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Yes, it’s not a minority opinion, it’s a vast consensus. The problem with getting support for cash transfers is a political one, not an economic one

I ran The Stranger through an Al checker, and it confirmed that the book was indeed written by Al (bert Camus)

Seems unfair, when CBS hired Romo there was already plenty of video proof that he couldn’t lead a successful drive in Wisconsin

POMPE POMPE II: OUT OF TIME POMPE III: THE FLOOR IS LAVA

Zendaya and Tom Holland drawing each other always makes me laugh

Was so happy to find this recording of the Polka Dot Door theme song. One of the shows I watched quite a bit as part of my raised-by-TV childhood. IIRC it either came before or after Rainbow

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Does Joyce Carol Oates talking to Emily Wilson about the Odyssey pass the Bechdel test?

Looks like CONCACAF is joining UEFA in opposing the FIFA proposal to sell shares of the World Cup. For reference, North America and the Caribbean makes up about 20% of World Cup broadcasting rights revenue, and UEFA about 32%. So that's over half of all broadcasting revenue against the proposal

I’ve spent a good part of today just watching versions of Glen Hansard singing “Falling Slowly” with different people (including Marketa Irglova of course) and it still breaks me everytime. That song is absolutely, perfectly, crushing. RIP

This month I’m trying not to be the type of reader who only likes the beginning of things - completed 3 novels that I started in early June, and finished another 4 books I started this month.

I don't think my brain will ever default to reading POS as "point of sale"

Tony Romo leading another failed drive in Wisconsin

This is the part I don't get about the NYC grocery store discussion - it's a pilot. Governments should try stuff, and when it's new stuff, it's prudent to try that out in limited ways and build on the successes. Great to see government innovation

Oh that is so sad

This could be the plot of a Chaucer tale

Discovered that the Singapore Straits Times (Sunday Times) used to run a crossword, back even before I was born. Very pithy clues, a few unchecked squares.

Culinary history: curry appeared on British menus and cookbooks almost a century before fish and chips. The first known curry recipe in English is from Hannah Glasse's The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, published in 1748. Meanwhile fish and chips as a combined dish exists only from the 1860s

How many houses down is it fair to still describe someone as your neighbour? Assume this is an American suburb of single-family homes

I get why people say "Westerners working in Asia shouldn't call themselves expats, they're immigrants" but that to me seems like a very Western-centric perspective, which assumes that the only issue is that soi-disant expats feel above the (presumed poorer) country that they live in