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It's so measured and deftly played. Genius often seems to be a transferrable skill, which is a bit annoying for the rest of us.

This was new to me and, instantly, is the best thing I've seen this year.

There are two possibilities: that one of the most influential national security academics sincerely believes that "your salted caramel mocha latte is destroying society"; or he doesn't really believe that and is making the argument overblown as a bit of a joke. I'm thinking it's probably the latter.

Dunno. I can't help but read it in a Pooterish tone. Though fair enough to argue it's not funny, or not broad enough, or whatever.

Is everyone now blind to the comedic trope of self-deprecating pompousness about triviality or is it just Americans?

I get that, but if this is what now qualifies as cringe for privileged twentysomethings I'm glad I'm not young. Hate the game, not the players.

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I'm very familiar with the culture, having been a tourist in it for a quarter of a decade. Compared against the stuff Dealbreaker etc were writing pre GFC, "mortal shame of young VP says he owns five to ten vests" is just neurotically meek.

Wish I understood the big reaction to this. They are ordinary young men with ordinary-verging-on-dull habits. They reply to dull questions in ordinary ways. They're photographed in a GQ way wearing ordinary clothes. There's nothing here.

And I probably know the person who organised the Extremely Weird Event. London is a village.

Downstairs at The Star of Kings in Kings Cross is exactly this.

TUNE

I get the point here, but if you don't like social pressure to dress your reluctant kids up in outfits you can't afford so they can take part in faux fun group events that have negligible educational value then you're going to hate the other 13 years of school as well.

World Book Day repost

sorry I can't come in on monday I had a disappointing weekend

Alas,

Still struggling to care, I have to be honest. It's a private contract. If there's been a breach of contract then sue. If there's no breach of contract, take the L. Anyone expecting transparency, probity and selfless consistency from bookmakers has not been paying attention this past 3000 years.

Well indeed. We really need to get a grip of how much prediction market volume is just wash trading by preferred partners who deal almost for free. (My guess, taking crypto as the benchmark, would be ~90%+)

Insider trading is, as a principle, about theft not fairness. Have the people without inside information who were betting on a "Will the US to strike Iran" market had their money stolen? No. Have they been treated unfairly? Irrelevant, but also no. I genuinely couldn't care less about this stuff.

What I don't get is why anyone would take a side of this type of bet without inside information? You're playing Three Card Monte.

Operation Pyrrhic Fury

Bullying is good. That's the moral.

No one should be allowed to sign off a press release saying things like "We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place" without it triggering a vivid flashback of that time they shat themselves at summer camp.

the danger of taking these people seriously is that they'll take themselves seriously and this is where it gets you

Breaking it down may have been the probl- [save to drafts]

Hmm.

guys if I'm murdered please don't turn it into interpretive dance I don't want that

Got to be honest I was cynical about all this but I checked on my ai agents this morning and they had written The Waste Land by TS Eliot

(What I meant is that it wouldn't matter because the post is very obviously made up nonsense.)

Also that. Confirmation bias clout farming.