Partner: (in footie Grinch pajamas) We live in a cynical world, a cynical, cynical world, and we work in a business of tough competitors. I love you. You complete me. And if I just had…

Me: (interrupting) Shut up. Just shut up…You had me at footie Grinch pajamas. You had me at footie Grinch pajamas.

Reminds me of Backrooms or Dave Made a Maze

This might be the most apt metaphor. The election is both legitimate and illegitimate until we open it up and take a look at it.

Nothing says “integrity” like evading 3rd-party, external auditors.

Yeah, this is just the retirement plan.

They definitely have a relatively high income inequality. It looks like their nominal GDP per capita is below the national average, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_GDP

Just sharing info for discussion, in case that’s helpful. I think we’re on the same side of this issue.

I think that’s exactly what this was about. A former political pundit and a former politician set up a private interview to create a sensationalist dialog in a mutual struggle to stay relevant in a world that is leaving them behind.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the most chaotic debate in Washington! The House chamber is absolutely erupting as AOC and Mike Johnson go toe-to-toe over the latest bill! Johnson has the floor, but AOC is having none of it! She’s firing back with point after point, the chamber roaring like a sold-out arena! Oh, wait! AOC is getting out of her chair. She’s sprinting down the aisle. Here comes Steve Scalise. He’s up and running toward her. Holy cow! Ihan Omar is running across the table tops! She’s leapt into the air. Wow! Flying side kick straight into Scalise. She’s got him down on the floor and is pummeling him mercilessly. Hakeem Jeffries is…uh…lying back in his chair, talking on the phone with his donors. More on that later, but back to the action! Here comes Jim Jordan and he’s got a chair! He’s taking a swing at AOC, and oh my god! It’s Adam Schiff with a gavel! Right to the head! Jordan is out! AOC has reached the podium. She’s got Johnson by the Collar, making him look like a dork made of limp spaghetti noodles, which is his baseline, but perhaps he looks it more now than ever. She’s got him up. Oh my, wow, right through the table! AOC has slammed Mike Johnson right through a table on the house floor! One! Two! Three! He’s out cold! The Sergeant at Arms Raises AOCs hand in the air! H.R. 11,001 passes the House by TKO! The bill to outlaw recreational immigrant hunting is going to the Senate!

Also, “slammed” in the article. I think that word needs to leave journalism. The story is real and important, but the hyperbole is distracting. Seems kinda weird that they think people need to be fed news WWE style: “Wait! What’s this?! It’s Obama with a steel chair!!”

That was the analogous “shrimp in their claw.”

🎵

Angel

Sarah McLachlan

Spend all your time waiting

For that second chance

For a break that would make it okay

There’s always some reason

To feel not good enough

And it’s hard at the end of the day

I need some distraction

Oh a beautiful release

Memories seep from my veins

Let me be empty

Oh and weightless and maybe

I’ll find some peace tonight

In the arms of the angel

Fly away from here

From this dark cold hotel room

And the endlessness that you fear

You are pulled from the wreckage

Of your silent reverie

You’re in the arms of the angel

May you find some comfort here

So tired of the straight line

And everywhere you turn

There’s vultures and thieves at your back

And the storm keeps on twisting

You keep on building the lies

That you make up for all that you lack

It don’t make no difference

Escaping one last time

It’s easier to believe

In this sweet madness

Oh this glorious sadness

That brings me to my knees

In the arms of the angel

Fly away from here

From this dark cold hotel room

And the endlessness that you fear

You are pulled from the wreckage

Of your silent reverie

You’re in the arms of the angel

May you find some comfort here

You’re in the arms of the angel

May you find some comfort here

I’d love to see a followup with something like the marshmallow test.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experiment

Yeah, I think you’re right. I’m just suggesting we double down so I can get a tiny little collar that says “Muffin5917620384”

I’m hoping for something more like cats. They handle the pest control and I just offer them food, shelter, healthcare, entertainment and maybe some scritches behind the cephalothorax from time to time.

I assume the best you can do is behavior capture and selective breeding. Feed the most inoffensive ones. Kill the ones that violate the treaty. In a few years, you could have a household of nearly invisible spiders that are somehow also always nearby.

It might. Nancy Reagan did a 180 on HIV when one of her friends developed AIDS.