Comments on: Just for the record… https://habitablezone.com/2025/06/22/just-for-the-record/ Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:05:36 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: podrock https://habitablezone.com/2025/06/22/just-for-the-record/#comment-54172 podrock Fri, 18 Jul 2025 02:13:05 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=106595#comment-54172 Tom Lehrer on steroids, with bare feet and mascara. Tom Lehrer on steroids, with bare feet and mascara.

]]> By: BuckGalaxy https://habitablezone.com/2025/06/22/just-for-the-record/#comment-54171 BuckGalaxy Thu, 17 Jul 2025 21:44:08 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=106595#comment-54171 I watched it and then just spent the last 4 hours watching reaction videos to it. Amazing talent and powerful message. I watched it and then just spent the last 4 hours watching reaction videos to it.

Amazing talent and powerful message.

]]> By: podrock https://habitablezone.com/2025/06/22/just-for-the-record/#comment-54170 podrock Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:23:55 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=106595#comment-54170 There are many "reaction videos" to this song. Interesting to watch. There are many “reaction videos” to this song. Interesting to watch.

]]> By: podrock https://habitablezone.com/2025/06/22/just-for-the-record/#comment-54169 podrock Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:51:14 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=106595#comment-54169 Reminded me of Tim Minchin's song... <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KVN_0qvuhhw?si=T9hdjqR5rmE_cGpR" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe> Reminded me of Tim Minchin’s song…

]]> By: BuckGalaxy https://habitablezone.com/2025/06/22/just-for-the-record/#comment-54159 BuckGalaxy Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:16:54 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=106595#comment-54159 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/opinion/african-american-language-label-mamdani.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WU8.9E89.PPuPl2QurPr6&smid=url-share" rel="nofollow">John McWhorter, a Columbia University linguist, explores how race and language shape our politics and culture.</a> <blockquote>...To the extent that “African American” was designed to change perceptions of what “Black” means, it hasn’t worked. The grand old euphemism treadmill has done it in. Again and again we create new terms hoping to get past negative associations with the old ones, such as “homeless” for “bum.” But after a while the negative associations settle like a cloud of gnats on the new terms as well, and then it’s time to find a further euphemism. With no hesitation I predict that “unhoused person” will need replacement in about 2030...</blockquote> John McWhorter, a Columbia University linguist, explores how race and language shape our politics and culture.

…To the extent that “African American” was designed to change perceptions of what “Black” means, it hasn’t worked. The grand old euphemism treadmill has done it in. Again and again we create new terms hoping to get past negative associations with the old ones, such as “homeless” for “bum.” But after a while the negative associations settle like a cloud of gnats on the new terms as well, and then it’s time to find a further euphemism. With no hesitation I predict that “unhoused person” will need replacement in about 2030…

]]> By: BuckGalaxy https://habitablezone.com/2025/06/22/just-for-the-record/#comment-54139 BuckGalaxy Sat, 05 Jul 2025 19:55:21 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=106595#comment-54139 Government, at all levels, can end homelessness with simple choices: raise taxes and subsidize housing. That’s all it would take. It wouldn’t solve all the other social problems related to poverty but it would house people who are living on the streets. Government, at all levels, can end homelessness with simple choices: raise taxes and subsidize housing. That’s all it would take. It wouldn’t solve all the other social problems related to poverty but it would house people who are living on the streets.

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2025/06/22/just-for-the-record/#comment-54136 ER Sat, 05 Jul 2025 13:36:21 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=106595#comment-54136 When a citizen working two jobs can't afford to pay rent or feed his family its not his fault, its the government's. People aren't homeless because they're lazy or stupid or crooked, its because economic conditions have become toxic. And that happens when those who are responsible for those conditions are doing something wrong. Workers are not responsible for determining economic conditions, businessmen are. And only governments have the power to persuade business. Of course, there will always be people who are sick or handicapped (or just plain stupid or lazy or crooked), but Conservatives cannot explain why these people are suddenly increasing in number. I simply cannot accept that the amount of stupid, lazy and crooked folks isn't CAUSED by economic policy and conditions over which the victims have absolutely no control. They're caused by rich people who don't want to pay taxes. When a citizen working two jobs can’t afford to pay rent or feed his family its not his fault, its the government’s. People aren’t homeless because they’re lazy or stupid or crooked, its because economic conditions have become toxic. And that happens when those who are responsible for those conditions are doing something wrong. Workers are not responsible for determining economic conditions, businessmen are. And only governments have the power to persuade business.

Of course, there will always be people who are sick or handicapped (or just plain stupid or lazy or crooked), but Conservatives cannot explain why these people are suddenly increasing in number. I simply cannot accept that the amount of stupid, lazy and crooked folks isn’t CAUSED by economic policy and conditions over which the victims have absolutely no control. They’re caused by rich people who don’t want to pay taxes.

]]> By: RobVG https://habitablezone.com/2025/06/22/just-for-the-record/#comment-54123 RobVG Sat, 28 Jun 2025 20:43:59 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=106595#comment-54123 Good post n/t Good post n/t

]]> By: BuckGalaxy https://habitablezone.com/2025/06/22/just-for-the-record/#comment-54118 BuckGalaxy Sat, 28 Jun 2025 08:23:06 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=106595#comment-54118 Sure things like "undocumented" are perhaps a little overly sensitive. There are other examples. But there are some very harsh racist words that are better purged from the commonly used language. Let's take the worst example: the N word. Black people use it among themselves to soften its bite; to attempt to desensitize themselves to it. But to them it is still forbidden to non blacks because it is so painful. One word. One word that so encapsulates so much historical suffering. One word so powerful in its meanness that it revives centuries of slavery, murder, rape, degradation and humiliation by simple saying it. And of course there are other harsh racist words in the language. We're better off without them but sadly our current political climate has made them more acceptable. Sure things like “undocumented” are perhaps a little overly sensitive. There are other examples. But there are some very harsh racist words that are better purged from the commonly used language. Let’s take the worst example: the N word. Black people use it among themselves to soften its bite; to attempt to desensitize themselves to it. But to them it is still forbidden to non blacks because it is so painful. One word. One word that so encapsulates so much historical suffering. One word so powerful in its meanness that it revives centuries of slavery, murder, rape, degradation and humiliation by simple saying it. And of course there are other harsh racist words in the language. We’re better off without them but sadly our current political climate has made them more acceptable.

]]> By: BuckGalaxy https://habitablezone.com/2025/06/22/just-for-the-record/#comment-54117 BuckGalaxy Sat, 28 Jun 2025 08:00:52 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=106595#comment-54117 Not really, but build more of THESE bombs FFS. They've talked about this Iran underground site for something like a decade now. The pentagon fucked up not having a hundred of these bad boys on hand to make sure this job gets done right. Not really, but build more of THESE bombs FFS. They’ve talked about this Iran underground site for something like a decade now. The pentagon fucked up not having a hundred of these bad boys on hand to make sure this job gets done right.

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