Professor Coolbreeze

Were there people who were anti-op-ed? Seems like grousing about newspapers having sports and lifestyles sections. That's what people are actually reading.

It feels like the missed outcome from the mass production of AI is that a lot of people just won't care whatever it is that they're seeing or showing. All things being reduced to the equivalent of Bachelor Chow (Now with flavor!) from Futurama.

This is another pitch for density and a 30 hour work week. I'd love to watch my niece and nephew and help with some shuttling to and from activities if I could afford to live in New York.

Someone once said they wanted to come back to life as a Treasury bondholder and they were right.

We're saving it all for a hidden chest full of letters to be discovered upon our death.

Trying to think of an historical equivalent where a bunch of 19th Century industrialists and academics all read an obscure crackpot story and decided it was true and how to orient their life.

If it's a philosophy class answering questions on omnipotence, they could be making a good analogy.

No offense to Swifties but this sounds miserable.

I didn't know Yu Darvish was still playing.

As an aside, I was kind of hoping the Yankees would miss the playoffs just to have a bunch of old random people complain about the lack of discipline and the "Curse of the Beard" on sports radio and the internet.

That Jerome Powell, some popular general, and like 5 senators aren't in a backroom plotting a coup somewhere is how you know we're not like Rome. (Mostly positive feelings about that.)

The Yankees allow stubble and beards now.

You have to pay to unlock the forward pass.

My take on Andromeda is similar to my take on the original trilogy: None of the stuff involving the precursor races or ancient alien threats was as compelling as the actual geopolitical struggles of a galaxy with multiple intergalactic races competing with one another.

I'm doing a replay right now and the tension between it doing fun, small-scale mystery missions while also trying to be an epic space shooter is real.

Semi-Hot Take: The squad combat add-ons in ME3 and Andromeda were not terrible.

Creative destruction, etc. etc. But I think it's far more likely to shamble on pumping out worse and worse annual updates to its core franchises with little experimentation or support offered to anything interesting. Also kill off what little corporate culture remained supporting diversity.

I believe they have it in them to squeeze out a mediocre and unsatisfying legacy sequel to Mass Effect.

Only owning digital copies or requiring live service to access all those EA games is going to be a real kick in the teeth when those debts come due.

If someone wants to primary current leadership, that's fine with me, but I'm skeptical of any caucus leadership struggle producing a more combative leadership.

It's interesting to compare it with how often Pelosi faced a high profile internal challenge. (I can't remember Reid's time well enough to compare.)

If they're cold, keep them cold. Otherwise they'll be fine and even if you do swap them around, you're unlikely to notice any difference really.

Not really counting on him following a campaign promise to be honest.

Immediately memeable. Universally applicable as needed.

At least in the first term we could had a chance at Steve Mnuchin.

Seems like a Connecticut guy.

I thought she had solid vibes too and would win out over a campaign that had a big social media push about a dead squirrel but I think the reason everyone is freaking out is because we suddenly became very poor judges of vibes.

Liz Breunig dropped it too. Abortion restrictions in return for better maternal care and policy is not the exchange on offer and no politician or public figure is serious about offering that trade or seeing it come about.

Mostly of the opinion that Cuomo is going to get minimal extra votes from this move because the bulk of people backing Adams were doing it because he was the Democratic Party mayor and now will back Mamdani, whose name is listed on the Democratic Party line.

Nominative Determinism remains undefeated.