Circling down the drain

https://twitter.com/StephanieHazen/status/1175061910737379329

This is a "wonderful" thread stating that women falsely accusing men of rape doesn't ruin the men's lives:

https://twitter.com/NBedera/status/1174340842267512833

I don't know much about Vogue, but I'm assuming this is non-fiction. If so, it gives me hope for the future.

"Parenting’s New Frontier: What Happens When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone?"

https://www.vogue.com/article/parentings-new-frontier-no-smartphones?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Excerpt:

"...When my kids were born, in 2005 and 2009, and I mounted photo after photo of them on Facebook with overworked captions, I envied them being born into a digital world. Lucky kids, they also had me—a chic internet habitué, not some Luddite rube afraid of her own shadow online, terrified of selfies and convinced she might restrict her household to 20 minutes a day 'on the internet,' as if anyone in our time ever fully gets off.

"I looked on proudly as the kids walked around our block, trying out my Google Glass (at my insistence), easily mastering the flash-in-the-pan device I’d managed to wrangle as part of a pilot program. I imagined they’d both become virtuosos at digital culture, social media, online research. They’d create formidable, indomitable avatars with vast powers and an absolute immunity to scams, trolls, and disinformation. Their avatars, one day, would heroically match wits with J.K. Rowling and Soledad O’Brien, or whatever luminaries would dominate Twitter in the future.

"One thing I couldn’t imagine was that one of them would reject the internet entirely.

"There were warning signs. For one, from the start, my son stubbornly didn’t like pop music, blockbuster movies, or slang. He didn’t like seeing pictures of him, or anyone else he knew, online. Instead, he buried himself in history books and wore his pants rolled up because it was his 'trademark.' I swear it’s not my fault. Like any good Gen X mom, I offered him Jolly Ranchers, pizza bites, and nonstop TV. He defied me.

"And then somewhere along the line, as he tells it, he privately decided that if he were going to maintain his integrity in middle school, he would have to stay away from phones. He set himself certain tasks in his education, and he calculated that he couldn’t give up nearly seven hours per day—the national average—to phones and other screens.

"For me this was a headache. His friends, when they were looking for him, had started to text me. And when he went off on his own for hours, I had no way to find him. We’re used to everyone being reachable; my son is, as a rule, not. Periodically we tried to coordinate using public phones. Occasionally he’d borrow a phone from a friend of his so he could call me, but he’d keep the conversations very short—like an international call in the old days. He seems to hear a doomsday clock ticking every time he gets near a mobile device..."

(snip)

It reminds me of a 2-hour special report on 20/20 with Diane Sawyer (in May 2019), I think, that quoted some teens as saying that they actually wish they'd been born into a pre-cellphone generation!

Many types of people running out there:

The 16 (Types of) People You’re Bound to Find on a Run

Oh no not that anything but that gosh what a travesty I hope this can be resolved by a heartfelt outpouring of money or you're a racist.

Corey Booker needs money.

Disgusting.

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Kurt Schlichter nails it. Again.

Beto The Furry Is Less Amusing When He Calls For Violence Against American Citizens

Memoryholed in the name of a frivolous DMCA:

https://twitter.com/dabitch/status/1175460868378656768

To Hell with Far Side. To Hell with comics.

That's right, I s͇a͇i͇d͇ it.

Mpet, how about a different blog for gross-out things, political and otherwise?

Sorry, Crid, but 8chan has too many assholes.

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