Foolish but energetic officer. I work at a grocery store
He’s not going to finish his term and it’s very unclear Vance will either
G Elliott MorrisOur average of polls at FiftyPlusOne gives Trump a roughly 36% approval rating and 61% disapproval rating — a net -25 — among all adults, and he’s rapidly losing ground. The president set a new record low six days in a row just in the last week: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-08-04...
One of the things that make shopping at Costco so rewarding is you can just buy stuff without all the irritating cognitive load of almost all other shopping experience. Apple is also sort of like this but $$$
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈Costco is the opposite of Amazon because they have a team of professional buyers who stock their shelves with a limited selection of high quality goods that provide good value. And unlike Target and Walmart, they have not opened up their e-commerce platforms to third-party sellers of cheap garbage.
Anyway I‘m casting around for some other way of thinking about the current craziness that’s not just cultural fascism. Like it might also be mass affluence and the poor fit of the existing education system for citizenship in a disorienting but richer world
HirschmanIt was in this lower middle “half-educated” and newly mobile and anxious group that the Eastern mystery cults found popularity, and of course Gnostic and Pauline Christianity.
HUD clerk or mobbed-up naval yard worker/archdiocese “employee“(?)
RevanEnough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?