I'm not sure I understand that term/name?

The Byzantines used the crescent moon as a symbol for the Virgin Mary (adapted from Diana), and the Turks borrowed the symbol after the 1453 conquest. Nice nod to iconographic history if you ask me.

it's sometimes hard to distinguish between a poor plan well executed and a good plan poorly executed, but in this case it feels like a poor plan poorly executed.

I remember being blown away by Love- which was iirc the first time the music was really remastered to modern standards, AND creative/fun/cool. Listening to Anthology is by contrast- what? interesting?

Yes, if you ignore COVID you get a straight line at ~2% real growth.

You know what else grows at ~2% real? US incomes from 1945-2024. You've discovered "America".

throw away the garbage spikiness of covid and all I see is a long straight line tbh.

them's fightin' words

What complete nonsense of a second pangram

One long word removed?

Can't think quite why I like this so much ;-)

One challenge is that that for spies (like 'tecs in policiers) the plot is "a job" which means you have to shoehorn in your Hollywood "Hero's Journey" personal stakes, which would, in turn, typically/realistically get your protagonist disqualified from being assigned the job in the first place...

I am hovering over the block, never mind, unfollow button. This is complete nonsense.

Deathwatch

~1970 is about when it ceased to be plausible for someone alive to say "as James Madison told my uncle" or equivalent- ie. about the time it got very hard to claim any real direct knowledge... #makesyouthink

There is fairly obvious missing pangram, especially annoying as they often expect you to know obscure animals...

Our attention spans are now so short that something from less than a month ago is "long-awaited" ? #do_better

I feel like the classic

"your terms are acceptable"

is at least one response to that?

Palisades Tahoe these days.