Zompist Bboard Again

lëtzeshark wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2026 3:32 am

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[*][...] Baguettes are extortionately expensive in the US (because they're French, which automatically means high-class),

Interesting strike against the whole "markets are rational and will calculate everything based on cold hard economic facts"-idea.

How can it be already ten years since the year when all the celebrities died? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z04M6NhkIKk

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2026 12:09 am Here is a simple sentence.

[ˈeχɛ ˈlaχ ˈnɐlbə]
/ˈeχe ˈlaχ ˈnəlbə/
Éxe lâx nálba.
éxe lâx n=álba
hoe take.PFV POSS.1S=older_brother
The hoe was taken by my older brother.

That's impressive.

It's kind of funny even though it's so sad. CNN seems to be determined to demonstrate that once you go Full Horse Race Commentary, you never go back from Full Horse Race Commentary: https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3mjrfj5s2mk2d “It’s a blowout… not even close… Pope Leo absolute...

Dear Google, Fuck you. Making me choose between a video of myself or giving you my ID to use basic features my YouTube account, which has been in good standing for 20 years. I refuse to let you use my likeness for AI so now I have to trust that you won’t fuck up the security around my driver’s lice...

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Sat Apr 18, 2026 5:31 am That's a good one, Raphael! Thanks for sharing!

Thank you! I especially like the one in the bottom right corner.

How did I live my entire life until now without ever knowing that Josh Ritter exists?

So far, I've only heard Getting Ready to Get Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnQ89jZvZD0, but I'm curious about more of his stuff now.

Perhaps it's time for me to sound a bit like malloc again. On Thursday there was a special election in the 11th Congressional District of New Jersey. The Democratic nominee, Analilia Mejia. won with 59.53 percent of the vote, while the Republican nominee, Joe Hathaway, got 40.01 percent of the vote....

Unrelated to the current discussion: OK, I'm feeling a bit cranky and combative right now. So I've decided to post something that will make people across the political spectrum hate me. Right-wingers will see me as an elitist, and left-wingers will see me as a (transferred) jingoist. I think this fi...

Thank you for taking the time to research that. I'm not mainly talking about inflation, more simply about people struggling and feeling squeezed, which has many components. And note that in a recent post, I wrote Since the start of the decade, there have been several interruptions of major parts of ...

The old economic reality has been destroyed, and the median American voter is just going to keep ping-ponging back and forth between parties as each tries and fails to bring it back. Sure but one must wonder why the old economy has been destroyed. The technology to make things affordably still exis...

At the risk of sounding like malloc, here's something else, related, I found on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/castirony.bsky.social/post/3mjlrz6nwmk2r This is why I’m still fairly pessimistic on the future of American politics even given fairly good poll numbers. The old economic reality has bee...

I think the median voter believes in Natural Prices, and these are about how much things costed at the most recent point in their mind where they felt relatively financially stable. They expect politicians and businesses to honour this and take steps to ensure things cost their Natural Price. Sorry...

Lērisama wrote: ↑Thu Apr 16, 2026 4:03 am

Raphael wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2026 4:29 pm

Lērisama wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2026 3:37 pm
Edit: Ach, es ist eigentlich das Deutsch!

Nein, "mein Deutsch" war richtig.

Ganau, aber das ist wegen Deutsch Neutrum ist. Ich hatte das Wortsatz mit „mein“ verbessert.

"Genau, aber das ist weil Deutsch Neutrum ist. Ich hatte den Wortsatz mit „mein“ verbessert."

For those interested in both reading German texts and US Politics, I posted a relatively long, but still fairly thought if you keep in mind what subject it's about, text I had written in German about the history of the two main parties in the USA since the late 19th century, over in Ephemera: https:...

Only tangentially related: For my own amusement - well, for some values of "amusement" - I wrote a lengthy - it was supposed to be brief, but I couldn't keep it nearly as brief as I had wanted - German-language overview the the development of the two main parties in the USA and their comp...

TEIL 4 / PART 4: Die verschiedenen Teile der Parteien und die Außenpolitik Und jetzt das Ganze noch mal von vorne, aber diesmal kürzer und mit Schwerpunkt auf den verschiedenen Einstellungen zur Außenpolitik. Am Anfang der Zeit, mit der wir uns hier befasst haben, war ein wichtiger Unterschied zwisc...

TEIL 3 / PART 3: Die Bürgerrechtsbewegung und andere kulturelle Veränderungen In den Jahren nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg bekam die Bürgerrechtsbewegung unter Schwarzen, die es in verschiedenen Formen seit sehr langer Zeit gegeben hatte, immer mehr Schwung. Ich persönlich denke nicht, dass das ein Zufa...

TEIL 2 / PART 2: Der Streit um Gold und Silber Eine aus heutiger Sicht ziemlich merkwürdige Eigenart der US-Politik im späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert war ein sehr heftiger Kampf um einen bestimmten Aspekt der Währungspolitik. Papiergeld spielte damals noch nicht so eine wichtige Rolle, wie es...

Yesterday, over in the US Politics Thread, I posted a relatively long, but still fairly thought if you keep in mind what subject it's about, text I had written in German about the history of the two main parties in the USA since the late 19th century. This has already led to some people trying to pr...