Anyway, if you're a media company do the right thing for your business and your site: advertise yourself and also use GAM and vendor tooling to block any ad that links to NYT URLs from showing up on your website ffs. Don't make it easy for them.

Stupidest Stub

He wants Greenland because it's big on the map, simple as.

there is no longer any hedging, any sense of restraint at all. It's all vented bile.

it's a very Trump Journalism sort of formulation - "Trump says he'll do X because of Y" - okay? Is X going to happen, or is he just saying that?

Prerequisite for that particular job

Y2K redux!

I get why a distinction between "America" and "the Trump regime" may seem immaterial to many Europeans. But Trump's domestic political weakness is something Europe can exploit, which in turn strengthens the hand of opposition within the US. Plus, the distinction is *extremely* relevant stateside.

Whatever the start date was it certainly pertains today, yes

you do not in fact have to hand it to David Koch but you sure don't have to hand it to Mark Zuckerberg

their contempt for democracy is bog-standard rich guy stuff recognizable in any generation; their disinclination to even attempt a white-washing of their ill-gotten gains is the chief sour innovation, here

As @oddletters.bsky.social put it so well, "that Tesla could have been an opera."

Present Value of Money is a thing.

Yes.

your brand is strong

Yeah I think like, take up fishing or something else to do on fall Saturdays, there's absolutely no way you're gonna beat that season.

It is truly baffling. To *not* go there, sure.