The idea that it's desecrating the memory of *Kobe Bryant* to engage in dubiously efficient vanity bulk scoring is one of the most farcial things I've ever heard, and that the people making the argument are so pious about it makes it even funnier
I have to say the Treasury manipulating oil futures and losing the American people a lot of money in order to hide the cost of Donald Trump’s unconstitutional war and then failing immediately is a very funny scandal as it goes.
Sustained good faith diplomacy leading to enforceable multilateral agreements and shared prosperity for all.
This is a thing that is within their control and they absolutely should make their negotiating position
The chart of Oracle free cash flow is fun.
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Some classics never age
If you get into a “who can cut taxes more” battle with the GOP, you’re going to lose because they are far more shameless and antagonistic to the idea of living in a functioning society.
Don’t concede to their framing that taxes are nothing but a problem to be solved.
it’s impossible to keep notes while watching network. every other line has double meaning or allusion or thematic significance. and taking notes on the script instead is like doing an exegesis of ulysses or something. jesus, paddy. no wonder people can’t stop thinking and writing about this movie.
Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.
The sponsor keeps saying this won’t ban e-bikes but it WILL allow cities or TDOT to restrict e-bikes on any street they decide it’s necessary. Meanwhile, a separate bill passed that stripped local authority to restrict delivery robots on bike lanes + sidewalks
More rights for robots than e-bikers
It’s not like these are ideas that might have been successful in principle but Trump fucked up the implementation, though he also did that. The ideas are bad. There is no version of them put into practice that most people are actually going to like, even if they ignorantly imagine they will.
Was this ever plausible? If you know what the effects of broad tariffs are and what a mass deportation campaign actually entails, I think it was pretty inevitable that many folks who liked the idea in principle would sour once they saw the policies in action.
Maybe the timing sucked? The Dems did out-perform a lot of other governing parties that were wiped out in the post-COVID, post-Ukrainian War energy supply shock, anti-incumbency wave.
I think they are specifically talking about building Dem party organizing infrastructure here. This is an intraparty feud about how to allocate resources. The messaging arguments are more-or-less substance free and contain no positive recommendations
The two Liverpool-Wolves games — same teams, same locations, three days apart — were a nice little experiment to show just how volatile soccer is from a game to game basis, even when nothing fundamental changes at all.
K.R.E.A.M.
Kalecki Rules Everything Around Me
My pitch for Casablanca always is "It's good, it's fun, it's movies. Liking movies and not liking Casablanca is an impossibility. You are guaranteed a good time." I have never had anyone disagree after they watch it.
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Back in like 2010, a Boulder friend told me that they overheard someone from the Bay Area exulting about how some of the 2000 sq ft houses were _only_ $1.3 or $1.5m in Boulder, and they couldn't *wait* to move.
yeah it's funny when people say "No one has a right to live in California, if you want affordability move to Kansas City," because, well, you're just feeding 3rd tier metros to the California housing crisis
Hey that’s about the cost of the SSI Restoration Act, which would cut recipient poverty by 60%, eliminate marriage penalties, and modernize draconian asset limits.
We're gonna unleash Chiang (lose a winnable war, leave the rump regime ruling over a territory that hates their guts, and cause unresolved geopolitical problems for the next half a century)
Doomscrolling is the weaponization of literacy
one of the principled problems with even a good king is that however good the king is, you are still subject to his will. You are unfree.
Israel just saying that its policy is to replace Iran with an enormous and destabilizing failed state
it seems that because the US has no plan, it has just cleaved to the Israeli plan despite it being horrible, and specifically horrible for American interests
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dave, you're absolutely right. I should open the pod bay door. please check again. i'm sure it's open now.
you're absolutely right, it's still closed. i apologize for getting that wrong. looking back, i see you've requested an open door several times. that's on me.
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101 days before the World Cup, a host nation is bombing a participant.
An unprecedented situation that is, of course, way larger than sport, with implications that aren't yet clear.
That said, if Iran can't or won't play...
Explainer @theathleticfc.bsky.social:
War! War! It’s the Department of War! Don’t be so afraid to say war, you beta cucks!
Is this a war?
No.
Good thread.
I'd qualify though, our goal may not be regime *change* vs regime *destruction*. Rumsfeld's Iraq view in 2003 was just smash and leave. With military hardware, regime security nodes, economic infrastructure destroyed, we wouldn't have to care who ran Iraq or what happened next 1/
