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Sat, 21/06/2025 - 03:45
. As always, Murphy’s video masterfully distils abstract economic concepts into clear, jargon-free explanations, making complex issues accessible to non-experts and relevant to everyday life. In so-called ‘modern’ macroeconomics—whether in the form of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE), the New Synthesis, New Classical, or ‘New Keynesian’ models — economic variables are treated as if they […]
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Sat, 21/06/2025 - 03:00

Hiring a plumber without vetting them across multiple Facebook community forums

Starting a movie after 9 p.m.

Texting without your glasses

Eating a Costco hot dog

Celebrating the one-year anniversary of ignoring your car’s “check engine” light

Sitting under the ceiling fan you installed after taking two gummies

Vacationing without your CPAP machine

Parking in a space reserved for shoppers with toddlers

Not holding the handrail while riding an escalator

Driving after dusk

Refusing to complete your podiatrist’s online intake form

Pretending you haven’t heard that scratching sound coming from your attic

Fixing a bowl of cereal without sniffing the milk first

Believing you can seamlessly transition from an Android to an iPhone

Buying standing-room-only tickets to see a ska band you loved back when you thought sciatica was just a small town in upstate New York

Having two drinks after 9 p.m.

Taking cold medicine that expired during the first Obama administration

Walking your dog on uneven sidewalks

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Fri, 20/06/2025 - 23:00

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I thought we had come to the Home Depot to replace the metal numbers on my mother’s mailbox. But the problem we bring is not the problem we leave with. We walk down an aisle full of toilets, sinks, and light switches. Inexplicably, we are soon considering a patio repaving. And then new carpet for my brother’s bedroom, and a garage conversion. At the Home Depot, home improvement dreams begin to look like a matter of elbow grease and the right YouTube video.

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Fri, 20/06/2025 - 22:00

There are numerous reasons why my wife and I decided to have kids, like learning what it means to be parents, and providing an idyllic childhood that we lacked ourselves. But none mattered as much as procreating so we could blow off our single friends, particularly Jeff.

When you bring a child into this world, it lets you experience the joy of pushing out friendships from that same world. There is no better excuse to gradually recede from the guy who will never get his shit together. I have a child to care for, so no, Jeff, I can’t call you back, or come to the bar, or hear about the used-bookstore girl who dumped you. I must feed and clothe and bathe a helpless human life, and no longer have the time to do any of that for you.

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Fri, 20/06/2025 - 20:51

Thousands of angry Brisbane construction workers walked off the job on Thursday morning, assembling outside the union’s office, where they voted for a 48-hour strike.

The post Brisbane CFMEU members stop work in defiance after High Court upholds Administration first appeared on Solidarity Online.

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Fri, 20/06/2025 - 20:46
Hi CT readers, I’m publishing this open letter here so there’s a public record of the letter I’ve co-written and signed about what looks, walks and talks like a good old-fashioned Brussels stitch-up aimed at weakening the EU organisation that oversees data protection in EU institutions. Thank you, Maria (Comments welcome, as with any other […]