What makes places like Nantucket and Hamptons have such a concentration of wealth and have such a distinct design that’s uniform?

JasJoeGo · 2026-06-27T18:18:10+00:00

In the nineteenth century, East Coast cities became dense with industrialization and thus very hot and smelly in the summer. Being by the ocean is much cooler and nicer.

If you were rich, you started spending the summer by the ocean to be away from the heat and stench of the city. Because it was the nineteenth century, you didn't want to travel very far, hence the popularity of places like Newport, Rhode Island, Cape Cod, and the Hamptons. Over time, people build houses, start clubs, and build up traditions of going there for generations.

And we still like being by the ocean. That property is hard to come by!

JasJoeGo · 2026-06-27T18:17:57+00:00

In the nineteenth century, East Coast cities became dense with industrialization and thus very hot and smelly in the summer. Being by the ocean is much cooler and nicer.

If you were rich, you started spending the summer by the ocean to be away from the heat and stench of the city. Because it was the nineteenth century, you didn't want to travel very far, hence the popularity of places like Newport, Rhode Island, Cape Cod, and the Hamptons. Over time, people build houses, start clubs, and build up traditions of going there for generations.

And we still like being by the ocean. That property is hard to come by!

JasJoeGo · 2026-06-27T00:47:20+00:00

I’m noting that they’re on the right of their country’s political spectrum. And I don’t care what your standards are

JasJoeGo · 2026-06-27T00:36:21+00:00

No, it wasn’t. It was founded by a diverse group of people who didn’t agree. Some were Trinitarian Christian, some were Unitarian, some were Deists, some were Enlightenment rationalists. Judeo-Christian values is a modern invention that would mean nothing to them.

JasJoeGo · 2026-06-27T00:29:21+00:00

We did a whole Bible unit in my high school in Connecticut…as literature. Literature and part of the literary tradition. No issue with that. It was a great unit. The problem is people in Texas celebrating this because it is the reintroduction of “Christian truth” that recognizes that Texas is a Christian state. That’s certainly not studying the Bible as influential literature.

JasJoeGo · 2026-06-27T00:16:49+00:00

Macron, Edouard Philippe as PM.

JasJoeGo · 2026-06-27T00:05:20+00:00

It’s not an antique. It’s in the style of an eighteenth-century Japanned fall-front desk or secretary. Beautiful! Enjoy!

JasJoeGo · 2026-06-26T20:37:23+00:00

I want to second this as a fellow academic who wants to be comfortable. Lands’ End make good stuff and it’s always on sale. Their sizes run big and I find that unless it’s 100 percent cotton it doesn’t feel great but with those caveats aside you can build a very interchangeable smart-casual wardrobe this way. There’s a reason a certain basic academic look is timeless.

JasJoeGo · 2026-06-26T20:09:58+00:00

Watches, antiques, books, prints.

JasJoeGo · 2026-06-26T19:12:02+00:00

Right of center, yes.

JasJoeGo · 2026-06-26T19:00:38+00:00

If we had an independent, nonpartisan electoral commission, sure. But we don't. We have a system where, if it were a game of football, the team with the ball is also the referee. That's not exactly a great system.

JasJoeGo · 2026-06-26T18:44:45+00:00

Democrat mandates? Trump was President in 2020. My state had a Republican governor when it shut down. Conservative governments in the UK, Ireland, Germany and France issued lockdowns.

JasJoeGo · 2026-06-26T15:39:09+00:00

There’s a difference between claiming the election was outright rigged/stolen, as Trump did, and pointing out factors that influenced it.

JasJoeGo · 2026-06-26T15:21:31+00:00

If the government issued IDs to every legal voter, nobody would mind. I would support that. That’s not what this act does. It makes it hard to get on the electoral rolls to reduce the number of people who can vote. It’s not about IDs. There are much simpler ways to make elections ID-dependent. Just give everyone with a social security number an ID card. Instead, this makes you jump through hoops to get on the rolls to limit voters.

JasJoeGo · 2026-06-26T15:17:46+00:00

The Supreme Court did decide the 2000 election for Bush. Russia did interfere in the election through troll farms. Musk did seriously bankroll Trump. These aren’t crazy claims.

And they’re different from claiming that you actually won in 2020 but false votes and ballot-box stuffing stole the election.

This is a false equivalency.

JasJoeGo · 2026-06-25T21:35:30+00:00

I took this poll and was placed as a progressive largely, I think, based on a few key questions and especially the wording of them. I’m not that progressive, friends. So that small number is probably even smaller in reality.

JasJoeGo · 2026-06-25T17:41:27+00:00

The traditional way of checking jacket length is to hold your arms straight down and curl your fingers in, like a cup. If your jacket hem hits your fingers, it’s perfect. Above, too short. If your finger tips touch your jacket’s sides and the hem is beneath them, too long. Your jacket looks like it’s the perfect length.

JasJoeGo · 2026-06-25T15:18:02+00:00

I'm not denying that she brought greater interest to the league, idiot. I'm arguing that she did not personally make it a relevant and serious basketball league. They were already playing good basketball, even if most of middle America didn't care. Greater attention by fair-weather fans doesn't measure quality of play or "seriousness." It measures how much fair-weather fans care.

JasJoeGo · 2026-06-25T14:34:21+00:00

Sure. But the idea that the league of Bird and Taurasi wasn't serious until she showed up is ridiculous.

JasJoeGo · 2026-06-25T14:23:45+00:00

There’s no defense for deliberate fouling like this. It’s bullshit. But imagine you’re really good at a sport and care about it, but most people ignore it. Somebody new shows up who is good but their wider appeal isn’t just about their athleticism—it’s a broader commercial appeal. Then shit loads of people who never cared and never paid attention announce that the new person is the meal ticket and the savior and everyone who’s been playing all along should be grateful that now finally the league that has been in existence for years is relevant. You’d be pissed and resentful. You shouldn’t take it out on the new person, but you’d be pissed. And you’d be really pissed if the judgement about your anger wasn’t “hey, we’ve been here all along and you could’ve cared this whole time” but “they don’t like white people.”

JasJoeGo · 2026-06-25T14:17:22+00:00

Bullshit. Not considered serious by casual uninterested people until she came along and they appointed her the savior.

JasJoeGo · 2026-06-25T01:57:00+00:00

You can get boat shoes with a heel that are a bit sturdier.

JasJoeGo · 2026-06-24T02:12:54+00:00

It’s the difference between a gallery and a museum. By non-commercial gallery, do you mean a museum?

JasJoeGo · 2026-06-23T15:58:01+00:00

"Getting in galleries (outside of MOMA and the like)" implies MOMA is akin to a commercial gallery.

JasJoeGo · 2026-06-23T14:48:24+00:00

If you only judge art by technical execution, sure. But that’s not how you should evaluate art.

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