Just interviewed an older gentleman (he's 83) who forgot to hang up when we finished. Two seconds later, I hear him go "ta-daahhh" as he excitedly calls over to his wife. "Guess what? Your HERO just gave an interview to the Post and Courier, where I said many things!"

Watching a Diners Drive Ins and Dives from 2008 and it’s a completely different world. A bacon cheeseburger was braggadociosly only $4.75. I looked up the website and that burger is $17 today. The Flavortown you were raised to live in no longer exists.

gf turns to me while i’m driving and goes “they’re making a top gun 2” and i’m like “you mean top gun 3?” and then we basically had the bodybuilding forums argument about days of the week where it turned out that she regarded the first top gun as “top gun 0”

All-timer nuclear Mom Take

drove past a multimillion-dollar house on the water here in st. pete this week and they had a republicans for harris sign in the lawn and a fresh puerto rico flag covering part of the wall behind it

I wonder what compelled Mazda to create the most beautiful and complex red paint color to ever grace a vehicle for $30,000 cars

been hearing a lot of friends say they’re planning on avoiding the internet tomorrow. not me! it’s gonna be christmas morning for hall of fame bad posts on here. we’re talking takes so bafflingly stupid we can’t even imagine. and i need them all beamed directly into my brain.

found an incredible YouTube channel--guy from Ohio uploads full noirs and does late-night TV style intros while dressed as a gumshoe

I understand math and I basically agree with this. Bayesianism is misguided and the application of the mathematics of proportion (aka, "probability") to modeling the uncertainty around a sui generis event like the election is generally meaningless.

When you create ridiculous "We'll give out $1 million to people who sign our petition" campaigns, fraudsters will follow right behind you & target your audience with similar scams. This network has been humming for months but they are scaling up comment spam w/ E-day messages.⤵️

poor canadian Rachel Gilmore gamely put up with a rant from me yesterday about this very topic. polls are dumb and unless you make your career trying to buy or sell polls and their results, just ignore them because they're useless.

Scoop: Maybe you read that an election denial group in N. Carolina is making lists of “suspicious” voters, targeting “Hispanic-sounding” names, intending to challenge them on + after Election Day. Well to do this, they’ve been using tech from EagleAI: wired.com/story/eagleai-…

couldn't easily figured out how to stop the wapo app from hijacking my little dynamic island thingamajigger with election results so i, too, have temporarily deleted the app

me tonight