TBH I just saw basically this at Radio City Music Hall—the camels, flying Santa and everything, plus Rockettes. This just seems like the flyover country version

Coming from a place like this I can say ppl there want culture and spectacle as much as anywhere else; megachurches fill the void

There's a specific "gifted kid's practiced way of evading accountability" quality to her answer—faux high-minded word salad with a helping of self pity.

Basically paraphrasing another tragic gifted kid, Margot Tenenbaum: "I couldn't even begin to think about knowing how to answer that question"

Same, mine was in a B-24.

Not that tariffs, as the article notes, are going to do anything for the deficit, but that the implicit plan seems to be for them to at least plug the holes caused by new tax cuts, in a very regressive way.

If that's plausible at least, why don't I see it characterized this way basically anywhere?

Omg it's the same Jarett Kobek who wrote one of the better books on the Zodiac case. Once you catch the cryptography bug ...

www.goodreads.com/book/show/60...

As the opening credits rolled I saw the name "Bill Forsyth" and the connection / synchronicity slowly dawned on me. At least half the audience didn't like it or make it through the movie if I'm honest, but I was thoroughly charmed and think back to it often.

Funny story, last year I learned my neighbor is a close relative of the director's, none of whose films I'd seen. Not long after, I visited a group of friends across the country and someone recommended we watch their favorite movie, an "obscure offbeat comedy from the 80s."

The general election is not ranked choice, that much I know

It's an outside but nonzero chance Sliwa could win if it's decided based on plurality (which is the best info I have right now) and the center-left coalition is split by Cuomo running as an (I) 😬

It explains the people I know who aren't necessarily reactionaries or deplorables, but who went for Trump because they believe the hype of a coming AI- and crypto-utopia being held back by the current stodgy old systems. Trump being the consummate hype man and system-disruptor, it all aligns

How far back did you clock him? I feel like I saw the red flags within the first 2-3 early aughts Rolling Stone articles

I can never quite put my finger on it, but there's some kind of d-bag early warning radar at play. Felt it for Andrew Cuomo too back when the everyone was swooning

slava ukraini you horrible freaks