In the midwest, a King rises.
"Michigan boy, 6, spends $1k on Grubhub: ‘Doorbell just kept ringing, cars kept coming’" https://www.mlive.com/news/2023/01/michigan-boy-6-spends-1k-on-grubhub-doorbell-just-kept-ringing-cars-kept-coming.html
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/pourmecoffee/status/1620469013393317903
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sorry pal, you’re cold-emailing the wrong person
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1620466974043312130
The New York attorney general asks a judge to sanction Trump, his eldest children, and their attorneys for their responses in legal filings, including allegedly false statements that contradict previous sworn testimony.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/KaraScannell/status/1620450509915312129
It's one thing to prepare to defend friends and allies against a possible Chinese attack. But why anyone would think that STARTING such a war would be anything other than catastrophic is baffling to me.
Especially since we can all observe the effects of invading Ukraine.
"Defense nerds are mashing their little action figures together and making explosion sounds with their mouths."
Accurate description of the world we live in now.
https://foreverwars.ghost.io/bipartisan-cold-was-with-china/?ref=forever-wars-newsletter
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/rochowanski/status/1620462429657530373
The Pentagon says it doesn't want a war after an Air Force general predicted it. But what anyone wants is less important than what the dynamics of "Great Power Competition" yield. PLUS: Really good books by Kerry Howley and Sevgi Soysal.
Today I did my ritual discussion of relativism in class (mostly to eliminate "freshmen relativism" before it begins). Unsurprisingly, before our discussion, all of them claimed to be relativists. But the conversations made me realize something really helpful about the phenomenon:
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/freganmitts/status/1620124869630521345
“Today I did my ritual discussion of relativism in class (mostly to eliminate "freshmen relativism" before it begins). Unsurprisingly, before our discussion, all of them claimed to be relativists. But the conversations made me realize something really helpful about the phenomenon:”
France will then have given away 30 in total—more than a third of their entire CAESAR holdings. Denmark all 19 in their possession. Remarkable scale of transfers when you put them in context of existing holdings. https://twitter.com/jimmysecuk/status/1620436846684819456
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And there you have it. No matter how you measure it, ECI is returning to trend.
There's 4 major measures you could use; I prefer wages for private workers, but you can't cherry-pick one that didn't return to trend. The Fed has lost its excuse for a recession. Let's dive in. /1
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mtkonczal/status/1620415389401513986
“And there you have it. No matter how you measure it, ECI is returning to trend. There's 4 major measures you could use; I prefer wages for private workers, but you can't cherry-pick one that didn't return to trend. The Fed has lost its excuse for a recession. Let's dive in. /1”
