what I think is throwing people off from this understanding is that psychotherapy was an elite, urban, professional, emigré and also Jewish-coded phenomenon for so long in the US, but today it's, I dunno, some self-diagnosed wook on TikTok.

waves in Asian birthright citizenship

oh shoot you're right!

c) magistrates now judge cases in the Octagon, where plaintiff and defendant engage in trial by combat

please, the lost George R.R. Martin series is the Tuf Voyaging ecological engineer series of short stories, which is as sexless as the issues of Analog where it appeared.

this is sold out in most sizes

the finger on the monkey's paw curls for greater class mobility

(though class mobility has dropped so what the hell is going on with these people oh)

there is something called Engel's law -- Engel not Engels -- that states how the proportion of household income spent on food decreases as household income increases.

it's been known since 18 fucking 57.

but you read a Substack? okay then.

dude, those are crap calculations.

I have the latest Kyle Chayka and W. David Marx in my to-read go bag. I am reasonably sure one or both of them cover this.

Scotland also had extra-literary romantic cachet. Gretna Green was the Las Vegas of its day for eloping couples (and also ones with age of consent issues).

not Scotland?

I don't have the Anthem plan but I did upgrade to platinum, and I tell you what, suddenly more things were accepted. completely anecdotal and maybe it's because I passed an age-cost-benefit threshold.

this might be a drug-addled policy change, as is the style these days, but a slightly more motivated theory is that it's the result of an internal far-right faction fight, an attempt to embarrass nativist groups for being misled en masse by swarthy foreign hustlers.

the odd thing is that Twitter jackass must have been aware of the national origin of these influencers. since he approves of their far-right messages, why would he reveal their foreign origin?

it would be like revealing he Tweets high on ketamine with a suction pump on his penis.

that's Successful Gifted Kid syndrome, I think. the reward for being the smartest person in the room is finally reaching the room where you're at the 50th percentile, and for many that's going to grate.

the Wirecutter effect, yes.