“Ceasefires are always good news. Especially if they lead to a just and lasting peace. But this momentary relief cannot make us forget the chaos, the destruction, and the lives lost. The government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.”

Thomas and Alito? They’re the most blatant bribe-takers of the bunch

Edit: read the article, he didn’t specify but yeah probably them.

My preferred version:

Further left of leftists than leftists are is liberals, supposedly.

Some bullshit term invented to sow further division amongst the political left, most likely.

That’s not what she said.

She specifically said that arriving at a ceasefire deal does not change the fact that he started and effectively lost a war for no reason.

I mean, the earliest known currency is almost exactly as old as the earliest known cities. Farmers would deposit a large amount of grain at the local temple (which were effectively the tax collection sites of the time) and were given clay tokens on exchange, which could be used in place of actual goods at tax time.

This system was set up because of the nature of farming: you make a lot of product in a short time, but most of the year you’re just waiting for your crop to grow. These tokens allowed farmers to pay their tax duties up front, and then have physical proof that they’d done so when paying taxes outside of harvest season. But it was only a matter of time before people started trading those tokens amongst each other. “Give me a goat and I’ll give you these tokens so you don’t have to pay tribute next season.”

Before that, villages were pretty much just hand-to mouth communities of just a few families. Surviving, sure, but not in the kind of complex society where one needs to draw equivalence between extremely different forms of labor.

Also, lsd lasts a LONG time, and it’s easier to find a whole day to fuck off into space when you’re younger. I’ve got a kid, I can’t get 12 minutes of free time at once, let alone 12 hours.

The oil refineries we have in the US attention equipped to handle the type of oil we can actually produce here. We export just about all of our oil, and just about all of our oil product are refined from foreign oil.

If we didn’t export US oil, we wouldn’t be able to do much with it.

Two outlooks, neither work?

Glad everything is normal aboard Orion!

2/3 majority in both chambers of congress, plus ratification by 75% of states.

There is not a single issue that will unify the country to that degree right now.

He was an engineering assistant on Abbey Road, but led the audio engineering of Dark Side.

$5000 headphones is pseudoscience territory.

$30k for a speaker setup is reasonable for a professional recording/mixing/mastering studio, or slightly excessive for a hobbyist (but still more or less within reason).

$100k+ could “reasonably” happen if you’re mastering for a complex Dolby Atmos system, but even then it’s pretty excessive. And we’re likely talking about mixing audio for movies rather than just music at that point.

Inflation is the one reason I have a tiiiiiiiny corner of my mind saying “they might have a point”. Pegging laws to a dollar amount that makes sense today doesn’t mean that dollar amount will continue to make sense in the future.

Tie it to some multiple of the poverty line or median cost of living, then we’re getting somewhere.

Fuck, I only pat it twice.

My cubicle office job often involves going downstairs to the lab so I can take measurements with equipment far too expensive for me to have at home, and even too expensive for the company to lend out to employees’ home offices.

A lot of return-to-office work is bullshit, but making absolutist blanket statements like that just weakens the argument rather than helping anybody.

They use the same banks as us, they just have a VP’s direct cell number rather than talking to a run-of-the-mill teller during business hours.

JP Morgan didn’t get all their assets by exclusivity serving low net worth individuals.

Mint is a good choice for your first linux.

I have a kid in preschool and honestly I dread the “pledge of allegiance talk” more than most other common “uncomfortable parent conversations”

“Yeah this is bullshit but you WILL be ostracized if you don’t join in. I realized this in middle school and just had to go through the motions for the next 6 years or so but I felt like I was taking crazy pills.”

The most proper use for a Real Book.

Loose leaf tea, re-steeped several times over the course of the day. The caffeine content goes down with each successive stepping, but good quality whole leaves will still let you get several cups out of them.

I stop making it at 3, which usually gives me enough time to metabolize it and sleep normally.