This was a great match. Coco Gauff pulled off a narrow victory against Cirstea, who hit some damn wicked aces throughout:
Brilliant play by both of them. The women’s game is so much more fun than the men’s — still more about finesse then power. Gauff really plays the net well. Always knows when to close and that’s why she won.
An underappreciated service of professional experts is simply to provide experts whose advice their clients can claim to have followed when things go wrong
— bread price consultant (@neoliberal_dad) January 21, 2020
This is 80% of the reason outside consultants are hired by MBAs in IT — to pawn off blame when their ill-conceived ideas and plans go wrong.
If it weren’t for misinformation, people would have no information at all.
The paradox of Respect is that you will never truly have it until you do not care about receiving it
— Alexander J.A Cortes (@AJA_Cortes) December 9, 2019
The same with attraction. I never had women pay any romantic attention to me at all until I didn’t care if they did or not.
Being human is weird that way. You almost never get what you need when you need it most.
Imagine lying about the demonstrable fact that Biden wants to cut social security. That's some old people's livelihood man. That's some villainous shit.
— Jennyanythots, the old G*mbie cat (@PrettyBadLefty) January 22, 2020
The NYT has to lie about this or no one will vote for Biden. He’s been attempting to cut Social Security since the 1980s. Everyone knows this, but a big enough propaganda operation could turn it around enough to sway perhaps enough votes.
That propaganda operation has begun.
The most fun interaction I’ve ever had as an IT person was being on vacation and getting called by someone needing help. Now, normally, it’s not fun being called on vacation but this user was very nice and we knew each other outside of work a bit so I didn’t mind.
She asked me how to set up her VPN and do some other stuff, since at this company it was all manual at the time. I walked her through it all, even giving her the IPs of some DNS servers she could use, and going step by step through a fairly complex procedure to get it all verified and working, including RDP access to several machines.
At the end, she asked me if I could remote in and look at a hard-to-describe problem with her email. I said, “Remote in? I don’t even have a computer with me and I’m 20 miles from anything.” (I was deep in the Appalachians, was lucky to even have cell signal.)
Complete silence for a moment or two and then she said, “Wait, you walked me through at least a 30 minute setup process and gave me several different IP addresses and you did that from memory?”
“Uh, yeah? That kinda stuff is just natural to me.”
Then she said that she’d see me when I got back, we said our goodbyes, and hung up. I think I blew her mind a little bit. In fact, I know I did as she told other people that story several years later.
The problem with obese morons cosplaying as soldiers, but with real AR-15-derived weapons is that they are still dangerous. Sure, mostly to themselves, but to others too.
This is what an empire on a steep decline looks like.
Let me be clear, White feminism is the single greatest obstacle I face, I owe it nothing. It's adherents do not comprehend solidarity, they demand fealty to empower themselves and their personal brands. I came into this a staunch ally, I learned better. They are a toxic plague.
— Naomi Wu ๆบๆขฐๅฆๅงฌ (@RealSexyCyborg) January 21, 2020
I’m with Naomi Wu on this one. A decade ago, this would’ve sounded crazy to me. But she’s right. What feminism has become is disgusting. It’s harming women more than helping now, at least the dominant strain. White women’s feminism is actively evil at this point.
All of the fucking tweets from liberals strutting over a fascist regime charging Glen Greenwald for the crime of exposing the regime's own crimes tells us EVERYTHING we need to know about centrists.
— Anomaly 🔥 🌹 (@spatial_anomaly) January 21, 2020
Centrists are fine with fascism if it advances corporate interests, just like in all history. No different now.
It will never not be funny to me that people who know literally nothing about economics can very easily out-forecast state of the art models direct from the literature, something which is true for no other major discipline. https://t.co/i9atq0ILRc
— Quantian (@quantian1) January 21, 2020
True. Learning economics makes you actively dumber. There is no other field where laypeople are reliably better than “experts.” None. It’s shocking when you learn this.
Interesting to see that since 1975, wages have essentially not budged, while inflation-adjusted housing prices have increased more than 50%. Housing + education + healthcare all cost far more, in real terms, than 40+ years ago; Instagram & Netflix isn’t a substitute. https://t.co/zhAePRFZAs pic.twitter.com/3Gme14F8WN
โ michael_nielsen (@michael_nielsen) January 19, 2020
So shut the fuck up, Kevin Drum and Noah Smith. You are just wrong. The necessities of life are far more expensive than they were 40+ years ago, and getting more so all the time.
BTW, Netflix and Instagram aren’t substitutes or necessities. I lived 30+ years of my life without those and I did fine.
Just donated $50 to the Internet Archive. You should, too.
Still one of my favorite sub-heads. pic.twitter.com/vNEWb3mmzQ
— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) January 21, 2020
When making sure everything fits into one byte is really, really important to you (for some reason). Just in case you need to run it on a TRS-80, I guess!
I think this story is, mostly, comforting lies that liberals want to believe. Having lived in a high-cost city (Seattle) and many not, I can tell you this is false. And the numbers do, too.
Monthly median housing costs in Houston in 2016 (the most recent year data was available) were $1,379, nearly $400 less than New York City. However, median transportation costs were $1,152, a figure 38 percent higher than for New Yorkers. In total, the study found, living in Houston was only $79 cheaper each month than New York.
Ha. No. What this is missing is that living in Houston increases your optionality — this is why people do it. This pat little lib-comforting analysis proves two things: jack and shit. Because in Houston, you can get a bigger (much, much bigger) house and far better car than the options available to you for the same price or at all in NYC. People don’t move to Houston because they are delusional and clueless about their own lives; they move there because it visibly and demonstrably improves them.
Of course, the “analysis” in the article comports perfectly with modern algae-slurping, concrete-box-living mode of progressive thought, which is why it exists.
Progressives just have to get away from the idea that those who don’t have the same preferences as they do are stupid. It has consequences. See one Trump, Donald, for a prominent example.
In addition, it’s not clear what the article means by “median housing costs” in NYC, but as of 2018, a one-bedroom apartment in NYC goes for $3,070, not the $1,7000 cited for NYC in the article.
Just read the comments on the article to show how bogus is the analysis. Here’s one quoted in full:
I live in a nice suburb about a 30 minute drive from downtown Houston with great schools. I make well under six figures, and I have a brand new car plus another one that’s a 2012. I also live in a very nice 1,000 sqft one bedroom apartment. I know Doctors and software engineers in NY. When they visit they cannot believe my lifestyle on 1/3 their salary. They live in shoeboxes (in some cases w/multiple roommates) and take puplic transportation. Granted I only have a high school diploma, but something isn’t adding up. The median cost may be similar (so they say) but what you get for that cost isn’t even close.
The Texas Monthly article is comparing apples to cherry pits and concluding, well, they’re about the same. Because math! But it’s just objectively garbage, the stats are wrong, the comparisons are atrocious and it’s basically propaganda.
lol Nate Silver is incorporating that poll that was 100% white and polled more people over the age of 75 than under the age of 50. What a joke! https://t.co/4ApNX5MliW
— Body Language Expert (@lib_crusher) January 20, 2020
Nate Boron is a worthless putz. Establishment is doing all possible to exclude and block Bernie now.
