Going to house parties in your 30s

A must-read:

nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

your favorite chinese saying is english!

Let's talk food delivery. We've read the anecdotes about DoorDash addicts, but also seen the data showing no surge in delivery use. At @today.yougov.com, we've got a new poll resolving the dilemma. Most Americans don't order delivery much — but YUPPIES do: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/have-some-...

in soviet russia,

Some burrito taxi data courtesy of @dhmontgomery.com and YouGov's The Surveyor newsletter. Largely uncommon but for young people in cities. Then, especially higher income younger folks. Recommend subscribing if you like fun survey nuggets. yougovamerica.substack.com/p/have-some-...

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Looking forward to seeing folks tonight!

Just want to point out as well that SF has quite possibly the best anti-fare dodging ad campaign based on their baseball team’s fiercest rivals being the Dodgers.

News: Gallup will stop measuring presidential approval ratings after 89 years. Read the firm's reasons for making the change and what topics the Gallup will continue conducting in today's Early Brief s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

This is a famously messy Norwegian biathlete who was banned in 2023 from the Biathlon World Cup because he accidentally fired his competition rifle in his hotel room (he was also teary and apologetic then)

Broke: Wall Street is buying up all the single-family homes Woke: Corporate landlords own less than <1% of single-family homes nationwide Bespoke: In metro Atlanta and other Sun Belt suburbs corporate landlords own enough share to control the market for renters and restrict the supply for buyers

A history of sitting U.S. senators coming in *third* place in party primaries — it's happened 13 times since 1914, but not since 1962:

Ah, yes. My people.

THE HATERS SAID THE PATRIOTS COULDN'T DO IT. AND THEY WERE CORRECT. HONESTLY GREAT CALL FROM THE HATERS

Second straight year a Drake has gotten absolutely humiliated at the Super Bowl

Some context from that Lays ad. People are very stupid and don’t realize that potato chips are literally made out of potatoes. That’s why they were parading around a potato in that ad like it’s the fucking Rosetta Stone.

So close to setting up a chess board correctly, but the black king is on the wrong square

Keep seeing the misinformation that this was Liam on here--has been reported that it was not

If anyone is selling you the opportunity to make money, *you* are how *they* make money and the 'secret' they have is convincing people like you to pay them. There will be a lot of smoke & mirrors to make it look like you have agency, but the product is your gullibility.

One thing I’ve noticed is that a lot of recent Super Bowl halftime shows have been shot in closeup for the home audience — to where people in the stadium wouldn’t be able to see what was happening. I don’t think that was the norm 10-15 years ago.

Unfortunately, no. There is no way to convert heavy water into holy heavy water. However, if you start with Holy Water, electrolyze it within a blessed Buchner flask, add Holy Peroxide, then freeze it in a reliquary and purge, the remainder will be Holy Heavy Water.

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

There's no easy way to say this: isthmus

I don't know who needs to see this, but Katee "Starbuck" Sackhoff has never sat down and watched "Battlestar Galactica" — until now, when she's releasing reaction vids:

This is a fake Trump post, and the account that posted it here has been told repeatedly that it's a fake Trump post but still has it up. That's an easy block.

They expect one of us in the wreckage, brother.

The consistency with which McAfee has hit this message about San Francisco being nice makes me wonder if the sentiments are 100% organic.

we gotta open the schools…or close down the schools. not sure. yikes

The last word (or compound word, if you want to be nit-picky) in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" is "tobacco-jar."

The Reluctant Bride, by Auguste Toulmouche, 1866

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

introducing Starcounter: a tabulator for Bluesky clickbait

Epistemologically, we’re in deep trouble as a society when the same Party is simultaneously viewed as Marxist and Reaganite depending on which bubble you’re in.

ok, whoa. the DOJ just told me that the unredacted version of the document in question contains an image of a victim’s face overlayed on the face of the Mona Lisa image. so, that's why it's redacted. jesus christ

Listen, I get why you think this, but AEW's crowds are very left coded and this is not a surprise at all.

A commonplace observation from Iraq and Afghanistan is that locals who had mundane disputes with neighbors would tell the American forces that their nemesis was part of a terrorist group, and get them taken out.

A good example of "thing experts know, but the general public doesn't". One of the first things you learn in any decent statistics course is that in the vast majority of cases, using decimal places is a level of precision greater than your data can bear. But to most people it seems sophisticated

Normal scientific polling doesn’t have decimal-point precision and a pollster reporting their numbers with decimals is a warning sign that they either don’t understand this, or do and are trying to trick you into thinking their data is more precise than it is.

Bluesky is that special place where someone will take time out from serialposting about how ICE can never defeat one mid sized midwesern city to post about how ICE is going to commandeer every voting booth in the US and all is lost

more things should be named in this manner en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_C...

I don't buy the idea that Bezos is intentionally killing the Post. If he wanted to do that he could have just bought it and shut it down. Plenty of rich people have done that. The problem is he hired a Murdoch tabloid team to manage it and it's not a Murdoch tabloid and you can't run it like one.

Stanley Kubrick did not know who Jeffrey Epstein was and had not left England for several years before making the movie, I hope this helps

So flourishing is a crime now

How many bad teams would need to Voltron up to defeat the Dodgers? Today's bit of nerdy mischief from me at @fangraphs.com blogs.fangraphs.com/lets-beat-th...

one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.

(a bar, somewhere) PUNXSUTAWNEY PHIL, on third whiskey: they still don't understand the concept of a probabilistic forecast, I mean— THE NEEDLE, six beers deep: I hear you, man PHIL (startled): a talking needle!!

Interestingly, what is typically the most “safe” mutual aid work—like delivering food to people in need—is now the most necessarily secretive, while that which is typically “risky”—directly confronting armed agents of the state—is unavoidably public and open.