Not regretting my anti-Ring stance so far.

In that case, I can’t guarantee that me and a million of my closest friends won’t be taking a day off work on a Tuesday in November in order to give some brownshirt fucks headaches.

liquidating 100% of my Bitcoin holdings just so I can feel like another snowflake contributing to an avalanche.

Can’t believe they are letting Kamala announce that there’s another Bridgerton prequel series coming out next year.

Fireflies, Owl City. It’s not the worst song, but the first time I hear it I briefly got so excited because I thought The Postal Service had dropped a new song, followed by melancholy because clearly they were just phoning it in now, then anger that someone was blatantly ripping them off.

I continue to have the strong conviction that I would come out of a Choitner interview looking just fine, thank you, and no level of hacks getting aethered will change my mind.

New season of Bridgerton is good (turns out smutty Downton Abbey is compelling TV) but I can help but feel like the main plot is a little derivative, for some reason.

At this poinI think I’m a Jonathan Haidt and George Borjas away from every elite academic that I hate being in the the Epstein files…

Not only is Glonzo real and eating the power lines and driving up electricity costs, but it turns out he’s also behind lawsuits to prevent the construction of new wind farms and masterminded Enron’s manipulation of the California energy crisis and blocks energy efficiency standard adoption.

Huh, I wonder if this post from 7 hours ago ends up being important.

Bsky has the (fermented grape) juice

My entirely uninformed, Not A Lawyer opinion is that the DOJ didn’t have to play around a pocket pardon for Trump, because they aren’t valid, and if SCOTUS tries to rule that they are you make it moot and actually pardon those who made it so.

If I want to start reading sone feminist IR, where should I start?

Jokerless really is the most sadistic Balatro challenge. You need to grab arcana and spectral packs, but so many of the cards are definitionally useless.

People complain about lack of engagement on here and don’t make posts that appeal to bsky. Try something like this: “Is psyllium husk always slimy when you drink it with water, or did I just choose a weird brand?” That’s how you get engagement here.

One of my least favorite Boomer tendencies is their general inability, no matter how woke, to imagine that the father is capable of, let alone could be expected to, taking on a substantial portion of the child raising responsibilities.

Vibe check: reasonably well informed but generally apolitical coworker now thinks ICE are Trump’s gestapo, is outraged by Renee Good’s murder, and is freaked out by Miller’s Sephirothpostin.

Getting my PhD in quantum probability by demonstrating that the Space Joker both does and does not have a 1 in 4 chance of upgrading the hand you play, until observed.

Trying to decide if my prohibition against intentionally letting my children beat me in games extends to internationally stalemating my kindergartner.

we have no alternative but to say “fuck it, we ball”

I don’t think this is true? While the sex of a given child is ~random, the number of children one chooses to have is not, and couples will make different fertility decisions based on the sec of their existing children.

Clap push ups have to be like the very worst exercise from a joint stress vs actual workout benefit perspective in existence, right? or do my elbows just suck?

I cannot stress this enough: if you or your child or you on behalf of your child treat admissions as a validation exercise rather than what amounts to a lottery you are begging for a massive hit to your ego. No matter how exemplary or impressive an applicant is it's just numerically punishing.

I still occasionally come back to how this year one of the biggest hit movies had the dual themes of 1) you must accept yourself for who you are. 2) boys are ontologically evil.

Laura Kelly looking at these numbers and wondering if she has one last job in her.

Electoral hedonic treadmill in full force. Is a 16 point over performance a disappointment? What about 18?

Sometimes I’m reading a thread about AI and kind of nodding along and suddenly I feel like I’m at “ape holders can use multiple slurp juices on a single ape” level comprehension.

remembering a Bush era protest sign: Support the Troops. Bring them Home.

Other than a bunch that are wayyyy too personal to post into the aether, probably when some coworkers were arguing about who got to have me on their squad when the zombie apocalypse happened.

Lot of thoughts about That Article, but one thing that made me scream. The cost of childcare was not zero! That our system devalues feminized care labor doesn’t make it actually free. Opportunity costs are a thing, childcare is more expensive because of Baumol, not because it was free before.

Rome-esque epic about the House of Valois-Burgundy.

every time i am reminded about these i get unbelievably mad

Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Semaglutide has the weirdest side effect I’ve ever experience. I’m hyper sensitive to caffeine all of a sudden- I went from ~4 cups of coffee a day to a single Coke Zero hitting hard enough to be unpleasant. Overall it’s a great drug ime but that came out of left field.

My most woke opinion would make me the Main Character on here, so no thanks. My second most woke opinion would catch a 3 day suspension. #3 is that everything is gender, except for gender, which is race.

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?-ass response.

Jeffrey Epstein being connected to Russiagate. of fucking course.

This is why comparing the costs of healthcare writ large across generations is in many ways incoherent- it’s like asking if intercontinental flight is more expensive now than it was before WWI broke out.

Oh, yeah, not only did she deserve the Nobel Prize in medicine for the whole DNA thing, she deserved the Nobel Peace Prize for not strangling Watson to death with her bare hands.

High level elected officials should get 7 figure income, have to put all their assets in a blind trust, and be subject to such withering and punitive financial disclosure arrangements that they won’t accept a ride home without reporting it.

Fun thing about Matty is that during the Biden years crime went down, deportations went up, unemployment and income inequality went down, and yet somehow even though the Biden WH did politics exactly how he’s asking we got…this.

It is kind of funny that these assholes spend so much time talking about The Founders this and The Founders that and at least half of the time if you actually look at what The Founders said, they were like "for the love of God do not do that shit" torment nexusass constitutional interpretation

I’ll admit, I did not wake up this morning thinking “Steve, you are going to discover a situation in which launching an FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missile at a parade float would be morally praiseworthy” but, brave new world, such people in it, etc.

The modal “Dems should do X” piece of “advice” from pundits should be understood as an attempt by a hostile pundit to advance a narrative that Democrats are failing to do X, and probably hostile towards X on principal, rather than advice to Dems to do X. This has the interesting consequence that

Sexy IRC section 79, baby.

Former British paratrooper Soldier F has been found not guilty at Belfast Crown Court of committing two murders and five attempted murders on Bloody Sunday in Derry

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I do love the perpetual “the American people are ignorant about Bad Thing. It give me no pleasure to report, from the most prestigious name in journalism, that Democrats have failed to effectively message on Bad Thing.” game from NYT journopoasters.