And as far as Manifestos go, it’s really more of a postcard.

May it bring health and happiness.

I learned this lesson in high school. You need two way communication with your friends. “Are you coming over tonight?” You can’t just blast out an invite and then act like you don’t care if people are noncommittal. People have chats about your party without you, and they will all know if nobody is going to be there. It’s good to have a friend who will let you know, “Hey, everybody decided to go bowling instead.”

Invite fucking everyone, too. Don’t try to keep the guest list under control. The herd will naturally thin itself. Of course there’s planning and effort that goes into a party, but it’s better to just always be prepared for an impromptu gathering of friends. Those are far more fun. Keep the solo cups in a cupboard and bust them out when you have enough people to make beer pong fun.

If everyone bails, put the beer and snacks in the fridge and go to a bar. Keep everything on hand for another night. Don’t wallow in the empty room where all your friends would be if you had them. Go do something social and meet new friends.

If your friends say they are coming and then bail, they aren’t your friends. Invite different people to the next one.

The problem is that your body doesn’t selectively consume muscle. If your body is starving, it will break down your heart and your biceps regardless of how big either is.

I wouldn’t run for office, so I wouldn’t be in a situation where I feel the need to lie about what I would do. I would definitely pardon my kids if I could. I wouldn’t care how it makes me look. It’s tax fraud, not murder. Hunter was targeted for prosecution because of his father, which just makes him feel more responsible. If he was Hunter Kraft, it would have been settled with a fine.

So yeah, when Biden said he wasn’t going to pardon his son, I didn’t believe that for a second. I also don’t support pardoning his son, because I do think tax cheats, all tax cheats, should face prison. But if it were me, with my kids, I can’t say I wouldn’t do the same, especially if I felt responsible for bringing them onto the battlefield.

Now ask how many would have done the same. I don’t support it either, but I understand.

Current, but he’s a retired Marine chiropractor and guru.

So the two teams are China and America?

My preference is the first amendment, although progress has been slow.

Why would the number that moves most go first? Numbers don’t work that way normally.

No, I’m saying there are “radical centrists” who pretend they are above the fray and claim both sides are equally flawed, while invariably showing up to vote for conservatives.

I know, it just sounds like a movie starring Treat Williams and Steven Segal.

Are we really sticking withThe Adjuster?

But he says he can guarantee that it won’t not raise prices.

Yeah sure that works, unless one team is the Republican party.

If you’re talking about a presidential election, there are two teams. The rest of the time, you should work on your own team, but when the big race is happening, there are only two viable contenders.

Now hang on. If you pretend the two teams are the same and refuse to pick a side because neither is perfect so it doesn’t matter, you are an enabler of fascism.

You can support a team while acknowledging their flaws. Refusing to play because the better team isn’t perfect is either naive or malicious.

Authoritarian regimes invariably use counter-language to thought control. See: Reasonablists, and Hail Zorp.

Community was great at simultaneously lampshading, satirizing, and paying homage all at the same time. Abed was the perfect vehicle for that sort of meta-self-referential nihilism. Plus the entire cast was lightning in a bottle.

ISO is best. There’s no debate there. From a data science perspective, YYYY/MM/DD is the only reasonable choice.

But most of the time you’re using dates, you’re only concerned with the month and day. That’s the very reason we don’t use ISO in our daily lives. If you started every mention of a date with the year, people would think you’re a crazy person, or a time traveler, or perhaps a recently-awakened coma patient. There’s just no need to begin with the year. Next Wednesday, 2024 December 18.

If you exclude the year, then the choice is month/day or day/month. Between the two, month/day is far more useful for the same reasons ISO is best. If I need both the month and the day, then I want the month first. The only time I would want the day first is if the month doesn’t matter, and I can omit the month in that case. Giving me the day first and then the month forces me to wait for the month and then remember the day. It’s inefficient transfer of information. If you exclude the year, MM/DD is objectively, if only marginally, better than DD/MM.

But then why would anyone use MM/DD/(YY)YY? Because we’re already using MM/DD.