What boggles my noggin is the way they seem to celebrate watching the bar getting lower. "Hey, country is inching ever closer to a political event horizon but doesn't that make those days from slightly higher up the gravity well seem swell in retrospect?"

One of the really wild things in all this is how forgotten that event is when people start screaming about how democracy is broken now.

It's the first bike ever to implement Tesla's FSD.

Over a century and a half of obsessive engineers and mechanics have missed these awesome design ideas! Let's implement them with no testing!

Them: "You can't blame the Democrats for things the Republicans are doing!"
Also them: "Ralph Nader did the Brooks Brothers Riot"

Gotchya covered

Really looking forward to when the UK government takes a look at the costs associated with maintaining the landed gentry.

His language is uncharacteristic of a politician governing on behalf of all Americans irrespective of race, ethnicity, or citizenship status

How would you know in the absence of the counterfactual?

One other thing while I'm thinking about it: cashew cream actually works pretty well as a cream replacement for richer dishes if you haven't tried it yet. The only challenge is that you end up with little cashew oorts unless you have a powerful blender or pass it through a sieve. I did a white bean soup with Italian herbs and kale and it made a nice addition. It'd probably help with the saag paneer too, I should give that a shot. I've also used it along with impossible sausage (sliced rather than crumbled) in this sausage pasta recipe.

The ancient curse: "May you live in mindblowing times"

Wishing I hadn't made the mistake of thinking we were about to turn the corner.

We could apply similar logic to argue that it would be better for Trump to win because he's less competent and more open about what he's doing than whomever would have taken his place in 2028. Better people get shocked by open Fascism now than have the Dems manage the decline until they're no longer able to keep up appearances and a competent Fascist takes power.

I have an acquaintance who started their PhD a couple years ago and has gotten to work on some really cool projects. I'm happy for them but also a little jealous. Tempted to go back myself but I don't know if I can handle it + a job.

Crap, I'm behind! Will catch up this week.

Questions nobody needed an answer to: what's crueler and more tragic than sending a bunch of cops to dump the meager possessions of the homeless into a dumpster?

All the cool stuff is happening in geography right now

Manicheanism for the new millennium

Congrats on the convertible

It's very illustrative of how hard it is to come up with a same and internally consistent set of morals in a society that's messed up on first principles.