David Solimini

Cheesecake Factory marketing department: Best day or worst day?

"I was going to vote for the Democrat, but then Obama made fun of Cheesecake Factory...."

"No, no, no, those people were confused, they meant to vote for someone else," is some condescending sht. Wow.

This could be used as the hook to any intro to statistics class.

"the modal furry" is quite the turn of phrase.

The deepest, most serious mistake of the IR field is the concept of « Russia’s legitimate security concerns ». They don’t exist. Never have. Russia has not been threatened even vaguely in its entire post-1991 existence.

Raise a child who can cook, that's all I'm saying. I'm wrangling an interview into an article and the delicious smells coming from the kitchen are keeping me going.

What Trump did NOT do was even purport to show a single ineligible voter voted in the 2020 election, or that any voting machines were actually compromised, voting machines or voter registration databases breached, or election results inaccurately reported.

Trump’s Underwhelming Announcement on Voting Does Not Even Purport to Show Any Illegal Votes Were Cast in the 2020 Election or That Voting Machines Have Been Hacked or Vote Totals Inaccurate; He Made a Pitch to Pass the SAVE America Act But Offered No New Fed Mandates electionlawblog.org?p=157434

Rorshach speech. Simultaneously a nothingburger of incoherent rambling, an effective admission that after a year of investigation they can't find any evidence of election fraud, and laying the groundwork to deny the outcome of the midterms.

The 2000s consensus foreign policy triumvirate of McCain, Lieberman, and Graham, gone.

Gonna wake up everyone across the city, is this?

11:45p and the Petworth neighborhood in DC has absolutely set off more fireworks since 830p than will be lit on the Mall in a few minutes.

I did the fireworks on the Mall thing once in college. Got a spot right by the stage they usually set up on the Capitol end. Sat out all afternoon; high was 98 deg. It was miserable for healthy people in their early 20s; today is going to be really bad for some people.

This one hurts

Was there. Can confirm.

Nah. By then everything will just be javascript.

This guy is just a treasure.

Big news!

I still feel the time in high school when I played Take Five as an audition piece for the jazz band and utterly flubbed it.

NASA just dropped 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. Too many to add to ArtemisTimeline.com, so I just put up a tool at ArtemisTimeline.com/vote so that people can vote on small batches allowing for all of the images to be sorted! (yes, I posted this before, but I had to fix something!)

Inattentive Spaghetti

Ah, yes, toning down the rhetoric.

There are many very good reasons to mock Kash Patel, but his height is not one of them.

I just fact checked this and that's eleven significant attempts

I get May Day in lots of countries is more generically associated with democratic socialism and organized labor, and its origin in Chicago. Sure, whatever. This ain't Europe. Ask an American what they think of May Day and you'll get a blank stare, most likely, or else "like, tanks in Red Square?"

Happy 204th birthday!

Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

To state the obvious, it seems that the President gets very little sleep. At 80, that's a really bad sign, especially given his baseline level of (in)coherence. (Yes, it's possible that they schedule these to run in the middle of the night as some kind of agenda-setting tactic. I just doubt it.)

And I can say, from personal experience, a real barrier to considering reforming redistricting in the first place!

Asking for a friend who lives on Observatory Circle

Given my background on the issue, re-upping my thoughts on VA redistricting referendum for tonight's results.

SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice… Remember — While you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions. Because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.”

@davidpierce.xyz made the joke in the last 30secs of the pod, but I *seriously* wonder if the first thing the new Apple CEO announces at WWDC is that he's "pausing" new AI projects. Ride the current sentiments, ground yourself in the creatives as core audience/ethos, emphasize the Apple values, etc

Smart interesting read skywriter.blue/@eliothiggin...

It's worth considering if Iran intends to stretch this out as long as possible to hurt Trump politically. With the side benefit that never agreeing to a final deal helps their domestic politics. Squint and it looks like what they did to Carter.

Just over 24 hours between these. 🤡

So just saw Project Hail Mary again. It's better the second time. J ust excellent storytelling, acting, design, music.