When I think about Argentina all I really think about is the taste of activated charcoal pills

I said something net neutral about Ben Shapiro yesterday and I’m not sure how I feel about it

Leveraging latent conservative opposition to post Vatican II reforms as a mechanism for political control of central and South America

Within the realm of believability that on the Pope’s passing America will create a schism comparable to the creation of the Church of England

1. Abandon NATO
2. Let Russia attack Europe
3. Let China take Taiwan
4. In the chaos conquer North America

These toddlers aren’t playing chess, they are playing Risk

Document summarizing the impact of stop work orders for PEPFAR

Helpful summary stats on the stakes of PEPFAR stoppages

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How NAFTA fueled the great avocado boom Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters expl...

In one generation we’ve forgotten how vaccines and free trade have given us the life we have today www.vox.com/2015/2/16/80...

Roll for timeliness

John Malcovich reading Vonnegut’s “Breakfast of Champions” audiobook is the closest I’ll likely ever get to hearing how aliens talk

@lmarburger.bsky.social hey, this made me think of you

Never once have I had to do an email verification PIN when unlocking a car with a physical key

Just Put the F*cking Turkey in the Oven YouTube video by Tante Marie's Kitchen

Happy Tante Marie season to all who celebrate youtu.be/foA0MGUbYH0

Having a dog has taught me something I never considered about humanity: we throw chicken bones *everywhere*

My grandfather, a dentist, was called a communist for advocating for fluoride in his water supply in the 1950s. What’s old is new.

Why Are Wes Anderson’s Movies So Artificial? And So Deadpan? Asteroid City Provides an Answer. The filmmaker’s movies are all haunted by the same thing.

Honestly not sure if I’m smart enough for this analysis of Wes Anderson movies slate.com/culture/2023...

Back to never thinking about boxing

I can only pretend to care about boxing for so long

Nixon shock - Wikipedia

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What’s your current workflow?

The difference is that I feel comfortable admitting it is obviously bad.

And mind you I grew up on the worst kind of cult music: CCM in the 90s. I feel like I have some commonality with my much cooler heathen friends: we liked terrible music that we grew up with.

One time as an experiment I asked my deadhead friends what the best live tapes of all time were. Got super stoned, played on the hifi. There is no amount of money in the world you could pay those people to all clap at the same time.

The Grateful Dead always sucked. You were just high at the show. It’s ok.

$20 days one member of the incoming cabinet sues another member before June

I think I need more underwraught skeets

I came up with the ^XY syntax that companies briefly tried to use when doing customer support work there

Chinese superapps are regulatory capture in disguise. Group ownership, sure, but hard to imagine in an iOS centric environment. Not convinced they’ll work anywhere else. WDYT?

Somehow this Airbnb has great knives and no other usable cooking utensils

The artisinal granola market is the purest form of ungrounded price testing

Crypto is just retro computing at this point