http://ranprieur.com/#9a417fe513f58988c3b5b1e84cfc57397194a79b 2025-06-05T17:50:32Z Ran Prieur http://ranprieur.com/ ranprieur@gmail.com http://ranprieur.com/#39d57fca09c7e62c086d6f2f6214272c1141a033 2025-06-05T17:50:32Z June 5. Quick note on politics. I was just reading how, in 2016, conservative author P.J. O'Rourke endorsed Hillary Clinton, saying "She's wrong about absolutely everything, but she's wrong within normal parameters." I feel something similar about Trump: He's wrong about everything, but at least he's wrong outside of normal parameters. Neoliberalism is dying because it cannot conceive of any alternative to the present system, while the right offers a time-tested alternative: charismatic warlords and fanatical tribalism.

Three Reddit threads about the failure of normal parameters:

What's a thing that is dangerously close to collapse?

What's one thing you think is quietly fading away from our lives or society?

And the most powerful thread, of course removed by mods: What's a sign that someone has quietly given up?

]]> http://ranprieur.com/#a16ac8dc0f19b2cc2ad4f929c1feae59be9669f1 2025-06-03T15:30:59Z June 3. Probably just posting links this week. I check the Ask Old People subreddit twice a day, and it's mostly just nostalgia, but sometimes there's a great thread that inevitably gets removed. Here are two: How many older people have decided to just stay away from Doctors? And a thread full of good stories about ways people have died besides in their sleep.

I've been heavily following the college softball playoffs, and here's a great play from this weekend where a Texas Tech player steals home, taking off with the pitch and the catcher doesn't notice.

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