Nine points. They won a +22 district by nine. Despite active voter suppression.

Yeah, they should be “fretting.”

Yes, yes, yes! But also, it’s particularly notable that she’s white and blond with no accent because they claim to their supporters to be protecting those specific people from “illegals.” Pointing out that they’re not only doing something awful but also defying their own stated principles is always a good thing to do.

The crazy thing is that their margins are super low, and the subscription fee isn’t super onerous (as you mentioned, there are multiple ways to make it back–for instance, we’ve never yet had a year where we didn’t get our Executive membership totally paid for by the rebate check), and yet they still pay substantially more than other employers in pretty much every area, and they’re still one of the most profitable retailers in the country.

Basically, I think every other big box store’s executive team should be fired whenever they say they “can’t” do something like pay their workers or offer benefits or whatever. Obviously you can, because Costco does.

That’s really true. We returned the same vacuum cleaner three times in a year before we decided to just get a different brand.

Somebody once asked him if that was rehearsed, and he said something along the lines of “actually it takes effort for me to not talk like that the rest of the time.” Which, for just about anyone else, I would assume was a lie, but Brennan? Not terribly unbelievable, tbh.

Absolutely. And it’s clearly making enough waves to pull “established” comedians like Wayne Brady and Ben Schwartz, which makes it feel even more like Whose Line.

That’ll be a massive breakthrough.

Totally fair. In the same vein I would also commend dropout.tv to you, if you’re at all interested in comedy and have a bit of disposable income.

It’s a very good summary of the article. The things the author reconsidered were pretty nuanced, and trying to describe them in a headline without making the headline even longer than it is.

Would you have liked this better?

“This Minecraft map that recreates Kowloon Walled City, one of history’s most notorious slums, made me realize that 3D level design isn’t just about the complexity or the environmental challenge, but about the internal lives of the people who live there and the way that the game implies a greater reality that exists beyond the confines of the camera’s field of view”

Because that’s too long to fit in a tweet.

Just realized, I had forgotten entirely about appliances and electronics and clothes and stuff. That stuff is almost always 10-ish percent cheaper as a baseline. So if you need to buy that sort of thing somewhat often, it might be a better deal thank I let on.

If you’re buying for enough people that it makes sense, the Executive membership can easily pay for itself. Generally speaking Costco is slightly cheaper, but the big thing is that you’ll typically get the more premium brand in a bulk container for the more basic price.

But if you aren’t going to be buying for a family of six every other week, it might not be super worth it to you. It’s a good store, but it’s not some amazing mecca or anything.

“latest time zone”

Well that’s just unnecessarily obtuse.

I read the article. It appears to deliver on the promise of the headline pretty completely. What is promised is a little bit too nuanced and complex to be neatly encapsulated in the headline any other way. The headline also isn’t sensationalized or misrepresentative of the content. And, honestly, the reason I think most people are clicking is for the Kowloon part, not the level design part. Are you just upset because it sounds a little bit like a LinkedIn status in its construction?

Mastodon has definitely improved, but more to the point, there’s really nothing else. Particularly not anything that anyone is using. Unless you widen your definition to include Bluesky.

Honestly, I’d say that Mastodon’s perceived complexity in the past was kind of an illusion anyway. The problem of choosing a server was really made out to be this huge hurdle, when in fact it was no big deal at all; I was a member of several different servers over time, and I didn’t feel like my experience was substantially different on any of them. Just join one that seems interesting or is near you or whatever, and you’ll be fine. After that, it operates pretty much the same as Twitter did. Following people on other servers can be a little bit trickier on web, but in the app it’s pretty seamless.

Indiana was a blue state in 2008. It could happen.

Yeah, this is a bonkers map. The idea of districting someone on North Meridian in Rocky Ripple with the Cincinnati suburbs, but a friend of theirs who lives less than a mile further east in a district that also includes a Danville, Illinois suburb?

Honestly, I’m too flabbergasted to be angry. This is just bizarre.

Maybe this could be idiotic and indefensible enough to get people to recognize how stupid gerrymandering is.

But how would one wash the dish? Surely not with a dishwasher pod?

The point: “stop wine-ing”?

By French law, bread can only contain flour, yeast, salt, and water. Sadly, he must be cake.

Whoa, the Eat The Rich people are serious.