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  1. Man. Basic-ass Duncan Hines yellow cake with chocolate icing is one of my all-time favorite desserts.
  2. The octopus with a beer shirt for me. Obviously.
  3. So…yeah…this is interesting. Got some reading to catch up on. Was Manny _iaz not available?
  4. That enchilada sauce is versatile as HELL.
  5. While the comparison of the scenarios has to be a adjusted for potential variables (if I'm avoiding 3 hours a day of commute time, that is a real difference-maker, for example), the above has a lot of truth. As do the points about mentoring and the like. And yes, I also had first-hand experience with people for whom "WFH" meant "do the absolute minimum, and actually, I'm gonna be outside gardening, walking my dog, etc., during working hours." All of that said, the real driver is "what kind of job is it?" There are absolutely a shitload of good white collar jobs that can be done entirely or almost entirely WFH. There are a lot of PROFESSIONS that benefit greatly from being in-office/in person. I had plenty of depositions, hearings, mediations, and even trials by zoom during the COVID times. I can assure you, ALL of those things work much better in person. And yeah, having associates here, in the office, where they are part of spontaneous conversations, work sessions, task assignments, etc., develops them so much better. So, it depends on the job.
  6. We embarked on a mission to create an Artificial Intelligence. It gave away a video game system, and ordered a live fish, and tried to buy stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes, and underwear. We embarked on a mission to create an Artificial Intelligence. We actually created an Artificial Hunter S. Thompson. Fucking awesome.
  7. Poland looks like she's really disappointed in me, and maybe a bit disgusted with me. That checks out.
  8. Oh. I see you got the MAGA newsletter this month. Whew. I thought you might have fallen off the list.
  9. Oh....so you HAVE heard of Brisketexan's Freedomeaglegunjesusliberty Academy for American Freedom Liberty Kids? It's the model going forward. I should send you a brochure.
  10. Yes, there will be some sort of government bailout. But it's going to follow the Trump rule. See, it will not be done in order to provide any greater benefit to the economy, stabilize the markets, etc. Instead, those who will simply be handed dollars from the treasury will be people and entities that are sufficiently intertwined with/ingratiated with Trump. Have you kissed his ass enough? Or will he see a pretty direct financial benefit from your bailout? If so, happy days for you! Otherwise, you can collapse and get fucked. Not that the admin will do the calculus of whether that will have positive or negative impacts on the economy as a whole; that simply doesn't figure into the calculus at all. Not even a little bit. The economy will drop dead on the side of the road. The admin will pick and cut any bit of nutrition it can from the carcass and distribute the bits to its favored people. And that's it. That's the entire plan. They'll get theirs. The rest of y'all? Good luck, suckers.
  11. The release we'll get from this admin's DOJ: "Sorry, all of the Epstein files accidentally got burned up in a fire. Signed, Epstein's mother"
  12. "We can't send billions to Ukraine!" When in reality, we were sending billions to our own domestic industries and producers to produce weapons systems that (1) we are sending to Ukraine or (2) using to replace OLD weapons systems we cleaned out and sent to Ukraine and (3) revitalizing and innovating our defense industry in the process. Whose defense industry is going to be most up-to-date and ready to arm up for the next conflict because of this experience, Europe's, or ours? We're losing in every direction.
  13. Two spot-on posts. It's a complex issue, and there needs to be some complex approaches to addressing both the issue of low birth rates AND the impact they will cause (because, spoiler: we aren't going to completely reverse the trend and get back above replacement rate anytime soon). I'll suggest that our American policy and social approach of "hate immigrants," "try to force women to be submissive baby factories again," and "make society and the economy hostile to any chance of a healthy economic future for young people" is both doomed to fail and actually even backfire. Just a thought.
  14. Sigh. We are the kings of "death by 1,000 cuts," and we defend that approach to the fucking death, because we are very, very bad at math. Which makes sense, as among the many things that we've decided have no value is public education. What percentage of the middle class income is spent on things that are included in the "one payment covers all" that most western European nations provide its citizens? Yeah, our base price is cheap. But when we have to pay a la carte for everything else that they get in a prix fixe menu, we are getting fucked. WHY? Because we are paying for systems designed to deliver profit to billionaires, not service to customers. And I have no problem with profits and free enterprise. It's just stupid that some base public goods are more expensive because we chose not to make them elements of "the public good," but rather profit centers for oligarchs. We're a lot closer to Russia than we are to Denmark, and the difference is getting more stark every day, particularly under this regime. Well-done, America. We continue to ram a dildo up our own ass while we shout about how much we're winning.
  15. “Not gonna lie. This may sully the FIFA Peace Prize going forward.”
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