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On The Experience of Being Poor-ish, For People Who Aren't
Meta-Note: I’m sorry it’s been so long between articles; for better or worse writing here is something that I do for fun, and sometimes work and family…
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Feb 15, 2021
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On Incels, Dead Bedrooms and The Hard Problems of Loneliness
My father’s father was by all accounts a really bitter-hearted sort of person. I say “by all accounts” because I hardly knew him; he had at some point…
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May 4, 2021
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Nobody Will Admit The Best Novel of Our Generation is About Football
OK, so, there’s this thing where if you write a bunch you hope you eventually build up some trust with your audience. You try to be generally reliable…
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Apr 28
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What Does "Shitty Job" Mean in The Low-Skill, Low-Pay World?
I once wrote an article about being poor, and I started it out with a story about a friend who had spent some time explaining to my wife (who, at the…
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Apr 17
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On The Exciting Subject Of Earwax And Unsupported Medical Arguments
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor; even if I’m 100% right in my argument and you are 100% convinced by it, you shouldn’t listen to me over actual doctors…
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Dec 5, 2020
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Overnight Pizza and The Consistent Unreliability of Expert Guidelines
Author disclaimer: As always, keep in mind that I am at best some random guy on the internet. This article deals with food safety - my official…
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Mar 29, 2021
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Being Poor-ish Revisited: Reader Questions
Edit Alert: During the process of this article, some people more knowledgeable than me on one of the questions popped up - I’ve edited the article a bit…
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Feb 17, 2021
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On Unbeatable Video Games
The meaningless challenges that matter
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Sep 30, 2021
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Kendi Vs. McWhorter
I feel a little bad writing this because I just came down on How to be an Antiracist author Ibram X. Kendi in my last (and first ever, on this blog…
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Nov 30, 2020
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An Article About a Book About Pornography That Isn't Actually Substantially About Pornography, So Far. (NSFW, Probably?)
Entry one of probably several
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Jan 6
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Contra Scott Alexander on Literally Everything
I really owe an awful lot to Scott Alexander. If nothing else, he’s had a huge influence on the way I write. I first became acquainted with his work in…
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Sep 7, 2021
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Assessing a Claim: Is San Francisco's Shoplifting Problem Fake?
As I begin to write this post, you can probably figure out where I’m going with it. I’m conservative and I’m from Arizona; predictably, I hate the new…
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