i was under the impression that a white collar WFH job was going to give me the time to pursue my intellectual hobbies more vigorously. it's been 16 months & let me say LMAO. it isn't a matter of time, i have plenty the problem is i am intellectually & emotionally tanked at the end of the week.

Francis Fukuyama was correct. Americans, have become blind to the system we built following World War II and just assume things will go on as they have for the last 70 years. We’re failing as stewards by being apathetic (Dems) or actively trying to tear it down out of boredom & greed (GOP).

incredible anecdote about a little skirmish in the Revolutionary War. A unit of British cavalry attack a square of troops. failed attacks, they call for the American commander to surrender or they will call for reinforcements: "Send them, & be damned, I want to manure the ground with more Tories."

post walk must lay in front of the ac vent time

Incredible how many Americans will lament the demise of civic virtue but immediately have all of it leave their body when a foreigner implies it also applies to them

That is how you need to read most of this admin’s massive splurge of national security spending. It is state looting. It is the intentional gutting of the social safety net, our system of higher education, public health, and our climate so that right wing contractors can loot no bid contracts.

baby raya does not like walking through puddles lmao she will do anything else but walk through them. hates it lol

i'm sorry but i'm blocking anyone with a argentine flag at this point and i have been blocking loud british blokes for years now so it's time. i'm just so tired of reading nonsense baloney about a war that no one every has any scholarship or interesting things to say about

Read Theory:

i'm sorry but i know a lot of furniture folks like hide end grain, but white oak end grain is among the most beautiful in the world

hot take the NYT profiles of voters are an op to make you distrust your fellow Americans, and consider them beneath you. everyone you know is reading the same ones and finding something to say "you dumb ass." it's just a constant stream of fuel to hate and think lessor of the people next door.

Christopher Nolan; the penultimate wife guy

Internet discourse around Nolan is so funny it’s got people asking if he’s conservative or traditionalist or not whereas each movie is just him going “AAAAHHHHH I LOVE MY WIFE SO MUCH THE WORLD WOULD END WITHOUT HER I CANNOT IMAGINE A WORSE FATE THAN TO BE WIFELESS AAAAHHHH”

Exactly, the tales of Homer (or shakespeare, or whoever) had a purpose! they weren't just entertainment. they were created with intent to convey a set of ideas. the settings were created, not as lessons in history, but as a means to match the cultural familiarity of the listener/reader/watched.

What a pathetic, miserable distortion of what education is supposed to be about.

The idea that you might want to engage with some of the basic mysteries of existence because that’s what it means to be a well-rounded human being is beyond the ken of these drones.

The suppression of curiosity is of course a political project; far better to have a population that works, shops, watches ball games, votes the way it’s supposed to, and never thinks about why.

Scottish Batman

One of the funniest things about the Stasi is that they tried to destroy personnel data in 89/90, but kept the payroll records intact. Caught between seeking anonymity for participating in mass surveillance and the occasional psychological destruction of people vs making sure you’re paid a pension.

Smoking will continue until air quality improves

My post run hot dog was good

Please don’t ask about these guns’ performance at Jutland.

might be better pictures now that it's got a rough coat of mineral oil on. what do ya think? would you hang your towels on it?

Me: “…so you see, if the NAV stays stable and the premium expands again, there’s upside without the portfolio itself changing. The distribution doesn’t automatically mean the NAV is growing. You have to separate yield from valuation.” Oswald:

life comes at you fast when your strapped to the top of 2x F414's lol

maybe hard to tell but this is a bathroom towel rack. i'm pretty happy with it, even though the design is .... scandinavian? post modern? idk. my wife likes it and that's all that matters

In a hotel in BFE because of work travel drinking cheap bourbon out of a paper cup and watching FR vs GB on a Spanish language channel

watching glue dry means another modelo me thinks

Jack Daniels costs $10 more than Evan Williams black label and is so much worse, be ashamed of yourselves lol

MO Reddit really outdid itself.

My wife and I have been cooped up for a while after her surgery, so we drove a couple of hours to a town in western IL with a big antique mall. These are some of the items that didn’t make the trip home…

i'm ready for another Lost Dog Street Band album please

If you can't control your anxiety enough to clip some baby toenails, I don't know how you have any of the frankly far more terrifying conversations that come with puberty and adolescence. Sometimes you gotta just woman up and clip the damn toenails.

and you know what? this is bad for all of us. these kids will grow up to be sociopaths just like mom and dad and they will be the next generation of board members, sv funders, senators, etc. this why the rich in this country are fucked in the head mentally! look at how they were raised.

Lot of people making 100 Years War references forgetting who actually won that one in the end. 😎

modelo time it gets better every time

So proud of defeating the Persians that they fully submit to persia to get Thebes to stop bullying them in the Kings Peace

The Greek military legacy they don't want you know about:

messages from NSWC

Spartans seeing the flanking maneuver for the first time:

i think i'm finally in the midst of creating a piece of furniture that modern tastes would like, it's extremely simple, but most of you would probably buy this or expect to buy one very much like it .

Actually there is a strong case for rap being the best modern exemplar of the oral storytelling tradition, far more so than other music. The beats additionally aid the memory.

two characters that give me happiness? EZ

Just winging my Saturday

This afternoon's peedf www.scribd.com/document/800...

Bone appetit!

Friends, I am again hosting an exchange student for the upcoming school year. This time my family is being joined by a 15 year old girl from the south of France. I love our country, and I love showing these kids the part of America worth loving, and that is the generosity

I-40 is a close second in my book. You start in fucking *Barstow* which is as dead as it gets and drive through the Mojave, pausing only to note the desolated poverty. This doesn't end until you get to Albuquerque. And is soon as you're out of it, it's hours of desolation until...

such a good looking truck