Reading about the past is nice in that people always thought that they were nearing the end of things and were generally wrong, but sometimes they were also right

His second sin was making Chris Brunet somebody that I now know about. Ban him a second time

It’s kind of funny that the moment John Updike died everyone stopped reading him but people should actually pick up Rabbit Run

God, a classic

My memory is all the other kids would just watch the harry potter movies and try to pass the book tests on those.

Most people in my life cannot calculate a 20% tip without a calculator it kind of blows my mind

The other thing is like they already took this into account when they drew them in 2020. The only reason it might make sense to further rig it in 2025 is to build in the unexpected racedep, but all evidence is that evaporated.

Yes I try to tell people this all the time but usps is best thought of as a regulated private monopoly where the employees get access to the federal benefits system. It’s politically useful for the org that people think of it like social security but not useful to understand how it actually works.

Full operating costs of usps per year are around $80ish billion