The problem with getting good at cooking is you recognize how mid most standard restaurants are and can then only enjoy diners and super selective places
🚨 | In less than 24 hours of International Dates Announcement, Out of 25 Edinburgh hotels, 22 had already SOLD OUT for both June 7 & 8, ahead of
#TSTheErasTour
in Scotland!
— “Rooms sell out and prices skyrocket ahead of gig.”
BREAKING:
"Operation Sandman" is allegedly a collaboration of 100+ nations in agreement to simultaneously sell off their US Treasury holdings. It will be sent back to the US to collapse the US Dollar.
If Larry Summers is the reason we don’t get $2,000 checks I’m going to follow him around in a sumo suit reciting every single Swap position he took running Harvard
The real reason TSA won’t be overhauled is because it’s a jobs program disguised as security theater. And TSA Pre-Check is just racketeering at this point.
moron6969420lolz: did u know that in ancient times no one got sunburn and it’s a modern creation to sell lotions?
Bill Ackman: This is very plausible. We need to keep an open mind that this is true. Thank you for this information.
This is incredible. The ultra-rich do things like fly their private jets out of the state right after midnight, and time their returns until just after midnight, so they can escape NY taxes, but stay in the city as long as they can
@samswoora
There's a theory as to why the Japanese and Germans are good at hardware but not at software: the mindset of achieving technical and aesthetic perfection before delivering the product.
To deliver good hardware, you often have to be sure that the product is perfect before you put
I’m pro-participation trophy because I think having a generation of kids who are happier and feel like their members of a community is better than having a bunch of super competitive proto-adults going for the jugular at age seven
At the end of a long, tough day you can always take solace in the fact that OPEN is down a zillion percent from when Keith declared himself the pinnacle of real estate knowledge
The thing is everyone would be screaming about how we’re in a depression if it wasn’t for the policy measures that brought us the inflation so maybe it’s time to frame it as an acceptable trade off
It always amuses me when high-ranking Chinese (or Russian &c) figures predict America’s collapse based on [decadence, weakness, ethnic strife] but fail to see the glue that holds America together is everyone who stays here loves making money too much to precipitate a collapse
For
@newyorker
I wrote about Wang Huning, China’s most powerful theorist, and his visit to America in 1989. In ‘America Against America,’ Wang saw a society devoid of moral discipline and social cohesion. Both are now central to China’s cultural reforms.
this is the thing about the 2010s austerity. it didn’t need to happen, and the consequences of it happening were “ah we need to cut teachers and programs.”
The same people who break public screens and write slogans on them and never pay for public transport because of some type of praxis that doesn’t match with accounting
Man...my heart breaks for these small business owners every time I interview them. 8 months of being closed down. It’s no longer frustration...it’s pure panic. Many of them are on the edge of losing everything they’ve worked for their entire life through no fault of their own.