Alan Cole @AlanMCole
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@BarneyFlames Notable is fine, success is fine, but they are not the same thing and OP switched between them casually.
@Cary_Bleasdale In all three cases you have to deal with some difficult people that a typical “office professional” job will select you out of.
This isn't the only thing, but officeholding has become a worse job, and a worse job should expect to get worse workers. I grew up in DC area with plenty of children and grandchildren of political figures of varying degrees of significance. A lot of them--a LOT--say something like "I'm glad grandpa finished his term in 1998, because back then people couldn't find his address on social media. I can't imagine putting my family through what people deal with now."
One of the things I mourn the most in the current political era is that we've lost an important idea - that people who run for office should, at the very least, be competent people and good people. Not crazy. No major scandals, no outright evil views. Nobody cares any more.
Just passed a man on the street, speaking quickly into a phone, and I hear the phrase “interest as a share of GDP,” and sure enough it is indeed @MarcGoldwein. This city is smaller than you think.
@RedPandaDiet Yep. Something like “right-market-liberal” is probably the best three-word descriptor for me.
One way I know I’m not a lib is that I think the bomber flyovers are cool as hell and they don’t evoke any complicated feelings. 🙂
@NeastWS @AlexGodofsky It's also one of my favorite examples of "fake remembered history." A lot of people are going to believe in all their hearts that it happened during COVID, but he actually gave the interview three years before COVID, when such "appear from home" arrangements were much rarer.
@NeastWS @AlexGodofsky Yeah, and her frenzied entrance is also good. Everyone plays their role perfectly.
@NeastWS @AlexGodofsky Unintentional, but the entrance of the baby in the "Korea expert Robert Kelly's TV appearance gets derailed by his kids" is really good.
@cremieuxrecueil To my eye this is one of the less AI looking bits of prose I’ve seen trigger a positive on Pangram. Their false positives are quite rare, so maybe I’m missing something. Yeah, there’s some triads of abstract nouns, but that’s reasonably Popish and not dispositive IMO.
@Complex Petit disque orange (rotated), by František Kupka, 1932
No atheist has been able to rebut this CS Lewis quote
Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s wife Amy says she has held a grudge against Jessica Simpson for almost two decades. 👀 familytoday.com/relationships/…
@jerrrrrrryyyyy While we're applying economic analysis to this incident, I should note that our own @besttrousers has a seminal paper on the importance of trash containers in New York City. 🫡 journal-bpa.org/index.php/jbpa…
@jerrrrrrryyyyy Yes, this is Baumol. The labor is worth way more than the manufacturing.
@Thackej @sebkrier @NatPurser “Not the color of their skin, but the content of their character.” “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” “We go to the Moon in this decade not because it is easy, but because it is hard…”
@Thackej @sebkrier @NatPurser Even the much derided “not X, but Y” formulation was actually excellent before it was overused. “If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.”
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