I love that Messi plays with the joy of a kid. I don’t think he’s worked a day of his life

This could have been an interesting article if the author wrote about what she learned from her husband

Tag yourself. I’m Johnny Marr (3rd appearance)

Preview of the next War of the Triple Alliance if Paraguay won it all

Chesterton Fence here, Chesterton Fence there

When Albania says “wow, too much corruption even for us,” folks should pay attention

This establishes a second class American citizenship based on one’s parents. Can’t imagine a policy more targeted at our national narrative.

So cool

Besides being bad science, this is just a weird thing to talk about in a cabinet meeting. What does this have to do with, I dunno, DOT and DOE?

There is so much decision-making under Netanyahu that seems to weaken Israel’s long term position that I think only a YOLO framework can explain it.

Anyway, I hope our elected leaders read this. Does the fact that we were 1 second away from two fatalities matter as a data point? Or does it only matter if that driver had successfully killed me and one of the 8 year olds you heard from this past Saturday?

A new report used census data to estimate that more than 100,00 U.S. citizen kids had an immigrant parent detained since Trump took office in January. Brookings’ analysis cites reporting from ProPublica on detentions, which can lead to family separation www.propublica.org/article/trum...

As long as you are respectful of the place you’re visiting & those around you there is no wrong way to do a tourism. You can go to all the museums or walk aimlessly through the streets or veg out or do a big package vacation. Your experiences make you & when you’re on vacation you get to choose them

That is how to write a headline for clarity

Little arbitrage machines

Really important reporting on some of the most tragic victims of the war. Their families now face both the loss of a breadwinner and higher prices. The weak suffer what they must?

Hinckley says ‘bad things keep happening’ at Washington Hilton and it was ‘not a secure place to hold big events’

Ball room is a bipartisan preoccupation, as we know from recordings of LBJ's calls to his tailor

I hope to never have my knee described as “structurally intact”

People should visit factories whenever they can to get an appreciation of “blue collar” work, the complexity and precision of much fabrication, and the complex dependencies behind the things we depend on.

If we are trying to improve our international rankings, I have a few other ideas

Make It Myself xkcd.com/3233/

“No one wants these changes” <proceeds to get ratio’d on every response in this thread>

Would suggest Steven Miller is too young to remember Prop 187 in California but decided that he’s just consumed with hate.

But Doctor, I am a government clerk!

Reminds me of the knock off Ramada I once saw. They swapped two letters of the sign so, depending on which direction you were approaching, it read ARMADA or RAMAAD

If true, this is AI repeating the manual error that led to the Chinese Embassy bombing in Belgrade

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When you successfully cheat, you overcome allegations - AP

When the guards want to start a prison riot

Took me a second to realize, nope, the carnivores are not getting feisty

In the greatest city in the world

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

The remaining decline is in part related to the fact that community college enrollment is countercyclical. In recessions, when jobs are scarce, some folks choose community college because that's the best available option. When jobs are plentiful, those potential students instead choose jobs.

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

NYC needs a “That Guy” Chief to maintain world-leading character-needs-no-name levels of recognizable behavior

The framing here of “American” vs “foreign-born” should set off alarm bells for naturalized citizens

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

I just love athletes talking up the qualities of those in other sports

I was not prepared for how good this was

This entire thread is perfect

This also makes it easier for people to leave bad relationships rather than feeling forced to stay to avoid homelessness

Mind-blowing stats on nurseries in China: the number of births has fallen by half *since 2017*, leading to a collapse in early years provision. The future impact on primary and secondary education is going to be seismic. www.ft.com/content/8271...

This showed in the product

Bummed at losing one of the leading nerdy dad writers

America is great