Retired speechwriter. Big fan of Peppermint Patty and wooden jigsaw puzzles.
Ex-Wall St, ex-NYT, ex-dotcom stuff.
Ex-New Yorker, now in Las Vegas
I've been around since the days of usenet (met my husband there, our kids are now in their 20s). Most of my public writing is under my own name on Quora, or elsewhere under someone else's byline.
She/her
Header is a fanned out deck of playing cards with NO KINGS
I'm at urgent care with my spouse of nearly 30 years. He's been very sick for the last few days and has an extremely hard time standing up (combo of weakness and dizziness.)
He's got a 101 fever, and his BP is 89/58 (that was the second read, the first was even lower)
Anyway, they need a urine sample and the nurse says she's going to bring him a urinal because they don't want him to risk standing up. She laughed VERY hard when I said,
"Awesome! I've never seen his penis before!
It was worse than a dare
My kid insisted that, "You can't go to Tonopah and *not* stay at the Clown Motel!"
And yes, on that particular evening I was the only guest in the place
Hey @mattblaze
My oldest kid moved to NYC as a student in 2023. We continued to receive ballots for him here as this was still his primary address, and he voted in NV in the 2024 presidential election
In 2025 he started working in NYC (while still a student) and voted in the NYC primary as he now considered himself a resident by virtue of receiving tax documents there
He never actively canceled his registration here. I am sure he thought it happened automagically once he voted in NY. He has obviously not voted in NV since voting in NY, and wouldn't do so unless he moved back here.
We received a ballot for him at our address a few days ago. I am not asking this as a hypothetical — we have already started the process of de-registering him in NV. But it got me curious
What is the mechanism for catching that? Aside from the obvious cheaters, I'm sure there are people who do this by accident or without knowing it's illegal.
And if it's discovered, are both votes invalidated?
Ariely's been back twice now and every statement he makes is funnier than that previous one:
"So the reality is that data doesn't just sit in our mind as much as stories do. It's almost like the *glue* that takes all of the data. And even more important is stories have more emotion that data doesn't.
"And emotions get people to do all kinds of things, good and bad. And if you think about the people who invested in her with very little data, it's about emotional appeal, and having trust, and believing the story, being moved by this, and being able to tell themselves a story."
You don't say...
Oh god, now we have Kissinger talking about the all-day Board meetings,
"I've said to [Elizabeth] on several occasions, these Board meetings, this is a human rights violation"
He's certainly the expert on that
A journalist at Fortune who explains to Gibney why he called Kissinger for his take on Holmes prefaces it with,
"I don't trust Kissinger's knowledge on medical <pause> or Cambodia"
Watching _The Inventor: Out For Blood In Silicon Valley_,, the Alex Gibney doc about Theranos
Holy shit. It opens with Dan Fucking Ariely explaining how you need to "understand the journey" and how "if you look at [Elizabeth Holmes] from the beginning, it would be a cautionary tale about all of us"
Uh, no Dan. Not all of us