and whatever “tough” means, I

It is, isn’t it. After high school, you can look forward to a life of endless drudgery as a salaryman if you’re lucky, or endless drudgery as a temp worker if you’re not.

You and I must be consuming different Japanese media.

Book Bran’s story kinda sucked. I more or less skip them on my rereads and it’s not surprising that Benioff and Weiss would have downplayed his story line in the show

there’s a big difference between people who do difficult things that happen to be risky. Not my jam, but it’s fine as long as they’re not taking anyone else with them.

It won’t have an effect on legislation speed because that’s not the bottleneck. The House has strong leadership that can make sharp limits to debate time.

What’s stopping them from getting things done isn’t that there are too many of them

News has been conscious of what people want to read/hear since the invention of News. The only possible exception was a few decades in the United States when three major networks controlled everything people saw on television and there was one hour of television programming everyday that was nothing but news.

What’s wrong with ‘Orange Man Badding’?

I honestly would not want to go on a road trip sitting on top of canisters of compressed hydrogen.

My sense is that Musk “doesn’t care about making money” in the macro sense. As in he doesn’t care that if you add up the costs of building a new production line, and developing new technologies, and setting up new supply chains, and everything else that goes into building an electric car and compare it to what the…

So finish the series around 2045?

Scorpions were historically know for their accuracy- their role was to snipe guys during sieges.

This training video for American bomber pilots in WWII should tell you jsut how goddam hard it is to hit a flying target from the ground.

This reminds of one time I was talking with a guy who ran a couple apartment buildings that he and his family owned. They were set to make a minor windfall from this because they were in a gentrifying neighborhood and had a deal to sell them.

So you root for laundry? Good for you. It’s amazing that someone who’s dumb enough to think that makes them better than other people is also capable of forming coherent sentences, and even nitpicking grammar.

Fandom for any team in any sport is artificial. You think JJ Watt or Kyle Long cares about you? You think Dan Rooney or Jeanie Buss gives a fuck?

You can mock all you want, but I’d still rather watch Bayern Munich than New York Red Bulls

The IRS already knows how much you make. That’s how they know to penalize you if you get it wrong.

That’s an interesting tidbit, but ultimately irrelevant. What’s important is that NFL players are less likely to commit DV than the general population, not the proportion of DV incidents to dumb barfights.