That sounds good, if you use actual potatoes rather than the sweet kind, and definitely leave out the maple syrup, plus a whole bunch of salt and pepper. And more like a fistful of parm plus heavy cream

Served with insulin, I take it!

Gratin dauphinois, imbued with as much sweetness as any starch should have by dint of heavy cream and the crisping of its surface, is the only perfect side dish to ham

Well yes, if you prefer 14% unemployment, no growth, declining productivity and higher public debt, then you could choose not to engage such policies. I suspect Spaniards are happy that choice was not made.

Spain has rentier income from tourism, and Canada has (even more) rentier income from resource extraction. Those are non-policy factors. Both countries experienced a post-COVID rebound and deployed the same tools, but with different effects. Spain used them to cut its ever-high unemployment sharply

The gold appliqués are from the back aisle of Lowes, too

I was that guy. $1.50 a page, but I’d take beer or dope. It was a thriving business

I went to university at a time when “how it makes you feel” or “what the author meant/intended” or “what it really means” were questions never to be asked of a text (as they never should be)

Not if that part’s in-class

I think the latter part of the assignment has to be done in class. Generally that's how PSE has responded to LLMs: Moving everything in-class. Basically, based on my own twentysomething kids, all undergrad assignments are effectively open-book tests in-class, and nobody's given essays in the old way

Yeah. Coles Notes doesn't actually write your English essay.

If you put up a Christmas tree in November you’ll have a pile of dry needles by mid-December and need to spend another $100 on a second one! But yes, some do love the longer season — Yanks have thanksgiving now so don’t take Christmas so seriously

At the very least, but Dec 1 gives you more than three weeks

I just looked up Whamageddon and I’m delighted. Of course I’ve always argued it’s a Boxing Day song and shouldn’t be played until the 26th.

Also: the shops don’t barrage us with military marches and tattoos months before November 11. Nor patriotic maple-infused songs while the April snows are on the ground to get us het up for July 1. Really, “nothing before Dec. 1” should be a hard-and-fast rule