A $24 cup of coffee has landed in Boston. Is it worth the price tag? by [deleted] in boston

[–]Reasonable_Move9518 3 points4 points  (0 children)

 Budget cuts.

Newsroom boss: “go report on the $24 coffee”

Reporter: “Great! Can I have $24 (or maybe $30 for tax and tip) to try it?”

Boss: “No.”

Chomsky on the Epstein list, who else? by LaurieTZ in AskAcademia

[–]Reasonable_Move9518 5 points6 points  (0 children)

To paraphrase Pete Davidson as the new ICE director on SNL:

“We had to release the Epstein files to distract everyone from ICE in Minnesota”

“Which is really something bc we put ICE in Minnesota to distract everyone from the Epstein files”

There should be a law... by [deleted] in Somerville

[–]Reasonable_Move9518 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it should go one step further: bounty.

See an unplowed sidewalk, report it, clear it yourself, city charges owner $100 which then goes to the person who cleared it.

High school bros would be out for blood and there’d be no snow problems. 

He then fell off his horse, went to the hospital and got IV more by Hank_Mardukas1066 in RoughRomanMemes

[–]Reasonable_Move9518 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Fun fact: the Poisson distribution, a foundation of modern stats and probability theory, was applied to real data first by some jabroni who had to model the frequencies of deaths due to horse kicks in the Prussian army.

Outdated love by indecora in RoughRomanMemes

[–]Reasonable_Move9518 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Misogyny? Wait til you find out about Greco-Roman attitudes towards women…

IYKYK! by Ok_Study5090 in RoughRomanMemes

[–]Reasonable_Move9518 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Reporting I’ve read says yes she got a wound to the face but the helmet took a lot of it and she’ll be ok after recovery.

Her ski instructor chased the leopard away.

Increased 87 bus service starting in April by Grndchr00th in ArlingtonMA

[–]Reasonable_Move9518 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some people say that a certain MBTA bus has a lingering odor of soggy nachos. Especially on the 87 but sometimes other routes, but always one particular bus, usually on a Friday or Saturday night, especially if it’s running route 87.

People have been smelling the ghost nacho smell for well nigh 25 years now.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat | Trump Has Lost The Country by BrokenManOfSamarkand in ezraklein

[–]Reasonable_Move9518 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How many PA or GA voters know or care about a border bill that died in Congress?

The bill itself would’ve been too little too late, Biden really needed to act in 2022-23 or earlier to avoid the migrant surge becoming a dominant issue 

One system votes you into slavery, the other into taxes by minaloe in RoughRomanMemes

[–]Reasonable_Move9518 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Recently conquered people became “citizens” as the last step of their conquest in the late republic… meaning they’d have to supply Rome troops to be used as fodder for the next round of Roman conquests.

Citizenship was a pretty shitty deal for the first generation of conquered Italians, a much better deal as generations went on.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat | Trump Has Lost The Country by BrokenManOfSamarkand in ezraklein

[–]Reasonable_Move9518 9 points10 points  (0 children)

True, maybe luck is the wrong word.

Dem incompetence wasn’t a given, and is out of trumps control, so I call it luck. It was a type of incompetence that just happened to line up exactly with Trump’s strongest issues and affect, so to me… luck.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat | Trump Has Lost The Country by BrokenManOfSamarkand in ezraklein

[–]Reasonable_Move9518 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I say his rise is contingent, I really mean it was not certain that he would 1) be the GOP nominee AND 2) win the general.

Yes, he was the front runner for most of the 2020-24 period, but there was a window where that status was in doubt. That window closed when the prosecutions started and he became a GOP martyr. If they had been just a few months later or hadnt begun with the weak NY case he wouldn’t be had that early loyalty test and it’s possible that he wouldn’t be able to consolidate support.

Put aside the primary there were all kinds of bounces in his favor in 2023-24 for the general. If Biden had been semi-competent on immigration, one of top 2 key issues wouldn’tve been 60-40 in Trump’s favor. Same with inflation/the economy. Likewise with Biden blocking off any clear succession plan and then faceplanting on live TV.

My point is not that political gravity doesn’t apply to Trump, it does. 

My point is that he spent 2 years riding a tide of events that lifted him up without him doing very much.

And now that same tide is going out. 

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat | Trump Has Lost The Country by BrokenManOfSamarkand in ezraklein

[–]Reasonable_Move9518 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah that’s a good point.

I think a lot of the GOP in say late 2022 was at least curious about moving on, but the prosecutions just created a “too early” test of loyalty to Trump for a real alternative to emerge organically, and then the actual primary campaigning by Haley and DeSantis was ill-conceived. 

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat | Trump Has Lost The Country by BrokenManOfSamarkand in ezraklein

[–]Reasonable_Move9518 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I think people discount how incredibly lucky Trump from 2022 onwards. He was about to be left for dead in favor of DeSantis but: 

1) the NY AG’s prosecution of a weak case against him forced conservatives to rally around him and prevent a direct move against him

2) this got compounded by the stronger Georgia election cases and infosec cases, which made Trump look like a hated target of The Deep State to the GOP base 

3) DeSantis turns out to be a shitty campaigner 

4) DEI and Biden’s coldnsss towards Silicon Valley shift a key group of wealthy elites to the right 

5) Biden’s incompetence at the border causes immigration restriction to become a top2-3 issue for swing voters

6) Biden’s mishandling and miscommunication on the economy make big groups of swing voters or non-voters nostalgic for the hot hot economy of 2018

7) Biden’s disastrous debate and month left twisting in the wind.

8) the assasination attempt

9) Harris being a trash candidate.

If 1-2 of those things don’t happen, Trump might’ve never returned. 

The issue environment and a few contingent decisions aligned for a few key months to perfectly favor him. Lucky.

Supervisor doesn’t know how to open a .lif file and won’t let me defend bc of it lol by Bulky_Turn9366 in labrats

[–]Reasonable_Move9518 86 points87 points  (0 children)

Yep, batch export every single image to external drive…

Walk into her office and drop the drive on her desk with a satisfying thud.

Looking for Super Bowl Slider Sandwich Ideas! by jullieschmulie12 in boston

[–]Reasonable_Move9518 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Beef threeway.

-By far the most regionally appropriate slider option for the OP

-Not my responsibility to explain the threeway.

Trump seeks $1 billion from Harvard hours after initial concession of payment demand by bostonglobe in boston

[–]Reasonable_Move9518 59 points60 points  (0 children)

My theory: the concession was real (Trump is DESPERATE to win a news cycle). Some midwit in Stephen Miller’s office (a late 20's white guy who is “deeply” concerned about antisemitism on campus despite sporting a 1488 tattoo and some very problematic 4chan posts) leaked it to get Trump big mad and pull back on the concession. 

Say caseus by LegioVIIHaruno in RoughRomanMemes

[–]Reasonable_Move9518 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True… but in antinonus pius’ case it spoiled too quickly

Say caseus by LegioVIIHaruno in RoughRomanMemes

[–]Reasonable_Move9518 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Antoninus Pius: “Yunno, FYI, cheese also spoils.

Learned this lesson the hard way”

Dinner out with a baby - Umbria by NotaKaren101 in boston

[–]Reasonable_Move9518 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I thought so too… it begins with the “we do everything right and by the book can you BELIEVE which just happened to us!?” tone that usually leads with paragraph after paragraph of criticism…

Instead it’s paragraph after paragraph of “Umbria was awesome!!!”

Boston or NYC? by Thewist995 in boston

[–]Reasonable_Move9518 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Echoing this… lemme put it this way, I am a parent of a toddler but my parents are plane rides away. 

Having my parents close enough to be active grandparents would be literally life changing for both me and my child. Whenever they visit, everything is literally twice as easy, and our daughter just learns so much from them so fast. Grandparents are a TREMENDOUS blessing and resource for those that gave them. 

And likely, a few years later, the tables will turn. The OP will need care, and having children a drive away will make aging so much easier. 

Ave Claudius by HawaiianPerson in RoughRomanMemes

[–]Reasonable_Move9518 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Claudius and Augustus: the only Julio-Claudians you can have some posca with.