there's something particularly hard to hold in my head about the fact that for me this may be the worst year of my life in that I have to cancel a bunch of trips and maybe lose my job but for a swathe of people in countries it will be the worst year of their lives because they fuckign starve

There was a moment where it looked like the macro people were right everything smoothed, it could still go that way. But also each individual industry expert is like "idk man"

"If you give the bully your lunch money they'll eventually stop taking it"

actually, doing a revenge gerrymander is the moderate compromise position. hope this helps

Stupid goo goo nonsense. The only way to get fair districting is to pinch republicans in the mouth enough until they agree to fairness. Doing this with Callais days away from ripping up the VRA is so stupid I don’t know where to begin.

Very funny how FT is actually the only newspaper on the planet

I admittedly haven't kept on my Minions-verse lore, but I distinctly recall they were shown as having been frozen in ice from Napoleon to the present day, as an obvious way to dodge the implications of them "looking for another evil boss to serve" in the 20th C.

Incredible headline

An onion will do well for such a shift

lol he's having a war meltdown

does make you love parliamentary democracy a bit. if you wanna be PM you really have to be ok with standing in the middle of a room and being bullied by 650 people. that's intense!

doing A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones reread. Will start with the main series, then dunk and egg novellas, the fire & blood and then whatever supplemental books/novellas there are left.

The political press has been and will continue to lie to you and say that liberals are too skeptical of new technology, because they consider LLMs to be real technology and mRNA vaccines are some kind of witchcraft that should be viewed with suspicion.

(gift article link) Never forget that a war that the US started is going to devastate the global South first and foremost. The US will face higher prices and mild disruption; the rest of the world will suffer *considerably* more.

all seasons of How It's Made are on HBO Max. Well, I know what I'll be watching for the next few months.

Nuezaemon, from Izunokuni City in Shizuoka, is a “nue”, a legendary supernatural beast which has the head of a monkey, the body of a tiger, and the tail of a snake.

Me, enlightened: the Strait of Hormuz is a social construct and we need to collectively work to redefine what it means to even be a strait in 2026 to encompass other routes

You, dumb: the strait is closed and that's bad. Me, an intellectual: the strait is wide open! Shipping through it is completely uninterrupted!

We definitely aren't increasing the risk of an economic cataclysm and a bunch of horrible political aftershocks every day, because the strait of Hormuz is open for business!

Think I've decided to become a straits of Hormuz denier. Sorry, don't care what our (very good) write-up says. The straits are open. Things are gonna be fiiine.

I don't believe any of these numbers because they throw out a new one every three days, literally. That's not even an exaggeration. These people have no idea.

The first time I'm aware of was here

Lmao he said it again

Just sobbed hardest I have since my mom died in 2020. She missed these trials by a few months. One of most ruthless cancers. Hard to fathom that maybe she'd still be here. I feel such a hole inside. In case you're wondering if we should fund mRNA research instead of another stupid war ... yes.

this reminds me, i don't think SCOTUS should be allowed to choose their own clerks. standardize the hiring schedule, put the applications in a pool, blind reads (perhaps by a panel of former clerks) and random assignments.

a 26 year old half filipino nazi. only in america baby!

This is why you're starting to see a lot of sulking about "Israel all of a sudden being the important important issue in American politics" from people who were perfectly happy to keep kicking the can down the road indefinitely and don't understand why that's not an option anymore.

I think a lot of people are in denial about the fact that we're now in an era where just saying "i support a two state solution" and then providing nothing in the way of policy means nothing anymore

Much open. Very flow. Such commerce. Wow.

The Iranian military says the Strait of Hormuz is closed again. Ships are turning back.

also notable that FBI officials share my take on Kash, which is that him being a drunken party animal is actually sort of the best case scenario in terms of what else he could be doing with his time

Remarkable.

It is a strange experience watching this go on when even if the strait *had* opened today, there's a huge amount of disruption baked in here - we're hurtling towards the part of the problem that can't be solved by marketing. It may be too late to change course...but also we're not changing course.

it's just a fact that baseball has the best names. what other sport is doing it like baseball?

A solid quarter of this site is enthusiastic young Christians who used to post Apostle fanfic on Tumblr and another quarter is atheists who read the Bible carefully to better understand their enemy

Of course a website full of humanities graduates has loads of people who have a favourite verse from the most influential work of literature ever published, come on.

Peter mandelsons entire career is like a cursed pharaohs amulet that kills everyone that tries to use its power and every other week some Labour party idiot picks up and goes have we tried using the pharaohs amulet

Ah, it’s actually up already:

Indeed, and as @karnesmellagio.bsky.social and @notthedarkweb.bsky.social have noted there is also a general confusion at the fact that many eastern countries simply do not place the Holocaust at the center of their moral historiography like the West. It doesn't bear the same psychological weight.

That was 26 years ago.

A good day to remind people that, around 2000 or so, Edward Said began routinely telling journalists and editors in his interviews that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory was now the longest in modern world history, after having surpassed the Japanese occupation of Korea.

Thr South Korean president criticized Israel, Israel got super mad about the mention of the Holocaust, and not the far worse reference. The president compared them to imperial Japan, which is like the worst thing a Korean can call anyone or anything www.theverge.com/policy/91358...

omg using pov correctly

But we almost got DOW 50k!

I do not think it will work for the simple reason the Iranians need to establish deterrence to ensure we don’t simply bomb the hell out of them every six months forever and that means making an example of Donald here and now to the extent possible.

That’s stupid thing to say. I was clearly mad from the start of this thread. I didn’t suddenly get mad when your dumb ass showed up.

Bold choice to set the new Minions movie in the 20s

Alex garlands civil war

still one of my favorite maps

This just failed.