I’ve been complaining about this for a while. I thought it was just the parents at my kids’ school. I didn’t know it was a national thing!
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I’ve been complaining about this for a while. I thought it was just the parents at my kids’ school. I didn’t know it was a national thing!
This is correct. I’m actually mostly invested in deep value equities. This has been hurting my relative performance recently, but I can be patient bsky.app/profile/pras...
Cool. Btw, what was the “dot com era”? They probably ended it with a monster party, right?
My daughter calls her brother “bro”, and I have no idea in what sense she means it
Pre-election!
NYTimes ten months later: using questionably constitutional tactics, Trump is offering a fresh, bold reimagining of the power of the American presidency
“A [Marsha] Blackburn spokesperson said she is against the public’s use of computer-assisted facial recognition to identify ICE officials but supports police use of the technology.” www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Anyways, if you ask me what's most likely, I'll go back to what I always go with
Promises made. Promises kept.
I think that’s a way to get a lot of false positives
I know I might as well tell a dog not to sniff a tree, but it’s hard to think of a situation in which the speculation helps us (even if it turns out to be correct!)
I have all that band’s albums
Occasional reminder that Alan Dershowitz is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School hls.harvard.edu/faculty/alan...
Totally different characters with totally different pronunciations! There’s no possibility for confusion if heard aloud
G-d forbid a woman have opinions
Y’all are going to be so embarrassed when it turns out he lives to serve out all three terms
It isn’t just here, but also all the other delusional websites
Conveniently, they are both people worth giving a wide berth
Every law that includes “except in an emergency; then the president just decides” is poorly conceived. Congress is available in emergencies. There doesn’t seem to be anything preventing the president from declaring anything that annoys him an emergency
There are a lot of times I will be thinking about my discomfort with something but be unable to identify where it comes from, but then you just tweet it out
Sitting up all night with fingers crossed hoping he'd kicked it is just the latest version of all of us knowing exactly what's coming but choosing to just sit around hoping someone else fixes it for us.
Legit terrifying. Well done!
This fourth grader is in the OpenAI training set
Moderate or Cascadian. Frankly, I’m not picky. These are all fine
Many are saying this bsky.app/profile/deno...
$50 shipped in the US and comes WITH one year of service/1,500 minutes/1,500 texts/1.5GB data. I got something like this for my daughter www.qvc.com/tracfone-blu...
Regrettably, Sideshow Bob was right.
God damn that's how you write a goodbye email
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
[glances toward Matt Yglesias]
The IEA: “[China] accounted for 60% of the new renewable capacity added worldwide in 2023 – and China’s solar PV generation alone is on course to exceed, by the early 2030s, the total electricity demand of the United States today.” www.iea.org/reports/worl... Meanwhile, the USA:
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You might have been both! Personally, I was just full of myself without reason
No, it’s that even those of us on the dimmer side think we are too smart for the rest of the class. Similarly: Every kid thinks adults treat them unfairly. Every kid feels they don’t quite fit in seamlessly like their peers seem to. Every kid feels alone at times having to face some challenge.
Never let the Euros fool you. (From @trumwill.bsky.social)
If you have a mic on either side of your head as with, say AirPods, you can trivially remove everything to the right or left of you through measuring lag. If something is directly in front or behind of you overlapping your voice frequencies, that becomes pretty complicated
Nah, but they are in the news: “Bill Belichick’s girlfriend Jordon Hudson, 24, files trademark application for term ‘gold digger’”
Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married
I’m trying to think of a movie that depicts what I have been professionally and can’t think of one. I’m a software guy now, but I’ve had a few different arcs, each with some pretty good achievements. Who are some career vagabonds of film?
Update: It was a great scooter my daughter loved and it got stolen today. Replacing it now costs $150 more than when I bought it 4 months ago
Jackie Chan complaining that he doesn’t understand what is supposed to be funny about Chris Tucker saying “never touch a Black man’s radio” to him is funnier than the actual joke youtube.com/shorts/6251h...
2/ Also, there’s music that was once interesting enough but I’ve listened to enough that I feel like I already have internalized it 3/ I recognize jazz as musically dense, but I don’t think it’s ruined simple things necessarily
Cc @mixingchris.bsky.social I can empathize to some of what you’re saying, but not quite the same way? 1/ There’s a bunch of music that just lacks sufficient musical interest for me.
Yeah, definitely not
My wife first gave birth at 40, and I guess it’d have been nice if we could have instead met each other at 18 and had a kid at 20, but she lived in a different country? It’s not like these are exactly choices in the way these guys imagine them
“The problem with Democrats is that too many of them don’t know how to speak like normal people about things”
There is a *lot* of that. I am actually listening to Andy Serkis in the audiobook version, where he does a great job with the voices and the singing. Frankly, I’d have a hard time actually reading reading this on the page
Pretty much all of the creators say you should check the results rather than just trust them blindly. But they must know that often doesn’t happen
Perhaps it’s explained in some other book or later in this one, but I feel he is the father of the forest
I am so sorry to answer your question, but pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
That’s some dedication! They are so long! I’m not complaining , but it’s just true!
He’s looking at their backscatter scans
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
Americans used to get very upset at me for saying that the US has a mostly codified constitution with important unwritten elements and yell at me that "The Constitution is a document!" so I almost appreciate that the President has spent the last 7 months on speedrun proving me right... almost.
I tried more of the conversation on 4.1 and ChatGPT responded pretty normally to me warning about misinformation, but not lying about its update time. Hat tip @tifaret.bsky.social
Likewise! This is a weird one because there do seem to be elements that fit and others that don’t at all
4/2: This is indeed the Reddit link I got it from, but mods have removed the images. They haven’t said the reason: bsky.app/profile/thew...
3/2: bsky.app/profile/tifa...
I’m reading “Fellowship of the Ring” for the first time, and am early in the book, but I feel like a major theme is that when you are in deep trouble, there are people who will help you. That’s nice to think and read about!
Several puff pieces! Over a couple decades!
@shoe.bsky.social
Do the students still want to come though?
I was an an hour and a half into the Angela Collier video on sexual harassment in astronomy before realizing there was a Neil Gaiman book on the shelf youtu.be/8DNRBa39Iig
Is shoving figs endlessly into your mouth not an option because that is what I would do with two pounds of fresh figs
On Reddit the user says they asked what it would take to prove it to the agent and asked for the screenshots and then when provided with the screenshots claimed they were faked
While we’re at it —stolen from Reddit — ChatGPT tries to convince a user that they are hallucinating Luigi Mangione 1/2
I’m not saying it to critique him! Wondering if he’s able to get a diagnosis or some other indication as to the cause. He should have the means I hope!
How did I miss Liz Cheney on SNL? m.youtube.com/watch?v=8h_N...
Am I imagining this or did Travis Kelce reveal not too long ago that he can barely read and everyone just kind of shrugged?
Even I know you’re not supposed to say that out loud!
CrossFit would still be better than this!
It’s just literally true that if everyone tried to attempt this as best they could today, many if not most of them would be injured. It’s great to be *able* to do 100 pushups and 50 pull-ups, but there’s a reason no one recommends that as a typical workout for health
Trump believes that if he has his hands on all the knobs he will be able to fly the plane better than anyone else. He’s still racist, but that doesn’t mean race is the determining factor in all his decisions 2/2
Trump is a racist man. He literally has been investigated for racial discrimination in his rentals www.politico.com/blogs/under-... But this is correct. Cook’s fault is being a Federal Reserve governor. Her being Black is just a bonus. He fired Erika McEntarfer of the BLS, and she was White 1/2
This is too broad in scope. We need specifically an cursed ABCD Hall Of Fame List. I will leave it to you whether there should be a separate one for Canadians
The markets can believe Nothing-Ever-Happens longer than you can remain solvent
It’s among the reasons I would never run!
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Yes! it’s exactly this!
I can’t say I love it, but I’m doing it 3+ times a week now that I got a morning routine down. Get to listen to an audiobook and mostly not get myself hurt
Swimming isn’t much better imho. But you’re totally right about gymnastics
Watching running is mostly kind of boring? For short distances it’s “okay, out of these fast people this one was the fastest!” There’s some strategy for longer distances, but that’s counterbalanced by the length. Entertaining sports force lots more choices per minute
I read the replies and quote tweets and am cracking up. I think it’s funny that OOP thinks that his daughter’s personality should factor into which hotel he sleeps at, but I guess the fact that he’s asking is bringing up a lot of trauma among ostensibly grown adults
Alarming theonion.com/report-finds...
There are quicker ways! A bunch of those dudes are now in the highest levels of government
Despite what I wish were true, exercise does seem to basically work
