all sorts of confounders in this I imagine, but drinking becoming an almost inverted social marker feels both true and is also immensely funny given the entire history of modern alcohol abuse prevention

Summers in private: endlessly scheming with the world's most famous pervert to get a young female colleague whom he calls by a racist nickname to fuck him at conferences. Summers in public: "I don't see that many women in my field, it must be because they're bad at math"

reading a bunch of emails from dracula with the subject line "re: bood" body text "nd more thalls 4 blod" and being like "did he disable spell check, how is he even sending these out like this"

i am trying not to joke about the Epstein stuff because it's so horrible but there's also this ridiculous element where it's like... discovering Dracula is real, he's taken over human society at the highest levels, he's involved in tons of evil and also he's a huge dipshit

BTC doing what it has been doing lately is an opportunity for a lot of us in here who would otherwise deny being economic Austrians about *anything* to let those repressed instincts go wild

You cannot explain everything with this, but you can explain a lot (and the English hardo right has this too): world openness has led to the rightful proprietors of some institutional seats to be outcompeted for those seats, and so both the openness and the institutions need to die

I'm getting more and more Lester Freamon-brained the further we get into everyone being obsessed with who exactly is in the emails, and nothing being asked about the money

the old saw remains undefeated : 'exponentially rising markets often go further than you think, but they do not correct by going sideways'

Magnolia (1999)

"average New Labour minister causes 3 scandals" factoid actualy just statistical error. average minister causes 0 scandals. Scandals Peter, who lives in cave & causes over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

The PR/comms/crisis management team low key quiet quitting on this one.

Epistemically disturbing is the right frame, if like many people on this website, you're kinda built to be "be serious, the levels of coordination required for {conspiracy X} to be true are just impossible to pull off in modern life", this certainly feels more than a little awkward

I have the dark take that people need jk Rowling to have always been evil because if they admit that she was radicalised online they'd have to admit to themselves the way in which they might also be subject to radicalization

throwback to a peak moment of Trump1 youtu.be/vhQkku7jLfo

𝙔𝙤𝙪’𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙗𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩—wax was a bad call. I should’ve flagged heat resistance as a 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 instead of assuming you’d stay within 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘴. That one’s on me.

Mikel Arteta:

Look, is it too much to ask that the presumptive runaway PL winners score from open play, at home, against half decent sides? I'm just asking questions here.

Wanting this result to hold if only to see levels of "LinkedIn version of a football manager" quotes previously thought to be unreachable by man

“The guy that runs the Reddit where people post about patting their cat on the butt like bongos has put his foot down”

This is my dream but, let's be real, in an environment where the default counter of "why would I, a non {insert the behaviour being incentivised}, pay for this", is a perma winner, combined with the British hatred towards children (a policy like this for dogs would poll better)... obv not happening

This country's ability to rinse the young and then berate them as lazy avocado addicts is ridiculous. They're so up against it, it's madness. - as.ft.com/r/094f3968-1...

I saw a Famous Poster take a victory lap around the lines of "he didn't invade now, did he, you bunch of deranged neurotics" and I think it finally crystallised for me what I dislike with prediction market brain >>

Quick one while they are asleep, but start from the conclusion here, and read up

Movie pitch: classic modern anti-hero story about a man spiralling down at work since his divorce, only it's about Pep Guardiola since Klopp left him.

One day, we'll get to rejoice at the spectacle of all the folks who were in favour of this, and how much they'll pretend that none of it every took place

sunk cost fallacy writ large. these people are pot committed, reputation wise, to 'nothing ever happens', and so they'll never stop doubling down rather than admit they misjudged it and the neurotics were right

will be interesting to see how much of the impact of these is volume versus messaging/sentiment, should be helpful to calibrate down the line

"You were in a 4G inverted dive with a MiG-28?" - Yes, ma'am

US commentariat loves to talk a good game about EU powerlessness (not without merit at times), but their president memes his most mental instincts into political reality, and this is the shit the Good Guys come up with in response

Many such cases

The US has never gone to war with a country where its President owns a golf course.

Got to experience something truly magical this evening: after a rapturous screening of Goodfellas, its producer Irwin Winkler was asked by a nerd in the audience on his thoughts about the online memeification of Goodfellas online. He responded "I don't know what that means. Next question."

"Everyone needs to have a little bit of Kim Jong Un in them" is not a great outcome

Movie review : NO OTHER CHOICE. Flawless black comedy, non stop back and forth between painful wincing and laughing at some honestly incredible gags, with almost no in between. No notes.

My man quantian1 is worried about his supply of Côte-Rôtie in the upcoming Atlantic Cold Wars so he's leaking treason posts for when he has to smuggle the good stuff into the US by saying "non non vraiment, the finance persona was a front, I am and always was an adviseur to General Arse Biscuités"

The "did you know Mississippi is richer than Germany?" posts will continue until morale improves

The best time to do this was summer of 2024. The next best time is now.

banning X is a national security issue for every country, plain and simple its explicit goal is to amplify and empower the largest Nazi-adjacent party in every country in which it operates it is also the largest deepfake porn generator in the world this is not a difficult call to make

I feel like the muscle mass thing has a lot of "interesting population wide studies getting turned into extremely specific gym ideas" -- it's really good to work out and be strong, it's really bad to not work out and be weak, but the big finding is the top *quartile* of muscle mass has +longevity

5% fringe issue immediately becomes 35% favourable as soon as it is adopted, has been a recurring theme of the past decade. You don't have to doom immediately, but the people insisting that 5% is the true number should also be ignored

"Capping alimony" right out of the gate, in case you were unsure about what some of the important emotional drivers are on this issue

Chekhov's paramilitary

Obviously bad news for German dentists, but surprised to learn that there actually is such a thing as a “German Dentists’ Pension Fund”, and it’s not a euphemism among institutional sales to describe a gullible investor

Can’t find the post now but someone wrote “Every book about a British double agent says “At university he was president of the Friends of Stalin society for two years.” Whilst every book about an American double agent says “ When he bought his fourth Lamborghini his colleagues became suspicious.”

Neoclassical economist's first reaction when reading about European labour laws, before they start drafting the 'structural reforms' opinion piece

This is really bad; Grok is now going into is third day of regularly producing nonconsensual deepfake pornography and nobody is doing anything about it. The "Mechahitler" and "white genocide" episodes were stopped much more quickly. I suppose this tells us all about relative priorities.

This also doesn't include the imo not immaterial number of people who are perfectly settled but that the general atmosphere may lead to say "know what? maybe I'll take you at your word and fuck off out of here"

Reuters natsec reporter Phil Stewart: "Venezuela orders police to find, arrest anyone involved in supporting U.S. attack-decree"

An early argument of the Popular Anger Understanders that we were told to take seriously, was that at least Trump understood the US public had had enough of adventurous wars FFWD>> the Afghanistan withdrawal was the top tick of Biden's tenure, and all of MAGA is screaming for Operation Lebensraum