My first house was one of those ~1200 sq. ft houses built in massive quantities in the 1960s as Boomer starter homes. It was barely affordable to me as a young engineer when I bought it in the late '00s after the bubble burst. Now it's worth about triple what I paid for it and would have been completely out of reach if I were starting all over today.
I think about that whenever someone tries to tell me "well houses are bigger now than they were in the 60s". That's true, but that doesn't explain why a house literally built in the 60s costs as much as it does.
When I was younger my parents would frequently comment on how much I worked and ask why I worked that hard, and I'd usually reply something like "because that's what I need to do".
Maybe they had a point and I didn't need to work quite as hard as I did, but it was also true that working the 8 hour days my dad did wasn't going to cut it. I didn't think about it at the time, but in retrospect it was a sign that I was coming up in a different world than they did.
That restaurant provided silverware by default. I ate mine with a spoon and fork. That's one of the reasons I was so confused.
He may have even started to eat it with a spoon and fork and switched to eating it with his hands later, but my memory is hazy.
Years ago I used to work with this Indian engineer. Educated (Masters in engineering at least) and seemed pretty Westernized. We got along. We went out one day to lunch at an Indian restaurant; both of us order some sort of Mutton curry, and after a bit he starts digging into it exactly as this guy does in the photo.
I hadn't really realized that was a thing until recently. I'd always just wondered what the hell that guy was doing, because he certainly wasn't so hungry as to warrant eating as though he was starving. But apparently it is a thing.
Yet another thing I would have been glad to have been sheltered from knowing about non-Western cultural practices.
There is no B3 bomber
I have the sudden urge to rewatch Wag the Dog:
What do you say we line up the President for the Peace Prize
Hey, our job ends on Election Day
Yes but c'mon
For the symmetry of the thing?
That's right
If Kissinger can win the Peace Prize I wouldn't be surprised to wake up and find out I'd won the Preakness
Well, yes, but our guy did bring peace
Yeah but there wasn't a war
All the greater accomplishment
Sunset Riders
This. If Walsh were a rocket scientist or brain surgeon or someone otherwise engaged in productive activity his criticism would carry much more weight. As it is he's a glorified twitch streamer himself complaining about some other twitch streamer.
I used to work with a guy whose drug-addict sister was like that to him. And yet he'd still giver her absurd (5 figures) amounts of money. He knew he was enabling her, but he did it anyway.
I don't even think it's that they're stupid as much as they know the person they're dependent on is a pushover.
That said, the stupidity from Zelensky was failing to realize Trump isn't a pushover.
All I could think of watching it was the exchange between Caesar and Ptolemy from Rome:
His Majesty forgets he is a vassal to Rome
Vassal? I am no vassal! I am King! I am...
SIT DOWN!
Elon’s a Founder, and those guys are hard to work for because they expect their employees to care about their passion project as much as they care about it themselves.
I worked for a guy like that once, and it was a nightmare. Never again.
It is genuinely mind-boggling how zealously the tech nerds have re-implemented the HR department in their hobby projects
The whole point of working on these projects used to be there wasn’t an HR department
It’s essentially been government policy for the past decade that they be the first “post-national state” with no distinct cultural identity.
Heritage Canadians will boo the US while their government imports infinite Chinese and Indians who are a far greater existential threat to the traditional Canadian way of life than the US could ever be
They gave a trump who doesn’t have to worry about being reelected 4 years to think about what he’d do differently
Almost certainly trying to pivot to be the Everyman who does the George Carlin-esque "I agree with what you're trying to do but you take it to far!"
Wonder if Carville's working with him...
Remember all the Generals who went on record after Trump left saying they lied to him about the number of troops in Afghanistan when he ordered them to withdraw?
With DOGE being embedded in every government agency hopefully they set up some sort of tipline for this sort of thing that bypasses the entire regular chain of command. Fire people for not following EOs since that creates "inefficiency" in government.
Probably full of people who want to appear "respectable" to their non-believing friends.
Sad to say that sort of thing would have appealed to me when I was much younger.
Both Vivek and Elon freaked out. Elon seemed to come to his senses later, and Vivek got booted and is now going to try to convince Ohioans he doesn't hate them.
Let us hope that is a sign of thing to come.
Looks like they finally found something to replace the red net neutrality graphic as the most popular post on every single sub on the site.
That was “totally organic voting patterns” too
That stupid xkcd comic with evangelical Christians as the tiny block keeping us from becoming a European style totalitarian hell-state
Really need to make sure we throw them a big bone every now and then to keep them happy
Trump winning the popular vote was an under-appreciated victory. Totally took the wind out of their sails, and I don’t think they expected that even if they expected him to win.
Ok but we still need an edit with him doing that with laser eyes with a rotating black sun behind his head.
No reason this can’t be fun…
Completely overshadowing MLK day, which is a fantastic side benefit.
If the shrew had won it would have been nonstop "first black woman innaugurated on MLK day" slop.
Saw is also probably my favorite from the 2000s, though I also really like 1408.
I saw Cabin in the Woods for the first time last week. I thought the movie was clever up until things go off the rails, but once they did it was clear they didn't really know how to end the film; and as a result it was a bit unsatisfying.