First one, then t’other.

Unfortunately those morsels are going to be about as enjoyable as eating fun sized snickers bars while getting drug behind a horse.

We can just go ahead and put “society” at the bottom.

Thanks!

Can someone hook me up with a gift link to that nyt article?

Irritatingly plausible. I’m going to be stoked if we get another election at all though.

Unfortunately chaos breeds usury. The more fronts the little guys are forced to fight on, the more dilluted their efforts, and the more unified the ruling class can become. The goal is always chaos, obfuscation, distraction, entropy. There are two camps: the social, and the antisocial. While we have to worry about maintaining a functional society, the antisocial are completely unfettered, and free to exploit any and all ambiguities. They are the disease, we are the immune system, and the world is the body. They are unconcerned with killing the body, while we must both fight them, and preserve the body. For this reason we are at a disadvantage. And for this reason they should never be underestimated. Eventually a cough becomes pneumonia, and at a certain age pneumonia is a death sentence.

I didn’t know they existed, haha.

Why?

As it is he is now required as a felon in NY to submit a DNA sample, which I am very doubtful he will do. Aint no way they’re going to he able to get him to even give up spit. So yeah, no way he would have given up actual money.

As a side note, if somehow he does submit a sample, imagine the chaos if the database got a hit on an open case. Absolute fantasy fodder, I know, but man would that be sweet.

I’ve done it several times. When the bee wakes up it takes care of office odors. Something to do with airflow or something. Anytime my office gets smelly I just grab a bee from under the sink and pop it in the freezer for a bit. I’ve even taken a bee camping before by using a thermos. It wasn’t as easy to get into my mouth, but once I figured it out it worked great!

Who indeed? Who among the chronically comic book, lone wolf, hero culture obsessed United States could be inspired to action against a singular existential threat? In the interest of nonviolence I hope we never find out. It would surely be a tragedy if someone among the downtrodden stepped up and made their voice heard on a global scale by doing something desperate.

Meanwhile, a nipple on Instagram is still treated like the crime of the century.

Fairly pointless article. The six “trends” are:

Much better battery life

A huge leap in performance

Thin phones

price increases

In-display fingerprint sensors that won’t suck

Water-resistant phones everywhere

I recently saw the movie Titanic for the first time. It honestly made me pretty mad how directly it relates to the problems of the intervening years since it came out. In the movie: rich people are not to be trusted, the experts are ignored in favor of media coverage, the poor are trapped below decks, there aren’t enough life boats, by the time people start accepting reality it’s too late. It’s almost all too perfect. The iceberg can be global warming, or the pandemic, or the return of fascism, basically any of the major calamities of the past 10 years. And everyone saw the movie. It was a massive hit. And all anyone took away from it was that Rose gets naked. So both the movie, and the response to the message of the movie, are almost too on the nose.

I’m not super familiar, but I believe it was based on a book?

15 - “It Ends With Us” Worldwide gross: $350,986,018 Reported production budget: $25 million

14 -“Twisters” Worldwide gross: $370,962,265 Reported production budget: $155 million

13 - “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” Worldwide gross: $397,378,150 Reported production budget: $160 million

12 - “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” Worldwide gross: $404,544,199 Reported production budget: $100 million

11 - “Gladiator II” Worldwide gross: $406,644,901 Reported production budget: $250 million to $300+ million

10 - “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” Worldwide gross: $451,100,435 Reported production budget: $100 million

9 - “Venom: The Last Dance” Worldwide gross: $476,368,152 Reported production budget: $120 million

8 - “Kung Fu Panda” Worldwide gross: $547,689,492 Reported production budget: $85 million

7 - “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” Godzilla in " Worldwide gross: $571,750,016 Reported production budget: $135 million

6 - “Wicked” Worldwide gross: $586,301,620 Reported production budget: $150 million

5 - “Dune: Part Two” Worldwide gross: $714,444,358 Reported production budget: $190 million

4 - “Moana 2” Worldwide gross: $820,990,553 Reported production budget: $150 million

3 - “Despicable Me 4” Worldwide gross: $969,126,452 Reported production budget: $100 million

2 - “Deadpool & Wolverine” Worldwide gross: $1,338,073,645 Reported production budget: $200 million

1 - “Inside Out 2” Worldwide gross: $1,698,765,616 Reported production budget: $200 million

Just for reference, thats like a $200K watch. Patek Nautilus, ref 5980.

Why does it have a flag at all? Isn’t the whole concept to be independent of the US?

That’s certainly part of it. But it’s also a nation trend in communication. Trump has done a brilliant job at weaponizing and popularizing clipped, terse, sparse, blunt, chunky, speaking. He’s basically made headlines into a kind of vernacular, where everything is at once overly explicit and yet open to interpretation. Like, tone over content, and difficulty to ignore over clarity. It’s less that he has invented it, and more like he identified it, but has used it as a form of lexical gamesmanship. Set the narrative by being the one that’s remembered, fidelity to truth be damned. And giving his black-hole-like ability to bend discourse to be on his terms, everyone is falling in line and speaking in big dumb wooden blocks in order to remain competitive.