Matt Ficke

I’ve been thinking of them as a type of very weird compiler bsky.app/profile/matt...

Secretary of Transportation was honestly a perfect role for him. We need lots of people like that in government.

Binyamin Applebaum of NYT saying “You worked for a company that was fixing bread prices” to Buttigieg in an interview

It did lead to this very funny moment, though

That’s not how they set the score scale, they scaled it to a nationally representative sample of 18-23 year olds. In practice the selection bias is in the other direction: around 77% of actual test-takers score over a 31.

I mean that you literally need to score above the 31st percentile on the ASVAB (50th if you have a GED instead of a HS diploma) to be qualified to enlist.

I don’t doubt your experience, the average American is just dumber than you might think.

Other way around, take from that what you will. Something like 30-40% of Americans are intellectually ineligible for military service.

Some absolutely top-notch nerd sniping from @kathryntewson.bsky.social there.

“To labor unions, everywhere.” - Noah Wylie, accepting his Actor award

Work in progress stool, with dry fit legs

Progress

Using a shave horse to shape a stool leg

Back on my bullshit

Parenting summarized

Important context that I think is getting lost in the discourse is that he was attending because the movie about his life, I SWEAR, was nominated for a bunch of awards (it won several including Best Actor).

They literally put this as a risk factor in their SEC filings.

He told them he was going to be there, had worked with the broadcaster many times before, made arrangements for them to censor any tics from the broadcast, and sat far in the back. I really don’t know what else he could have done.

He wasn’t individually mic’d, they had microphones placed around the auditorium to capture sounds from the audience and he apparently happened to be sitting near one.

And he had to pay cap gains tax on the investments he sold to fund the bet.

A man with Coprolaliac Tourette’s Syndrome (award-nominated for a film about his disorder) yelling the N-word at Black actors on stage, is an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object. A trolley problem for a new era. It’s a Woke 2.0 cosmic test of some kind. Too on the nose to engage with.

It is a little funny seeing people accidentally calling index funds a conspiracy, they’re basically doing a Matt Levine bit.

These pop up on www.gsaauctions.gov periodically, you can definitely make this happen.

they need to import this to the Stanley Cup playoffs, watching hockey players be handed stuffed animals while they seethe is the new funniest thing in the world

The Oscar haphazardly perched in the cluttered background is very funny. Like it’s a rec league softball trophy someone has displayed on their midwestern basement wet bar.

The debate about killing sea lions seems to be between most of America, who believe killing any ocean mammal is inherently wrong, and people who have to spend time on docks, who all have personal long running beefs with several sea lions

Apparently former pro cyclist Joe Dombowski is getting into it, I’ve done a couple of group rides with him during his off season and felt like I was going to die just trying to sit on his wheel so this sounds about right.

arguing that Youth Gender Surgery includes ear piercing, just to feel alive

It’s crazy that he was 37 when he first played Palpatine, the man really knew how to play an ancient creepy dude.

Mikaela Shiffrin wins the slalom gold medal by 1.50 seconds

If you add up the winning margins of the winners at the 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, and 2022 women's slalom, you get 1.51 seconds

This was basically the last 3 months of my mom’s life, it truly sucks for everybody involved.

California Prop 65 warning sign at Disneyland

Financing of car purchases hides a lot of that, I think the equivalent development in autos is longer-term car loans that have a lower monthly payment but a higher total cost.

Oh this is fun, I love a good JWT-related vulnerability. There are so many!