no possibility the US could compete due to extremely high labor costs

High labor costs and environmental regulations … both of which MAGA is speed-racing getting rid of. If we actually end up being able to compete with China again in manufacturing, we’ll be (even more) utterly fucked (than we already are).

CAPS LOCK is on the left side of the keyboard. So we can narrow down his recent stroke to the right side of his brain.

“Never attribute to malice what can be explained by being 79 years old and obese.”

Fractals all the way down

Somewhat counterintuitively: orange romanesco.

I don’t really like broccoli unless roasted.

Yeah, same here. I pretty much hate any vegetable that’s been steamed into mush – aka how my parents always cooked them. Roasting is the shit for almost anything, otherwise I’d rather just eat my vegetables raw. I’ve recently been making a raw broccoli salad with scallions, bacon bits and cole slaw dressing and it’s fantastic.

It’s tasty, too – and I fucking hate regular broccoli and cauliflower.

There’s an orange variant of this which tastes the same but is even cooler-looking.

Seinfeld was the funniest thing I’d ever seen when it was on originally. I’ve watched reruns of it in recent years and it just drags terribly. The difference? I was smoking shit tons of weed back in the '90s.

The one episode that was truly transcendently funny was the one where Jerry and George come back to JFK airport after being in LA and they can’t find a cab, so they decide to pretend to be the people on the card held up by a limo driver so they can get a free ride back into the city. The two people on the card turn out to be white supremacists (ironically!) on their way to a rally at Madison Square Garden. The thing is, this episode was basically just Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Curb has made it so fucking obvious who was responsible for the aspects of Seinfeld that I actually liked.

It’s hilarious (in a sick way) that before Germany got all into the hating on the Jews thing, they were all into hating on the Catholics.

our judges don’t use gavels

Good protection against Banksy …

I remember all the people on reddit in 2020 who were loudly insisting that Garland was just biding his time and making sure that the case against Trump was ironclad before moving against him. I’d say lol but it’s obviously not funny.

The only thing that should be reduced is the length of the rope.

I was out on my bike ride yesterday and one of the places I stop is next to a flagpole. The fucking flag was at half-mast for this asshole, just preposterous.

This would go great with my idea of everyone having a GUID instead of a name.

The bass lines were cool.

Why not? They’re the good kind.

My sister in law last year accused me of being a misogynist because I don’t like Taylor Swift’s music. She argued that since Swift is the most-downloaded artist ever on Spotify, that means she is objectively the greatest singer-songwriter in history and the only reason I could possibly dislike her music is that I don’t like women. I suggested that she must be racist because she doesn’t like Kanye West and Bad Bunny (who are the second- and third-most downloaded or thereabouts artists on Spotify) and she was like “who is Bad Bunny?”

I prefer thots to tots.

This is maybe the only time it’s ok to be happy someone died.

There was also that one guy who shot himself in an underground bunker in Berlin. Gun violence and suicide are never OK but sometimes they are.