George Armstrong

still thinking about the Montana knife maker who said you don't have to worry about tariffs if you buy american. and then three months later, he realized he imports swedish steel and german equipment. and even MiUSA equipment costs $100k more now because of tariffs

I don't think STEM is morally corrupting but you're more likely to learn moral lessons in humanities and social science and there are only so many hours in a day. The person who studies nothing but engineering learns less about morals than the one who studies nothing but history

Hey man, it's ok if it didn't work for you. But I was like, 20, and it was the coolest thing I had ever seen.

But I get the idea. It reaaaaally bothered me when Holdo wished them "Godspeed" in The Last Jedi.

Nah I was massively into All Along the Watchtower, even listen to the Bear McCreary version on YT sometimes.

Yes, but you can fix it!!
If you just cut the show right as they make Galactica's final jump and they look up and see (spoilers) Earth... then you've got yourself a pretty great ending.

A career in code is this but for decades

Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.

How about a "thrifty mode" where you use left over scraps of patterned fabric as best you can?

Yes please! I'd play the hell out of this. I'd love to be able to add embellishments like lace, rickrack, bows and statement buttons. Any chance I could add draped elements?

I'm sorry COLIN FIRTH AND IAN HOLME??

Brad Pitt Is Fooling You The F1 press tour has been a carefully attuned charm offensive meant to obscure Pitt’s alleged violent behavior toward ex-wife Angelina Jolie.

I wrote about how Brad Pitt has effectively albeit transparently used F1: The Movie and its press tour to rehabilitate his image, in order to obscure the violent allegations about abuse toward Angelina Jolie & his current estrangement from his six kids, @vulture.com. www.vulture.com/article/brad...

This week, I learned a LOT of people think "eugenics" narrowly means "murder people who don't look a certain way" rather than "eliminate traits from the human species that you don't like," in the context of an article about using CRISPR to eliminate Downs Syndrome, ADHD, ASD, etc.

i kind of think the opening sequence in STAR TREK (2009) is the best thing abrams ever put to film

All I see here is top notch ball security, elite contact balance, a willingness to grind out tough yards btwn the tackles, and surprising burst after he finds daylight

You appear to be agnostic on aesthetics. Which is fine. But if one contends that two of these outfits look better than the others, then it's worth figuring out why. However, if you think dress is totally subjective, then there's no point in having a convo, as nothing can be learned.

Here's a little overview of my app PocketCal, if you haven't tried it yet!

pocketcal.com

This is oligarchy. This is obscene.

While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%.

End this oligarchy.

“This umbrella, believe it or not — and I would never lie to you — this umbrella is older than Mr. Mamdani. This umbrella has more experience than Mr. Mamdani,” says Warren Schreiber.

You almost have to appreciate just how beautifully this illustrates the gerontocratic nature of American politics: the Ancient Umbrella is imbued with more experience simply because it existed longer.

In April 1943, the War Department issued a pamphlet to employers bluntly titled You're Going to Employ Women.

i don't know why i find the title so funny

This is everywhere.

Every academic institution I know is held together by some exhausted woman in her early 40's who waits until the old white male professors have finished their vague rants and says, "alright, so concretely can I propose the following next steps..."

She makes half their salary.

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.

They are in charge.

Welcome to the archives.

Google is raising my Google Workspace pricing claiming all the “AI value” added.

I turned off Gemini in Gmail and Docs because it just doesn’t work / do anything useful for me.

So why am I being charged more?

Having costs b/c of AI is not the same as generating value with AI…

this is a day for those of us who have spent the last six months terminally online. this is for us and honestly, we deserve it.

See, this is why I don't trust men in positions of power. They're ruled by their emotions. Totally irrational. We need the calm, cool intellect of women in situations like this.

:3

my immediate prediction is that this ends with Elon publicly bending the knee to Trump in as degrading a way as possible in about four weeks time.

God I thought I needed actual good things to happen to feel happy, I never realized how much weight spite still carries

I've read this book.