he is very good at this job. there are others who have the juice, too, and they're all under 40 years old. i hope they can break the gerontocracy that has neutered their party.

Right that’s what I’m thinking. Like he’s literally just suuuuper stupid.

donald trump is the dumbest of all the American presidents right like it cant be close

the second Super Mario movie was bad.

Preach.

Kris Bryant on his MAGICAL 2016 MLB MVP year & Cubs World Series + Ross & Rizzo's HILARIOUS hazing YouTube video by Lovable Reunion with David Ross and Anthony Rizzo

best sports podcast out there right now is lovable reunion. a lot of really good stuff in this one -- especially about how to coach kids up with love, not yelling.

...my views about success, COL, and sundry features associated with the opportunities to live "the good life" have pretty radically shifted over the last five or six years.

yeah i tend to think of this in terms of thresholds and contexts. like theres {some set} of places where a degree will unlock a moderately high pr{some acceptable set of living conditions}

and then its possible to work backwards from that

but as someone living in bum-f deep south...

sure, and im not saying that prestige doesn't matter. it does, especially by leveling the choice set for where its possible to live (given degree choices) and the market sector you're in. but i do think that this operates in ways that end up being a bit of a caricature, especially in non-big-metro.

free country, personal choices are good, everyone’s circumstances are contextual, send your kids wherever, but there’s something about the choice set and perceived incentives that feels super off to me

The thing that clocks as…interesting…to me is that the obsession w prestige is usually grounded in concern about obtaining future job opportunities (decades down road) made by people who often never held a job outside of an extremely bizarre labor market.

Academia Is a highly path dependent yet unusual labor market and it fascinates me to observe how folks justify where to send their children for primary education bc the explanation is often about needing to obtain prestige opportunities for some future fancy college admission

what a time to be alive

pardons are for crooks

i know this is old. but it popped onto my timeline and it made me mad all over again.

a huge chunk of my professional work has benefitted from both competitive funding and the social goods produced by the NSF and the way in which republicans have tormented this institution is infuriating.

Oh good another debate on social media about what data tells us about {some thing}

Just what the doctor ordered

Oh yeah never trust ordering out on that one.

egg salad sandwich on white bread is peak springtime.

tbh better than the NYT

Nice!!

George Lucas really getting the last laugh again and again and again

The nice thing about modern baseball is that printing volume is high and availability is pretty good. Certainly better than Pokemon in my experience.

yeah its sad how like some lil nostalgia bombs are now too hot to handle. cant even display them. what are we doing. blegh.

parabolic growth in both the sealed and graded card space fueled by crypto and traditional investment portfolios realizing that there is shit tons of money to be made, washed, and dumped.

paul my sealed collection of product has beaten the stonks market by like 1000% or something truly stupid

buying vintage pokemans cards was fun until private equity ruined that, too.

is he the only with one with access to his truth social account? is there like a team of managers who step in and delete this stuff? i cant see a weapons-grade narcissist ever abandoning their shitposts

nods in maximalist views of democracy

this has the juice