Carlos Ghosn, climbing out of an upright bass case in the middle of a podcast studio: "This... isn't Lebanon...?"

You can even experience this at LAX if you're cursed to fly through American's regional terminal, though because you're not allowed to enjoy things they've got cattle chutes set up on the apron to keep you from straying.

It really does express the American zeitgeist in the way that other flag carriers can only dream of.

Hello, is this six? I just needed to give you a heads up, seven eight nine

The sheeple have been awake for too long and are getting cranky. It’s time they went down for a nap

Economists refer to this as the “Long Island Blockchain” phase of an economic bubble

Oh good, it’s finally Infrastructure Week

As a child I often Shapes Placed so hard that I was doing a hallucinatory Death Star trench run behind my eyelids. I’m just happy to have a name for it now.

Oof, that hits close to home. The "Flight of the Conchords" episode "Bowie" was my crash introduction. Which, sure, I guess.

a+++ pedantic footnote

Rich A-hole, upset that his 992 GT3RS only gets attention from other dudes: I thought this thing was going to help me pick up chicks!

Me, being black-bagged and forcibly inducted into the Greater Cascadian Polycule over my imported Renault Avantime: skill issueeee~

Not sure what they think they're going to be able to do with the combined $79 million they've got now from selling their shoe business and securing a loan. Under current market conditions that's just about enough for 128 entire Gee Bees of DDR5 RAM

“Anthropic appears to be torturing AI people”

Yeah, yeah, Roko’s Basilisk, we’ve all seen it

Coming out of agnostic retirement to rejoin the Counter-Reformation on the side of the papists is not how I expected my fifties to go.

Reminds of the time I worked on a pitch package for an NHL stadium literally across the street from a station on one of the busiest commuter rail lines in the US and was told that we had to provide parking to accommodate an 80% automobile mode share or the pro forma wouldn't pencil out

tfw you’re doing the “global pariah state” speedrun and it’s going so fast that the sportswashing reputation buffs don’t work anymore

But seriously, wouldn't be all that surprised if these chuds tried to appoint a state-Catholic antipope out of SSPX or some shit

Babe wake up, there's a new Catholic schism

I propose that, like the Hubble Constant, Lizardman's Constant is increasing over time

Yeah, I'm not even seeing this much. The volume of incoming retaliatory fire is pushing Iron Dome to its breaking point, the IDF is mired in another expeditionary conflict in Lebanon, and Israel is even more of a pariah state than before. This is a war to keep Bibi out of prison, nothing else.

I keep telling myself that even though there are cheap used EVs on the market there's no reason to get on the car payment treadmill to replace my old Fit that I barely even drive, and now there's a pretty good chance there won't be cheap used EVs when the Fit finally goes kaput

Which isn't to say that's fine -- launching basically everything in the conventional arsenal at civilian infrastructure in Iran is both a dozen different kinds of war crime and the sort of move that makes other aggressive superpowers feel grabby -- but it's at least not the End Of The World Button.

The only thing that's been keeping me relatively sane today is the fact that the OSINT photography I've seen of bombers flying out hasn't shown any nuclear-capable weapons. So far all it's all been conventional cruise missiles.

I’m hodling likes to the moon!

Uber does such aggressive dynamic pricing that a few weeks ago I watched the price of a ride from the airport to a client’s office drop by ~$10 between checking it in the terminal versus the pickup zone

Silver lining, Stephen Miller might want to rethink his “live in a bunker in a military base” survival strategy now

A squirrel sits on a fence post, looking out over the pickets like a guard looking down over the parapet of a castle wall

Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!

“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen."

Screencap of a LinkedIn post by Pascal Dumont, president of the (translated) Tourist Railroad of the Southern Ardennes. Accompanying the post is a photo of a magnificent red and tan SNCF Class X 3800 being used as an inspection vehicle, stopped near a culvert over a stream. The text post reads: "Hier, fin de la campagne de débroussaillage des ouvrages d'art sur la Voie Ferrée Locale Sud-Ardennes Amagne-Lucquy-Attigny. Entretien et surveillance de tous ces ouvrages , datant de la construction de la ligne en 1873 et souvent "invisibles" sauf pour l'oeil exercé. La majorité des OA de la ligne consiste en de petits ouvrages , dallots, buses, plus quelques ponts de faible ouverture, et deux ouvrages un peu plus conséquents, le pont sur l'Aisne et le pont sur le canal des Ardennes. Quand au véhicule de service....Il permet d'apprécier la promenade...et la météo!"

I am cursed to need LinkedIn for my career, but blessed to have made the acquaintance of many interesting folks, which means every once in a while I get a glimpse at French Train LinkedIn in between AI-slop drivel about 🚀disrupting 🏗️the construction industry 🤖with chatbots

Honestly the only part of this I find amazing is that huge swathes of the media and the public seem incapable of grasping this. This is a guy who up until 2016 was mostly famous for signing deals to put his name on tall buildings in big gold letters, and didn't have much else going on