Given the events of the past week, a better patriots analogy and cautionary tale would be Bill Belichik. Someone who lost his abilities, stayed on longer than necessary, and left a trail of disarray with long term damage for his organization.
mood around Biden feels like sports media re: the NE Patriots three weeks into 2018. Pats were coming off a Super Bowl loss where they couldn't stop a backup QB.
they lost w2 to a mid Jags team and w3 to hapless Detroit. ESPN and talk radio were cooking them.
Pats won the SB that year.
@retrotechdreams.bsky.social a zoomer friend of mine thought that ms dos was named after 2 in Spanish and believed that windows 3 was so named because it came after that.
The Phantom comic strip is currently savaging ‘Ian Mollusk,’ the asshole owner of Space-Ox, who has had a spacecraft unexpectedly touchdown in Africa.
It’s fantastic. I hope the Phantom skull-marks him.
I don’t really care about hockey 🏒 but knowing that Edmonton and all of Canada is hurting after their hopes were raised so high is making me inexplicably happy.
Here’s the problem with the apple ad. People are confusing it with the threat of AI to the arts which is very real. Smug mac users have for ages talked about how apple machines can do everything, but cower before an ipad ad that says just that.
Mass has huge upcharges for out of state resident beach parking. Something like $40 for non residents vs $15 for residents at horseneck.
RI should do the same.
probably the biggest post cold war fumble was the assumption that everyone would naturally gravitate towards liberalism without effort
of course, how to *actually* liberalize these half-liberal countries--i have no goddamn idea.
