A spa with a “cold plunge” sounds like the worst fucking thing in the universe. You call it a spa, I call it Abu Ghraib.
Day: July 30, 2024, 10:10 PM
Rings
Joyless fun-hating libs made some progress in killing off the Olympics during Covid, but didn’t quite get it done. Now the Games are back, doing well, and making doofuses, dipshits and dumbasses angry while everyone else has a good time.
I love it.
Tankard
When tanks go boom, they do not fuck around. That shockwave made the ground look like the sea for a bit.
Somno
I miss the days when all it took for a woman to fall in love with you was to climb in through her bedroom window at night and stare at her while she’s sleeping.
Ah, those were the days. 😉
South Shock
Unequal exchange of labour in the world economy.
Lord, this paper is a mess. So, let me get this straight — if you include countries in the “Global North” that are approximately 10% of the world’s population, then the other 90% of countries produce 90% of the shit? Shock me harder, daddy.
And this, check this out.
The periphery, or global South, includes all other countries (i.e. the IMF’s ’emerging and developing’ countries). In EXIOBASE, several of the IMF’s ’advanced economies’ (Singapore, San Marino, Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Macao SAR, Hong Kong, Puerto Rico, Monaco, Bermuda, Andorra and New Zealand) are aggregated into regions, such as ’Rest of Europe’, ’Rest of Asia’, etc. We were, therefore, compelled to include these countries in our ‘global South’ category.
What a damn joke. And yes, I did read the whole paper. It’s bad. It’s very bad. I can’t even judge its conclusions because its data is such junk. Could be true, could be false, who the fuck knows? GIGO.
Honeyglaze – Don’t (Live)
I like the rawness and slight discordance of the live version.
Traffic Enforcement Dwindled in the Pandemic. In Many Places, It Hasn’t Come Back.
America’s New Political War Pits Young Men Against Young Women.
Quad foreign ministers decry dangerous South China Sea actions.
Scientists need more time to think.
How One Man Lost $740,000 to Scammers Targeting His Retirement Savings. Sorry, but what a dumbass.
We need a progressive approach to economics that doesn’t depend on a deficiency of aggregate demand. This is about 80% wrong, but the kernel is correct.