our economy is being artificially propped up by consumption, investment, government spending, and net exports

This would be a pointless and vindictive move which would shame those who propose it for the rest of their careers.

- Subsidising consumption in the face of a supply shock - reducing incentives to drive less/switch to EVs - using up limited fiscal space to help better-off drivers rather than the most vulnerable. Hard to think of a worse policy right now.

"A core assumption of our framework is that the accelerating pace of Instagram posts will ultimately force him to text you back"

"In the future, everyone will be a lolcow for 15 minutes" - Andy Warhol, probably

Really not thrilled by people claiming it's deceptive to say that someone setting fire to a building right under its big Magen David probably didn't like Jews

This whole belief that the ancient world saw their heroes as unambiguously good is weird, especially when people start reading that into the Hebrew Bible. So many of these people are broken, angry and traumatised in ways that their authors absolutely understood as complicated!

Itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny Pair of pickleback martinis

If you understand this post but haven’t started saving into a pension yet you need to speak to a financial advisor ASAP

Looking like he's just had a horrible bout of hay fever

Words cannot describe my pain at not having a reliable source of pizzoccheri in my life, even though I know full well I'd eat it maybe half a dozen times and feel too bloated to ever touch it again

Ahh, the credit rating for when you're about to be kidnapped in a dark alleyway by men with burlap sacks

Obligatory Rev pic #DogsAtPollingStations

I Have No Mouth And Must Try The BBQ Bounty Whopper

"that which is currently taking place in the Middle East" is a sublimely weaselly phrase coming from him

This is the Israeli government.

i do not think it is halal (screenshot taken from a YouTube short)

Aside from Americans not realising that this isn't actually About Them (basa isn't channel catfish!) this is also a big deal for Jews who don't care for the kashrut certification boards

"Personalised" AI-generated stories are inevitably going to be slop, but it's a bit odd to think that enjoying art is pointless if you can't share that experience with someone else (even an online stranger)

most uses of frog turned out to be legitimate.

Ok, who's been letting the AI listen to Masayoshi Takanaka? www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr2C...

As a self-confessed tourism snob, I worry a bit about the arms race to get as far off the beaten track as possible because all the "classic" spots in a city are full of tat and shit restaurants microwaving the local cuisine

I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

Tailgating is one of the funniest things about US sports imho. Stadiums aren't walkable, so you can't just go to a pub or get a meal beforehand. Your only option is to get drunk in the car park

Feeling a strange pang of sadness for whoever's multi-year Wing Fest baseball caps ended up in this charity shop

There was literally a pangolin that flew combat sorties with the CIA in a dirty war in Laos that then died after drinking too much gin, so there’s at least one pangolin whose record is morally ambiguous

heartwarming video of astronaut Christina Koch greeting her dog for the first time after returning from space. the pup can be seen snarling, back arched, before scampering to its word buttons and pressing "IMPOSTOR" repeatedly, then "FALSE. SKIN. FALSE. SKIN." several times

Italian government to Trump…

Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault

The original Nick Adams version was Kinkade-level dreck (remember that Andy Thomas painting where he's hanging out with Eisenhower and Nixon?), but I'm fascinated by the Fujimoto-esque angel he's photoshopped into the middle of the sky

Incredible

A guy on the pier here appears to have some kind of seagull based HIIT workout (he’s in athletic clothes and looks like he started a workout on his watch) where he attempts to stop them from eating several piles of birdseed (?) that he put out at intervals.

ME: "No, video games aren't all about killing people. It's actually a vibrant art form that can cover an incredible range of ideas in a way no other medium can." GAMERS: "These are the best games ever. They're all about killing people. And they're all coloured mainly in shades of grey and brown."

I see trade routes are in the news again

Hungarian exit poll Orbán Viktor (Fidesz) – 0 Magyar Péter (Tisza) – 0 Bush Jéb (Jebbik!) – 199

Will everyone please accordingly update their class takes, which will take effect from 5pm today

moshe rabbeinu in the study hall of rabbi akiva

Me and my kid visited the Museum of Home. I saw something that felt like a true attack. It was a scene from a home in 2005. Me and another mom with teens stood there as our kids asked, "you had this?" We were grateful.

I'm a rewilding maximalist, but it can't just look like we're shafting rural constituencies with any inconvenience. The obvious solution is releasing a load of elephant herds in Bristol and London, RETVRN to the Pleistocene

Some VOC workers finding a monstrous bird that can kill a man and deciding to put it on a small confined ship with them; a couple of maad laads as the Dutch would say

it's kind of a relief these days to see a tech company announce that their product is exhibiting "a fondness for particular philosophers" and read on to discover it's not, you know

I go back and forth on how sympathetic Kanye's psychosis makes him, but I've got unending contempt for the Alex Jones/Nick Fuentes crowd who put him on parade the second they saw a chance to grift off his fame

BLOOMBERG: Markets remain bullish on continuing coyote elevation prospects

970 Who Has Eaten All My Windows https://www.wikiart.org/en/friedensreich-hundertwasser/who-has-eaten-all-my-windows

HOLY SHIT FRINKIAC BUT FOR "30 ROCK" MILLENNIAL GAME-CHANGER funcooker.fun/

tangential but related - that the majority of content on the Internet exists not for human consumption, but solely for the purpose of gaming search rankings

"On Monday, Oedipus ate through one apple. But he was still hungry. On Wednesday he ate a whole banana. On Friday he killed an arrogant man at the crossroads and married his widow. But he was still hungry." A section, there, from THE VERY HUNGRY PATER-KILLER.

Oh my god www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

Another victory for those of us savvy enough to hoard microplastics in our bodies