Take it up with the History of Byzantium podcast guy. He says that experts say that is was likely boiled oil pressurized like a super soaker sprayed through a lit wick.

Take it up with the History of Byzantium podcast guy. He says that experts say that is was likely boiled oil pressurized like a super soaker sprayed through a lit wick. 

They are dead because circulation numbers are down and real journalism isn’t particularly cheap. They made cuts because going from a circulation of 2 million to a circulation of 200K is a 10 times reduction in people willing to pay for the product. 

There is a substantial gap between killing yourself and Utopia that you can try. 

Anyone who seriously has a Utopian vision is either a useful idiot or utterly dangerous. Every attempt at Utopia has always ended in Dystopia, so it makes sense.

I’m 30 and I’m the only one of my friends that I know that owns a subscription to a newspaper. 

I’d love to know what papers people actually pay for when they are complaining about the death of legacy media.

The New York Daily News wasn’t profitable. How is that not a market correction? It was literally sold to Tronc for $1 because the liabilities were more than the paper’s value. 

Oh definitely. You’d have to be older than 70 to check your personals or for sale in the items in your local newspaper. 

“I used to goof on are going under, and not because of superior competition, but because they’re all getting eaten alive by a roving band of deathless private equity dipshits.”

Accutane, Propecia, and a few others, but definitely accutane, the warnings on the box come complete with images of deformed fetus. 

Wildfire is inspired by historical Greek Fire, which is just boiled oil pumped out of an ancient super soaker and lit to burn enemy ships.

To be fair, Greek Fire is really hard to put out. It even burns on water. 

I haven’t seen a ripping like this since the last time my dad gave me the “I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed” speech. 

“You leave out the consequences for his family if he doesn’t...”

When someone shows you the receipts...

Call it the Red Rover. 

Every you buy gas, pay taxes on your vehicle (or a registration fee), those taxes are theoretically meant to only address infrastructure.

I love when people reference the tax scheme instituted during the Great Depression as some sort of excellent policy when we know that none of FDR’s policies worked and the only thing that alleviated the depression was war and the subsequent fact that all the international competitors had their factories turned into…

As opposed to the long drawn out hurt that the tariffs have already been causing?