the Book of Matthew, likely not written by Matthew at all, 50 years after Jesus was dead, so maybe it was really the unidentified Greek guy who was the social scientist. Either way, good advice.

Sports fans will pay $400 for tickets to Mastercard Stadium to cheer for a team owned by a Comcast subsidiary. They’ll accept a 4,000% markup at the concession stand, then spend more on merch produced in factories where workers are paid 80 cents an hour. They’ll sit through jumbotron ads for wireless providers for 3 hours to watch 20 guys they don’t know play a game, each earning around $100,000. And then they’ll walk out, stoked, saying, “We won!”

Being disparaged as a "centrist" for supporting practical, incremental compromises and pragmatism is really funny, if you think about it. It's kind of like if the neighborhood homebody who never leaves their yard called you a wimp for looking both ways before crossing the street because they were opposed to traffic laws or something.

A person will post on this website that the 40hr work week is why they rely on food delivery services and claim office life is to blame for their poor mental health, but then you'll go to their blog and they're of the generation that statistically spends 9+ hours a day on social media.