Do The Right Thing, but this time it's set in Essex

The details there, and how the operation has all the mechanics of what you could call 'grooming' (digging at a particular set of young people's insecurities - here, intellectual competition - by offering them something grand), are not very far from what you'd read about daesh inner city recruitment

The rejection of any introduction of fiscal drag on housing in the UK is often argued using tear-jerking boundary cases but at core, it's a demand to be able to continue collecting growing economic rent in perpetuity with no feedback loop whatsoever on how much public utility you're capturing

Send the hydration break beverages to the lab.

Argentina going...

Ball don't lie.

Milei rushing to the stage to say that he's the one who called Infantino to ask for a VAR review

Bullshit.

OMG

The majority of humanity lives within a relatively small bandwidth of latitude. This #map is one of my all time favourites. It was created by radicalcartography.net in 2008 and remains a true classic today: buff.ly/2DJXO9z

Fun life hack: live said life in a way that you never have to get too invested in the defense of someone who once got a nazi skull tattoo.

Everything everywhere is freedom fries now. We live in hell.

Rare that you find such a combination of high-but-real-life-inconsequential stakes, pre-set camp opinions where everyone obviously roots for their team, and a lot of 'I have known about this for five minutes' microtourism : the absolutely perfect petri dish for bad takes

Brussels-centered legal saga involving a mercurial head of state unhappy about how his interests are supposedly unfairly treated by opaque international institutions. I am of course, referring to Euroclear Russian assets proceedings and the post below is unrelated.

Imagine being the kind of person who has to learn about Argentina Cabo Verde, one of the top 5 greatest matches of the history of the World Cup, by the means of highlights, because of 'sleep'. Couldn't be me.

If anything, this is now THE key game to bring up whenever an imbecile tries to argue that penalty kicks is a terrible way to decide ties. What do you mean, you are rooting against a process that was ten minutes away from giving you a 50:50 chance at the funniest result in the history of sports?

This is one of those "no one remembers Apollo Creed won the fight" situations, right?

I repeat...

Belgium escaping its destiny as extremely mid by committing grand robbery against an African nation

We saw this when the saying from the old place (abelisted™) that "NAIRU is the imaginary point where a University of Chicago economist would have to give his undocumented immigrant maid a raise" also applied to left-liberal persuasion via burrito taxis

Germany defeated by ill-thought-out expansion to more countries than were in the original plan

It's amazing how they do really still believe this kind of stuff is a one-way street.

There is a fun read on this beyond the obviously weaponised numerical illiteracy : as he ages, *his* cancer mortality odds are increasing despite overall progress, and so the progress cannot be real. Every psychosis of this lot can be seen through the lens of their fear of death.

There are so many inadvertent gems in this Softbank presentation, it's difficult to pick favourites. group.softbank/media/Projec...

The huge tell is that in anything close to a week long heat wave, you're still COOKING inside the house for *days* after the temperature outside has reverted to normal.

Area man who literally advocated, campaigned, voted for Brexit successfully rebrands himself, now writes umpteen-posts threads trying to explain back to us stuff *he* was wrong about. Everyone applauds. Le sigh.

Let's remember one thing before Starmer goes: this is the man who thought it would be a good idea to risk thousands upon thousands of deaths in poor countries by cutting aid to own the libs. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, mate. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/uk-to-reduce...

It will never not be funny that all nine Argentinian players look like they'd sacrifice not only their own goal chances but also give up their first born sons to allow him to tap in, and meanwhile Portugal sounds like they are this close to a Murder on the Orient Express situation

basically this

Unpopular opinion but if you're interested in the effects of a medical product, it's 'RCT or bust' for me. I can see the case for observational analyses when randomization isn't possible, ethical, or the condition is too rare or some other such thing, but there's no such excuse here.

the key "right wing bluesky poster" constituency, we see you, we appreciate you

'It's hard to fathom.'

Hoping this will not sound too aggro but I want to note there was a tendency in UK discourse, including, I'm afraid, some of my dear mutuals, to be quite smug about Britain having inherently stronger defenses against this stuff than continental peers, and this has proved to be catastrophically wrong

Good shout on the flip of the ideology::methods of governing association. Explicitly true for the Warsh Fed, but also under remarked across a wide set of fields. Rules-based governance has stopped producing the preferred conservative outcomes, and so discretionary power it is.

<shaq voice> Tuchel-ball, I owe you an apology

This match, good lord

Not the point of Paul's but "pause fraîcheur" in the bottom left corner is exactly the right amount of disdain for the whole concept, perfect translation, no notes.

I'd be interested to read something about why none of our broadcasters run ads during the hydration breaks (which are not very subtly designed for this I imagine at the request of US networks). Is this regulatory? Inertia? "Our viewers will revolt"? Because that's pretty interesting imo.

The warring factions are doing textbook displacement activity on the timeline again, aren't we?

also "Herve Renard" sounds like a name a French spy blurts out when asked what his name is and can't remember what his cover identity is actually supposed to be

This is why the growing consensus on school bans of the devices themselves is very good. It's enforceable, the effects are directly visible and the age targeting flows naturally from the aims of the policy. The curfew thing feels like it has none of that

The American mind cannot comprehend

Allow baseball games to end in draws. You cannot force someone to win who has not earned a win, this is nonsense the way you do it.

Hell yeah

My feelings right now

This is something we don't voice too loudly because it feels like the kind of motives it is impolite to ascribe to others, but I think a lot of people got a taste for locking up kids during the pandemic under health & safety reasons, and now they need that sweet, sweet hit again

@preachypreach.bsky.social klaxon !