Chance Phillips

Assuming you were referring to 2020/2021, I apologize for making the above point in your mentions though!

Even if you weren’t referring to that time period a lot of the comments on your post, as well as other reshares of the initial “no recessions in Zoomers’ adult lives,” keep referring back to the GFC.

Folks can quibble about whether 2020/2021 count as a bona fide recession, but the U.S. economy had in fact largely recovered from the financial crash by 2015.

I think the response to this is largely assuming Zoomers were adults in 2008/2009. The first Zoomers (members of Gen Z) to become adults did so in 2015.

Especially because it remains unclear how much will actually be invested in projects dependent on tariffs to pencil out. If we stay on the tariff seesaw, I would think businesses might prefer stability in trade policy to keeping tariffs online.

The case that tariffs will develop a meaningful constituency is a bit more tenuous now that we have seen about half of the IRA get repealed without a sustained or in most any way successful lobbying effort by its beneficiaries.

I don’t disbelieve it, but I’m much more skeptical.

I disagree. Do not look at my bio.

I was not aware that there were Mike's Mic gifs tbh. Definitely need to see one of his Claire Saffitz rant.

Also Complete Scoundrel for the specific Indiana Jones twist. I'm sure it's been covered elsewhere too but two examples seems like plenty.

Dungeoneer's Survival Guide! pg. 18

The same exact thing happens to me about every third time I talk to someone new. I believe it's because of my (imo mild) rhotacism.

In my experience, from most any gas station/convenience store right by the checkout counter.

Alternatively, Studio Ghibli Redwall

There was also this Delaware senator who turned 30 just a couple months before he was sworn into office and after the election was held.

“Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new.”

Will you go see the Green-Wood Cemetery while in New York? Lots of figures from political history buried there: Boss Tweed, Horace Greeley, Henry George, Henry Ward Beecher...

Conservative groups in Alabama led people to apply to Project 2025, leaked database shows “I heard about Project 2025 through my time interning in Senator Tuberville’s office,” wrote one applicant.

“I heard about Project 2025 through my time interning in Senator Tuberville’s office,” wrote one applicant.

Conservative groups in Alabama led people to apply to Project 2025, leaked database shows “I heard about Project 2025 through my time interning in Senator Tuberville’s office,” wrote one applicant.

Republicans publicly denied the importance of Project 2025 in the lead up to the election. But behind closed doors, party thought leaders and Congressional staffers openly recommended the program to their copartisans, a recently leaked database suggests.
www.alreporter.com/2025/07/28/c...

— Senator Joni Ernst

I too read Semafor /j

Starbucks had the worst CEO-to-worker pay ratio out of all S&P 500 companies. Their CEO received $97,813,843 in total compensation last year, or 6,666x more than Starbucks’ median employee.

From the Jeopardy community on Reddit: Ken Jennings on Businessmen Explore this post and more from the Jeopardy community

During his initial run on Jeopardy, he made a joke about stringing up businessmen during the revolution lol. (I don’t think that joke accurately represents his politics, but it’s on topic so I figured I’ll share it lol)

www.reddit.com/r/Jeopardy/s...

Economics teaching has become the Aeroflot of ideas The discipline is failing students by ignoring the biggest social, political and ecological challenges facing the world today

Ha-Joon Chang: "We need to push for an economics education that is more pluralist, ethically aware, historically grounded and relevant to the real world."
www.ft.com/content/9aab...

Nowadays people also talk about her post-Daily Wire "media criticism" and whatnot, which largely consists of her accusing Macron's wife of being trans, claiming Harvey Weinstein is innocent, and very slanted coverage of whatever pop culture thing is getting views at the moment.

Very optimistic to assume they won't be hiring Grok.

Believing you own other humans is in fact a horrific blot on your soul and will only corrupt you further.

CLR James also wrote about the effects of slavery on slaveholders in The Black Jacobins iirc. And abolitionists/anti-slavery advocates wrote frequently about it.

For instance, Frederick Douglass referred to "the brutalizing effects of slavery upon both slave and slaveholder."

What book/article is this from?

our defeats, ... could well encourage the ugliest political possibilities in the West. Isolationism might free us from the need to deal with extremist governments abroad, but it is likely to do so at the price of having to deal with them at home.”
-Robert Heilbroner, The Great Ascent (1963).

“The political prospect of an isolated America—even an isolated West—is not a reassuring one. A beleaguered fortress of privilege, its doors closed and its walls manned, does not tend to nurture wise and tolerant government. To live in fear of the developing world, to count its successes as ...