Dug into the thread. I assumed the “BEA disclosed this” meant they announced/published the change, not that they responded to an email. Yikes

So the underlying data is not being altered, but the top line metric is, but they publicly disclosed that change?

As much as I’m worried about correct information, I’m also worried about fomenting a distrust of BEA/official government reporting that will persist structurally

Accelerating inflation into an oil shock stemming from an unpopular military action. Any sign of hedging from any democrat for the next 8 months should be considered nothing but absolute cowardice. Generational advantage for November.

Las Vegas struck me as a monument to a truth that America once knew and had somehow chosen to forget: If gambling had to be legal, it should be contained to remote cities in the desert that make you feel a little bad about yourself.

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We read bright lights, big city in high school, and the second-person perspective sticks with me to this day

The crazy part is that the critical issue is the Honda engine. They built a car that fucked up the reliability of a **Honda**

"Everyone else is stuck being themselves all the time and making the same mistakes forever. For some reason this is a given in sports, and a lesson no one ever learns in politics."

Did you not see all the shit he got done with a token position as Sec of Transportation?

@ed3d.net just finished the last pod, caught up on bsky
1) thanks for the trackball mouse rec
2) have you ever tried a keyboard like the Kinesis advantage?
3) just get a Popeye’s turkey for thanksgiving

Haynes King/FDR

Haynes King/FDR

I believe so. Ishmael was the eldest, bastard son of Abraham. Isaac, his second born, inherited his father’s estate, the land of Israel, and the kingdom of god.

And Ishmael was cast out into the wilderness.

“Call me Ishmael” = “think of of me a as an unlucky bastard wandering the world”

Last company had a not insignificant consulting agreement to keep their legacy mainframes functional. AS400 as the system of record

Jon Bois tweet reading "why watch overtime playoff hockey when you can simply snort cocaine and ride a motorcycle out of a helicopter"

Oh no!

Been getting our asses kicked for the last 35 minutes and surviving on some divine gift saves and misplays.

We win this in the dumbest manner possible and they get rid of 3v3 OT forever

Oh absolutely. It’s just a farce to try and connect it to a “billable hour” input, and not a product/service output.

Also, don’t bid on contracts from German manufacturers

We’re gonna bill you for 40 hours of a senior consultant, that’s actually 20 hours of a senior consultant and 60 hours from 2 associates, and 3 hours of a director making “suggestions”

It’s like the opposite of auto mechanic labor

As someone who billed hours for a tiny, niche consulting gig, calling them “hours” doesn’t make any sense other than needing to have a quantity of *something* to make it through various vendor management/procurement policies

Correct! Go after them to fix democracy, because they exist like blackholes that warp the fabric of society. Money is power and they simply have too much of it.

In high school, the same thing happened to me by one of my lacrosse teammates during intramurald, and I had to explain to the appalled outdoors club/ultimate coach that tackling and fighting him was a completely rational way to handle it, while mildly concussed from slamming my head on the turf

Tag yourself I’m “drinking whole milk in the hot tub” or maybe “you’re only allowed to lift if it’s with a machine”. Woe betide anyone that tries to insinuate I am “fully vertical pickleball stance” or “RFK Jr does more gear than a Soviet powerlifter in the 80s”

“She doesn’t like red roses” is enough instruction

Expressions Unlimited in Greenville, SC

Out of the entire currently existing animal kingdom, pandas maybe have the lowest resiliency and worst survival instincts…

*pentagon starts buying coal in 2026*

…except for us

*sigh*

I think he ends up in the discourse so often because his fans and biggest haters are both selected from the most Too Online populations possible.
And also there are a thousand giant right wing influencer/grifters to get mad at, and he’s the only giant leftist one so it all funnels to him

It’s very Heath Ledger in A Knight’s Tale

It means I have to go figure out which part of my network stack I completely forgot about when setting up my plex library that somehow magically works and I can’t figure out why

If you’re doing sketchy backwoods shit in the US, Life Flight insurance is surprisingly cheap

I thought about why I’ve been pushing back on stolen midterm fears. What’s the harm of worry, even if it doesn’t materialize?

It’s this. The regime has less capacity than it’d like, and tries to make up the difference with bluster. If people act as if it’s true, that grants the regime more power.