“This thing is legally dubious and therefore technically unenforceable.” Is not a “useless liberal gotcha” it’s how legalism works in this country. Tying up stupidly worded EOs in court is the quickest way to keep them from being implemented. It is the definition of “doing something.” But it doesn’t usually involve much tweeting so of course a certain type of leftist feels obligated to mock it.
I get that it’s not exciting or theatrical but lawyers holding up pieces of paper and saying “umm you can’t do that?” Is genuinely how several major civil rights victories were achieved.
Brown v Board of Education
Loving v Virginia
Griswold v Connecticut
Obergefell v Hodges
Roe v Wade protected abortion rights for 50 years and was only just overturned as a result of Lawyers Holding Papers
Lawyers Holding Papers and Saying “Um You Can’t Do That” is, in essence, the intended design of our system of checks and balances and our largest check on Executive Power as civilians.
A spoon’s only objective in life is to make soup go upwards, and it knows this. That’s why when you put one under a running tap it blasts the water way high. The spoon thinks there’s suddenly TONS of soup to deal with and it freaks out.
Like I get the funny haha that saving 5k is difficult but I also must stress that line has also aged significantly with the context of what that $5000 is for.
That 5k in savings is for down payment on a house.
a “fun fact” i read as a child is that pure honey never spoils, to the point where honey from ancient egyptian tombs was found to still be edible
i used to think about this, and imagine a poor intern who was strong-armed into putting in their one human mouth something was made literally thousands of years ago, just to make sure it could be safely eaten
but having since met scientists and having learned what freaks they are, if they did put this to the test, i am VERY confident that every single archaeologist in the room was duking it out over who got the honor of putting their tongue on that mummy’s dusty old bee goo.
No joke is one-size-fits-all, but adding “but I remain optimistic” at the end of any somewhat-speculating statement makes it funny, taking a different tone in each.
Adding it to the end of something positive gives it an unexpected twist - implying that whatever the good thing that happened was, it wasn’t what you expected or hoped to happen, but you’re yet to give up hope of whatever the fuck you’ve now vaguely implied towards might still happen. “He survived and is expected to make a full recovery, but I remain optimistic.”
Adding it to a neutral statement implies that you think something can be done about it, funniest if the statement is something that obviously can’t be affected. “Apparently it’s tuesday tomorrow, but I remain optimistic.”
And the bleakest, most hopeless statements just become bleakly funny by the grim absurdity. “About 30 seconds remain until impact, and the chances of any of us surviving the crash are zero. But I remain optimistic.”
Ok but like why are they trying so hard to get ppl in the office
my thoughts on why they want everyone back to the office:
the companies don’t want to give up their valuable office real estate assets and need to justify keeping them.
they have to justify the existence of a lot of middle management people who are otherwise useless.
more control and surveillance over their employees.
people working from home and having more work/life balance and time with loved ones is dangerous to the corporate status quo. they don’t want you thinking too much or realizing life is more than just mindlessly working in order to buy things.
