Ah the Schwabian Housewife rides again

everyone: “i’m sick of seeing platner’s nipples!” [monkey’s paw curls]

Fundraising idea for Labour: the Mandelson files, but with extra commentary from the people in them doing the 'of course, yeah, DEFINITELY would love to meet. I have a slot after the Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane' emails commenting on the rest of the files.

Can god make a dude so hot he couldn’t resist him?

I don’t know if you guys have heard of the Melian Dialogue before. But I can’t believe nobody has ever thought to write about this thing before. othermeans.substack.com/p/american-m...

I worry the public doesn’t understand that testing, trustworthiness, and security are critical to product success. When we talk about them openly, it signals the opposite: that our products are untested, unreliable, and not secure. Otherwise, why talk about it so much?

You have to buy a lot of downtime, essentially, to guarantee reliability when it matters. But experience suggests this is very often worth it, & that the frictional costs of constantly contracting work are higher than the cost of paying employees to do nothing

I think the best way to enjoy this list, which contains lots of predictable choices (made as it was by committee), is to find a book you like, click to see who voted for it, and then look at the voters' other top 10 choices. You might find something else you like that you haven't read.

Anyway, Ajax went nuts because he wasn't awarded armor that looks like it was made out of PVC pipes.

Please consult the official Bloomberg estimate of Scope 1+2+3 combined total GHG emissions for the 500 largest public companies in the US, which I have annotated for helpful context. Microsoft emits slightly more GHG than a toothpaste manufacturer (much more than NFLX), but far less than Pepsi.

is there a prop bet i can place somewhere for “trump will eventually die in an assassination attempt but not at the hands of the would-be assassin”

Teaching Gaussian distribution is pretty straightforward. A few students don't get it at all, and a few understand it really well. The majority are somewhere in the middle.

Since noone was hurt I feel that in addition to supporting banning the monster trucks, I can say “Like a Lambo to the slaughter.”

The fuel shortage has left me depressed about British politics in a way I never have been before, in that not a single party has avoided either saying or doing something incredibly stupid and completely removed from how anything actually works.

UK economic policy in a nutshell

So if orban loses massively to a guy named Peter Hungarian, restoring hope for the restoration, of proper democracy, i have a suggestion for democrats: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy_Y...

Republican Congress reasserting its power to *continue* the war would be the funniest outcome possible

Always prepared 🫡

To be clear with how I feel about it. Anyone in the military who directs or carries out strikes on desalination plants should be in prison when this is over.

Scooby dubai doo

Between Trump on guns now and Bessent on USDJPY, GOP seems to be backing away fast from a Right to Carry?

The sinking of the Bismark lmao

Have a good holidays guys :)

"Footage raises questions" is never a good sign www.timesofisrael.com/idf-says-wes...

I first read PI as "Principal Investigator" (as in head of an academic science lab) and was nodding my head sympathetically, it's a pretty big gap for them too. 😉

they're calling it "the greatest city in america" dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blo...

2016: it's just ending a trade deal, what's the worst that can happen 2030: Prime Minister Bonnie Blue of the BangBus party (coalition with Reform UK) declares complete ban on condoms and other forms of "antisex wokecraft"

Pretty much this, I suspect.

Really terrific piece by @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk this. Poses really difficult questions for governments of left and right about how provision works:

Also, there's no contrast. Beijing's position is absolutely constant: wombs are state organs.

"lets go, in and out. 20 minute adventure."

the main reason to buy cheap coffee is it tastes bad but gets the job done. the main reason to buy expensive coffee gear and specialty beans is it tastes bad and it's your fault. once again everything comes back to catholic brain or protestant brain

Literally the reason Twitter sucks now is all these foreigners logged on willing to do racism for pennies on the dollar and undercut our home-grown American racists. We need to erect serious trade barriers to protect the integrity of our domestic racism industry and preserve racist jobs.

The reality is that there is no mass constituency that is in favor of actually knowing what their kids can do or being held accountable to it, and this stretches across politics and incomes. Signed, a very lonely pro-testing voice

(seeing two presidents) well well well if it isn't the blowjob brothers

a “Space Force”, if you will

whatever happens at the back of the fridge, especially on the middle shelf, is frankly none of my business

every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet

the fourth most deaths ever associated with an armed conflict were due to one man's failure to get an email job

Do you think she makes him do the blackface during sex

the weak Anglo mind cannot comprehend "building more houses"