NOT A WOLF (@SICKOFWOLVES) Tweeted: ITS NOT CLIMATE CHANGE ITS A REGIONALLY CURATED SUBSCRIPTION BOX OF ARTISINAL APOCALYPSES https://twitter.com/SICKOFWOLVES/status/1409656824094027788?s=20

The cicadas are finally here in Chapel Hill, and I am so ready for it. Fond memories of this sound from my childhood. 🙂

https://twitter.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1408917199973142529?s=20

This is SO good.

The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) Tweeted: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ― The Great Gatsby (1925) https://t.co/WvWdjdwxHK

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-06-26/la-ent-cheer-squad-supreme-court

«Justice Stephen Breyer wrote in his opinion for the 8-1 majority. “America’s public schools are the nurseries of democracy. Our representative democracy only works if we protect the ‘marketplace of ideas.’”

But in the marketplace of labor, where a market is just a market, going to the Cocoa Hut on a Saturday and posting “f— Target” or “f— Starbucks” if you don’t get a promotion can be an easy way to get fired from a job at Target or Starbucks, and the Supreme Court won’t say a word.»

Everybody remembers the extremes. Nobody remembers the recovery.

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/commodities/lbs

(I really don’t know what RBOB is, but when I googled “gasoline futures”….)

… and now I do:

«RBOB stands for reformulated blendstock for oxygenate blending. Prices for RBOB gasoline futures logically have a high degree of correlation with crude oil since gasoline is distilled from crude. Thus, some of the global supply and demand factors for crude oil also apply to RBOB.»

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/030516/4-factors-you-didnt-know-about-rbob.asp

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/after-much-ado-u-s-catholic-bishops-announce-no-national-policy-on-withholding-communion-from-politicians/

«McKnight said a general document on the Eucharist is “very appropriate,” one that focuses on “How do we attract people and make the beauty of what it means to us more evident to our young people and for them to understand why it’s so significant, instead being focused on who can and who cannot receive.”»

This is figure 3.8* from /Why the West Rules – For Now/ by Ian Morris, and I think it’s the best snapshot from the book. It’s currently flavoring my understanding of our east-west dynamic.

*Crappy screenshot from my phone b/c my tablet is dead and I’m too lazy to go to my desktop right now.

https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1407001361670156292?s=20

I’m going to have come back later and copy/paste this entire thread before it disappears, but in the meantime: wow.

Dr Sarah Taber (@SarahTaber_bww) Tweeted: wow people are really not ready to hear the gospel of why W*ndell Berry sucks ass

And this:

https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1407076559580766214?s=20

Our hymn today, after Communion:

«Come ye weary, heavy laden, lost and ruined by the fall;

if you tarry till you’re better, you will never come at all.»

https://twitter.com/tempestis/status/1406580108324864009?s=20

Yep. I’m more liberal then the next guy (apparently) but this sort of sensationalism on the part of some folks has always bugged me and leads eventually to eye-rolling and skipping on from whatever reports of badness show up.

Tempestis Venit 🟥⬛🌲 (@tempestis) Tweeted: @dellcam If you actually read the fine print, they could adjust the thermostat by up to 4 degrees F. That’s very different than “turn the AC off.” It’s not cool to trick people with fine print, but wildly exaggerating the consequences while complaining about dishonesty is kinda funny.