Ah yes, western civilization

When they actually did this, it turned out parachutes don’t reduce injuries

LFG 🥌

Tuning in to USA Canada bronze medal game 🥌

E se io morissi da partigiano, tu mi dovresti seppellir.

this men’s bronze medal game… 🥌🥱

this ends before the last shot

Really interesting stuff.

The US prefers medicine in pill bottles filled at the pharmacy instead of factory-packaged blister packs because of its political economy valuing labor-intensive production over capital-intensive automation. 💊

Love when fiction is accompanied by a diagram

womens team needs every game

Micrometer! 📏

this was a topic of discussion in september when Lorie gave this speech www.dallasfed.org/news/speeche...

The fed funds market is so strange, with mainly niche activity, and it is weird that it’s still used for monetary policy.

Catching up to this story now

The “word salad” is an accurate description of US policy in this area, both stylistically and in substance.

“‘Allora’ is the ‘jawn’ of Italy” — @karenmcgrane.bsky.social, basically correct

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Fake clanker!

“We tried nostalgia, only to watch Bonnie Tyler come 19th and Engelbert Humperdinck come 25th. We tried entering reality television acts, and watched as Lucie Jones came 15th and Michael Rice came last.”

One impact of AI is that it can now reliably explain Karthik’s puns, including “rajakorman”.

One nice thing about curling at the Olympics is that there’s so much of it. Also makes it hard to keep up.

A clanker just said “faff around” to me. Who allowed them to be British?

Happy CJKV New Year and Happy Year of the Horse! 🐴

🥌 quite a turnaround for China vs Korea

The common law was created by folks who had just conquered a new country and wanted to consolidate their rule and tweak the law to their liking, but weren’t quite sure what that was. So they had big cases sent to the capital for hand-picked judges to say what the law was in each case.

Technologists will, of course, refer to it as CJKV New Year. Or if they’re fancy, CJKVZ New Year.

What a way to present biathlon shooting

Canada has gone full villain in curling

FYI

Tired: getting to Denmark Wired: making the Weberian leap (from Paul Ginsborg: Italy and Its Discontents)

Clarification from World Curling: “During forward motion, touching the granite of the stone is not allowed. This will result in the stone being removed from play.” 🥌

🥌 watching some replays from the morning, no spoilers

“The problem with in medias res is which res are you in the medias of?” I think you mean which rerum or rebus.

Det er skihopperne.

Processo Casapound, 12 condanne per la riorganizzazione del partito fascista

Denmark-Sweden, Denmark in red here.

1.5 won’t eat blue cheese and I don’t like cottage cheese.

Curling is the most Weberian event at the Olympics. 🥌✏️

The two genders: “In the early decades of the Republic two great ideological forces in Italian society, the Catholic Church and the Communist party, were very often responsible for organized social and cultural activities which went beyond single families.”

servicey

Interesting event

Why don’t they show the shooting target in biathlon?

what a time to be alive

Citizenship/nationality nerds normally hate it when people conflate a passport and nationality. Definitely not the same thing. This case is an exception: the IOC places great weight on the passport as a document, and it’s crucial whether Eileen is eligible for a Chinese passport.

A thread on Eileen Gu’s nationality status. It’s often reported that China “bans” dual nationality. That’s not quite true. But the rules are confusing and the actual implementation is constantly changing. 🧵

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Orange cat report