Daycare $200 billion Medicaid $150 billion Medicare $800 billion Wars $3.6 trillion Ballroom $150 billion someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my country is dying

Do I have any mutuals who have spent time in Albania and have any recommendations for off-the-beaten-path/non-obvious things to do/see/eat/explore?

"War may appear super cool to Trump administration staffers who watch it from 6,000 miles away through a pop-culture viewfinder, but the rest of us should examine the human reality — and cost — of combat."

Most of the pieces I've read of folks criticizing Lindy West's memoir/foray into polyamory have consisted of authors telling on themselves in various ways. But this Louise Perry one in WSJ is in another category—it's so dripping with disdain that it's seriously embarrassing to read.

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

at least among academics working on the ethics of war, there's near consensus that killing/harming for revenge is wrong. But many practitioners, and a significant portion of the general public, seems to fervently disagree.

The U.S. hit another school, together with a sports hall, killing and injuring many civilians. Even if it was a "mistake," it could still be a war crime if the strike was taken recklessly. Read more in "'Mistakes' in War": papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

Just learning today the fuller story of Jane English, who was an Associate Professor of Philosophy at UNC, when she died tragically and unexpectedly in 1978, at the age of 31, while climbing the Matterhorn. She was a student of Rawls's at Harvard, as well as Quine and Putnam.

Eagle-Eye Cherry is the guy’s real name! Also he’s Swedish. Huge increase in cool points in my book

Proper ad forthcoming very soon, but in the meantime, I've been told I can share that UGA is hiring for a senior position (Associate/Full) in ethics! This person will also lead our emerging "Ethics Hub". Please share widely & let me know if you have questions!

Ms. Rachel has a new cause: Freeing kids from ICE detention @mikehixenbaugh.com: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

A menswear company called Bernard Suits that makes formalwear that’s inefficiently crafted and difficult to put on, which you buy for the sake of experiencing the difficulty of figuring out how to put on the suit

We haven’t had a good live action, talking animal/talking baby movie in a long time, I think we’re overdue

mill's dedication: this is a jointly authored work a century & a half of male editors: mill exaggerated out of a sentimental fondness for his wife mill's letters: no, really, most of "my" work was partly by her, i really could not be clearer on this

embarrassingly late to the Afroman trial stuff, but the whole thing is just so delightful, all things considered www.complex.com/music/a/andr...

Great thread. (My answer is The Reason by Hoobastank. It was on the CD they played on the speakers at my first job so I feel like I was already kinda tortured with it.)

These views are objectively disqualifying for a science journalist, no matter the subject. Journals publish work that passes peer review, work that either makes sense in the context of prior studies or makes a rigorous case against existing conclusions. "Balance" of "viewpoints" is irrelevant.

This is absolutely correct. It simply isn’t correct that banning books and cancelling lectures helps you win wars.

Newt Gingrich, leading GOP intellectual, wants to nuke the Persian Gulf.

not to be *that* guy, but just to balance out the timeline: Sinners was not that good, actually! It was very uneven, dragged a lot, and at times felt like a Tarantino movie (not a compliment). sorry!

Marty Supreme not winning is the most Marty Supreme thing that could've happened.

I don't think I've ever seen a tie at the oscars before????

obviously what you gotta do is get the entire US military to stand side by side and have them pass each barrel from one person to the next until it reaches the other side qed

Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96 www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

unreal

Do I have any mutuals on here who have experience designing, implementing, and publishing survey experiments? I want to do one, but I'm very out of my depth. Not sure where to begin, in terms of thinking through the process and what all goes into getting it through peer review.

Here's my Blooski statement that Sen. Kennedy calls hyperbolic. I will defend natural law until the day I die, Senator. People's rights come from their humanity, not their government. If ordered to act unethically, you should always refuse. Do Republicans now disagree?

after I get tenure, I'm gonna start writing like this

pretty cool tree, ngl

I have reason to believe this also applies to fly-outs for job candidates lol

this essay is a series of very bad arguments, made all the more frustrating by the fact that this guy is *also* named Ronald Dworkin and writing about rights and stuff aeon.co/essays/why-b...

my kickass wife is an amazing illustrator, and she just got placed with this new agency. look at all the cool stuff she does!!! pyro-reps.com/ellen-burch-1

congrats to jeff mcmahan on the new job

it's weird that 'to take something off one's plate' is supposed to be a kind or helpful thing. Like, you are not doing me a favor by taking stuff off my plate! I wanted to eat that! That's why it's on my plate! You're actively making things worse for me!

My armchair hypothesis is that the U.S. result is explained by a combo of: hyper-individualism, a culture of fear (largely from conservatives), systemic failures of public accountability, and cultural reinforcement of all of the above.

first time I've seen this on a portal for letters of recommendation, interesting

This album is unreasonably good (Sturgill Simpson under an alias): www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKHG...

Oh no at this rate it'll be just 5 years before 100% of students are allowed to take tests under civilized conditions

crazy to me that Joanna Newson dated Bill Callahan and then married Andy Samberg—perhaps two of the most tonally different men you can imagine

"clutch their pearls" as a way of describing what it means to insist upon following domestic and military law, the established international law of armed conflict, and the absolute bare bones principles of military ethics is disgusting

Truly a hilarious choice for a movie to try out method acting for the first time

23 years old next month

this is a big deal

pretty thrilled to finally have a book contract—my first! now I just gotta write the thing...

For the first time in Gallup history — More Americans sympathize with Palestinians in the “Middle East Situation” than with Israelis. 41% Palestinians (+8) 36% Israelis (-10) Democrats: Palestinians +48 Independents: Palestinians +11 Ages 18-34: Palestinians +30 Ages 35-54: Palestinians +18

Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

This is cringey

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

I can’t believe this is real