I DO think theres an interesting argument that the “vibecession” is due to -Excess savings buildup during COVID -Blowout 2022 spending spree raising QoL expectations -Moderately high inflation -Loosening labor market -Tight housing market limiting discretionary spend HOWEVER This ain’t that

Of course Derek Dooley needs an extra play to try to score because he doesn’t have enough men

as I noted earlier, this is a bad business strategy - surprise! - because views and clicks are far less important than subscriptions in media at this point, and the more they remind bsky's liberal, educated audience how shit they are the more people are like 'oh right i need to cancel that sub'

Taxes on capital assets are good at forcing efficient employment

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

Parents - don’t make CON your child’s dump stat

Also, I absolutely feel the generational divide reading this A Gen Z software engineer that graduated post-COVID, absolutely assumes that there will always be a strong labor market to support them Meanwhile, as a Millennial, I assume the economy and job market could collapse at any moment

Look I want to mock this, but getting paid $100k to do 2-4 hours of work, attend a 30 minute tag up, and have a 1 hour lunch break isn’t that mockable But advertising that in one of the most read business news sources ABSOLUTELY is

Cackling because I just discovered that Star Wars meets one of the qualifications for being an epic in two ways 1) It opens in media res, with the attack of the Star Destroyer 2) George Lucas, the absolute mad lad, decided to make it the 4th movie

Alright, let’s touch the third rail of nerddom Which has the WORSE first movie? Star Trek The Motion Picture or Star Wars The Phantom Menace

……they don’t realize that getting Elliot Page for a twist on “Achilles concealed as a handmaiden” legend is the nicer option, right? Because from Odysseus’s perspective Achilles can also be a roided-out, spoiled manbaby who would rather see (almost) everyone else die than swallow his pride

There’s a good lesson in this for companies, which ironically they teach in undergrad business school - which means it gets completely forgotten If you build up trust with your customers, they are willing to forgive a LOT However if your purported morals are just a path to profit, it’s irreparable

Also, if you don’t give it all up with construction incentives, then they are a pretty good for your tax base wjla.com/news/local/l...

Entropy at the end of the universe:

We all owe captain boomerang an apology because this is sick

I still have no idea who Richard Dawkins is So I keep thinking y’all are putting way too much into how the Family Feud host wants to make with an AI

Ag secretary confirming 1 in 4 US farmers has no fertilizer secured, American Farm Bureau survey says up to 70% can’t afford enough fertilizer for the season under the spiked costs Honestly shocked this isn’t bigger news. 25% of farms are just not planting at all this season. Farm bankruptcy up 46%

Also a significant amount of the US-based panic on this may be overblown because we are in the midst of a postponement transition, but, on average, women still have 2 children Because we’ve CRUSHED teenage pregnancies!! Which is a VERY good thing!!

Fuck civil asset forfeiture But there's some art in here

Trust me when I say there is no wilder auction this year than the US MARSHALL JEWELRY AUCTION www.txauction.com/auctions/312...

does anyone want to do a book club style podcast with me but we're just playing through metal gear solid? because i think that would rip

Second only to “TexAgs Commentator to SecDef”

A consulting company. That’s a fundraising round for a consulting company with AI characteristics.

Death Star in Huntsville

The Last Jedi is the best of the three sequels, but I have no desire to watch it a second time RoS is the absolute worst movie (incl CW animated) and story adaption(Dark Empire), but has one of the best moments (Lando saves Galaxy with charisma) OOC, Phantom is a way above average action movie

Clone Wars Microseries is G-Canon while The Clone Wars is regular canon, but they can’t admit that until Feloni stops making SW:CW spinoffs

“Badger that only emerges from a dark void for cheese” make her the official live Wisconsin mascot

It seems to me the people of Washington, DC are going through a much more deranged version of the Trump Presidency than the rest of us

I order fish and chips, and you serve me catfish? Buddy, you're gonna get ALL my money.

the Kyries

A really painful thing we have to deal with over the coming decades is that Trump killed the goose that laid the golden eggs www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The perfect typo

Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?

Picked a hell of a night for seeing a play a Fords Theatre

Look for my coming at first light of the fifth day At Dawn, look to WashU on the leaderboards @edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social @jacketdan.bsky.social

…….they’re so bad at math they’re fucking up the wrong answer by an order of magnitude

The smartphone also had a calculator that works and could read word docs This weekend I had one tell me that the answer was 4, not 2+2=4 And that it couldn’t read a doc it wrote because it was in binary

just really mad about how a bunch of weak, scared people have undermined faith in science, medicine, and vaccines. they’re full of unwarranted anxiety and too stupid and fearful to realize it

Its actually incredible how the entire field of IR just set itself on fire and was populated with entire sleeper cells of brain-wormed academics.

Look there are a lot of legitimate reasons for why you shouldnt use AI But I wasn’t prepared for getting a splitting headache every time I’m forced to read AI generated text It’s just so obvious, poorly constructed, and waaaaaaay too obviously based upon Venture Capital Founder LinkedIn posts

One weird trick to removing aspiring autocrats: Vote.

At a my cousins wedding in an SEC college town, and we’ve got charity boxing next door

THEY’RE REAL AND GORGEOUS

Look losing my bag is one thing But absolutely forgetting to put it ON THE PLANE after I check in nearly 3 hours early is absurd

Alright let's see. In 2019 Trump was angrily posting about the 1.8 billion in cash the Obama administration gave Iran in 2016. 1.8 billion divided by 2 million is 900. Prior to the start of this war, about 135 ships went through the Strait of Hormuz every day.

Thinking about how one of the major reasons Great Britain eventually agreed to peace during the American revolution was that American privateers and the French Navy jacked up shipping insurance premiums to astronomical levels News alert unrelated

They’re finally going to be pro-taxes