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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Now overheard in Nashville 2026
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
www.axios.com/2026/03/03/i...
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/
Ms. Wilkins, the daughter of a financial specialist in the aerospace industry (her mother) and a global consumer products executive for Gillette (her father), had lived in London and Switzerland, and for a time attended elementary school at Collège du Léman in Geneva. She is originally from the Boston suburb of Weymouth, but likes to emphasize her time living in Arkansas. "There are just some things the limousine liberal will never understand from the coasts," she recently wrote.
Kash Patel’s girlfriend is exactly the sort of country singer you’d think she’d be. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...
I don’t even really think this is fair. Iraq was heavily debated publicly, and there was a plan. It was a stupid and delusional plan based on unrealistic assumptions, but it was known publicly and voted on by Congress.
There was no public debate or Congressional authorization in this instance.
Here's one we baked already www.programmablemutter.com/p/who-loses-...
UK Tories have been in government for ~85 of the last 125 years!
I do feel like a lot of dem partisans and leftists alike should probably take note of how Fox prime time is handling the unpopular war the Trump administration is gearing up to conduct.
It’s not by saying it’s good. It’s by talking about snowballs instead.
It was nicer when there was only one Rupert Murdoch.
An underrated aspect of Costco's corporate culture is that their code of ethics starts, in order, with "obey the law." Seems like you wouldn't have to say it and yet (gestures towards every other corporation in America)
the people who can hold Actually Red seats are almost all of them going to be really annoying and a robust majority caucus will sadly depend on really annoying representatives and that's just the game I dunno a way around it
the NIMBY-coded belief I think is actually true is that letting your city become so oriented towards tourism that it crowds out other economic activity produces bad outcomes for most of the people who actually live there.
[watching any opera] Ah yes, the song from Looney Tunes
I read folks I follow and those that they recommend.
I choose film, music, books with help from critics & friends whose taste I trust.
Anything being pushed or, god-forbid, sold to me outside that context is approached with great skepticism.
How did this mindset become so out of fashion online?
This pattern is so divorced from my own media consumption.
1) Is it by someone or an outlet I have previously decided to follow/trust bc they seemed interesting, informative, or on the same wavelength?
2) Is it recommended to me via those in (1), w/o obvious financial interest?
If not, then skip.
I don’t agree with all of this thread and also it’s innately perverted [talking about NYC politics] BUT I think it’s extremely incisive analysis rooted in reality. I wish this kind of organized, realistic thinking was more common on the left, it would lead to better outcomes via better strategy.
