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The ergonomics of industrial engineering for a non-humanoid species scratches that itch you never knew you had.
January 20, 2026 at 8:37 AM
The ergonomics of industrial engineering for a non-humanoid species scratches that itch you never knew you had.
Actually, I can’t say if that’s the folding pattern, but regardless it’s still a book with many of its pages fused together due to how it was printed and folded into the book.
January 18, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Actually, I can’t say if that’s the folding pattern, but regardless it’s still a book with many of its pages fused together due to how it was printed and folded into the book.
In the novel, a huge book collection was shown to be just for display as the books are uncut.
This would fly over modern audiences because in the Roaring 20s, books were sold with all the pages still as one piece of paper folded alternating over and under. You had to cut them apart yourself.
This would fly over modern audiences because in the Roaring 20s, books were sold with all the pages still as one piece of paper folded alternating over and under. You had to cut them apart yourself.
January 18, 2026 at 7:35 PM
In the novel, a huge book collection was shown to be just for display as the books are uncut.
This would fly over modern audiences because in the Roaring 20s, books were sold with all the pages still as one piece of paper folded alternating over and under. You had to cut them apart yourself.
This would fly over modern audiences because in the Roaring 20s, books were sold with all the pages still as one piece of paper folded alternating over and under. You had to cut them apart yourself.
Okay, apparently it’s in an “OCDs on reading AND ANNOTATING hundreds of pages of literature in one day” kind of way.
www.theguardian.com/books/2022/f...
www.theguardian.com/books/2022/f...
Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts review – the marks of a leader
Joseph Stalin owned about 20,000 books, many with jottings in the margin. Does his library hold the key to his character?
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Okay, apparently it’s in an “OCDs on reading AND ANNOTATING hundreds of pages of literature in one day” kind of way.
www.theguardian.com/books/2022/f...
www.theguardian.com/books/2022/f...
I recall an anecdote of Stalin having a sizable personal library and having read all of it. In a “all the pages are cut” kind of way, if you know the significance of it in ”The Great Gatsby“.
No idea how true that is though.
No idea how true that is though.
January 18, 2026 at 7:26 PM
I recall an anecdote of Stalin having a sizable personal library and having read all of it. In a “all the pages are cut” kind of way, if you know the significance of it in ”The Great Gatsby“.
No idea how true that is though.
No idea how true that is though.
It's weird because state-level (R) legislators clearly ARE. They are so much more proactive in guarding and wielding their power and trying to achieve their own policy.
January 17, 2026 at 8:43 PM
It's weird because state-level (R) legislators clearly ARE. They are so much more proactive in guarding and wielding their power and trying to achieve their own policy.
Oh my god, that explains tankies so much.
January 16, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Oh my god, that explains tankies so much.
Instantly recognized Freelancer. Dangerous Chase is engraved in my mental music playlist.
January 16, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Instantly recognized Freelancer. Dangerous Chase is engraved in my mental music playlist.
Freelancer Alpha 1-Dash-1, you are cleared to land.
January 16, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Freelancer Alpha 1-Dash-1, you are cleared to land.
I’ve stopped posting as frequently as I did near the start of last year when I realized a lot of it is cynical takes and predictions that help no one and assume the worst.
It ain’t good practice and just earns you a block from people you actually like.
It ain’t good practice and just earns you a block from people you actually like.
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 PM
I’ve stopped posting as frequently as I did near the start of last year when I realized a lot of it is cynical takes and predictions that help no one and assume the worst.
It ain’t good practice and just earns you a block from people you actually like.
It ain’t good practice and just earns you a block from people you actually like.
For all the horrific brutality that is the Rwandan Genocide, one of the greatest ironies is that the state’s capacity was so committed to killing its Tutsi populace, the county was left completely vulnerable to the Tutsi ethnic militias to invade and seize the country to end it.
Grim parallel.
Grim parallel.
January 14, 2026 at 7:56 AM
For all the horrific brutality that is the Rwandan Genocide, one of the greatest ironies is that the state’s capacity was so committed to killing its Tutsi populace, the county was left completely vulnerable to the Tutsi ethnic militias to invade and seize the country to end it.
Grim parallel.
Grim parallel.
They give the competency of the CIA way too much credit.
January 13, 2026 at 10:45 PM
They give the competency of the CIA way too much credit.
This kind of journalism from WSJ makes me sad that the more liberal kids aren’t going to inherit News Corp when Rupert goes away.
January 12, 2026 at 5:53 PM
This kind of journalism from WSJ makes me sad that the more liberal kids aren’t going to inherit News Corp when Rupert goes away.
Making trademarks, copyrights, and patents unenforceable is not the same thing as seizing property, not least because these are uniquely artificial creations of Congress that it has enormous power over.
January 11, 2026 at 6:53 AM
Now I believe you mentioned voiding their copyrights as a possible solution. Does this involve existing powers of the executive or legislature, or will it require new legislation, and how could it be made to NOT be a bill of attainder?
January 11, 2026 at 6:52 AM
Now I believe you mentioned voiding their copyrights as a possible solution. Does this involve existing powers of the executive or legislature, or will it require new legislation, and how could it be made to NOT be a bill of attainder?
I’m not disputing the framing, rather which looks more impressive to take credit for.
January 11, 2026 at 4:18 AM
I’m not disputing the framing, rather which looks more impressive to take credit for.
And how does this make doing a bomb campaign in Iran more impressive? That is what I am trying to get to.
January 11, 2026 at 4:17 AM
And how does this make doing a bomb campaign in Iran more impressive? That is what I am trying to get to.
Talk about damning the entire demographic by faint praise.
January 11, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Talk about damning the entire demographic by faint praise.
George H. W. Bush presided over humongous, back-to-back foreign policy Ws and he still became a one-term president from domestic issues.
January 11, 2026 at 3:56 AM
George H. W. Bush presided over humongous, back-to-back foreign policy Ws and he still became a one-term president from domestic issues.
Either way, it’s entirely for the self-aggrandizing prestige of having the big island. This is a man more narcissistic and deluded than the Ceaușescu. He literally thinks you can just steal Venzuelan oil and not have to take an unprofitable multi-year reconstruction of high-cost oil production.
January 10, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Either way, it’s entirely for the self-aggrandizing prestige of having the big island. This is a man more narcissistic and deluded than the Ceaușescu. He literally thinks you can just steal Venzuelan oil and not have to take an unprofitable multi-year reconstruction of high-cost oil production.
Greenland is big on the Mercator Projection.
That’s it. That’s literally it.
We have a president who wants to do the map painting game.
That’s it. That’s literally it.
We have a president who wants to do the map painting game.
January 10, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Greenland is big on the Mercator Projection.
That’s it. That’s literally it.
We have a president who wants to do the map painting game.
That’s it. That’s literally it.
We have a president who wants to do the map painting game.
It would be the height of historic irony, if the Sixth Party System were to end alongside the foreign regime whose birth ushered it in its own.
January 9, 2026 at 6:25 PM
It would be the height of historic irony, if the Sixth Party System were to end alongside the foreign regime whose birth ushered it in its own.
But not the one it deserves, it seems.
Hope they found better uses for their time and expertise.
Hope they found better uses for their time and expertise.
January 9, 2026 at 3:56 AM
But not the one it deserves, it seems.
Hope they found better uses for their time and expertise.
Hope they found better uses for their time and expertise.
Hope they found better things to do.
January 9, 2026 at 3:53 AM
Hope they found better things to do.
Diogenes would be poking so many holes and insecurities of Dante and boasting he’d rather be in any of hell’s rings other than virtuous pagans.
January 6, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Diogenes would be poking so many holes and insecurities of Dante and boasting he’d rather be in any of hell’s rings other than virtuous pagans.