True nerdiness is reading this comment and barely hesitating before mentally inserting <x>’s where they should be.

“Resent” is correct, around here at least. They’re deeply sincere about it, but I don’t understand it.

Son... have you rehabilitated yourself?

My commute is 22 minutes each way, so either 22 or 44 minutes would be best.

I’ve just realized that I no longer count in these statistics. I guess I’m now in the sub-prime labor force.

The First Gilded Age was when things like The Protocols of the Elders of Zion came out. I wonder if there’s a connection between them and modern conspiracy theories.

If free-trade agreements deliver economic growth, then leaving one should undo that growth, and maybe even cause a recession. The fact that so many people didn’t think that is disturbing: economists have had decades to prove this, and it hasn’t gotten out.

Maybe this is the mechanism by which the USA can finally get down to a reasonable number of hours on the job per week.

Is it linear? I’m willing to absorb a 2% increase in grocery prices if the workers get a 100% raise.

Worse than Napoleon destroying the Holy Roman Empire? TBD.

That’s how I always did it. The computation has to be done in one frame or another; Einstein gave me top-cover when I was called on to defend my choice.

Europe will not be able to take the UK seriously in such a forum for a very long time.

“Sustainable” for colonies probably should contain a bit about being profitable to the mother country.

A river is a polarizing filter. (since the host is all about polarization these days :-) It makes lengthwise transportation much faster. Transversely it's an obstacle, especially to infantry. Although, come to think of it, interstate highways are the biggest obstacles on my daily commute, so maybe a river is a highway.

This reminded me of the comment by the Grand Duke Nicholas, “I disapprove of war because it spoils the armies.” Trying to track down the citation, and failing, I nevertheless came across this essay, which seems to paint the current CINC perfectly. https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/military-review/Archives/English/Dir-Select/military-review-july-1986.pdf

My professor was fond of pointing out places where well-respected physicists revealed that they still had luminiferous aether in their mental model of the world. Never thought I’d hear someone say that was a good thing.

I feel like any attempt to characterize an “American Way” view of the university should mention football.

I kinda want to subscribe to that journal.

I’m reading John Crowley’s Ka at the moment, so I have to point out that to a crow, ravens aren’t black.

If you take that advice, I’d appreciate links to good stuff. My dilettantish attempts have all led me into bogs of dubious and unsourced assertions.

I love the idea that the symbol for a pawnbroker’s shop can be interpreted as low-hanging fruit. I shall be stealing it forthwith.

Even simpler: the women were busy. The men were not.

Reminds me of Parmentier’s potato patch, at a time when the French refused to eat them. He posted armed guards, who were instructed to accept all bribes from midnight poachers.

Does that apply to Eric & Don Jr.?

Well put. And we didn't even have to bring in the Norsemen.