Area Man

Is that true? Your point about tornadoes is certainly right. But we've had weather satellites since 1960 and hurricane hunting airplanes since before that.

How about a list of words to always use: 'the', 'a', 'of', 'universal healthcare' etc.?

Crack Barrel, Cracker Barrel, Crackest Barrel

If the mayor of NYC wants to bribe me he can skip the cash as long as it's a bag of Hal's jalapeño chips.

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Most of current Dem leadership can be replaced with ChatGBT and a few unemployed character impersonators.

The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst Shock sell-off after study warns most investments in artificial intelligence get zero returns

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AI is mid.

"After consulting all the stakeholders we decided we should take away their stakes."

So many memories! What a brilliant and generous human being he was to so many people.

The 5% represents Gavin Newsom's social media team.

Aelian the animal-lore collector said that?

Any time there is more than one object in the media universe, one, or the other, and thus both, can potentially be labelled 'a distraction' from the other.

He’s running on Medicare for all, dismantling the oligarchy, and ”protecting the working waterfront.” He has also called Gaza a genocide.

Hello, based department????

VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power The German car-maker says its

Welcome to the enshittification of cars. This is the worst thing to happen to cars since SUVs.

This all seems good and necessary. I thought about in-class reading. How are you actually going to do that?

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Dems focusing on "kitchen-table issues."

Awww

Can confirm. I understand that if we can stay frost-free for another five or six months, there's a chance this guy will produce bananas.

That's a nice picture - thought it was a painting.

The federal government right now is behaving more or less like a large corporation that is taking on debt, laying off people, and selling off its assets for the sole purpose of enriching its shareholders.

That's very interesting. Thanks.

What's been behind the recent rise in beef prices? This? Or this just going to add to it?

Joey Scarbury was a 26 year-old backup singer for Loretta Lynn — with no record label — when he was picked to sing the theme for “The Greatest American Hero (Believe It Or Not)”.

“I thought it was a really cool song. I had no idea it was going to become iconic.”

Peaks at #2 today in 1981.

funny story, I signed up for personal training at a local gym and was assigned a former NFL linebacker as a trainer

giant man, covered in tattoos, big muscles, loud voice

I am someone who just… doesn’t have a particularly well-assembled body

In reality, of course. On a spreadsheet, anything is possible.

What Lines Should We Draw? President or Conqueror I had an interesting exchange with a TPM Reader this week about...

This is a good, but the deeper point, I think, is that what we're seeing is just long-delayed revenge on the part of the Confederacy for the ravages of the Civil War, and the only real question is whether this is cosplay revenge or something more Sherman-esque.

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When you consolidate programs there is some money savings because there is a reduction in the number of admin hours that go to the faculty who head those programs. But you also lose courses and students. Whether the savings and losses balance... ?

Trump sending ICE agents to Newsom’s press conference is thuggish totalitarian behavior, but more than that it’s deeply pathetic, insecure, and petty.

We talked to a kind, smart lady in New Haven today whose job is basically to build a Noah's Ark for the humanities apocalypse and while I don't know if we were all that reassured by her plans she had a large machine that dispensed flavored fizzy water using touchscreen controls.