The Onion wants to make us submissive slaves to the New world order.

Correct.

“I’m not punctual to the point of semi-regularly wasting $500, and my company and clients pay me nonetheless,” isn’t the bragging point some people seem to suppose!

Hamilton is evil and a scourge, and I'd be Cromwell closing the theatres if it could obliterate its memory.

It's White Face! And criminal to imagine 'inclusion in the American story' would involve casting non-white people to act out salutary portrayals of their ancestors' slavers and rapists.

Hamilton, the musical, was state-sponsored propaganda.

Will, I admire your commitment to the people of Minneapolis. Wish I could say the same for your ability even to read (to say nothing of selectively screen-grabbing) the conversation in your comments. In that effort, you're no better than the Online Leftists you spend so much time caterwauling about.

We agree on something, at least.

And here's to your continued success, as you describe it, at Lazy Fuck Engineering Whose Clients are None the Wiser, Inc., or whatever is the very real firm that definitely employs you.

Does your "variety of reasons" include indolence or simple lack of punctuality? Because that's the cavalier attitude the OP suggests one ought to take about missing flights.

As I say, it surprises me to learn that any company treats those character flaws as professional virtues. YMMV of course.

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

You all are crazy. I work for a $300m revenue company and take 40 flights a year for work. There is no way in hell that my boss, his boss, and at least two people in finance wouldn't let me hear about it if, out of sheer refusal to arrive at the airport in a timely manner, I missed even one flight.

This is a criticism that people like @alanrozenshtein.com need to attend to more seriously.

Two decades into the social media revolution, what can we say that the *lack* of regulation during the innovation phase actually delivered? Why then should we expect an unregulated AI landscape to prove out?

that, by the end, the show is raising the question whether there's value in beating the Nazis in the first place, if all it does is leave you with a nation of Walts. And Hanks. And immigrant Guses, whom neither Walt nor Hank can tolerate.

I've thought for a long time that the end of Breaking Bad poses an interesting heroic dilemma, in that Walt as the avatar of white middle class American resentment was nevertheless the only active force that could destroy the actual Nazis.

But I'm coming around to the view...

It's fun to say "Breaking Bad is a story about American health insurance", but it's obviously crucial to Walt's self-obsessed obstinance and resentment that, principally, Gretchen and Elliott, also his actual family with Hank and Marie (or Walt's invisible mother!) are right there waiting.

JD Vance talks about theology with the confidence that Silicon Valley types make macro-economic forecasts

legitimately crazymaking (not to mention quite instructive) that the truly revolutionary tech of our time—vaccines above all, but also ventilation gains, solar capture, & battery storage for starters—get none of the breathless PR of overtly harmful tech & often is being actively being fought against

‘Fastest growing technologies’ and ‘replacing search engines’ aren’t the same thing though.

In other words, Ridley’s ability to become an adoptive mother was undermined by her being biologically mother to the alien, that genetic heritability in some sense kills adoptive motherhood. Hence, the commentary on sequentiality—and Ridley’s suicide as the only way to terminate the cycle.

It’s partially commentary on the serialized narrative—that sequel-hood and artistic reproduction inhibit a work’s being self-contained. And also that this dynamic is unidirectional. Fincher gets a say over Cameron’s film, and in a way that Cameron can never have over Fincher’s.

The most interesting part of Alien3 (remember, the title is ‘Cubed’, placing it literally out of sequence with Aliens) is sorting out *why* Fincher treats Aliens’ resolution—Ridley as Newt’s adoptive mother—as a fleeting dream, destabilizing the plot’s relationship to Ridley’s series biography.

If Blockbuster Video had thought they could make $5 by selling the list of everyone who rented Schlinder's List to the KKK they would've done it in a second. It's not like evil corporations didn't exist back then!

Or when the carriers and battleships have redeployed, and there’s a huge cost to ratcheting up military pressure, why *wouldn’t* they reimpose tolls, etc.?

GOP has lost all subtext with this beer hall Putsch, huh

Pope: [moral critique of illegal war]

President: I am Jesus. Thr pope is gay

Media: they are feuding😳

The head of the FBI isn't supposed to be getting blackout drunk. He's supposed to be cross-dressing

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EExa...

JD Vance wants to get excommunicated so bad, it'll be the "cancellation story" that launches his pivot into Evangelical superhero

Love for allergy season to begin a month early. An actual waking nightmare: sinuses so swollen my upper teeth feel like they're about to fall out.

Tickets at $100 will either have no effect or reduce demand for tickets, meaning FIFA will have to reduce ticket prices.

Tim's point is that the public, by subsidizing transit, is subsidizing FIFA's profits. Let FIFA reduce ticket prices to keep the stadium full.