@emmymrtin Now I get the anti-billionaire thing. With public debt and debt servicing getting scary, maybe you can stick them with the bill for all the blue state/city operating failures, so you can keep on digging holes deeper. Rich scapegoats the best kind.
@pmarca Suspect this rise tracks the stock market. Independent bookstores track upscale communities, often wealthy older women with money to spend on social cachet. When the rich get richer with the market, you get more bookstores. Often bastions of wokeness too...
@emollick Put the case Chinese models surpass American ones, what would then be the point of the ban? Forcing US users to use second-rate models seems like a suicide pact.
@mattyglesias Accusations of antisemitism is hysteria? And is there a "the left," with a "policy," which it "demands" vis-a-vis Israel? You are lying to yourself, so you can lie to other people. So morally repulsive.
@ElliottBlackwe3 I like how the details open up as you look at the painting. First the window and the sea, of course, then the frame, and then the cat? the torn pages tacked up on the wall? the stuff on the door lintel? I'm finally trying to read the book titles. Delighted...
@RhythmRogue415@redeemed_zoomer First time I went to the UK at nineteen I made a point of finding this--so disappointed. I think the Community Note on this one is wrong. A pleasure that fails is vintage Lewis.