Good care package for Kat Abughazaleh, Vampire Hunter

Obama needs to call this bluff by announcing a run

Gotta get spelling reformers going on about how Finnish children can read any book after kindergarten—they just don’t know what the words mean

Or try some cartoony CGI animation with plenty of fart jokes.

Democratic primaries should be more like Chopped. Cuomo has been voted off the island, cut to a jubilant Mamdani, cut back to a reflective Cuomo taped afterwards

I would be so bowled over if someone brought this out at a party, it’s the only possible activity

You could say this about anything. "The American breakfast market is badly distorted by imported avocados."

Yes but what if I want more avocados instead of fewer avocados?

Just assuming that artificial trade barriers is the natural state and trade is the distortion is a wild way to look at things

It seems like you do.

Can you explain how you got from the observation that a small taser doesn’t seem to be a good deterrent to victim blaming?

The classic example is "Homer didn’t mention the color red so the ancient Greeks didn’t have color vision"

nabwIj vIbachHa’moHchu’! chaq wa’leS vIghoSlaH.

QInHomvam DalI’be’chugh vIDachchu’!

I’m going to have to get a new recovery proverb!

Wait it’s today and not next weekend!?

Very hard to use effectively, you have to get it in the eyes and nose to incapacitate people, &c. &c. Very true.

Nice. Always appreciate a thoughtful and witty rejoinder.

Yes, you summarized the top-line conclusions of the paper but not its methodology or findings. The economic costs of childbearing have a very apparent impact on fertility choices and family size, there’s a high bar for the claim that there’s no relationship.