I would love to watch a Lebowski / Tremors / Dune crossover about a washed up hippie who takes too may hallucinogens and starts thinking they’re Paul Atreides at the same time that their small desert town runs into graboids.

They did have good theoretical options to go with like nominal GDP level path targeting or their weaksauce average inflation targeting, but there was a large push from Team Transitory to be extra aggressive with fiscal stimulus and they stopped trying to follow average inflation rate targeting.

Not a great feeling to have spent the post-GFC era reading posts about how the ECB was too aggressive on inflation because of the legacy of the Weimar Republic only to see them proved totally right that controlling inflation is incredibly important.

Next you’re going to tell us you’re not a neocon.

I can’t believe that Labour has taken electoral reform off the table. This is a nightmare we can all see coming from years away and they’re not going to do anything about it.

I love the idea that Leo is actually Louis XIV, the Sun King.

I’m surprised that there hasn’t been more intra-right positioning to use his Catholicism against Vance.

It’s a prime example of “Dems should develop their own conspiracy theories that look bad for Republicans” thought. It might be electorally useful but it still undermines our civic foundation.

Dibs on editing it to include his upcoming excommunication.

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Please don’t puncture the illusion that I can psychically shelter myself from all this by being accurate enough to guess that he’s specifically going to nuke a hydroelectric dam.

Indiana Jone and the Temple of Doom

Heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a great point.

You’ve got to love him managing to get a violation of the Bluesky TOS into his own post accusing you of violating it.

I can’t speak for everyone, but I really respect what they did with getting ICE/CBP funding pulled.

The funny part is that they’re attacking managers and DEI while not being able to stop themselves from using meaningless corporate jargon like “outsourcing an HR ontology.”

“Republicans made your gas prices higher by giving the Iranians a tollbooth.” probably works.

I just can’t get past mangling the Latin by calling it “ad machinem” when it should clearly be “ad machinam”.

Beowulf the Pokémon.

They just can’t spell “Labour” without u.

We all know who really controls the helicopters.

I would simply buy 180 boxes every year.

That’s a blended 22.5% tax rate on someone making exactly $100K, which is significantly more than 0%.

They’re really just going for the movie trope of the bad guy sending a constant small trickle of guards in to fight the protagonists.

How Iran gums up the strait:

Broke: “Unlessh Chang”
Woke: “Unleash Perot”

“Work with the caterer to make sure that the refreshments for your business lunch are poisoned with something that you are immune to.”

I read a novel inspired by Stardew Valley and it was the funniest thing ever. The protagonist was agonizing that they had so much work to do. They got through clearing a couple dozen weeds in an hour and had to stop working for the day because they were exhausted.

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Kind of a shame that they missed the chance to call him Aayatollah Khamenei.