Chinese interview: The concept of atonement didn’t really exist in Ancient Greece and it didn’t exist in Homer’s Odyssey. It exists in your Odyssey. Did you Christianize the Odyssey?
American interview: spin the snack wheel and then read these thirst tweets they called you zaddy
Bessent is in panic mode... he intervened to support the yen.
To prevent Japan from selling even more US assets, he joined Japan in a massive coordinated intervention.
But instead of selling USD, the US sold EUR.
To keep this war going, the US has to bail out major holders of US assets to prevent them from selling... especially Treasuries.
The US simply can't afford this war, which is why it only escalates when markets are closed.
I understand why black people make their emojis black but when white people make their emojis white instead of yellow it feels like they’re making a statement
Phones were collected to prevent the trailer from leaking, and everyone agreed to it. Tom spent hours taking photos and talking with over 200 people, one by one, late into the night. He didn't have to do any of that, but he did.
You can criticize studios relying on influencers. Fine.
But don't make this event sound like some weird, controlled setup when everyone knew the rules, agreed to them, and had a great time.
Pat Buchanan in 2009 calls Gaza an Israeli concentration camp where 1.5M people are locked without food, electricity and fuel. Gets pushback from two Zionist commentators
"The innocent people in Gaza are the ones suffering"
I can not emphasize how much retail traders are unprepared for an extended bear market. Ya gotta remember that smart phone trading didn't exist in 2008- these biggest crash these kids have known in 2020 Covid, and the government moved heaven and earth to make them whole
David Foster Wallace was exactly right when he said that your ability to derive meaning comes down to your ability to concentrate. It's so painfully true I uninstalled Instagram.
Kind of fascinating to skip to "Tim and Linda Urbanite are hypocrites for not naming their kids Brayynleaigh" instead of looking at the much juicer phenomenon (American "conservatives" have formed their own nominative pidgin language because they hate conserving anything)
Some fun ones amongst a sea of slop. I need to cancel Netflix, my father BTK was one of the worst true crime docs I’ve ever seen. Blair Witch sequel was boring and I have no words on Flight Risk.
spiritually debilitating to watch all this happen and see the nation respond with a collective shrug & an unpausing of Love Island. there comes a point where the grift and graft is so pervasive and obscene that you question whether this system was ever noble at all.