Yes, it's an honorific title, like Black Rod, given to the most loathsome member of the government

Perhaps it was a mistake to elect him king

Okay, but he still has 100% approval from people who approve of him

There are people whose obituaries I'm looking forward to more, but not all that many

SPOUSE: Am I supposed to care what Anthropic is

ME: It's an AI producer

SPOUSE: That wasn't my question

If you ask they have to tell you, it's the law

"Tranche" is one of those words where I feel like I can pinpoint the exact year when it was suddenly everywhere (2009). Like "matériel" (2003).

pierogies, infinite pierogies, only not for him

When I say that you could have knocked me over with a feather

So if I asked the OTHER Obama how to vote, what w

Is that what the Grink smokes

I try to be sparing with my OMG look at this fucking choads but OMG look at this fucking choad

Turning the big nemesis wheel and looking back at the audience for approval

Tariff refunds, infinite tariff refunds, only not for us

I must confess that I find the getting-to-the-airport discourse very dull.

negotiations going great i see

But perhaps not at the OFFICE

B–Translate into Old Persian: 1 We are called Persian, (but) we are Median. 2 These Parthians were not Medes. They were not good horsemen. 3 The Assyrians were not great kings. They were liars. 4 The Makranians have always been and still are disloyal. 5 The Sakas wearing pointed hats have been distinguished Aryans from old. 6 Happy subjects are loyal followers. 7 This is a happy family. 8 This empire is big.

I love how—because of the nature of the corpus material—the translation exercises from Skjærvø's Old Persian textbook are more stereotypically Wheelock's Latin than even Wheelock's Latin itself.

Grammar, Sir, is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can.

anxious for a little grammar

porque no los dos

There's a very odd but noticeable sense among pundits of a certain generation that universities exist to be venues for public speeches rather than places where people live and work.

for now

putting “angry” on a schedule is so funny

This place is not a place of honor.

WELCOME IDIOTS

It's like they hung out the big sign tonight.

Once more it is time for the ritual demanding of the answers

The real world uses for this robot will be:
1. Chasing down human protesters and tasing them, and
2. Chasing down Amazon workers who are late from their breaks and tasing them

I feel like if we're going to be subjected to her again she should at least have to get some new material

I think if the press asked him about it directly there's a pretty good chance he'd say that of course he's been shorting the market, a concept he invented by the way, no one had ever thought of doing that before, and in fact many people are saying he should get some sort of award for it.