Chris Cwiak

Is being "alpha" the manosphere? I'm so dutifully removed from it, I'm not sure, but a brilliant comedian recently observed that Joe Rogan's acolytes love proclaiming their "alphaness", while being un-self aware that they're literally Rogan's betas, lapping up wherever drivel he regurgitates

The solution sure does seem obvious until the profit motive enters the conversation

"Can a city as creative as San Francisco solve the enduring ills of capitalism?"

Like hey, your entire future to be able to practice law hinges on your ability to pass this test. ALSO, 25 unknown questions don't count lolol jk

That's absolutely bananas.

Shop was gonna close. We were idiots and started out late, but the goal was the western-most point of continental Europe. Alas.

Counts as seaside if we meant to go all the way to the Atlantic, but ran out of time on our rentals, right?

Bicycling along the Tagus was really fun, too!

'Some people are saying this will be the greatest depression the u.s. has ever seen, maybe the greatest depression the world has ever seen, who knows? But it'll be the greatest depression. The best depression.'

That's awesome

A bummer of a couple of days in Lin-land, with Tom Lehrer and now Ryno going. Somewhere, I imagine Lin sitting Ryne down to listen to some of Tom's work as he laughs that enormous laugh.

I continue to say fuck cancer
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I've often wondered what's stopping us from building a CTA subway spur down basically the route you outline, except maybe instead of going all the way down solidarity Dr, it veers south to soldier field and beyond to McCormick pl East.

Are the building a place that concentrates a certain group of people into a single place in conditions that might be less than ideal on a base level and more akin to, say, a camp?

Lin was the one who first exposed me to Tom Lehrer, and if you were listening astutely, you could absolutely hear echoes of Tom in some of Lin's more, shall we say, situational observances.

RIP to a legend. 97 years is nothing to sneeze at.

Love moments like this. Public Enemy meets Mavis Staples ❤️

A brief, illuminating thread on some of the people trump has decided to go after:

“the party being led by jeffrey epsteins best friend wants to repeatedly examine your childs genitals” is a true statement

Office Hours Live from Chicago w/ Steve Albini, Fire-Toolz (Ep 214) YouTube video by Tim Heidecker

At about 37 minutes in, Steve and Tim Heidecker talk a tiny bit about Ozzy, but it's mostly Tim slagging him:
www.youtube.com/live/sRsK2Y1...

If there's a hell, they'll know everybody there 🖤

Me neither.

As a Chicagoan, this resonates to the deepest part of my core.

The 'you must get the W so we can take the L' is my absolute jam

Absolutely agree.

Dave, you DO exude the air in question, and you back it up with being exemplary!

Keith, this is about the most apt description I've heard of you. Only thing that would make it better would be to include a star trek reference. 😂

Hopefully more affordable housing! Thank you for your work on all of this.

Ok, as i suspected, we *are* going in circles here. Refer back to answer that question.

You sound like those fundamentalists who, when pressed about even the softest regulation of firearms, say that any regulation would be a flagrant violation of 2A.

I'm all for funding education and making compulsory media literacy and civics classes as well.

I didn't use the word 'ensure', you did.