Akin? When your republic relies on your president to follow the better angels of his nature, it's a banana my friend.

The phrase "The mother of all ______" was introduced into the English language by Saddam Hussein in the '90s.

?? So a constituency gives you a loud and clear signal and you sit on it for up to 5 years? (Admittedly floor-crossings can be driven by non-constituency reasons)

Get his ass mary

At the same time (despite instagram appearances), the way rich people and poor people live has converged. Whether you're Bill Ackman or a Cambodian garment sector worker, your average evening is spent on the couch with your face in a phone. Leisure time has never been more egalitarian!

And everyone should know by now that Tuesdays are universal cheap pizza night. Map out your week accordingly.

maybe a little sharper witted in the Hillary debates but not by much

Whenever someone says "Trump is now fully in the throes of advanced cognitive decline" I click the video and he's just doing the same shtick he's been doing for 10 years.

Dominos has awesome deals and rewards. I hear people complain about their prices but if you are even a tiny bit savvy it's the cheapest around. I need to take the phone from the missus when she's ordering because she doesn't even click into the deal tabs--$50 in her cart when it should be $25.

I am dead serious when I say it's my most valuable asset

Fee keeps creeping up too! Unless I want to keep a minimum of $3K sitting in a no-interest account

really happy for you but it should've happened to me 😞

mmm yes good parallel

Until last year I had a no-fee chequing account from CIBC grandfathered from 1987. I accidentally fat-thumbed one of their upgrade offers when I tried to dismiss it. Called immediately to get it back. "I'm sorry Mr. Cameron, I can't put you back on that product as it hasn't existed in 30 years."

My most valuable asset is a yoga app i paid $3.99 for in 2015 that switched to a subscription model shortly after. Every time I log in they’re like “Please please upgrade your experience for $69.99/year.” The joy it brings to smash “lol no gimme the full suite of videos i paid for ten years ago.”

How much of “I feel poor” is “Everyone’s constantly asking me for money!” even if you don’t hand it over?

My mom used to balance her chequebook but she didn’t live with the constant anxiety a company would reach into her account for a slice of the pie because she dismissed a pop-up window too quickly

Full and Unequivocal Rory Vindication. You hate to see it (because it’s very bad for the world)

Coordinated targeted precision efforts from predatory companies to bleed households dry. Dark pattern crap. You think you finally have some money left at the end of the month then wham a $200 annual dropbox subscription you barely use but are locked into because SSD capacity was expensive in 2015.

If you were skint you could just... not buy a new CD that month, skip the blockbuster trip. I used to hand someone cash at the gym. Better to have the world's creative output at our fingertips (if you believe in micro non-satiation) but impossible to pause for a breather. Nonstop haemorrhaging.

Aside from housing and the run-of-the-mill hedonic… treadmill, a source of misery in the modern economy is the relentless bloodletting of subscriptions. Used to be a one-off for software every four years and could stay on top of the zeitgeist with free-to-air network sitcoms and sports.

the others were retweets perhaps

I feel like this isn’t nearly the first time he’s depicted himself as jesus

I think the average American voter has proven time and time again that it doesn’t actually give a shit about anything that’s an affront to decent conduct.

Tough to blame wapo for that.

beat me to my addendum

Claude drops my jaw 100 times a day. In my wildest dreams I couldn't have conceived of a technology this miraculous. I don't know how SV and politicians managed to make it so powerfully nauseating.

Dunno if he hates education but he definitely loves making me curl up into a tiny ball of cringe before i choke on my own vomit

Trump:

Pope Leo is weak on the puck

jd vance at the donut shop saying “just whatever makes sense”

jd vance negotiating with Iran