• Just Like New Coke, The Biden Campaign Can’t Sell A Product People Don’t Like

    After spending millions of dollars without budging in the polls, Biden is proving you can advertise a bad product, but you can’t sell one.

  • Compliments – why can’t we just accept them?

    Learning to respond to an admiring comment is a skill in itselfIn the past I’ve sometimes got it wrong, the compliment. Too earnest, too fast, out of nowhere like a soft little sniper. Or chucked from a distance, or too familiar, or too specific. Even the worst compliments, though, I have always maintained, are good, as long as they are genuine and well-meant (and as long as they don’t comment, of course, on the size of a body – a criminal sin in my eyes). Recently, especially when the sun is...

  • It can’t just be the brain worm: what the hell is wrong with RFK, Jr?

    Rarely have I seen anyone who presents as such a normal, intelligent, and erudite dude have such profoundly dangerous ideas as RFK, Jr. His brain farts over the years were not harmless, but they seemed mostly confined to the vaccine space. — Read the rest

  • Brand New Xiaomi SU7 Dies After Just 24 Miles And Can’t Be Fixed By Dealer

    The owner of the electric sedan wants to have the car immediately replaced with a new one. A delivery center for the technology giant was unable to determine the cause of the issue. Xiaomi is believed to have produced just over 10,000 SU7s in recent months. The Xiaomi SU7 might be selling like hotcakes in China, but numerous owners have experienced issues shortly after taking delivery of the compelling new EV. Just this week, the owner of a bright blue SU7 was reportedly left stranded after just...

  • Big grammar can’t buy land, but talent can get you that and more – Lil Win

    Actor and comedian Lil Win has a message for those who think that speaking English fluently is a measure of one’s level of intelligence and the key to success.

  • Send in the clown posse: Trump can’t attack Stormy, but MAGA pals can

    On Wednesday, Donald Trump’s attorneys asked Judge Juan Merchan for two favors in Trump’s ongoing New York criminal trial, where he is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to protect his 2016 campaign.  First, Trump’s legal team asked the judge to declare a mistrial. That was denied.  Trump’s team then asked Merchan to punch a hole in the gag order protecting members of the jury and witnesses from Trump’s malice so that he could “respond to the American people” about...

  • I’m getting married but my father isn’t invited. How can I ensure he doesn’t crash the wedding?

    You can’t cordon off every weird dynamic on the big day, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. But you can be clear you won’t accept trespasses without consequenceGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailI am getting married next year. For various reasons, including his treatment of me and my siblings, I do not want my father at my wedding. If he is there he will ruin the day by shouting at me for some perceived transgression. He holds grudges like no one else I’ve ever met and he...

  • Florida Georgia Line Explain Why They Can’t Bro/Won’t Bro Like They Used to Bro

    "I'm like, 'Well, hey, whatever you need to do, bro,'" one bro

  • Human rights lawyer Susie Alegre: ‘If AI is so complex it can’t be explained, there are areas where it shouldn’t be used’

    The author of Human Rights, Robot Wrongs on why AI isn’t an all-or-nothing equation, separating hype from genuine dangers, and discovering that ChatGPT says she doesn’t existSusie Alegre is an international human rights lawyer and author, originally from the Isle of Man, whose focus in recent years has been on technology and its impact on human rights. As a legal expert she has advised Amnesty International, the UN and other organisations on issues such as counter-terrorism and anti-corruption....

  • Don’t sleep on severe weather

    Some of you probably woke up last Friday, very surprised to learn that a tornado came right through Santa Rosa County and into Okaloosa County. Many were left to pick up trees from their homes, out of roadways and to repair property damage following the EF-2 twister. The National Weather Service confirmed the tornado through its preliminary survey, estimating its peak winds at 115 miles per hour.

  • Why You Can’t Get a Restaurant Reservation

    "How bots, mercenaries, and table scalpers have turned the restaurant reservation system inside out."

  • 5 Humanitarian Crises We Can’t Ignore

    Over 110 million people have been forced to flee their homes, driven by three interconnected realities. about them here.