The Nate Silver special!

What are we looking at here?

That’s close to how it happens in the book. I believe there’s a single paragraph revealing that >!Moss was killed.!< Then the story moves along.

It was interesting, but not surprising, that he said both that Obamacare was a failure, and that they would protect all the parts of it that people enjoy.

Dude. I was at the dog park and sat down next to a friendly, hip-looking boomer. We were talking about dog names and he said he studied Latin in high school. He name-dropped some Roman poets and I thought, “What an interesting guy!” It took about 60 seconds for him to say we’re living in biblical times, Israel will topple the Muslim rulers to reclaim the kingdom, and “the West is begging Russia to nuke us.”

These people are absolutely obsessed with the death of everyone on earth. No wonder they find the most delusional sickos to represent them in government.

Warrior for MMA. It’s a bit of a guilty pleasure because it hits all of my traditional masculine buttons. Redemption, making dad proud, making wife proud, showing your brother you actually love him, fist fights, etc.

“Excuse me, Mr. Netanyahu, if it’s not too much trouble, we were wondering if you would consider taking a break from bombing the children… Mr. Netanyahu?”

I just listened to this episode of Casefile. The whole story is mortifying. Is the movie any good?

Medicare Advantage insurers have for years been diagnosing patients with diseases they don’t have, then pocketing the money for treatment. The treatment never actually happened because the patients didn’t actually have the diseases. This WSJ report said that UHC specifically got HALF of its income from this fraud.

https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/medicare-health-insurance-diagnosis-payments-b4d99a5d

10,700 hostages were taken.

I don’t know what this is and I’ll do my best to avoid it.

Good point. Thanks for saying that.

Honestly, he hasn’t fought much in the last 8 years. His decline is 90% from alcohol and cocaine. His talent and work ethic was incredible during his rise, but after the Mayweather fight in 2017 he couldn’t resist the Scarface lifestyle he had dreamed about. It’s a sad story, not because he’s a good person (he’s not) but because he went from this athletic anomaly to a scared, weak, delusional has-been. Truly a literary tragedy.

Nearly every sentence of this is wrong. Suffering is a part of life, but that doesn’t mean it’s the only part, and it doesn’t mean the “logical” solution is to die. Get real.

Who would that benefit?

These are good questions. Not all arranged marriages are forced or abusive. It seems alien to me as an American, but some people value having their family vet potential partners.

They get it, but they believe that some lives are less important than others. When someone holds that position I haven’t found an argument to convince them otherwise.

He’s always been a fake. Claims to be “just calling balls and strikes” but actually has a center-right agenda. He had a good parlay in 2008 and people have been treating him like a sorcerer ever since.