*air raid siren*

guys, "the judges at the ICC are being sanctioned by the USA and can't access their iphones or bank accounts" and "why aren't any countries banning twitter or prosecuting elon musk for owning a site that manufactures CSAM" stories are the same story

you know what I did to “balance their checkbook”? I looked at a computer screen. it’s all online you doofus.

Men only want one thing and it’s disgusting.

This is very cautiously worded (laudatory; it's a good piece!) but reading between the lines, it's another "NC blue wave '26" indicator to toss on the pile.

v much agree with this analysis but I'd put some caveats on it. 1) it's only true *with respect to housing*; the same analysis does not apply to higher net worth due to lower debt or more financial asset ownership 2) those others are very important. household leverage on income is very moderate.

I HOPE YOU BOYS LIKE MEXICO. NEVERMIND. I MEAN PANAMA. WAIT. I MEAN GREENLAND. WAIT NO I MEAN TEHRAN. HOLD ON. VENEZUELA. FORGET THAT. NIGERIA. OH WAIT. TEHRAN AGAIN.

Happy New Years! *TESLA 4Q DELIVERIES 418,227, EST. 440,907

So much of current popular online history discourse is really just an aesthetic exercise urging us to reconsider modernity, by people who think homeschooling their kids in Latin would magically unlock the ability to interpret both cuneiform and the Almagest

George inspired these questions. TLDR there is a budding sense the next admin will pursue some fiscal contraction on top of any tax hikes to offset new spending. The public discourse has significant questions to answer about how much, why now, and what the goals of contraction are.

We get linked to a lot of big name transfers that don't pan out, but I will just say that Elliot would absolutely cook in MLS. Him + Zaha + Toklomati + Biel at the 10 with Luca and Westwood in a double pivot would be absolutely wild.

glad to see that my “lyman stone gives off hitler particles” intuition was correct

the water thing about genAI is bullshit but the thing where it makes on-demand nudes and CSAM isn't and the thing where it talks you into killing yourself isn't and those seem pretty bad

Duke Health has had to restrict visitors as it contends with a doubling of flu hospitalizations in the past week. Y’all get your flu shots immediately if you haven’t already.

should label the odd lots domino just in case

… fuck, we’re gonna see some true sickos in about 20 years get sworn into their ruby red House seats on The Art of the Deal

get in loser we're doing day one permitting reform

so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform

The way the crowd cheered when she said you best know me from the voice saying "please stand away from the platform edge"

first female string band captain in mummers history??? 🗣️WOKE 2.0 IS IMMINENT

Man City dropping points, Texas Tech getting shut out, Bama getting rekt upfront…2026 already off to an excellent start.

New year, old tradition.

Stadium of Light punters in fine form for this one.

New Year’s Day lazy lounging vibes absolutely impeccable.

BOURDAIN: the acidity of the tomatoes, matched only by that of the haggling at the local market as we shop ingredients for a timeless dish: shakshuka. this…is beirut FIERI: SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE WITH DONKEY SAUCE

Jeremy Corbyn really gives the vibes of Michael Caine’s character in CHILDREN OF MEN sometimes.

"attempts to exit the symbolic order using the symbolic order have been met by continuation of the symbolic order"

Absolutely howling at this because the thesis is “Canada will have a snap election over dairy protectionism” and no, I am not even slightly exaggerating.

This is now my favorite movie tagline of all time

The hater becomes a waiter at the table of success

Oh no

11/10 rage bait here. www.reddit.com/r/self/s/1pl...

We’re winning the league this time lads

Pat is a god damn treasure. And so is every single person in the replies getting hype for a fulfilling 2026.

to our knowledge, and you have to be careful for bar reasons about saying things like this, but *to our knowledge*: winning the largest single plaintiff race discrimination judgment in Virginia history

any discussion of city transit improvement online ever

First part of the NYE food two-step complete. Now to fire up the cornmeal blinis for part two.

the only "memory" the LLM can be permitted is markdown files I tell it to write, goddammit

Good end to 2025 for the Blue Devils.

This was a wild move by the receiver tbh.

new New Year's Eve Normal Men up! @golikehellmachine.com joins us for two hours of Very Serious Roundtable Discussion about food, drink, love, loneliness, and doom. probably the least political we've ever been! Includes complimentary champagne toast. www.podbean.com/eas/pb-f8fhn...

people love to talk about macro nouns while only using micro verbs

Alright these bad boys are dangerous.

I was not drinking 6-7 beers every day but my alcohol consumption frequently hit those numbers for a given day, and boy howdy did cutting back to at most 2 and a modal daily consumption of zero have an impact this year. I’ve lost over 40 pounds.

There’s probably some seasonal weirdness here but still. *US JOBLESS CLAIMS 199,000 IN DEC. 27 WEEK; EST. 218K

Okay reading this insane quote is what has pushed me to log off for tonight before succumbing to madness, and it’s a good thing too because this website is hosting some incredibly silly opinions today.

Again, to paint a compelling story of major spikes in US borrowing costs, <let alone> a hard fiscal/debt crisis, because our debt/GDP ratio keeps increasing, you have to have an explanation of where investors are going to put their money <instead> of USTs. I'll wait.

A problem with this line of discussion is it had a tendency to conflate two things: could Israel keep up the slaughter in Gaza if the US cut everything off cold turkey (yeah, probably indefinitely albeit less efficiently eventually) vs could they maintain ~QME~ w/o US military gear (lol no)

Yeah it is certainly possible Israel will cozy up further to Russia or China but it should be emphasized that the Israelis will never get a sweeter deal than what has been given from 1968 to today by the US. There is not and never will be a replicable *ideological* commitment from any other country.