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I agree, I’ve felt a lot of things for Roman, mostly pity and disgust, but I think it was the first time I respected him.

There is no 192. That’s an obvious set up and head fake before the next big conflict. I thought you were a writer, how can you not see so obviously there is 0.00% chance the 192 happens, to be entertaining hypotheticals if it does?

Said Jay-Z on the closed captions

Also because you take the utilitarian bend as a recent-enough immigrant to not have the privilege of the truly upper class America (as most of us here lack as well, or else we would be posting on YalieBulldog.com instead of having slummed it up at UT). Liberal Arts is increasingly the bastion of the lucky and the privileged, is my takeaway. And I’m not sure how generative AI will help. But I also thought the article read like a college student wrote it and it was Try-Hardy.

Read this and thought it was interesting: https://api.thecrimson.com/article/2023/4/21/barton-harvard-graduate-consulting-finance/

Agreed-- I think Bill Hader will be an Oscar winner (actor and/or director) in the short-to-midterm. Also, I haven't finished this episode, but the way the camera zoomed out and having the same actor as Sy Abelman, I thought to myself "wow this looks exactly like that scene in A Serious Man (one of my favorite movies) when he wrecks and dies", and not 2 seconds later he wrecks.

As a man of many perspectives myself, I always enjoy seeing the different takes on issues like presented below, three tweets, from three different perspectives, about the same issue:

Don Lemon fired, Charles Barkley hired. CNN isn't a serious news station.

Also reminded me of one of the early episodes where he was listening to rap on the way to do the Vaulter deal in the back seat of his black car, where the Vaulter guy calls him a nobody and daddy's boy, etc. which ended up being the same reception from Mattson. Not sure if it was meant to be a call-back or not.

Was he? He had the worst lines "We are snakes on a plane" "I metabolize fast because I'm dynamic." "That's almost huge, those darn 10th's of a second"

Agreed fantasmic was garbage. How did you rate Swan/Dolphin? I have stayed at both the last two disney trips with the family (bonvoy points = free) and while the location is cool and the pools are cool for the kids, the food is absolute dog crap. Outside of the Shula's steakhouse which isn't exactly kid friendly and the sushi/fish restaurant that's impossible to get in, it's a food nightmare. And not just the cost and taste, but actually obtaining it because few options and huge crowds.

Conor McGregor voice: Who the heck is this guy?

Braum's burgers > Whataburger = In&Out

Same, same. I don't begrudge the family for cashing out and living on a warm beach somewhere surrounded by piles of money, but it's a shame.

I couldn't see the body shot in any of the mainstream replays. Had to go to youtube and search slow motion. If anyone was like me, here you go:

We all have anecdotes. The most racist place, bar none, I've ever been to was driving all over East Tennessee when I went to Bristol one year.

India better put on some shades or risk being blinded by the spotlight. It’s due to surpass China as the most populous country on the planet this year, according to a UN report released this week. And word on the pundit street is that it’s poised to get bigger in another way—by rivaling China and the US as a major economic superpower. India has already eclipsed its former colonizer, the United Kingdom, as the world’s fifth-largest economy, and it’s projected to nick Germany’s No. 4 spot by 2025, according to the Wall Street Journal. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects India’s GDP to grow by 5.9% this year, more than any of the other 30 largest economies. India’s domination of the global economy is far from guaranteed. Let’s explore why India’s future looks bright, and some of the obstacles on its path to international economic stardom. The India “buy” case India has a lot going for it, including a massive labor force. There are 900 million(!) working-age people in India. And that number is increasing—unlike in most major economies, where an aging population is sapping economic growth. At the same time, India’s government has shoveled cash into infrastructure improvements and nixed some burdensome regulations to lure foreign investment. It’s paying off: Companies looking to diversify their supply chains away from China have embraced India as an alternative manufacturing hub. Apple recently began assembling its new iPhone in the country, and Volvo signaled it might start building EVs there. But India also has plenty of homegrown success stories. Over 100 unicorn startups call India home, and its $24 billion in venture capital investments last year put it in fourth place globally, ahead of Germany and Israel. A long list of Indian-born business talents has achieved great heights internationally, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Meanwhile, its growing middle class is a gold mine for multinationals searching for the next big untapped consumer market. The first Apple Stores opened in the country this week, and in March, Dior went all out with a Bollywood-star-studded fashion show in Mumbai. What’s holding India back? Simply having a lot of people doesn’t mean that the workforce will be vibrant: India’s education system struggles to prepare job candidates for successful careers and strains the country’s social fabric. According to NPR, the unemployment rate in India for college grads is 20%. A big rift between the rich and poor, still-deficient infrastructure, corruption, and waste management woes could give companies second thoughts about doing business in India. Tough tariffs and messy politics might also act like a foreign investment repellant. Critics are sounding the alarm about the authoritarian tendencies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and warn that his heavy-handed tactics in dealing with political opponents are a red flag for businesses. Nobel Prize-winning economist Abhijit Banerjee thinks India should look inward before it projects its economic ambitions abroad. He says tackling runaway inflation and focusing on societal health will go a long way in wooing international investors. Zoom out: The UN says that India’s population could start declining in 2047. Its current window to become a world economic power is wide open, but won’t be for long.

This. Last year felt a lot more dramatic.

Biden may announce reelection bid tomorrow. The US president will reportedly debut his reelection campaign in a video message as soon as Tuesday. If elected to another four-year term, Biden would be 86 at the end of his White House tenure, older than any other president in history by far.

The VP of Marketing who concocted this idea and the CMO were put on leave-- the company tried to make it sound like they voluntarily took a leave of absence, but reports from WSJ make it sound like they are being quietly fired. Probably because "The boycott appears to be having some effect on business. According to Beer Business Daily, Bud Light sales fell 10.7% the week ended April 8, while shares in rival Molson Coors appear to have gotten at least a short-term lift." I can see it from both sides here from a business perspective: It's a declining brand and so you are attempting to broaden your demographics and buying personas and think you increase your total addressable market by appealing to young people, progressives, etc. who have never or rarely been your paying customers. On the other hand, you are a lifestyle brand with an entrenched and passionate core identity of lower-middle-class/poor people and your billion dollar marketing machine should have enough data and analytics to show you that this would be a horrible, horrible idea. At the end of the day to grow and transform, you have to take business risks. People rise and fall everyday in corporations taking risks, this is just a really visible one. In fact, if it weren't so visible and political, I'd argue these folks would probably get a raise and promotion for taking the risk and failing rather then being pushed out, but alas.

I read this today and thought it was interesting commentary on the psyche and personalities of people and generally aligns to the unhappiness and bitterness seen in people online and IRL who are anti-theists: https://www.wsj.com/articles/happiest-people-america-poll-ef7c854c?st=cutgv2qdpi7pk67&reflink=share_mobilewebshare Work out your own happiness with fear and trembling, I guess.

Old Twitter died when they increased the character limits. New Twitter is full of Californian's moving in and raising property prices.

You are right, I don't use it (or ever intend to). I am anti-social media except Surly, which is why I think the downfall of Twitter is hilarious and good and (chaotic good). I was referencing the April 11th release, of which Tech Crunch outlined it was an update to add functionality and compete with Twitter: (article here:https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/11/artifact-the-news-aggregator-from-instagrams-co-founders-adds-a-social-discussions-feature/)

You missed the two obvious ones that are closer to Twitter than anything you mentioned: Substack with their newest release has a curated feed sort of thing (hence the Twitter war on substack) and the two Instagram founders launched their thing with curated news feed functionality like two weeks ago. I think it’s called Artifact.

I had the same thought; I think the concept is probably a bit too experimental of a blend to keep focus and eyeballs.