“The thing about a $590 T-shirt is that, upon acquiring one, you immediately become the human assistant to a $590 T-shirt. Your compensation for this role is capped at the amount of joy you personally are able to derive from the act of wearing it.”
“The thing about a $590 T-shirt is that, upon acquiring one, you immediately become the human assistant to a $590 T-shirt. Your compensation for this role is capped at the amount of joy you personally are able to derive from the act of wearing it.”
“I knew before the summer’s Black Lives Matter protests that my mustache made me look like a bougie race man: a professional, seemingly humorless middle-class Negro, a moderate, who believes that presentation is a crucial component of the ‘advancement’ part of the NAACP mission.”
“The control panel he monitored was connected to an elaborate system consisting of tubes with tiny holes that ran throughout the [Notre-Dame] cathedral complex. At one end of each tube was what is called an ‘aspirating’ detector, a highly sensitive device that draws in air to detect any smoke.”
“The German study found that, measured simply by weight, the overall abundance of flying insects in German nature reserves had decreased by 75 percent over just 27 years. If you looked at midsummer population peaks, the drop was 82 percent.”
“East Antarctica is in fact a graveyard of continental remnants. [Scientists] have created stunning 3-D maps of the southernmost continent’s tectonic underworld and found that the ice has been concealing wreckage of an ancient supercontinent’s spectacular destruction.”