So if Ezra Klein would have called the book “Affordability”, we might have had a chance for the liberals to get it?

When Trump asked for the new iPhone to be made in his favorite color he probably meant gold not orange.

I’m disappointed that there is no well-acted dramatization of Kasparov vs Deep Blue.

With one thing I would disagree: corruption and allowing friends of the king to break the laws are part of the real conservative values. youtu.be/BvOPsgodL9M?...

The fact that people have actually put money into the Hawk Tuah coin and were surprised to be scammed made me consider that government might make use of a scam department (like state lottery). On the other hand it will create wrong incentives like liquor monopoly.

– Insurance: sorry, we need to decline your claim as our CEO needs extra security.
– But you have already raised the monthly payment for that!
– That was for the motorcade and snipers, now we decided to add gunships to the security detail.

Where am I? Can’t tell without a pocket computer.

Was there a politician before Trump that was elected on the assumption that his campaign promises are baloney and he does not actually mean that? There must have been, but I can’t remember a recent example. Typically the voters are disappointed if the campaign promises are kept.

Apparently, 21k died in SA construction projects. Wtf. And those are the projects top engineering firms participate in, so this will happen anywhere if the safety standards would allow it.

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Word that exists in Russian, but not in English: «быт» (byt), it means routine, day-to-day living, housekeeping, things you do to maintain basic functioning. Often comes as an adjective before “alcoholism”, “violence”.

It took me shamefully long time to acknowledge that I’m the kind of person that should go on a diet, before that I felt that diets were not manly enough and a real man should be able to get in shape by sheer exercise. So stupid in hindsight, but it was tough to change that attitude.

It seems callous to write both light-hearted or everyday life things with the same account as more life-or-death political stuff, but doing otherwise would be disingenuous. Maybe tag different modes or even use different formatting.

There was exactly one reason to make a Crow sequel: to call it “Murder”.

What’s happening in our community? Nothing, that’s what.