Carthaged

I learned a lot from this book, having previously known almost knowing about the Spanish war. Since reading it, I have thought often about the Spanish experience of the center completely evaporating and people being forced to the extremes. And I love Homage

New political cleavages of the 22nd c.

I want all of those things, and would be probably be a neighbor of yours in Quebec if I were an Olympic level athlete and thus had enough points for a family migration. And to be less glib, my real yearning for the vat comes from a place of love, after my wife had difficult pregnancies.

This really made me think, because I am absolutely biased towards my cohort in which education/age/iVF are very salient. I think there’s data showing couples want more kids than they end up having, and age is a factor in that. Family formation happens later when women have equal education I think

It’s awesome how American Business Culture - which pioneered the art of always “being so busy” and “working so hard” (even when it isn’t true, I have no idea why everyone in this country lies about how hard they are working!) - has decided to pretend working silly hours is a Chinese import

The American theological crisis will come to a head when the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury will be on the same side against the Catholic convert VP and the nondenominational (Southern Baptist) mega church pastors who back the admin.

It’s here and I like it tho

We gotta invent the Vat. Because I refuse to accept a world that “accepts” that there is a “biological mismatch” between education and fertility and makes policy based on it. Sorry to jump ahead in the doom cycle

Newsom's method is not equal to Pritzker's, and it's unworthy of a serious commentator to pretend it is.

I think if it took you to October 5th, 2025 to realize that maybe this 1/6/21 business was maybe a big deal I think you shouldn't be allowed to comment on politics

welcome to radical liberalism

I get hung up on how filthy everyone would be, and malodorous. That sure is a charming serving girl at the tavern, too bad she hasn’t bathed since March

What do you guys think the appropriate level of yelling is when someone almost runs you over with a minivan? Asking for myself, and about my school drop off experience

Well if we’re contemplating zep, why not go straight to immigrant song? They got ice and snow in Chicago

pritzker’s campaign theme is going to be won’t back down by tom petty mark this prophesy

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

Unfortunately this is an automated corollary to the general breakdown in consensus reality: it's real iff some institution you trust says it's real. Some institutions will use the readily available tools responsibly, which will largely be uncorrelated with whether they are trusted.

it does seem increasingly apparent that next year will be when things really unravel

But she is rich beyond our wildest dreams

A dentist in Bavaria with, as it turns out, a very old and respected local surname.

Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in a Make-A-Wish thing for unlikable children who are sticking around longer than expected.

It’s not not because she’s an heiress, I suspect. She seems less financially motivated than some of the others, a little less terrified of losing the job because she can then go back to her true passion of fucking CrossFit dudes

I like this! What is this New Piedmont band tho. Is it basically just “Southern cities that are getting rich, educated, and integrated”?

With any map like this, the first thing I check is whether New York was granted its own bespoke designation and because it does, I love it

It is honestly a little funny watching the news straining and failing to normalize all this

as a kid growing up right-wing i regularly heard people express their desire for "a government so small I can drown it in the bathtub". imagine my surprise growing up to realize i was the only one who actually believed that.

open the schools

[crowd cheers]

to make sure the public has a better grounding in the history of legislative sovereignty so that I don't have to keep explaining that King Charles and King George were antagonists of different revolutions

[crowd has dispersed]

Idk, I haven’t looked at all the replies to you, but her career longevity is going to make her notable. The biggest acts (besides only the Beatles) have 3 or at most 4 big huge albums. It’s an insane run of commercial success.

Remember when the Boston Globe ran this supposedly over-the-top front page to attack the idea of Trump ever being president, and now this is just the news every day? We've fallen so, so far because of this man