jonhendry

“Kidding on the square” as they used to say.

For all the talk about "sticking it to Wall Street", it's quite likely that most of the biggest "winners" in the GameStop mess were Wall Street types. Either trading for their employers or trading in their personal accounts.

The African slave trade of slavs? I think she means Arab. Or Arab/Muslim-osphere.

I wouldn't think sub-Saharan Africans ran a lot of ships up to the Baltic or the Black Sea to capture slavs for enslavement. Ottomans, yes. Barbary pirates, perhaps. Of course some of the most prominent of the Barbary pirates were actually raised Christian or Jewish in Europe, and joined the pirates as adults.

And I wouldn't be surprised at all if Europeans also captured slavs for sale to the Ottomans.

Why the hell would anyone think about Cyrus the Great every day, let alone fondly.

Also the paper is a decade old.

And redolent of 'emerita disease' although I don't think the authors have technically achieved that honor.

I didn’t exactly imagine them being a demographic big into a big box furniture and interior decoration store. Ikea, maybe.

Not even furniture, really. It's more like sheet sets, comforters, bed skirts, faddish kitchen utensils, small cheap appliances, towels, toothbrush racks, etc.

I expect a lot of BBBY nuts are the "mattress on the floor with no fitted sheet" type, but they probably spend money on desk/chair and living room media furniture.

I'm glad I've never been a good enough programmer to believe I was a genius programmer.

It's kind of a shame that Linens 'n Things wasn't still around for contrarians to "support". It could have been a meme stock lunatic battle royale.

A PhD student got an opinion piece published on the hill dot com.

Also of course he has his own EA organization / grifting engine.

Which looks like they probably use Twelve Monkeys as a role model.

He has quite possibly written more words about Harry Potter than She Who Shall Not Be Named, herself.

Thinking it's bad: not controversial. Thinking something should actually be done about it: not that popular. Spending money / imposing costly regulation to prevent it: very unpopular.

That seems like an inefficient use of space if the ceiling is anything more than six feet high. If they're ten foot ceilings, then the shelves are spaced about 20 inches apart, which is rather larger than typical books. No wonder there are multiple layers on some shelves and books overflowing onto other surfaces.