I think this outfit that Rebecca Hall wore in 2015’s The Gift is my favorite one that any woman in a movie has ever donned:

Those collarbones! I have no idea what that neckline cut is called but it’s hella flattering on Rebecca. The film is also very good, which helps.

Soccer is just the worst sport. Boring, absurdly repetitive, about as interesting as a tax return. I’d rather watch competitive donkey-licking.

I still firmly believe that back in 2019, someone in the WIV dropped a vile vial of Covid virus and thus gifted us with the pandemic. A lab leak is the only explanation that makes any actual sense.

Since relations with China have declined greatly since that time, I guess we’d not kowtow to China publicly nearly as much now. Not that it would’ve mattered to the outcome greatly. But the truth still matters.

By the way, the “people’s brains aren’t fully developed until they are 25” claptrap is just as much bullshit as the earlier “we only use 10% of our brains” nonsense that preceded it. Both are based on shoddy understandings of incomplete research — for instance, the study that people have used to conclude that the prefrontal cortex keeps changing until age 25 only studied people age 21-25. No one older.

Later studies showed that your PFC keeps changing into your 30s and beyond. Unsurprisingly. The brain is dynamic unto death.

I cannot emphasize how absolutely and fully horseshit the idea that the “brain doesn’t mature fully until age 25” is. It’s dipshit clown crap of the highest order.

If you think inflation is bad now, just wait till China attacks Taiwan in 2030 and we lose access to all Chinese and Taiwanese (TSMC) manufactured goods. That’s not gonna be a good time.

Minus housing, I’d expect ~40% inflation for a few years.