JustPassingThrough

A take so bad it’s obvious bait. Don’t fall for it.

we need more places where he can exist in public without being expected to buy anything, not fewer

True bravery.

If something is good then a lot of it must be better is a fallacy you learn when your 3 or 4 eating cookies.

Sure grandpa. We’ve done a disservice to the game. Now let’s get you to bed.

Uh oh. The Bluesky thought police are out in the mentions.

The world’s least interesting man.

Of course, you would also have to have promotion and drop down to lower leagues to make it work. An added bonus. All games would matter and regular season becomes worth watching for the first time in 40 years.

Abolish the idiotic draft and none of this happens. Stop rewarding failure if you don’t want to see failure on the court. Every other global sport operates fine without a draft. Try explaining why we have a draft to a South American or European sports fan and you’ll quickly find out how stupid it is

Love being there in winter after a fresh snow.

Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,

OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS

In fMRIs, reading and listening take part in completely different parts of the brain. It’s not an opinion that reading and listening are different actions. It’s just a simple scientific fact. I adore audiobooks, but no, you haven’t read a book if you listened to it.

This is how you live a life

When your real hands look like AI hands.

Perfect.

Rhymes with mustache and headache.

This is real bravery. He knows this can only cause him problems but does it because it’s right. Literally what outlaw country used to mean. Willie will be the first in line to get his back.

We’re on the exact same page. Always do it off the tank lid. Not the toilet seat.

We haven’t even had a ski season this year. Miserable. And this means the summer will be hell for fires and drought without snowpack. We need some big Spring storms desperately.

I agree. But when I send my kid to college, the last thing I’m going to ask is will this make him better employee. I want his mind to get blown inside of class and outside of class. I want it to ignite a life-long desire for learning and art and philosophy and nature. Jobs come and go.

Worked for jazz cigarettes.

Here man. Do a couple big lines of this. Some big gakkers. Then you might be able to understand it man.

I don’t understand the Bluesky obsession with him.

Good point. I was thinking of it in terms of personal, family-level investment. I think I mouthed-off in a well-reasoned thread that I had taken for an attack on humanities because of how I first saw it quote-tweeted.

Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40.

Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store

I read it back. You’re probably right. I was alerted to the thread just by the one post, which isn’t fair.

Public higher education is NOT about job-training and ROI. I went to a public university and the humanities education I got opened my eyes to everything that makes my life worth living. If you want to train cogs in the machine, open a job-training center. That’s not what a university has ever been.

“Oh, did a sportsball happen?” I whisper smugly from my vantage point on a distant cliff, the sounds of celebration in the village far below just barely audible over the lonely wind whipping my tattered cloak