Little Beaver is growing into toddlerhood, with all the fun and meltdowns that entails. I've noticed a lot of behavior changes since she's moved into the toddler room at daycare - she must be observing others and imitating them. In particular, she's been wanting to sit on the toilet already, even though it seems way too early yet.

I begrudgingly have to accept that Elon is some type of genius. He has convinced the entire stock market to be his bagholder on his quest to become a trillionaire.

Run to the Hills. But I'm an Iron Maiden casual, I've only every really listened to The Number of the Beast.

Crazy that they banned Cenk too, that makes it clear that this is only about anti-zionism.

Deindustrialization is not just a buzzword

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Many such cases. I actually think it's kind of bad to set the expectation that something is a dark comedy. Better to just let the movie stand on it's own without genre expectations. There's a tightrope that dark comedies have to walk - if it doesn't turn off at least a few viewers, then it is simply a comedy. But at some point, barely anyone is laughing. And that doesn't necessarily make the movie bad, but it can fuck with your expectations.

The first step on the long road towards salvaging the reputation of the Pulitzer Prize.

There's a lot of sorting that happens to recruits who join the US military. Most army and marine personnel are in supporting roles, and those are generally filled by the higher educated recruits who did have other potential opportunities in life... and then you can imagine who gets to be the cannon fodder on the frontlines, and then who is actually doing the atrocities. It's perverse.

The air force is where that dynamic is flipped, and the actual trigger-pullers are highly educated, accomplished people who could have done anything else with their life but cause death and misery. They are some of the most contemptible scum in the imperial core.

There are two seemingly contradictory explanations for collapse in fertility rates that I commonly see:

1. That having kids is financially infeasible for many more households
2. That economic prosperity and education lead to the collapse of fertility

But I think what squares the circle is that the second statement is actually describing societies with more developed capitalism, and that the seeming extra prosperity has come from cannibalizing social reproduction in pursuit of more intensive labor productivity. It's how you can get a society where there is relative material abundance, but no spare time or cash to raise your kids.

Fertility rates track the "one map" pretty closely, and I don't think that's a coincidence. And the fact that China has now joined that group might warrant some uncomfortable reflection on our part about the trajectory their society is taking.

Soul of Stan Lee cannot be allowed to rest. Capital will find a way to resurrect it and force it to perform a blasphemous vaudeville act for all eternity.