Step one: assume there is a trick

the worst part about poppin at the farg is that one of the first things i think about wrt places to hang out for no reason is "hotel lobby"

I'm surprised you don't have more romantic success tbh, you're so charming and hot. You must be lacking a fundamental je ne sais quoi that no one will ever be able to articulate to you

Like what if it actually is poppin at the Farg tonight

'Over 100 economists sign letter to [policy proposal]' is a funny headline because the first three times you read it you're shocked that the world has slipped so far away from its longstanding neoliberal consensus. And you shake your head and you're very sad about fascism's imminent rise. But by the fourth time it'll occur to you that 100 is not really that many economists, and it'll seem prudent to check them out, because hey, maybe there are some big names in there, you're an adult, you've heard of some economists. And as you look at the names, which are unfamiliar to you, because you've optimistically heard of the freakonomics guy, you'll discover that half of them share an institutional affiliation. Which is weird. It's not even like an important one. And looking into it more you'll find out about how that particular economics department is, infamously, captured by tenured communists, and has been since 1973.

Really enjoying the fact that only some of the people interacting with this know the degree to which it's not a joke.

A passing remark in a podcast on Chatrie reminds me I still have a Roku TV, which brags on its package of voice activation and doubtless, Smirnoffishly, listens to me. There must be some keywords that turn them against you—some sequence of sounds that raise silent alarm, where a whisper of vice near a so-called assistant Benito Cerenos the digital swarm. Or maybe they don't, or they will, or don't need to—you'll make yourself crazier trying to guess. This whole line of thinking is deeply neurotic; in general, things just work out for the best.