Is there a single person on the planet better at Twitter than Ken Jennings?

I don't know, partly because that flew over my head.

Probably not. Chrissie Tiegen, Michael Ian Black, and Rob Delaney are the only other ones I can think of in the running.

You missed the whole James Gunn thing?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/30/enter...unn/index.html

The obvious answer is dril.

The New York Times Wants to Teach Us How to Talk To Racists

Everyone knows dril isn't actually a person.

I have never once gotten a dril tweet. Not one single time.

Is that the gimmick - stuff that sounds like an inside joke but is really just gibberish? If so then that's pretty cool I guess.

LOL

It gets a little deep into internet lore, but basically you should approach dril as a parody of extremely online types. Deuces McKracken and whichever of the wils lost that yearly income bet are two posters I can think of who probably have a few dozen sentences each in their post history which, ripped from its context, could easily pass as a dril tweet.

It's a little surprising to me that the humour isn't accessible to someone who's been as online as you seem to be for as long as you seem to have been, but there's no accounting for taste. I think of him as a modern version of Myles na gCopaleen, a persona maintained by Flann O'Brien in an Irish Times column for about twenty years. Anyway, have a few classics and see if you like them better now:



You hear the last one a lot from centrists, actually.

It's this generation's version of Quiz Show

His Reddit AmA is probably the best AmA ever

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/commen...nnings_i_will/

The irony of that picture is hilarious.

https://twitter.com/paul1kirby/statu...56593288245248

Yeah, this. And a bunch of other things too - very high currency value with limited transfer payments from elsewhere, low levels of tax compliance, etc.

The poverty in these places is awful, some regions are much much worse than these national averages, they are effectively depopulation as people leave the poverty behind to go to Southern Germany and South-east UK etc.
Thanks, I appreciate the thought, but fine with it.

Really glad that McDonald's article noted that the trial started 9/10/2011. I spent most of the time reading it wondering why I hadn't heard about any of that.

I'd guess several of those Parkland kids have him beat. He probably has a larger body of work, and I don't follow him, so I can't say for sure.

****ing kills me to see kids for outpatient therapy whose parents report cluelessness about the source of their kids anxiety / deprsssion during intake only to then find out during first 5 minutes alone that kid is closeted and super upset that their upper middle class waspy conservative parents cosign their bigot pastors' take on the evil of homosexuality, and kid can't stand it to hear mom and dad express casual bigotry. Kids just bursting to share this **** with anyone by the time they come see me but justifiably are fearful of what parents would say if they disclosed their reality to their parents.

Always have at least one on my caseload at any given time, and one monthly that I respond to in ER for suicidal ideation or gesture. ****ing tragic and avoidable if only christian conservative parents would wake the **** up already.

Another comment came in from a friend on the Josem FB thread:

What's the profile of the poorest people in France? Recent immigrant from the ME or North Africa? Many of the poorest in Mississippi have had families in the US for centuries.

It's not just the rural south. Two great looks at poverty and homelessness in the US:

Nomadland - A book about mostly older Americans who live out of vans and campers and survive from day to day with seasonal jobs all over the country.

and

The Florida Project - About a young mother and daughter living in a motel on the outskirts of Orlando. One of the best movies I've seen in recent memory. Currently available on Prime, bigly recommended by me.

France has been notoriously horrible at assimilating migrants. Not surprised to hear there are a lot of unemployed young people, not sure that's really because of socialist economics so much as racism.

There was an interesting article I read on the difference on how immigrants are treated in the US compared to France. It's really a different ideology. The U.S. tends to adapt its culture and the immigrant's culture to form some kind of middle ground. On the other hand, people who emigrate to France are expected to become French. They will call themselves French. They will learn to speak French. They have to ignore their immigrant roots. The French have the ideology that right-wingers have and that's why they suck so much at integrating immigrants.

Funny thing today. My mother's travelling to Europe. This time, she'll be going to Prague, Amsterdam, and Barcelona. I was surprised as most Americans who travel tend to stick to London, Paris, or Rome. I asked why not Paris and she said that there were too many Muslims there.

We're talking about somebody who loved her time in London not wanting to go to Paris because of how many Muslims there are.

Mark Twain was wrong.

Republo-math: https://www.newsweek.com/tax-cuts-re...s-trump-701094

The Florida Project also previously and still highly recommended by me. Unless crying embarrasses you.

cp is absolutely convinced Muslims have completely taken over London, it's the craziest **** you can imagine. Like there was one guy who had to go to London on a business trip and he said he spent all his time holed up in his hotel room.

This is some bogus math. Many USA #1 people in the bottom 50% don’t pay the average American $9k+ on healthcare.