it's really stupid pretty up here

This dog is so derpy and precious, i c a n n o t

trees, water, lake, mist, pretty

some good hiking this morning

a cat in daffodils

they'll never see me here

Yeah, that remains the actual thing that matters, no matter how obscuring the market noise

so absolutely nothing has actually changed?

does "as already announced" mean that they're still going to be collecting fees?

fuck me Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín is incredible

and that didn't cause to realize it a pretty silly baseline?

excellent job at missing the forest (increased food prices often led to unrest and political instability) for the trees (beef is cheaper now)

one question i have, china makes most of the electrification hardware, can they still do that after they lose their gulf oil?

side by side lotr meme text: Never thought i would die fighting side by side with Roman Catholic Church What about side by side with a wise guy pope from chicago Aye. I could do that.

very same

Every day, I come out the side door and a new nest is waiting for me.

Every day, I take the nest down bc it's over the porch light and smacks me in the face.

Every day, the nest reappears.

APPENDIX 497 Hierodules but sometimes crewed by human beings. (Two of the most enigmatic figures in the manuscripts, Jonas and Hethor, seem once to have been such crewmen.) But here the translater is forced against one of the most maddening of all his difficulties—Severian's failure to distinguish clearly between space-going and ocean-going craft.

That's a nice motorcycle. From I Think You Should Leave

people who are bad at hosting parties

tankers are massive and slow, i assume they'll pick them up on satellite and intercept in the arabian sea

it's the same chaotic wishcasting approach he took to crisis management during covid

I think by that they mean the US stock market

South Korea has maybe two months until they have to spin down 60% of the world's memory chip production to preserve their hospital and transportation systems, I'm not sure even a maximalister approach is going to bring Iran to its knees before it brings us to ours

"just following up on this" = stop ignoring me

"putting this at the top of your inbox" = what the hell's going on, read my email

"friendly reminder" = im going to kidnap your kids

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

The Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the State of Vatican City, Servant of the Servants of God is WEAK on crime

the two I have are rotting out, so I'll really just be back where I started in a few months

if everything is going to get more expensive again, it's time to go nuts and buy two (2) more pants, doubling my ready pants

The Master and Margarita, 1967

when the South Korea memory fabs go offline I think we'll notice

I'm not finding legality to be a very helpful framework for understanding the progression of the war, or the range of violence being used

most directly bad for GCC, but will also have massive negative externalities on the US economy

they've done pretty significant damage to the oil infrastructure

it's not all about economy size though, it's also about the ability to convert economy into fires, and how much economic damage you can sustain before losing domestic support, that later is usually a long time