Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse
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https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-104/ this week in sentences: the dogs of Venice, socialist-bloc cosmetics, teens and the insane, the hell of leisure, every toaster, a weed shop of the 2020s, nickel-and-diming, a pyre, flat dial tone
Oh man you know who would be having such a time with The Discourse if he were alive today? Baudrillard
*to the tune of "Hot To Go"*
C A R R O T S
Ramsey says before I go to war with the data centers we need to get a verandah he can pine from and read my letters from the front
Extra depressed this time of year by default because it's when my dad died but also everything is bad and my dog died two months ago so it is really just not a good time
https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-103/ this week in sentences: syllables, ill-suited, a disease, interlocking ninth circles, fungi attack, lacking perhaps, the unjustifiable, HOLD A BLU-RAY, slouching, all known seamounts, larks and katydids, why the cello, poor saps
How is everyone else coping
Ingrid Burrington
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UnitedHealth recently helped kill single-payer health care legislation in California.
Gov. Gavin Newsom backed off his previous support of the idea -- after he & Dems received huge money from UnitedHealth donors. https://buff.ly/3ZPLOPu
Ingrid Burrington
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The thing you have to understand about the original Gilded Age is that "gilded" does not mean "golden." It means covering something cheap with a thin layer of gold, to make the cheap thing look more valuable.
That is why they called it the Gilded Age: it was a cheap simulation of a golden age. A shiny veneer of prosperity, but scratch the glimmering surface and all you'd find underneath is base metal.
In other words, enshittification is nothing new. It's just how plutocracy works -- looting the fundamentals of the economy to gild the lives of a few.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age#The_name_and_the_era
You ever find yourself hoping you have cancer and then not going to the doctor so that if you do have cancer it'll be too late by the time you get it checked out
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