Unless you're over 40, you don't really have any experience with decreasing personal spending (except two short quarters in 2020). And even if you are >40, it's been a looooong time since we've had anything other than "number go up." I worry folks don't understand/remember economies are cyclical

Oh hey. The thing that even an idiot like me could see coming from a mile away is now happening, Example #17643

First time I've ever seen a Waymo in NYC. (It had a human driver)

Pretty disheartening that Trump has so beat down the press on this story that the headline is totally inscrutable unless you've been closely following the case. The President of the United States had to pay a woman more than $5 million for viciously sexually assaulting her and then lying about it!

I don't pretend to be a Middle East scholar, but it seems the absolute wrong time to pick a fight with rebels who can easily fire at ships passing through the 20-mile-wide mouth of the Red Sea.

Bill Simmons used to have a joke about how every NFL coach should have a 15-year-old Madden player on the sidelines to tell them how to handle timeouts at the end of games. Similarly, every oil trader should have BlueSky poster next to them to say "what the fuck do you mean the Strait is open???"

Truly insane to describe a written statement as "says" in this context. And I don't even believe in the worst conspiracy theories!

Darkly ironic that Lindsey Graham's obit was knocked off the top of the NYT home page by the Iran War predictably tumbling back into the quicksand.

International relations in the Trump Era are pretty strange

Pump this Americana shit straight into my veins. This is a country for all of us and fuck anyone who tries to say otherwise.

You can pry this country out of my cold, dead hands.

To honor Jaylen, my son played a game of NBA2K with Jaylen scoring every point. Raising em right.

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Too many (not all) pro-Palestinian activists don't think nearly enough about how this stuff lands with even sympathetic Jewish voters (and allies). Righteous anger has too often curdled into something cruel and dark and it will do long-term harm to the movement for justice.

The "Hook" sequel is making me sad.

For the record, this was the other instance:

Since 2010, there's been ONE movie to top the yearly box office that wasn't based on pre-existing IP -- and it was American Sniper.* (I'd argue Barbie wasn't meaningfully based on existing IP, but YMMV) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...