Mary Shaw Brothers

"Haha he's doing this funny metaphor about politicians-- oh now I'm devastated"

Nobody tells you that this movie is a) hilarious and b) so very sad

I know it's crazy what he said about opera

Big

Buffy the Rancor Slayer

Lmao

Is there a Catholic slasher franchise. Has someone made that yet.

Is there a Catholic slasher franchise. Has someone made that yet.

It's like seeing Lauren Bacall pop up in Misery

The Canadians will end the decade as the sole remaining superpower

Yes that does seem like the premise for a German children's book

On the bus with my podcasts, serene.

Loading up on barrels with suspenders.

I mean, OBAA ruled and A24 just had its biggest hit.

For context, AIG covers marine insurance but only as a part of their international commercial division, about a third of their business. They have about $161b in assets. This proposed company would have more than twice that amount, solely to cover shipping in the strait of Hormuz.

DFC would basically need to spin up the ~25th or so biggest insurance company in the world by asset value solely to cover the cost of insuring people going in and out of the strait. It's fucking insane.

He added: “While there are many parallels to 2022, the supply and demand implications of the conflict in the Middle East have the potential to be much more severe and wide ranging, particularly if the strait of Hormuz is restricted for longer than two weeks.”

Man.

Between a quarter and a third of the global trade in the raw materials for fertiliser passes through the strait, as well as a fifth of seaborne crude oil and gas. The de facto closure of the strait is affecting the transport of ammonia and nitrogen, which are key ingredients in many synthetic fertiliser products.

The Gulf is home to some of the world’s largest fertiliser factory sites and a prolonged transport shutdown could disrupt production and raise costs. After Russia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Iran is the fourth-largest global exporter of urea, which is the most widely used nitrogen fertiliser. The ability to manufacture fertiliser is being affected by the availability of raw materials and the rising cost of the energy used in production. Fossil gas represents between 60% and 80% of the production cost of nitrogen fertiliser.

Hmm.

Doesn't like a third of global fertilizer inputs go through the strait too

It's not a regime change, just a sparkling governmental overhaul

I like it here, it's like when I was in college and going to the local playhouse on student discount tickets and everyone else in the theater were gay guys aged 40-60 with stories to tell.

The Chinese pioneered early forms of vaccination (smallpox innoculation), ergo vaccines are traditional Chinese medicine, ergo you should get your mmr shot.

Look, I don't have any problem with people getting into cupping, the part that genuinely worries me is when the article notes that it's coinciding with (possibly being caused by) a decline in trust in the US health system. You still need to get a measles vaccine.

Last weekend, I saw a dude with cupping marks at a circuit party.

America’s Obsession With Chinese Medicine Is Taking Over TikTok The trend of ‘Chinamaxxing,’ or embracing principles of traditional Chinese medicine, is gaining steam among Gen Z as trust in the US healthcare system plummets.

In a weird place now where a lot of things that I thought were unremarkable or even boring growing up are now becoming cool and trendy among my peers

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They didn't call it the Lubitsch touch for nothing

That's TV baby! It's good to have it back!

I was pumping my fist when she swallowed that thing and screamed "fuck you Bradley"

This man has contracted an onlineborne mental illness.

They're short on cash already? It's been less than a week.