Can someone explain

Damn 5-10 usually gets me good

You mean 5.0 and 2.5 right

This is especially funny since half of Endgame was old repurposed footage

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

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Why hasn’t it been

Talk about a pitchers duel

Me: yeesh I should get to bed early tonight

Also me: but first why not play Sid Mier’s Civilization, the “it is instantly 12:30am game”

sorry, "*is* quite a bit different" is what I meant

correct

anyway by Track AIPAC's own definition of "Lobby Donors" is "Donations directly to candidates from donors who have made large contributions to pro-Israel PACs"

which isn't quite a bit different from "israel lobbyists."

Note that doesn’t specify lobbyists *for what*

What number?

Anyway, your own graphic reports $0 from PAC contributions and independent expenditures. Her most recent campaign finance report that I can find shows under $30k from lobbyists. www.opensecrets.org/officeholder...

No

I dunno, “COVID trauma” as a free-floating miasma that explains all our ills is a bit much, but it was genuinely pretty bad at the time to be *afraid of other people*. Dismissing that as getting mad about TGI Friday closing or whatever is something of an overcorrection

CNBC article: Gen Z has taken the lead in the homeownership race. In 2023, the homeownership rate for adult Gen Zers, or those between 19 and 26 years old, was higher than the homeownership rate for millennials and Gen X when they were 24, according to Redfin, a real estate company.

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If you can ever find this stuff it’s absolutely fantastic

"the strait is open but we're still blockading it"

?????

Well that's all in the last year, this phenomenon goes back a few. And I'm pretty sure all that is covered by the economic data

Ok but why were these metrics accurately pegged to sentiment before?

no, he isn't saying "you should feel better than you do," he's saying that, in aggregate, people's feelings have decoupled from macroeconomic trends in a way that didn't used to be the case, which is significant

right, nobody reasonable would argue that an individual's personal traits aren't largely determined by their genes. but the people who fixate on "heritability" or whatever are usually crypto-racists, the second-order effect of whose whole thing is making the whole concept toxic

looking forward to Yale increasing viewpoint diversity by welcoming sovereign citizens into the Law School faculty and proponents of misasma theory into the School of Public Health

Cover of "God & Man at Yale" by William F. Buckley Jr.

Like, the foundation of the modern conservative movement is this tripe:

I really don't know what to tell folks if they think any of these proposed reforms from Yale, or anything that we can possibly do here at UW - Madison, will change the Narrative™️ from the right in American politics about universities. We're a century into this stuff. We're not the problem.

I say this as a proud Yale alum & a professor at one of the country's premier public universities, one that's endured two decades of nonstop lies & attacks from the WI GOP about things happening on our campus: we simply are not going to get anywhere by denying the central cause of the trust problem.

This report hits on many important issues & identifies important problems that could be addressed. But it fails by writing about the problem of trust, from the outset, without even mentioning the decades of concerted attacks & lies coming from the far right authoritarian party & right-wing pundits.

Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher Education’s Problems

The national media is eating up this report as justification for perpetuating the lie that universities themselves - as opposed to decades of attacks from the far right authoritarian party - are responsible for eroding trust in higher education. You can almost hear them salivating at the chance.

1) Influential right-wing figures say "they're the enemy, hate them" using lies, cherry-picks, and exaggerations

2) Followers believe them, get increasingly riled up

3) "The people don't trust the institutions, it's the institutions' fault"

4) Repeat 1

Worked on elections, higher ed, and more.

Ah fair enough