Ersatz Cliff
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Mom, can we go to Chipotle and get chips and guac?
“We have chips and guac at home.”
Chips and guac at home: “Chip’s and HUAC: Chip Bohlen and the Making of the Cold War” by John Lewis Gaddis
“We have chips and guac at home.”
Chips and guac at home: “Chip’s and HUAC: Chip Bohlen and the Making of the Cold War” by John Lewis Gaddis
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Mom, can we go to Chipotle and get chips and guac?
“We have chips and guac at home.”
Chips and guac at home: “Chip’s and HUAC: Chip Bohlen and the Making of the Cold War” by John Lewis Gaddis
“We have chips and guac at home.”
Chips and guac at home: “Chip’s and HUAC: Chip Bohlen and the Making of the Cold War” by John Lewis Gaddis
Got sucked into a rabbit hole: Saudia Flight 163. The idea of the Three Stooges flying a wide-body passenger jet is funny in the abstract, but when it happened in real life (and this is more or less what actually happened per the published CVR transcript) 300+ people died senselessly
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Got sucked into a rabbit hole: Saudia Flight 163. The idea of the Three Stooges flying a wide-body passenger jet is funny in the abstract, but when it happened in real life (and this is more or less what actually happened per the published CVR transcript) 300+ people died senselessly
Wanna feel old? The Number Munchers were released from medium security prison 15 years ago, having served lengthy sentences for criminal accounting practices while at Arthur Andersen LLP
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Wanna feel old? The Number Munchers were released from medium security prison 15 years ago, having served lengthy sentences for criminal accounting practices while at Arthur Andersen LLP
(CSI: Miami David Caruso) Looks like the murder victim was double-crossed by Beatnik poets. Guess you could say that (lowering shades) hep bards ate his face…
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
(CSI: Miami David Caruso) Looks like the murder victim was double-crossed by Beatnik poets. Guess you could say that (lowering shades) hep bards ate his face…
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This Thanksgiving, ask everyone around the table what they are doing to elevate Alan Dershowitz.
November 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This Thanksgiving, ask everyone around the table what they are doing to elevate Alan Dershowitz.
What do we do with the drunken sailor who has everything?
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
What do we do with the drunken sailor who has everything?
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i won’t eat a free food sample unless the store employee eats one first
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
i won’t eat a free food sample unless the store employee eats one first
while you were wasting time listening to Carly Rae Jepsen, I was busy with few more important tasks (memorizing the career history of 90s NBA guys like 7-footer Les Jepsen and producing museum-worthy Immaculate Grids)
November 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
while you were wasting time listening to Carly Rae Jepsen, I was busy with few more important tasks (memorizing the career history of 90s NBA guys like 7-footer Les Jepsen and producing museum-worthy Immaculate Grids)
There is no reason for YAML to exist. It‘s neither easily machine- nor human-readable and looks like crap
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There is no reason for YAML to exist. It‘s neither easily machine- nor human-readable and looks like crap
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i want america to be this crazy about literacy
October 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
i want america to be this crazy about literacy
There wouldn’t be a male loneliness crisis if men stopped watching wrestling and started writing strongly typed, enterprise-grade XML B2B web integrations. Less DDT, more DTDs…
November 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
There wouldn’t be a male loneliness crisis if men stopped watching wrestling and started writing strongly typed, enterprise-grade XML B2B web integrations. Less DDT, more DTDs…
the collapse of legacy media means that the only means of consent manufacturing available to such people = fake accounts that flood the zone on Reddit, X, etc. to convince you that deranged viewpoints are actually unanimously held by everyone on earth who consults common sense
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
the collapse of legacy media means that the only means of consent manufacturing available to such people = fake accounts that flood the zone on Reddit, X, etc. to convince you that deranged viewpoints are actually unanimously held by everyone on earth who consults common sense
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God it's so cool that so much of British and European nationalist politics has broadly been shaped by warehouse clickfarms rented by guys in South Asia running "how to make money from racist old people" workshops, and that this has had more influence on media and politics than any grassroots group
November 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
God it's so cool that so much of British and European nationalist politics has broadly been shaped by warehouse clickfarms rented by guys in South Asia running "how to make money from racist old people" workshops, and that this has had more influence on media and politics than any grassroots group
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"You guys all got the shoe memo, I see."
November 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
"You guys all got the shoe memo, I see."
Air traffic controllers when you call DCA “Washington National Airport” and not “Reagan:”
November 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Air traffic controllers when you call DCA “Washington National Airport” and not “Reagan:”
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And yet you two were never seen in the same place the same time. Also very interesting, if you ask me.
November 23, 2025 at 5:38 AM
And yet you two were never seen in the same place the same time. Also very interesting, if you ask me.
It’s so weird that Irving Berlin and I were alive at the same time
November 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
It’s so weird that Irving Berlin and I were alive at the same time
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Jeff Paris, scion of a Troy NY car dealership, makes a disastrous judgment at the Panera in Schenectady (choosing the chips over the bread or apple, triggering what is known in American mythology as the Treat Wars)
November 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Jeff Paris, scion of a Troy NY car dealership, makes a disastrous judgment at the Panera in Schenectady (choosing the chips over the bread or apple, triggering what is known in American mythology as the Treat Wars)
What solving the Lament Configuration and experiencing the sublime nexus of agony and ecstasy at the hands of dimension-faring Cenobite priests taught me about B2B sales [read on LinkedIn]
November 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
What solving the Lament Configuration and experiencing the sublime nexus of agony and ecstasy at the hands of dimension-faring Cenobite priests taught me about B2B sales [read on LinkedIn]
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he never looks at JD that way
November 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
he never looks at JD that way
YouTube video: Lt. Colonel Bud Holland idiotically turns a B-52 Stratofortress 360° at an extreme banking angle, predictably triggering an aerodynamic stall 200ft from the ground before he plummets to his death
top YouTube comment: But he was such a good stick and rudder pilot!!!
top YouTube comment: But he was such a good stick and rudder pilot!!!
November 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
YouTube video: Lt. Colonel Bud Holland idiotically turns a B-52 Stratofortress 360° at an extreme banking angle, predictably triggering an aerodynamic stall 200ft from the ground before he plummets to his death
top YouTube comment: But he was such a good stick and rudder pilot!!!
top YouTube comment: But he was such a good stick and rudder pilot!!!
David Brooks on the Epstein files, demonstrating once again why he’s the GOAT
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
David Brooks on the Epstein files, demonstrating once again why he’s the GOAT
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Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
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BREAKING: The UN climate talks COP30 have been evacuated due to a fire breaking out inside the venue in Belém, Brazil.
November 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
BREAKING: The UN climate talks COP30 have been evacuated due to a fire breaking out inside the venue in Belém, Brazil.