The logical leaps you have to make to be a genetic superiority person who also needs glasses because your eyes don’t work good will never cease to amaze me.
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The logical leaps you have to make to be a genetic superiority person who also needs glasses because your eyes don’t work good will never cease to amaze me.
Well, slightly more complicated, as we have seen: win the senate with candidates who will vote for that.
This article is doing for my impression of how elite Seal Team 6 is what the missing Malaysian flight did for my perceptions of how elite the US global monitoring system is. You're telling me you don't know where every commercial plane is at all times? I assumed that stuff was easy for you.
Thinking of doing this myself, but my question is: then what are you running off this battery?
Look, if you compare any two pieces of writing, you're doing comp lit.
An odd fact I learned today that sounds like a made up sentence: Denise Richards burst both her breast implants while jumping off a bridge in a harness during a reality show about training like special forces soliders.
I like how the made ChatGPT less grotesquely complimentary because now when it tells me I’m doing really brilliant thinking, I can believe it unreservedly.
Didn’t know they had updated Warren’s nickname from Pocohantas to Fauxcohantas. People were too slow to get through the tiny bit of subtext in the original.
Funny that every news org has to do this now but: If you're a fan of Fast Company, here's how to make it pop up in your Google Search results: www.fastcompany.com/91398533/how...
Michelle Wu, running a medium-sized city in a pretty unabashedly leftist way, up by 30 over a extremely well-funded opponent. She should be getting talked about more as the question of what kind of politics work in liberal cities is such a question of the moment: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I have been hit by first tariff payment request from DHL, and it made what had been a sort of stupid, frivolous purchase turn into a wildly irresponsible one. Not sure people are going to like this as an ongoing part of their lives.
SCOOP: Three Trump Cabinet Members Have Multiple Primary-Residence Mortgages @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @justinelliott.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
I don't get this line of attack. Ted Cruz isn't jacked? Ted Cruz is way closer to JB Pritzker than he is to some ideal healthy person.
What if I wanted to consume artificial food dyes and seed oils? Where is my bodily autonomy?
Really great story on the man behind Trump's push for classical architecture at federal buildings: www.fastcompany.com/91386714/mee...
Taking this seriously: Goldberg and Bouie from the left, Dougherty and Ahmari from the right.
Take your creatine, folks
A real pro-natalist policy would address how annoying it is to get kids ready for school. If you solved this, I bet people would have way more children.
They stopped showing my posts to anyone so I left to see if another site would show my posts to people. Purely a product decision.
I’ve been saying “his business partner who is a nurse practitioner in New Hampshire” over and over to myself all day.
Would be willing to bet that the one outspoken conservative writer at every liberal arts college newspaper wrote a column called “in defense of inequality” at some point during their tenure.
Reckoningheads are the real ones.
I have no doubt Trump may be in poor health but I gotta tell you, I just saw a candid photo of myself someone took at the beach last weekend and judging from that alone anyone would be justified in saying I also look like I need to be hospitalized.
There were barely any Biden palace intrigue stories! That’s why the press corps was annoyed.
Slowing but persistently moving my kid down a pipeline of Shake It Off > Dog Days Are Over > Running Up That Hill. That’s how you create an insufferable little hipster.
RFK Jr. is self-admittedly blasting a big dose of T.
Child dance classes really overstate for children the amount you’ll be dancing with scarves later in life. You’re basically never dancing with scarves.
These signs used to glitch out when the lottery went over 999 million but Powerball is hitting a billion often enough I guess they got new ones:
Teaching my toddler to say “Man, it’s a hot one” in a Rob Thomas voice and then I sing the Santana riff. Sometimes parenting is so rewarding.
Sorry! You gotta work hard to be healthy! No magic pills available.
Sounds like someone else I know
He rose to power through crying about censorship from the medical establishment. And now Vinay Prasad is spending his time as an FDA official censoring his critics.
When I hear anyone talk about mitochondrial health
Remarkable how much more dangerous my bike commute (with my kid) has gotten now that school has started again. We have to go by two other schools on the way to hers and they are vortexes of disaster. No more dangerous driver than a parent rushing to or from pickup or drop-off, it seems.
Boy geniuses from Southie all feel really positive about Good Will Hunting
Maybe I was saying it like it was a good thing, you never know.
This will be the first ever CDC head without an MD, MPH, or other advanced science degree
1: Lower your resting heart rate 2: Increase your max deadlift 3: Eat more vegetables 4: Don't waste time worrying about anything on the edges unless you're doing 1-3.
Went to a Counting Crows/Wallflowers double bill but Adam Duritz was sick so the Wallflowers played for twice as long.
Remember there was a national news story (including a lawsuit) about the affair that the future HHS secretary was having with a prominent reporter and now that he continues to push incredibly damaging policies both politicians and the political media have totally dropped it? I find that odd.
It’s very important that you append this paragraph to anything RFK says about anyone’s health.
As we know, doctors today never tell you to eat fruits and vegetables. If only they would, the patients would start doing it.
Gen Zers spending so much money on weird gum and devices to make their jawlines better when all they need to do is create an annoying child who won't get ready for school and then you can clench your teeth to an exceptional facial construction.
"I wish janitors made a living wage"
Have people never seen an old person? They got a lot of weird skin stuff going on but it's not usually indicative of some acute health problem.
People talk a lot about how much you have to spend on your kids clothes but they don't talk about how many of your clothes they destroy with their little greasy hands and ketchup-y mouths.
This is the make or break moment for Powell's @federalreserve.gov. If they do not defend Lisa Cook and treat her as still on the Board, the fight over the Fed as an independent agency will officially be over. see my Friday piece. www.crisesnotes.com/trump-vs-pow...
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
Wow, had not seen the Eric Adams video. He's doing half reps of 135 with the spotter touching the bar? Not really a foundation upon which to build a criticism of someone's bench: x.com/ericadamsfor...
Usually very anti-form police but I think it's important to note—in the context of these guys trying to create a ubermensch narrative around their health and fitness practices—that they are doing precisely zero official pull-ups and push-ups. x.com/HHSGov/statu...
Writing an article dunking on someone's bench press when you yourself cannot even calculate the obvious weight with your eyes, very funny to me:
And won’t say which men, specifically (but specially not Zuck, of course)
I would simply perform some synthesis.
It’s so bizarre for our discourse that social media and inter-personal feuds have reversed polarized so many political people into believing either that there’s no value in knowing what messages are resonating OR that there’s no way politicians can change voter’s minds about issues and salience.
Even the washing machines are woke now!!!
That said, while I’m sure the tests will find some interesting stuff, it’s not that complicated: If you commit to training consistently every day until you’re 92 you will also baffle scientists and probably set world records. It’s just that most people don’t do that.
I went into this thinking this woman was probably impressively fast for 92, but no, in fact she can run 200m faster than most of you. www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
The piece in question doesn’t acknowledge this fundamental change for most users at all, which is sort of strange. Entirely aimed at a class of poster that barely exists.
Bluesky also doesn’t show my posts to anyone but that’s where the politics comes in. Might as well not feel like I’m contributing to the cesspool in exchange for nothing.
I think the political arguments, while real, are sort of tangential: I left Twitter because it stopped showing my posts to anyone? If you’re under a threshold (10k? 20k?) it’s basically a useless platform for posting at this point?
When you could just cross at an empty intersection but you need to wait for the walk sign because you’re with your kid and you need to set a good example: that’s called the white man burden.
A funny thing about how every professional podcast is a video now is that a lot of places are lighting these people like they’re on tv but not giving them TV makeup. Perhaps the shiniest medium in human history.
Ok everyone is saying makeup but what’s the ddx on hand bruising so notable that you need to cover it in this amount of makeup?
Someone writing down your proposed salary on a piece of paper and folding it up and then sliding it to you on the bar, you don’t see that so much anymore.
Gonna need to add a Gorsuch with glowing eyes when this gets to the Supreme Court.
You should not be allowed to donate to a candidate you’re not eligible to vote for.
Always get incredibly concerned when I get a notification that someone joined Signal whose line of work and/or political inclinations mean they should have been on Signal a long long time ago.
People are painting this as just a unhealthy emotional attachment but everyone gets annoyed when any part of software they use changes? They changed the font of the ESPN Fantasy app a few days ago and I’m furious every time I open it. They move one button in our CMS and I’m a mess for weeks.
This is precisely what having a toddler is like, fyi, except they also scream at you while you explain the logic to them.
An interesting factor in the rise of LLMs is the increasingly technical language of Wikipedia articles. Trying to understand more about musical modes and this first paragraph alone is going to take me a long time to unwind. This is great as a repository of knowledge but bad for the general user.
🎶🎶 Deadhead sticker on a cybertruck 🎶 🎶
The video was just suddenly pulled and made private within hours of being released. I was halfway through and it stopped suddenly.
The intellectual strain of woo that’s all about tests and metrics and health gadgets to avoid the simple health prescription of just lifting weights and running fast is at least very comfortingly nerd coded even though it’s pretty MAGA adjacent.
Staying next to someone in Maine flying this alt Maine flag and truly have no idea if they are just Maine flag radicals or using it as a secret J6 symbol. www.pressherald.com/2024/11/06/m...
A lineup designed for the team we’re playing against, I never thought I’d see the day.
I guess if you really cared about food quality you’d have some historical knowledge of which party was at all interested in regulating the food industry, but that would imply some seriousness on the part of the MAHA nutrition people.
I love framing a security force “making a show of force” as just a thing that might happen in the normal course of things rather than something extraordinary to happen in a representative democracy.
A recycled aluminum can ends up back on the shelf as a new can in just a few months.
Woman at a restaurant in Boston showing like eight rapt, gasping tablemates a video of a Waymo trip she took in SF.
Good summer bit: talking about the Weber (grill) but pronouncing it like Weber (Max).
"Was Lenin's family 'wealthy' in the context of late 19th century Russia" is, I'm sure, the subject of heated debate, too, that I bet you would discover if you read for like 10 minutes.
I know fairly minute details about, say, William F. Buckley or Mitt Romney but some people can't learn basic info about the most consequential people of the 20th century because they were Communists (Stalin did not come from wealth, you can just Google this or ask your preferred AI).
The attempts to define, reify, and then wall off the True Conservative parts of the cultural elite is certainly fascinating from an academic perspective.
Not fainting and almost dying is really the only bar I’m trying to clear now so heavy weights is really just gravy.
In the spring, I got a serious head injury while deadlifting, lost my short term memory for a bit, spent a while in the hospital. This was not super fun. After months of rehab, I was finally let off the leash. First deadlifts over 500 pounds since the accident, feeling incredibly lucky and proud.
I said “oh my god” outloud when I opened the Times app and saw this headline this morning.
Wonder what it would do to society if alcoholic beverages had to have calorie info on the label.
Using this occasion to boost this article I reported earlier this year, which is a fun read imho.
Median doesn’t really make much sense in this context but I’m quite dehydrated is my excuse and you get what I mean
Yes, I guess in that sense he’s not really an “artist” but when you enjoy a Disney movie you are buying into a system that reflects his broad beliefs, which you probably don’t really agree with even though you like Snow White or what have you.
Exactly. Just like eat a big lunch at that point.
Lots of fun answers to this but surely the median answer for Bluesky users broadly is Walt Disney, no?
Just saw like a 6’2, 200 pound guy walking with one of the trendy 5 pound weight vests. My dude! Not enough weight! What do we think that’s doing???
One delightful part of parenting is the first 15 seconds your kid performs any new skill, where you have a moment when you get to think they might be a savant… before it becomes incredibly clear they are not.
I like to upload a picture of the wine list at a restaurant and get a short description of each so I don’t need to make the server spend 10 minutes telling me about them all.
UCLA 20x more important than Brown in the Trump education taxonomy: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...
The Hitler AI got my car
