JD
@mathewson.us
Community college administrator, international relations and political economy PhD, sports complainer. 🐾🐢 Formerly @RationalPastime on the dying bird site.
I wonder if people who share this shit ever wonder if the group that has more alternatives is’t the one scraping by paycheck to paycheck.
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I wonder if people who share this shit ever wonder if the group that has more alternatives is’t the one scraping by paycheck to paycheck.
I’ve never objected to the parts of Star Wars that are kid friendly (when I got to college and realized my friends hated the Ewoks I was befuddled) I just didn’t realize this change had happened.
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It's funny because at the time Jar Jar was criticized, somewhat justifiably, as a racist stereotype. Now apparently he's representation for indigenous people.
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I’ve never objected to the parts of Star Wars that are kid friendly (when I got to college and realized my friends hated the Ewoks I was befuddled) I just didn’t realize this change had happened.
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Wow I had no idea the Jar Jar Binks revisionism is in full swing.
November 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Wow I had no idea the Jar Jar Binks revisionism is in full swing.
”…some of these responses…adopt an overly ambitious definition of strategy, demanding that ‘grand strategy’ be consistent…purely rational…or assign no value to non-material outcomes…”
Just want to add there was once an IR debate over whether the US *has a foreign policy* on similar terms.
Just want to add there was once an IR debate over whether the US *has a foreign policy* on similar terms.
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
”…some of these responses…adopt an overly ambitious definition of strategy, demanding that ‘grand strategy’ be consistent…purely rational…or assign no value to non-material outcomes…”
Just want to add there was once an IR debate over whether the US *has a foreign policy* on similar terms.
Just want to add there was once an IR debate over whether the US *has a foreign policy* on similar terms.
Empire isn’t even a complete movie.
November 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Empire isn’t even a complete movie.
Your family and your relationship is the hook, connections over generations and oceans, what that means to you, the increasing value of analog interpersonal love in an increasingly digital disconnected society.
Plus you make everything interesting. Tell them I’ll read it.
Plus you make everything interesting. Tell them I’ll read it.
November 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Your family and your relationship is the hook, connections over generations and oceans, what that means to you, the increasing value of analog interpersonal love in an increasingly digital disconnected society.
Plus you make everything interesting. Tell them I’ll read it.
Plus you make everything interesting. Tell them I’ll read it.
Seems to just read (or display) the NYT Nonfiction Bestseller’s list. 🚩🚩🚩
November 8, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Seems to just read (or display) the NYT Nonfiction Bestseller’s list. 🚩🚩🚩
Complex systems are complex and should always have nixie tubes
November 7, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Complex systems are complex and should always have nixie tubes