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slightly O/T, but the more I've learned about 80s dance music the more I've felt that the influence of Italo on both disco and house is still underrated Detroit and Chicago - not as much NY (I think?) - were both wild for all these weird proto-house Italo bangers Dirty Talk, Robot Is...

another, more famous, case + (check the drum rolls on the chorus especially) + a couple other things ==

a genius steal at the very heart of Chicago house music check 2:50-3:10 especially

it's virtually an uncredited cover of "Three Girl Rhumba" "sounds like a few different Wire songs, but not one in particular" is an accurate general description of Elastica, tho

I mean this is no surprise to anyone, but it's really hard to run a working govt when one of the two parties is basically disinterested in governing

not to, like always, Rome it up, but's hard not to see some parallels to the late Republic a tiny group of conservative senators - the boni - determined to block change at all costs facing off against more democratic populists trying to address structural problems with the state caused largely...

I haven't heard anything about it (tho I haven't been looking) but I think Dems should always be pushing DC (and Puerto Rico) statehood ASAP that's one of the few viable paths to redressing that built-in balance - statehood doesn't require a constitutional amendment, just a bill or it would...

again, the number is extremely unlikely to change it would require either a bipartisan effort, and one party is always going to benefit from current SC makeup sometimes the Court has skewed liberal - Earl Warren's tenure, famously - and sometimes it has been like this unfortunately since...

also virtually impossible to impeach SC justices - they have tenure as long as they follow "good behavior" which is impossibly nebulous

very difficult - even leaving aside, as @Leo says, the problem of confirmation hearings number of justices isn't in Constitution so doesn't require amendment, just a bill passed by Congress and signed into law by President but court-packing is very unpopular - FDR tried it and was staunchly...

the 90s default was on domestic debt tho it actually had worse (I believe) effects on the international finance system than this one, i.e. it was the death blow for Long-Term Capital Management. I assume unlike this people didn't see it coming. and thanks, that's basically what I thought.

I'm sure Putin is just loving all the "First time Russia has defaulted on international debt since the Bolsheviks after the Revolution" sub-headlines, btw

not to say that to be symbolic is to be meaningless, tbc I'd very much include default media wrangling - i.e. the Russian semantic argument that it's artificially created by sanctions - as part of that unofficial public negotiation I mentioned above as well as Zelensky's statement to the G-7...

could someone know actually knows what they're talking - presumably @vimothy - comment on the significance of this? I assume everyone who wanted to get out of the Russian debt business has long since gotten out and this cannot be any kind of a surprise to investors or anyone else - one of the...

that's been going on for 100 years or more i.e. Putin himself quoted one of the White commanders in the Russian Civil War - Anton Denikin - on the topic Russian nationalists - and (probably?) most Russians (edit: to be more clear, I have no idea what most Russians think, as all I can go by is...

Putin may have thought that, tho I'm unclear exactly to what extent those thoughts were shared by his officer corps or intelligence people the invasion still reads like a snap decision to me - was always a possibility, but they saber-rattling would work like it always had before and when it...

tea basically said it that wasn't really a direct confrontation between the U.S. and Russia and the U.S.'s unwillingness, for various reasons, to support a faction capable of replacing Assad, blunted it even as a proxy confrontation Syria is more like the Spanish Civil War - one side using...

usual disclaimer that the Putin regime is a blight on the earth and this war is totally unjustified nor am I interested in whatabout moral equivalency - Putin is worse (which doesn't make the West et al, or Ukrainian leadership, "good") I just find it to be a kind of absurd, ahistorical...

if you take away the word "neighboring" the U.S. has regularly done the same thing the shelling is less indiscriminate and, at least since Vietnam, there is a much tighter grip on war crimes and when we kill civilians we've usually preferred to work by proxy - coups, funding dictatorships and...

so do I, tho I also hope otherwise the x factor is how well the Russian economy weathers sanctions, I think that may force them to the negotiating table, especially if they've consolidated their gains in the east otherwise it seems like it'll go as long as U.S./W Europe are willing to pump in...