New book from Cambridge University Press. I’m hoping it has a chapter on billionaires (fat chance, I know).
Well, apart from all the volcanos. I suggest that in order to stay warm, they build their utopia around an active flow.
Edit: which would have been funny if I hadn’t confused Greenland for Iceland. Turns out that while there are plenty of extinct volcanos in Greenland, there are in fact zero active ones, whereas Iceland has over 30.
Oh well, I’ll just have to put up with them dying of exposure and polar bears then.
Southwest Airlines is going to shit - getting rid of free checked bags and free seating… even devaluing points. It’s all because of a billionaire vulture fund operator. He also is a HUGE Trump donor. Learn everything you need to know about Paul Singer.
This Vulture Billionaire is Why Southwest is Charging for Bags
In the video about Thiel and Yarvin:
This isn’t about some secret plan between two guys. It’s about how big ideas about politics can show up in the real world when someone with lots of money believes in them.
Do you suppose it was one of the people he screwed over come back for revenge, like in the movie Eega?
Not sure, but I do think there’s a good chance that just before he died he shouted EEEEEEGGGGAAAA!!
That bee is the hero we need!
Huh.
Who knew.
/s
“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.”
― William Gibson, Count Zero
Getting high on their own farts.
Interestingly enough, this is what the article looked like to me:
But I was able to extract the text and read it
Rolling Stone done got stoned.
ETA
From that article:
Security was already quite tight there so I can’t imagine what it’s like now.
Venice had the original Jewish Ghetto (which is where that word comes from) dating back to the 1500s when the city’s Jews were forced to live in a tiny, cramped neighborhood. Very sad history, especially when the Nazis came along. During our trip to Venice my daughter and I stopped by there to see it and when I was taking a photo of one of the historic markers next to a synagogue a plainclothes security guy got very upset with me, asking why I was taking photos and asked me to delete it. I complied and moved on, but jeez, it was just a historic marker and there weren’t any kind of signs indicating that photos weren’t allowed. I’m sure the security folks are even more on-edge these days.
I love this headline.
It’s everything I want for a Tuesday.
Someone at The Guardian is doing a good job playing it right down the middle of “just the facts, ma’am.”
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