I would have gotten it but the editor must have replaced a few commas in that paragraph with periods

I stopped by my regular Irish pub after work, and I had a large cycling backpack. I was told to "jump out of a fucking plane" with my parachute.

the herpes b endemic to rhesus macaques is fatal in humans if untreated, if you get bitten you are on antiretrovirals the rest of your life

astoria Queens giving us AOC and Mamdani

I graduated in the 2000s from a good public high school, our history classes hardly covered the 20th century at all

controlling for other factors probably not

the stuff about full time students being lazy and professors not teaching is a separate issue and not really related to the thesis of the article. just a mess

jobs that didn't require college degrees do now, and it is costly in tuition and time for working class people. it is the only avenue out for a lot of people stuck in retail and service industries.

they all read Cicero and thought a lot about the collapse of the Roman Republic. I think the Senate abdicating power to a Caesar was a chief concern.