My new job had me do a health screening at Concentra during the pandemic lockdowns when the local office had one nurse.

While sitting in the lobby from opening to after closing time, the Angry Birds movie played on the TV at least four times.

Watch out everyone, the takes are hot

Laapataa Ladies [2024]? You better believe that's a Train Movie.

You have to mobilize people under your authority to expel them or it will not happen. Everyone sees this. Everyone knows this.

Juan Hernandez was just pardoned, I feel like I'm going insane

Pretending to have principles is how you get principles anyway

Battleships have a purpose! That purpose? Giving kids a sense of purpose! What purpose is that? Uhhh we'll give you money to work on a battleship! You don't want to be like those poors that we just *give* food to for no purpose! What's *our* purpose? Battleships!

It's inherently disproven by the existence of the concept of a "productivity increase"

You need metric temperature to make metric make unified sense. One kcal is the energy required to heat one liter of water by one degree Celsius.

The response to this feels somewhat akin to the response to Hillbilly Elegy— that certain liberals must read it and praise it so that they can properly and publicly perform humility to atone for their eliteness. This is despite both of these books being written by Ivy Leaguers.

The only agency that has never passed an audit? That's the good one to have where it's okay.

It didn't change anything because it was just to impress the standard geopolitical narrative on kids. The Order of the White Lotus backing Aang against the Fire Nation was neoliberal world police backing victimized groups against rising ethnonationalism.

Relax, it's been less than 24 hours and it's the holidays.

You are (were? are?) my favorite podcaster ever by far because of your choice of interests.

[Googling furiously]

Korokstein and Smourok

Korok Ornsteon

Ornsteina nd Smoughrok

Yah-hah pling pling plong