John Castiglione

wut

"stealing money" yes "stealing all the 150B in tariff revenue" probably not, but also slight chance that yes he did!

I actually don't believe this but I also think there is maybe a 5% chance it is literally true and they literally stole all the money.

I too want our military to never improve technologically such than more people are capable of becoming soldiers because we have methods that are advanced from where they were a century ago.

The issue is that both these poles don't require people to accept there's a lot of long, hard work to be done.

Not sure about this...Google has been wrecking their search for a long time now, stuffing it with ads and drawing people away from the organic search results. The US sued them over this (and won!)

This just seems like the next iteration of wrecking it.

You don't even need political ideology, or even basic human morality, to reach the conclusion that you should stay far away from an incompetent band of perverts that are rushing themselves headlong into destruction.

Was he in? Serious question...

Yeah, again, I don’t think this is an unreasonable belief the article posits, I just don’t think I agree with it. I think it takes a wrong turn on the “capitalist final boss“ stuff which, again, I think it has a lot more right about it than wrong, I’m just not sure I’m fully signed up.

Or the words “on campus.” It’s one of the things that, back in the day, got me off the Andrew Sullivan reading that I did. Like, why is this adult man of his influence talking so much and so seriously about things that are going on in various college cafeterias and break rooms full of 19-year-olds.

I think we all understand that it’s the astroturfing and money that is pumping this guy up (and it might work!) but just once I would like a prominent Dem to consider that he might just be openly mocking how stupid they are for believing him, how easy it is to get these guys to betray themselves

I think this is reasonable but wrong to the extent it posits qualitative differences between the two as they actually exist in the world. They are just two stops on a continuous line of political behavior.

“Considering Steinbeck’s ‘The Snake’ alongside Himes’s piece of the same name also sheds light on what the scholarship has recognized as a notable gap in Steinbeck’s otherwise egalitarian sociopolitical perspective—that of Black Americans.”

The Snakes: Steinbeck, Himes, and the Development of American Noir Abstract. John Steinbeck’s 1935 short story “The Snake” is notable primarily for introducing the character Doc—an analogue of Steinbeck’s friend and colleague Ed Ricketts—who would go on to appear in ...

The Snakes: Steinbeck, Himes, and the Development of American Noir

It’s the exhausted remnant scraps of alternative music before the protean stirrings of the White Stripes birthed the opening chords of “Take Me Out”

The citation manager on bluesky was broken today so I couldn’t link to PubMed

This is legitimately the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time. TE Lawrence to his publisher’s proof reader:

The objective science of personal anecdata, applicable to the universe as a necessary principle of existence and being

Haha well Roxanne I’m sitting on a train underground waiting to depart after a long day of work but I’m sipping a cold beverage and I suppose inspiration can strike at any moment ….

Sunburst Band - I'll Be There 4 U (Joey Negro Vocal Mix) [Respect Is Burning, 2000] YouTube video by DeepDown

#illbethereforyou

This is legitimately one of my favorite songs.

Obviously a bullshit scam but the kernel of truth (which all good scams have) is that 2 hours of (human, real, focused) instruction is probably all kids need and/or can handle!

Perhaps this is the universe's huge, long, agonizing wind-up to solving climate change by using Satan's tool to end oil forever by driving it $400/barrel and collapsing the industry permanently.

It's the lack of dignity in these people that I just don't understand. Like, why debase yourself like this?

Wyden's mouth is writing a big check here that his ass better be prepared to cash.

i think the late-20th century critique of affluent suburban lifestyle got way over played in just about every genre, falling itself into parody, but it wasn't fundamentally wrong.

it me

i also ditched my pillow completely b/c of neck pain and while it didn't help it completely it definitely helps. If you've got a modern bed you kinda just don't need a pillow to have something soft to put your head on!

Came here to say this.

I mean if you were in his demo would you date him?

(I hate guys like this)