I’m intrigued by the idea that à lumberjack is famous for being good at going down. Tbf I have read too many werewolf lumberjack romance stories where it is true but I attributed that to the werewolf part of the male lead. I will update my priors and act accordingly.
I've had this argument so many times.
"We need more vocational qualifications!"
"Look at the degrees that actually have low returns...."
"Oh"
The one year mba actually makes sense to me because it is embedded in practical and also a year is enough!
Genuinely think business should only be taught as an add on - ie à history and business degree not a whole degree. it’s just not a degree level subject. Unless you get into the weeds where it’s either economics or social psychology and then the business degree doesn’t give you the depth
Democracy works when the incentives for leaders and politicians align with the needs of the country and people as a whole. Now they are really skewed and this is one aspect of that.
I genuinely would have enjoyed the napoleon genius bit.
Also all the ‘teacher is tired so we watch videos’ lessons would be old episodes of ‘sharp’ which tbh I was unhealthily obsessed with as a teenager anyway.
The thumbnail will be the mother holding mr beasts killer’s head. The tagline:
Hwaet!
after slaying MrBeast his mother will seek vengeance
I think there’s something else that needs to be addressed too, which Ben Thompson pointed out in his book 7 years of plenty. Lots of people wonder what happened to that nice Micheal Jackson between childhood and weird adulthood without thinking that a large part of what happened was, well, us.
Obama Advisor: "Have you considered simply being able to effortlessly deliver soaring rhetoric that elevates the audience by osmosis while remaining grounded and approachable?"
Bill Clinton Advisor: "Just a thought here, but why not try radiating charisma like a supernova?"
The fuel shortage has left me depressed about British politics in a way I never have been before, in that not a single party has avoided either saying or doing something incredibly stupid and completely removed from how anything actually works.
Right, this is the thing, scandals used to involve things where you'd go 'wow, that is a nice house' or 'well, that is a lot of money' or indeed 'sex is great, though'.
Whereas the Partygate parties were the kind of thing you would want to swerve even if they were *not* illegal.
I often think many of the world's problems are down to wrongly importing strategy from totally separate contexts. Literary theory should not be applied to objective reality. Biomedical taxonomy is a bad way to order society & culture. Don't use military tactics to persuade your kids to eat broccoli
(3/3).
..that mean government cannot increase (current) deficit much - whatever the fiscal rules.
But none of that stops radical reform of (eg) council tax, social care finance, pensions, etc, etc, or reversal of economically/socially damaging immigration policies...
..more broadly, implication here is that the "fiscal rules" are the constraint stopping the government pursuing a bolder/"more leftwing"/more imaginative economic strategy.
Mostly, as with Liz Truss, this is BS. Macroeconomics/markets impose certain constraints... (2/3)
It’s naff to require yourself: but yolo. here I am just taken with my own use of the term grifter wizards for the Immortality focused Daoist alchemists of third century bc China.
I mean it is of a piece with the reduction in seriousness of everything right now. While people have always struggled with death- I mean see how many Chinese emperors fucked up everything in order to drink mercury made by grifter wizards - there seems to be a denial in our culture that‘s unhealthy.
As a kid I absolutely can roll with stuff that now I’m like… yeah it sucks that things- characters, stories, life- end but that ending is part of what makes it special and meaningful. I’m not saying that the popularity of media with no end is related to our weird relationship to death but…
As a kid I absolutely can roll with stuff that now I’m like… yeah it sucks that things- characters, stories, life- end but that ending is part of what makes it special and meaningful. I’m not saying that the popularity of media with no end is related to our weird relationship to death but…
I think the medium matters too. it matters that comics were originally for kids - that sort of remixing is really common imaginative play, and also like while that can absolutely be meaningful and tackle deep questions- there is in fact a limit to how nuanced you can get.
i think its the most likely?
sometimes I think fondly of how we could have had chaos with Ed Miliband but the British press thought he ate a sandwich wrong.
Seriously tho, the multiverse in moorcock is generated by his desire to explore what he believes to be the humanity’s deep relationship to narrative and character and time. the mcu is because the latest writer wants to see Barbie and gi Joe kiss but the last guy killed Barbie made gi Joe be gay…
Yeah, it’s so good I instinctively don’t count moorcock’s as à multiverse even though it absolutely is. I suspect the difference is that moorcock is working from a very specific idea of what fiction is, what it reflects and an outstanding amount of druguse in his youth.
That somehow shifted to "liberals need to work with conservatives" which doesn't make sense because there's nothing to work on together if you don't share goals or values. Mid-century "bipartisanship" was considered important because the parties of that era were only loosely ideological!
Ice cream in a bun for breakfast please
The myth is lovely because it’s a beautiful example of how attractive the cynical faux insider pose is to everyone interested in politics. it’s cynicism for its own sake, and it makes you feel like you are savvy, unlike those rubes who just think Mandy was a mate to an overly powerful CofS.
I haven’t touched on scandals that undermine politicians (eg the expenses row)- similar things happened before and didn’t have the sam effect.
ultimately democracy works when it aligns the self interest of its leaders with the interest of its people. it doesn’t seem to be working right now.
Ok, who do we send to Tehran as a religious fanatic? I think Iain paisley is dead? (And mellowed a bit)… ooh what about calvin whaisface?
I haven’t touched on scandals that undermine politicians (eg the expenses row)- similar things happened before and didn’t have the sam effect.
ultimately democracy works when it aligns the self interest of its leaders with the interest of its people. it doesn’t seem to be working right now.