Voltaire

Broad daylight. In public. An adulterous, married president kissing and embracing another woman. It’s shameless, degrading, profoundly unpresidential and a slap in the face for the office. The hypocrisy is staggering. The presidency deserves dignity—and America deserves better.

You've read in the past few days about the UN now using the Equal Earth projection to provide a fairer view of the world. That's cool but leads to practical challenges. Some places (Japan, Australia, New Zealand) have their rather iconic shapes altered dramatically by that projection. Folks displaying local data, will likely just continue to use Mercator. Also, a world map that displays European data to a European audience, will use Mercator because Europe is invisible on an Equal Earth projection.

So… Prices are up, no argument. But the record for "this high for this long" is 2010 to 2014, when gas sat above $3 for over 1,000 straight days. Adjusted for inflation, 2012 was the most expensive year ever. $3.63 then is $5.08 today. We're at $4.28.

The war has already put us on an economic cliff If this war doesn't end soon we are going to see a global economic nuclear bomb blow up in our faces

I think his first thought was how could he keep getting more and more attention and adoration. I think that drives him more than money.

Messi losing the Golden Boot because Mbappe can run up the score in a beer league-quality 3rd place game is pretty dumb.

Okay, but why is iceberg lettuce still a thing?

Prediction: all the media outlets that told you Russia stole the 2016 election for Trump with $100k in Facebook ads will now claim China stealing 220 million voter files is no big deal.