It was genuinely my pleasure.

You know what I find so odd? Her dad is one of Jamaica's most renowned economists. He's a highly respected long-time presence in Jamaican economic policy. His academic and policy work is far to her left, and they're apparently estranged.

I wonder if she's familiar with her dad's work. I wonder if she'd been able to sit down and have dinner with him at any point over the last year and ask his thoughts what he would've said.

Awesome! This is an exciting surprise!

I read a preprint of this, and I really loved it. Everyone should check this book out!

Maybe one day we can get there, but right now it might be better for a lot of folks if the default was "I'm not horny".

But I'm with you on the dream.

I've heard this called "soft climate denial", and unforntuately it's widespread.

People like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi say that they believe in climate change. But let's imagine that we're roommates and you told me that there's an out of control wildfire a few miles away and the governor has told us all to evacuate. One roommate says that they don't belive it and they're staying. And I say 'Shame on you for denying this! I firmly believe in the wildfire. It's urgent that we act now, which is why I've ordered travel maps on Amazon so we can begin plotting our evacuation route as soon as they arrive.'

Would you characterize this is accepting the crisis, or being in a state of soft denial?

I don't know if this is a hot take, but I think allowing straight and cis people to identify as such is appropriate, because the alternative assumes that we live in a state of default heteronormativity.

If anything, I want to live in a world where homophobes get mad that if they want to be assumed to be straight online they have to identify like anyone else. No one gets assumed to be straight any more. That's better imo.

What broad coalition?

There was no coalition. It was a campaign by and for white college educated professional women in the suburbs.

That's not a coalition, that's a book club.

Do you know what I'd like to see?

Instead of banning them, ban the extraction of profit on producing and selling them. Turn them into an entirely recreational market. I'd love to see the outcome of trying that.

I'm not sure what the point of this is.

I didn't know who this specific woman is, but it doesn't sound like any of this is a secret. For instance, it is public knowledge that Qatar has provided financial aid to Hamas, and serves as a go-between for Israel and the US. Netanyanu famously defended his practice of facilitating these cash transfers.

Also, this all seems sort of secondary when Israel -- the US's close ally -- is beginning an extermination campaign in northern Gaza. It's hard to really discuss any other issue in the midst of what has become a macabre genocide in full view of the international community.

There is a lot about this that is nuts, but one thing that really jumps out at me.

It seems like Netanyahu is planning an October surprise to shank Harris. And it seems like he is doing it in broad daylight. It certainly seems like a massive offensive strike on Iran one or two weeks before the election is a straightforward way to throw a close election to Trump.

But with this I have to ask: are Biden and Harris assisting with a plan that is clearly intended to cost Harris the election?

I want to say that they surely must've told Israel not to launch anything before election day. But based in their actions so far, it doesn't seem like they're imposing a "no election interference against us personally" requirement as a condition of their assistance.

I guess we'll see.

That's awesome. Man, fuck that company. Bricking a train? Outrageous.

This is so backwards. I had to read this a few times to try to make sense of the memo. Apparently, the reasoning is that instead of telling employees that they didn't get a raise because of company-wide cuts, try to convince them that they just did a bad job?

That's stupid. That would obviously have the opposite effect of softening the disappointment. Whoever wrote this memo is an idiot who has no idea what employees do or what they think.