People standardize on these phrases because they are meaningful and useful. Then they become overused and their meaning becomes diluted. Then someone comes up with a new way to say the same thing and it becomes the new standard. Thus are paradigms shifted.

I’ve never seen one man devote such time and passion to supporting the position that he is deeply unqualified for his own job.

See your Parrot and raise you Superb Lyrebird:

Haha, 3% as the lowest possible RoR? That’s pretty optimistic isn’t it? There are plenty of ways to make a good faith effort to invest wisely and still end up with negative RoR. If this were anything other than a marketing tool designed to convince more people to lease than otherwise would, it would account for that…

Baseball is a business.

I’m starting to think I might never get recruited to play for Everton.

“Sign him up”

I want to make out with this comment.

Not a minor point on plastic waste. It is a massive problem. And jumping to sous vide when you haven’t or can’t figure out how to cook a dang steak to the correct doneness via a “traditional” method is like jumping straight to sampling music created by other artists by using your Macbook and then calling yourself a…

Not a minor point on plastic waste. It is a massive problem. And jumping to sous vide when you haven’t or can’t…

Sous vide is an interesting concept that isn’t really necessary and creates a lot of extra plastic waste. Don’t bother. Instead, try learning to cook!

Sous vide is an interesting concept that isn’t really necessary and creates a lot of extra plastic waste. Don’t…

I wanted to be good, and that was the best way to do it.

I won’t be taking financial advice from anyone who makes such a fundamental error:

Absolutely. 100% women it is!

History shows you can make a great living as an apologist for “the way it is”.....right up to the moment where your head lands up in a basket in Place de la Revolution.

No it does. There is extensive political science literature on it, based on theory and research. Basically it boils down to the incentive structure of a system where regardless of how many people are running, only one seat is awarded per election and only one person wins the seat (as opposed to proportional…

There are as many parties as people choose to form. The number of effective parties is limited by the electoral rules of a given system. In our case, that number is two. In other systems, with different electoral rules there are more parties that have actual chances of putting people in office.

“The superdelegate system is baffling and stupid, given that it’s composed of unelected randos”

Hey, thanks for understanding how a thing works and making a reasonable comment about it. That doesn’t happen often, so I’m thanking you publicly.

If I were dealing with an energy beam, I’d consider alternatives to “punch the beam.” but that’s just me.

AlphaGo also has a better haircut somehow.