if you order your sub any way other than Mike’s Way, it’s socialism
09.03.2026 22:21
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if you order your sub any way other than Mike’s Way, it’s socialism
Your salted caramel mocha latte is destroying society Edmund Burke would have had thoughts about the consumption of that vanilla sweet cream nitro cold brew.
The atomization of society begins with your morning coffee. According to the National Coffee Association, last year 46 percent of Americans had some “specialty” coffee (42 percent, sensibly, still had a regular one) in the past day. Simultaneously, 54 percent of U.S. adults feel isolated and half of them feel bereft of companionship “often or some of the time,” according to the American Psychological Association. As specialty coffee consumption has surged (84 percent since 2011), so has the loneliness epidemic. Just a correlation? Consider what your coffee order reveals. The salted caramel mocha latte, the iced brown sugar soy milk shaken espresso, the white chocolate macadamia cream cold brew are the triumph of hyper-individualization over communal norms. When you order a dirty spiced chai with oat milk, you are not only wasting the time of other customers in line but also are signaling that your personal appetites demand an elaborate, customized response. You are asserting your primacy, unique in the complexity of your desires, and stand apart from your nation’s simple rituals. No wonder you’re alone.
If I had sent "specialty coffee drinks are fueling the breakdown of civil society" to any editor with whom I've worked over the previous decade, they would have gently asked if I'd recently suffered a head injury www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
These Estates tour dates for the western side of Canada.
THESE ESTATES tour!
Thu. 4/2 – Regina, SK (Cure)
Fri. 4/3 – Saskatoon, SK (Black Cat)
Sat. 4/4 – Winnipeg, MB (Handsome Daughter)
Wed. 4/8 – Calgary, AB (Loophole)
Thu. 4/9 – Lethbridge, AB (Slice)
Fri. 4/10 – Medicine Hat, AB (Casa Amigo)
Sat. 4/11 – Edmonton, AB (Blakbar)
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Large Language Cool James
I’ve got the Gold Ninja blu-ray sitting over here and still haven’t taken the opportunity to watch.
Good dog, great movie, certainly
A scene from It Was Just an Accident being projected, featuring a street scene and a tall, white dog with brown spots.
Jafar Panahi defies the Iranian regime to make a neorealist gem, a rumination on morality and a film of cutting directness.
Me: that looks like my dog
We caught the last minute of Wheel of Fortune once with enough time to hear Ryan Seacrest tell Vanna no one had ever given him a nickname. It colours every moment I’ve seen of him after that.
you had to be there
Black pug with one eye visible
This picture of my mom’s priest’s pug is giving me ideas for how Nolan could revamp his Cyclops.
They’re calling it the world’s most boring WBC bracket.
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It was a beautiful era when a movie like Stallone’s Daylight had 44 chapters on the DVD. “Everyone is going to have a very specific scene that will be their favourite and that they will want to jump to.”
one reason we don’t need more data centers is we have a whole lot of data and most of it is just not good. increasing the available data will only make the situation worse
Does Pratt pray in his Garfield voice?
it’s almost her time
“Our Bonhomme is quite different than the inanimate, straw or wooden European Bonhomme that is sacrificed at the end of each carnival, on Shrove Tuesday, to symbolize rebirth and the return of spring. Our Bonhomme simply leaves at the end of each Carnaval to come back fresh and rested ready to share the same joie de vivre the following winter!”
Bonhomme being eternal is part of the official lore, FYI
carnaval.qc.ca/en/about-the...
Screen grab of Bonhomme saying “Écoutez, je suis …”
Screen grab of Bonhomme saying “un bonhomme de neige eternel.”
Screen grab of Bonhomme saying “C’est probablement moi”
Screen grab of Bonhomme saying “qui vais tous vous enterrer.”
95% of the time, Bonhomme is just talking about how outdoor activities are great, and the rest of the time, he’s saying he’s eternal and will bury us all.
Gotta be easier to forget you’re in a panopticon when they are also depriving you of sleep.
I’m am curious how the producers make the contestants comfortable enough to let loose with some wild misogynist in the talking-head pieces, not that it’s limited to those. (Being locked in a dorm without music doesn’t hurt.)
Cover of a book called Zohran Walks New York
Why does the art make this look like a Daniel Clowes book?
Maigret needs to be a hunk, we know this. Why else is Mrs. Maigret going to put up with him being out all the time?
“This guy sounds like he’s skating to the song from The Fifth Element.”
Mikhail Shaidorov was literally skating to “Diva Dance” from The Fifth Element for an Olympic event.
Of all the Warner Brothers contract players from the 40s, you proclaim a day in honor of Ronald Reagan? Really? Not Claude Raines? Not Barton MacLane? Not George Tobias? I call bullshit!
Man in a house coat sitting at a table. Image is printed on paper.
Checking out Sherlock Holmes‘ first cinematic appearance, and tbh, printing a film on paper, even just to submit for copyright, had not occurred to me. filmpreserve.org/restoration/...
Jordan Peterson: why and how to integrate with your Jungian shadow self
Nancy:
photo of two white dogs with brown spots standing side by side on a staircase, looking up at the camera
just haven’t posted Honey and Marigold in a while. they say hi
I remember kids on the school bus in fourth grade talking about how we needed to turn the TV off before King of the Hill so that everyone still knew that we thought the Simpsons was better. Same form of activism.
Est-ce qu’elle est assée en forme pour grimper une poteau téléphonique?
Screenshot of ad from CBS Sports website, with text “VIEW ALL WOMEN”
Promising a lot there, CBS Sports ad
Le COC rêve des JO? No question in my mind.