silly of me for not immediately clocking that it was just good old fashion crony capitalism

The 2026 green wave of CBD grandmas is going to hit like crack

In the end I liked learning about this weird world more than I cared for the plot, which was hamstrung by the narrator figuring it out in the 2nd act, leaving only an easy resolution. But the worldbuilding was A1, just enough funky hard-ish sci-fi to keep the fantasy from getting too kitschy.

what if every five years we just drew a random industry out of a hat and nuked it with no public discussion. is that good for the economy.

he is the guy who tells the prosecutors who to prosecute. they will never be prosecuted.

on the off chance he (a) cares about the guy who pushes send on the RIF email and (b) cares about the politics, he can pardon him on January 19, 2029.

My specific objection is to the suggestion that "doing a RIF is now a felony" is somehow independently meaningful in light of, inter alia, absolute criminal immunity, the pardon power, and the authority to fire prosecutors. My position isn't that they should have held out for ACA subsidies.

Making it a crime to do RIFs is preventative to the exact same extent as yelling at the clouds is preventative of rain

we've finally done it. We've finally put it in the rulebook that a dog can't play basketb-(dunked on by air bud)

d/b/a DBA

Leave it to dems to fold a winning hand. Can’t make this up.

He's at the Times now but having personally shown Jonathan Swan a very basic spreadsheet and watched smoke pour out of his ears I can confidently say that this was an important development for them

I sat down at a bar yesterday to see we were losing with 41 seconds left and proceeded to immediately be treated to this absolute masterclass of a catch

also—and, full disclosure, I disagreed with you here—you were talking about replacing a lot of the periods with exclamation points.

I distinctly remember hearing the words "total rewrite"

I think the answer is you can do what you want but some journals just flatly have policies [to keep the students busy / for uniformity] that they don't budge on.