insanely smug English majors are the only ones who haven’t rotted their brains too much to do investment banking. our time

My entire social circle catching strays

The next Democratic president could solve the deficit by running a lottery for the right to push this thing into the smelter.

Every character in The Odyssey should have the accent of a Taverna owner in Astoria who addresses all patrons, regardless of age or gender, as "Boss".

The key to understanding this is that the Demographic pushing back against being "Educated and Cultivated" isn't the working class; it's the petty-rich. It's the car-dealer class. It's wealth-inheritors who went from high school to their Dad's job, and resent the respect education gets.

In an economics seminar this would be called "a market signal"

I am in one groupchat where people (including myself) are legit bummed out about only getting the short form census.

In addition to the corruption and the substance abuse and the embezzlement and the targeting of Trump's enemies, Kash Patel is just the biggest fucking baby alive.

Dawkins spending his entire career berating basically pretty normal people for being so stupid as to believe in God and then immediately giving himself Roko's Basilisk Derangement Syndrome after talking to the AI catgirl waifus is just the funniest shit.

Is Zohran Mamdani living up to his promises as New York City's mayor? We asked four retired NYPD officers at a driving range in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

Second EF stage win in two days LFG

March: "Price wars and margin compression have forced industry leaders—including Jinko Solar, Trina Solar, and JA Solar—to report significant losses." www.csis.org/analysis/chi... The extent to which Donald Trump has *rescued* China's solar sector is difficult to overstate.

My maternal grandmother's family was unusual in that eight of nine children made it past their fifth birthday (and that the one who didn't was "freak farm accident" rather than "childhood illness that is now easily prevented or treated").

maybe she could write a five paragraph long footnote explaining how Israel is bad.

For Star Wars day, give us your top 10 sci-fi films: Arrival Bladerunner 2049 Empire Strikes Back Rogue One Inception The Martian Aliens Prey Cloverfield The Andromeda Strain

Dave Filoni is a bad choice for the car keys to the franchise, and the contrast of his work with ANDOR is indicative of why: he's so locked in to what Star Wars *is* that he's blind to what Star Wars *could be*, and that's not the quality Disney will need to guide them out of the SW morass.

A lot of Platner hate is because “Random dude decides he should be one of the most powerful people in America and is welcomed as a hero with minimal scrutiny of his genuinely rather troubling background, because he checks a lot of aesthetic masculinity boxes” is a dangerous way to conduct business

New Shakespeare dropped before Winds of Winter smdh

Pretty clear that 2024 was psychologically devastating for the Pod Save bros in a way it wasn't even for the most anxious Bluesky user

Christina Thompson - Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia Robert MacFarlane - Underland Zeke Faux - Number Go Up Adam Tooze - Crashed Ashley Mears - Very Important People: Status and Beauty on the Global Party Circuit

I still maintain that COVID produced the greatest Chart Howlers of the modern era, but "when will the Strait of Hormuz open and oil production return to prewar levels?" charts are increasingly pulling ahead.

MHF really giving away the game here.

Crime and Punishment and Grogu

To those who might not understand, the Hawks in the neighborhood of Atlanta sports are the guy who is forever electrocuting himself hanging up Christmas lights, but never actually totally killing himself in the process

THEY’RE UP BY ALMOST SIXTY WHAT THE FUCK

Checking in on the score of tonight’s NBA games between Jays innings and let’s see what’s happening in Hawks vs Knicks game si-,

now playing for the new york knicks

the thing largest and most unknown, I think, is the scale of famine.

George Miller nearly scrapped the Polecats scenes in Mad Max: Fury Road because he couldn't figure out how to make the stunt(s) work without a *severe* risk of death injury. The stunt performers pulled all-nighters, figured it out, and then convinced him to put the scenes back in.

trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat: me: where'd daddy go? baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy me: peekaboo! baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles

Have been stillborn

California has so empowered the hecklers veto that we added $1 billion dollars to the high speed rail project and delayed hitting our climate goals to ensure a zero emission train wasn’t laid too close to a child rapists grave.

The millennial craft movement vastly improved American gastronomy and I refuse to let zoomers with no cultural memory of the bland garbage we ate and drank 20 years ago meme me into thinking it is cringe.

The Cut's specialty is giving people in the process of deranged acts of self destruction a safe space to blog about them (see also: most Sex Diaries entries, "I can't be friends with someone on Wegovy", etc)

BoC holds rates as expected. "Governing Council is looking through the war’s immediate impact on inflation but will not let higher energy prices become persistent inflation."

You often read in accounts of criminal trials that involved particularly distressing evidence that jurors needed to be offered counselling afterwards, and we seem to have reached a point where we're all getting that constantly

I think it's really underappreciated that a large chunk of people across the world are everyday being served images of the world's worst atrocities, essentially live as they happen, in ways previously only experienced by people on the frontline, who have historically had years of trauma as a result.

And those numbers undersell the volume, as a lot of those Americans were consuming little to none (Temperance movement members). The median American who drank *drank*. My all-time cottage weekend benders were just like a standard Tuesday.

Basically guarantees that Tyler Fitzgerald one day delivers Blue Jays fans an even worse gutpunch than the Pages catch in Game 7.

one of the all-timers in a surprisingly strong SNL genre of 'horror quiz show skit'

Trey Yesavage’s splitter: still disgusting

"Bicycles deliver the freedom...," especially in downtown rush hour traffic.

Judge: "Has the jury reached a verdict?" Jury Foreman: "We have" Judge: "The verdict is [squints] that both parties must engage in a fight to the death with wiffle bats?"

The urge to make every mildly antisocial thing you do praaaaaaxis is so fucking annoying.

for the low low price of only forty-two thousand United States dollars per year in property taxes, you too can live in Hell

The hilarious part of using the Elmdale Tavern as Wonderlanes Bowling Alley is that there is an actual bowling alley about four blocks east of there.