John Ericson
@johnericson.me
Well, I'm imagining Chicago as a hub for immigrants with bad food only. (Sorry, Poles.)
November 12, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Well, I'm imagining Chicago as a hub for immigrants with bad food only. (Sorry, Poles.)
Film is often too much
November 12, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Film is often too much
I like that this is also a Chicago insult
November 12, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I like that this is also a Chicago insult
I want to see a GMU crank ranting about Thai being considered good being ignorance downstream of market distortion. First the state centrally planned Pad Thai out of whole cloth, and then it continually subsidizes the export of the cuisine abroad.
November 12, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I want to see a GMU crank ranting about Thai being considered good being ignorance downstream of market distortion. First the state centrally planned Pad Thai out of whole cloth, and then it continually subsidizes the export of the cuisine abroad.
Oh hmm I know about freeing space, but I haven't yet used Disko
November 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Oh hmm I know about freeing space, but I haven't yet used Disko
"The Thanksgiving that never happened" would be like a mini-lockdown, bringing back painful repressed pandemic memories. That would be easy to talk about all year long, especially when up to elections next year another Thanksgiving was approaching.
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 AM
"The Thanksgiving that never happened" would be like a mini-lockdown, bringing back painful repressed pandemic memories. That would be easy to talk about all year long, especially when up to elections next year another Thanksgiving was approaching.
We could have waited until the GOP ended the filibuster, or gave us what we want. Fantastic outcomes, either way.
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 AM
We could have waited until the GOP ended the filibuster, or gave us what we want. Fantastic outcomes, either way.
*"build back better", but I'll take a "build back backer" too
November 10, 2025 at 5:15 AM
*"build back better", but I'll take a "build back backer" too
God, to think so much of recent history has hinged on the butterfly effects of a nexus of incompetents. It can make one weep.
November 10, 2025 at 5:14 AM
God, to think so much of recent history has hinged on the butterfly effects of a nexus of incompetents. It can make one weep.
Like my whole life it's just been wimping out my the cowards, and it was always "do they think the public option, or the build back backer, or whatever else is bad? Or are they just triangulating out of sheer terror?" And yup it's a lot of fear and fumbling and just incompetence.
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Like my whole life it's just been wimping out my the cowards, and it was always "do they think the public option, or the build back backer, or whatever else is bad? Or are they just triangulating out of sheer terror?" And yup it's a lot of fear and fumbling and just incompetence.
Honestly I've been off this website for a while, only to coincidentally come back as this stuff was happening and yeah. I'm glad were not all helping each other stop being gaslit from these unforced errors. It was really hard in past years when we had an own-team emperor's new clothes problem.
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Honestly I've been off this website for a while, only to coincidentally come back as this stuff was happening and yeah. I'm glad were not all helping each other stop being gaslit from these unforced errors. It was really hard in past years when we had an own-team emperor's new clothes problem.
Promotion and Relegation, sorely lacking in both American sports and American politics.
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Promotion and Relegation, sorely lacking in both American sports and American politics.
"is your Overton window anchored over your lifetime, the last decade or 2, or the last 12 months?"
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
"is your Overton window anchored over your lifetime, the last decade or 2, or the last 12 months?"
Maybe it's time to make a "moderate" vs "centrist" distinction. Latter is about views, but the former is about temperament. Former assumes the status quo is centrist. Latter perhaps can see when the status quo isn't.
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Maybe it's time to make a "moderate" vs "centrist" distinction. Latter is about views, but the former is about temperament. Former assumes the status quo is centrist. Latter perhaps can see when the status quo isn't.
Reposted by John Ericson
Last protest was No Kings. The next one is No Senators.
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Last protest was No Kings. The next one is No Senators.
Reposted by John Ericson
(Although I did have a fun bicameral trip to Iceland a few years back where their head of parliament told us they briefly adopted that structure but quickly got rid of it because it didn't work. House members of the delegation cheered. Senators pouted. It was fun.)
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
(Although I did have a fun bicameral trip to Iceland a few years back where their head of parliament told us they briefly adopted that structure but quickly got rid of it because it didn't work. House members of the delegation cheered. Senators pouted. It was fun.)
Obvious that would be fantastic if the Republicans did that. Great...they can pass more unpopular shit now...
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Obvious that would be fantastic if the Republicans did that. Great...they can pass more unpopular shit now...
I'm just fishing for an explanation
November 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I'm just fishing for an explanation
Are they scared that the filibuster might actually be gotten rid of by the Republicans?
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Are they scared that the filibuster might actually be gotten rid of by the Republicans?
(Parentheses and any errors are all my work)
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
(Parentheses and any errors are all my work)
(Started with en.wikisource.org/wiki/Treasur... . I read this decades ago, but did not remember it, but the LLM told me where to find a crazy 19th century sentence)
Treasure Island (1883)/Chapter 1 - Wikisource, the free online library
en.wikisource.org
November 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
(Started with en.wikisource.org/wiki/Treasur... . I read this decades ago, but did not remember it, but the LLM told me where to find a crazy 19th century sentence)
... (and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted)))), I take up my pen in the year of grace 17—, and go back to (the time when (my father kept the "Admiral Benbow" inn), and (the brown old seaman, (with the sabre cut), first took up his lodging under our roof)).)
November 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
... (and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted)))), I take up my pen in the year of grace 17—, and go back to (the time when (my father kept the "Admiral Benbow" inn), and (the brown old seaman, (with the sabre cut), first took up his lodging under our roof)).)