at least no one is remotely serious in the replies I’ve seen

I went to the Queens Italian restaurant where George Santos has somehow spent almost $50k in campaign funds since 2020, often in installments of exactly $199.99, one cent below what you have send the FEC receipts for. I tried to recreate his favorite meal. slate.com/news-and-polit…

lonelier than I realised, being an author

English has many pairs of words where '-th' was once added to make a noun out of the other, like 'width' and 'wide'.

My favourites are the ones for which the link may not be obvious now, like:
- 'mirth' and 'merry'
- 'drought' and 'dry'
- 'filth' and 'foul'
- 'sloth' and 'slow'

has the bad man reinstated (some) twitter clients?

Everyone is overlooking the real benefit of induction stoves which is that if they work today you can infer that they'll work tomorrow

the bad man has broken (some) third party twitter clients

Chess (.) com is a fascinating company.

• Founded in 2005
• Bought the domain for $55,000
• Have 400+ employees (100% remote)
• Crossed 100 million members this year
• Finished 2022 with ~$100M in revenue

Here's the story: huddleup.substack.com/p/how-the-resu…

restofworld.org/2023/mexico-me… | what a 40% reduction in funding can do to a metro system

you might agree with them, you might think there’s no good options, whatever. But backing politicians to do the right thing in SL just makes you an easily exploitable mug.

The PR win from just using the money for food kitchens on the 4th was right there, but they won’t take it

Oh dear - semafor.com/article/01/11/…

🤔 Does paying people for vaccination have negative consequences, such as reducing future vaccination and eroding moral values?

No.

Our new paper in Nature:

“Financial incentives for vaccination do not have negative unintended consequences”
nature.com/articles/s4158…

👇🧵

getting mild whiplash when the local tankie gets off his “we do not interfere in internal affairs” high horse, and rages at a country deciding not to let some people in

Mike White is so drunk and hilarious. he just called out every famous person in the audience for passing on White Lotus. a true icon lol

'I know you all passed! You all passed on this show! So, yes, it's very gratifying to have this moment.' 

#GoldenGlobes

a very wide range of local life experience on this site, including people who I am convinced have never lived here

oh yes

“Everything luxetarian is built on somebody’s back; somebody has to pay,” - nytimes.com/2023/01/09/din…

africasacountry.com/2023/01/the-ma…