I didn’t realize Pepsi had dropped to fourth by sales volume among soft drinks in the US:
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I didn’t realize Pepsi had dropped to fourth by sales volume among soft drinks in the US:
This just moved a ton in the last hour, weird:
Billionaires who fund STEM colleges > than billionaires who buy super yachts. www.nwaonline.com/news/2025/au...
TCU-UNC recap: youtu.be/R94t8E71Ct0?...
*TRUMP TO MAKE ANNOUNCEMENT 2:00 PM ET TUESDAY: WHITE HOUSE
The moral victory for UNC fans if this experiment blows up is a feeling like in the new era it makes sense for the school to invest in football in a way it maybe didn’t make sense even 3 years ago.
Swimfan (2002)
Jordon Hudson really cooked up a solid opening drive script
Kinda getting Tyson/Jake Paul vibes.
Okay Kalshi made the contract: kalshi.com/markets/kxtr...
Bummer. Very professional match from Osaka.
Well, it’ll all be cleared up by the Super Bowl presidential interview.
There’s just a lot of reasons for hmmmm at the moment.
And “venture capital” and “ethereum” add in additional wrinkles.
The last kind of guy where you know he’s not establishment but can’t really be sure what his whole deal is:
Trump’s been quiet on social media and hasn’t been seen much for several days, and people are wondering about his physical condition.
Could be Labor Day Weekend (even though he’s not really one to disconnect) but we’ll know more in a couple days.
Yeah, I’m what’s-going-on-curious for sure.
I haven’t paid too much attention but there’s an earnestness and energy to the speculation over the weekend that didn’t exist to the same extent for the Epstein files stuff (which felt more like people trying to meme something into existence).
What would the uhh trade be? Long dollar, curve flatteners, short bitcoin?
“At Goodwill of North Georgia, the number of Black people who for the first time ask for help finding work is up 41% over the past three months, compared with a 23% increase in the number of new white job seekers.” www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
Carson Beck’s making $4 million in Miami, throwing a TD, having fun. Quinn Ewers (could’ve made millions of dollars playing for Michigan this year) got drafted in the 7th round and is the 3rd string QB for the Dolphins.
In the next 4 months though…
This is a very strangely-worded contract but is basically a pure play on the thing:
No South Carolina game this year, phew!
Bama and Texas down, LSU and South Carolina up
I mean yeah obviously www.espn.com/college-foot...
“It’s a door for the bathroom that we’ll put in family rental houses, and we’ll design it so you can’t be sure if it’s locked or not.”
Prime-age employment-population is falling, the % of consumers who say jobs are hard to get is rising — turning points in these tend to be pretty infrequent and I’m not willing to make a call like that without a strong reason/policy shift:
Not a value judgment at all, but out of the ~200 people I’ve followed for 15 years this might be the boldest non-consensus call I’ve seen from an even-keeled person.
Alabama fans know what you want. And they won’t give you the surrender cobra.
Oh wow that pic actually does look kinda fake, that’s fun.
Rabun
I knew there were some south vs north GA conservative differences but didn’t realize NE vs NW.
There are so many Joro spiders where I am that I feel like I’m in an old X-Files episode.
This isn’t a QB, it’s the parasocial LLM output of a Boomer in MTG’s district.
I limited mentions a bit so we’ll see if that improves the experience at all.
Belicheck and Manning together at last
Which ACC team is gonna give Arch $2M in 2026?
The political culture of this website is pretty well-established at this point and I haven’t found a way to have a consistently good posting experience if you deviate from it at all.
He’s perfect for GameDay.
Crazy to think Pat McAfee is going to get one of these standoffs in 40 years.
Theo Von probably has more influence with young voters than MSNBC and CNN:
Nobody under 55 watches cable news. Whatever your frustrations with non-retired voters are, they’re not getting their information from cable news.
Who’s to say it’s not the other way — the algos podcasts are influencing the MSM.
The median voter is largely not consuming MSM anymore.
Trying to post less politics on here, but I do wonder if the median voter will be quicker to buy into age/mental unfitness concerns this term than they would have in say 2019.
The biggest cranks in the world have always said the Federal Reserve is an all-powerful institution you don’t mess with.
That first weekend is harrowing, man, good luck.
Yeah, they’re good.
We have a family difference of opinion on what color tennis balls are. I did not realize this was a thing.
Ohhh hadn’t thought about that
“Gen Alpha is thinking about movies as cultural moments to be shared.” @carlquintanilla.bsky.social
“But Gen Alpha is also so used to media and entertainment being a solitary endeavor that they’re prioritizing connection at the movies, rather than escapism or the scope and quality of the presentation. That may be a generational difference.”
“And this NRG report on Gen Alpha suggests that movie theaters represent an exotic and alluring escape to the generation whose upbringing has taken place entirely in front of screens and devices, and whose vehicles for socialization have largely been digital” puck.news/can-gen-alph...
Those John Burn-Murdoch charts are probably directionally correct but they always seem a little too perfect for the discourse.
I had planned on being mentally checked out today, why are you all selling stuff
Financial conditions tightening
When’s Fonseca going to consistently make it past the second round in these?
When uncertainty is as high as it is I think they take the data at face value without trying to make their model too complex.
Obviously he’s auditioning for the job but this is the most negative outlook a FOMC has given on the labor market in a long time.
Waller with an economic outlook speech: www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
A member of the “breast enhancement community” on X had the Parsons scoop last night:
for 30 years jerry jones has been trying to overcome the fact that when jimmy johnson was the gm he ransacked the vikings for a million picks, and then hitting every one of them to win those super bowls. and jones has failed for all 30 years
I probably have more friends sending me atlscoop clips than I have friends who send me AJC articles (I’m not saying atlscoop is a good model either, but at least they have reach…).
I do not.
I’m a subscriber and rooting for the AJC, but on four key verticals for media relevance in the 2020’s — opinion, newsletters, podcasts, and short-form video — I don’t see much presence.
There are somehow still 83 hours to go in the month of August.
It’s Monday, August 53rd.
Maybe I’m too quick-twitch but it was a lot easier to do this a couple month ago.
It seems like both things are true — the attempted firing is purely politically-motivated and also she did list two residences as her primary residence (which imo shouldn’t be grounds for firing).
At least we get college football back in two days.
From a forecasting standpoint it’d be easier if continuing claims would show a clear acceleration or stabilization:
It’s just something to have on in the afternoon when markets are slow.
You’ve gotta get into the US Open, that’s two weeks in late August.
Well in April the stocks got cheap.
Me in @opinion.bloomberg.com: stock market optimism about a housing market recovery has gotten ahead of itself — the two biggest headwinds to the industry are poor affordability and rising inventory levels which will take years to correct, no quick fix is coming: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Dollar stores with better earnings/guidance:
Grimsby goalie kills me
Five Below has a volatile model but they know who they are — “we’re chasing trends for value-oriented kids and families.” I don’t think Target knows who they are anymore. There’s some inertia based on their past but not a clear “this is what we’re best at” market positioning.
This isn’t a connection I’ve seen anyone make and it’s obviously a bit fast and loose but consider these trends and then the market positioning of say Target.
My daughter doesn’t really like the taste of boba or matcha that much but as trends and style she loves boba and matcha.
Five Below talking about how KPop Demon Hunters is part of the broader zeitgeist of Asia driving US cultural trends:
“based in Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, England” definitely sounds fake
Grimsby Town sounds like the name of a fake soccer club in a Simpsons episode.
Sometimes there’s market volatility or the Olympics or eventful election years, but this month has just dragged on and on.
It feels like August 41st.
I mostly just listen to podcasts these days.
Probably up
What’s the rationale for why one is better than the other?
It’s usually not a good sign when the yield curve steepens like this:
The culture of this site is about shrinking the tent.
Bouie’s staying blocked btw.
You know he’s not a Republican so whatever disagreement you have you’ve decided to call out and bully rather than engage in good faith. And then you wonder why people are disengaging from this site.
Really dumb post, man.
And she's 35 -- how many over-35 guys are out there that meet the T-Swift spouse requirements?
Glad they did it when the vol curve was so steep.
