He was sort of Boromir in Ronin too.

Apparently both pronunciations are correct but I’ve never heard it pronounced any other way than doōn. But I think what is required for the joke to work is to pronounce doin’ like doōn.

Wait, how the fuck else would you pronounce dune?

In case you ever need led hardproof that America is not a Christian Nation.

I see nothing that indicates that that is the front of the roll

Did you really expect them to rule against their own economic interest?

Lady Cassandra…?

🙋

At least it was a real name. Nowadays it seems like every new company’s name is just a random jumble of letters solely because that .com was available.

I can do that with my local taxi company anyway so they don’t even have that to differentiate themselves.

NLRB edge is great if you like to nerd out on those sort of labor policy things. It has one of the only email newsletters that I actually read every time. Matt does good work. Check out the People’s Policy Project.

I can’t imagine looking at the world and thinking we need more industry. Also, I know a lot of PhDs. Knowing a lot of things about a particular subject in know way correlates with intelligence.

Totally. I live in a college town. I’m surrounded by mid-century-neoliberalism. There has developed a sizable unhoused population here, because of skyrocketing rents and the fact that there are actually a lot of us here who actually gives a shit and try to help. It’s really pulled the mask off a lot of these folks.

And has an “In this house we…” sign in the front yard.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

Shit. I didn’t realize that I was doing this to myself until I got diagnosed as an adult about 10 years after I quit smoking.

Nope. Not even close.

My grandmother started smoking after her doctor suggested that she take it up in order to help her lose weight after pregnancy. She smoked the rest of her life.

“Officials have said there is no reason to believe Starliner won’t be able to bring the astronauts back home” Yeah sure whatever. there was also no reason to believe the door would fall off of that jet in mid flight.

I would bet their not great people. There is probably a reason he grew into the awful person that he is. I would wager those are the same reasons he doesn’t want to help them financially.