Try adding a dash of cocoa powder to your coffee for some added flavor.
Proximity to power deludes some into believing they wield it.
Paternal, parental, maternal
Blaming fat and exonerating sugar affected the diets of hundreds of millions of people for decades, a belief that caused a shift in eating habits that has been linked to the massive increase in obesity rates and diabetes.
concave, convex.
He is cooped up in a cramped cell with 10 other inmates.
ill-informed, ill-advised.
off-limits.
paternal, maternal.
roof terrace, garden terrace
heterodox economics.
ailing, ailment, alimony
the harmony of the series gives an aesthetic pleasure similar to that derived from looking at the architecture of a well-designed edifice.
field
unfold.
A little dip here, a surge there—Bitcoin’s keeping everyone on their toes!
Mr Musk has spread misinformation about voter fraud and hurricane relief and derided his opponents as ill-intentioned idiots.
Pepsi unshrinks some shrinkflation as shoppers scoff at lighter chip bags.
The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust.
Escape from the meat grinder: the making of a Russian deserter
When workplace bonuses backfire. - The gelignite of incentives
This is why we can’t give up, why we must believe in our agency. Because time and again, one person can—and does—make a difference.
the state of being in action or exerting power
The executive, Steve Kourelakos, who had worked at the company for more than two decades and was being deposed in a lawsuit between owners, repeated his answer: “I’m not sure.”
And Boar’s Head is no fly-by-night enterprise. The company is one of the country’s most recognizable deli-meat brands;
Victoria Gomelsky, reporting with absurd credulity for The New York Times:
The kneejerk criticism to purges like this is to fault Apple for complying.
I don’t remember if I omitted them because I forgot to include them, or if it was for aesthetic reasons.
By weight, AirPods (with case) are heavier, but measured by fussiness, they offer a never-tangled fraction of the wired earbuds experience.
took up a hobby to relieve the ennui of retirement.
I was left with a feeling best described as ennui. On Threads, I summarized my feelings with one short sentence:
The obvious truth is that we all, including Apple, miss Steve Jobs.
It’s also not at all to say Apple is worse off. In some ways it is, but in others, Apple is far better.
Tim Cook is no mere beancounter. Far from it. He shares with Jobs a driving ambition to change the world.
whirlwind, whirlpool
gnawing.
Let's rest under yonder tree.
All rooms have a balcony or terrace.
Homogeneity and heterogeneity.
heterogeneous, homogenous
the World Wide Web Consortium.
I don’t have strong feelings about passkeys, but I am vaguely unsettled by them.
The lawyer fielded all questions from the press.
When nationalism rears its head in China, the country's neighbours tremble.
in the good graces of.
in a position to do sth.
indolent.
While you might encounter indolent in essays, books, or medical contexts, in everyday conversation, people tend to say "lazy," "inactive," or "slow-moving."
can you give credence to this ordure?.
No, ordure is not commonly used in everyday language. It is a somewhat archaic or literary term, meaning excrement or something considered filthy or disgusting.
Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent
And even these investments now seem shoddy: most of the homes being auctioned in Changsha have gone unsold.
If each foreclosure meant another family getting booted out of a home, China’s property crisis would be causing dramatic social instability, as America’s did after 2007.
Whereas local courts once took less than three months to rule on foreclosure cases, this year many have chosen to delay filing cases for at least six months to give buyers time to catch up.
Just like average punters, firms in China often struggle to find good investments and therefore plough cash into commercial and residential property.
But they should also fear the rising distress among companies.
cardboard box.
Unfortunately, an even richer, more racist billionaire — Elon Musk — snuck up on us from behind and completely fucked that land with gravel, tractors, and space garbage.
walking on eggshells around an unstable man with a penchant for bloodlust.
Walmart is still the biggest Apple Pay holdout by a wide margin, and the company has shown no signs of changing its tune.
With Walmart, I do think it’s strategic that they don’t support Apple Pay. I think it’s wrongheaded though, and they’ll change their minds sooner (probably) or later.
30 years of Dave Winer's seminal blog, scripting news.
Winer is rightfully renowned for his technical achievements — outliners as an application genre, RSS in general.
Becoming a for-profit would be a seismic shift for OpenAI, which was founded in 2015 to develop AI technology “to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.
But OpenAI itself seems to be in a state of constant executive disarray. That’s a bit of a head-scratcher to me.
The new image of today’s wealthy. - A new book offers an engrossing but flawed takedown of Britain’s most privileged
The rigged race for China’s elite universities.
In China, if you’ve got it, don’t flaunt it. - Especially not on the internet.
For those of you keenly tracking the polls ahead of November 5th, my colleagues in our data team this week launched a prediction model for Congress.
The Israel-Iran standoff in maps.
Some have charged that the Puritans were sexually repressed.
canonize.
Inflation is an outgrowth of war.
This big shop is an outgrowth of my little shop I started three years ago.
What you beheld was the interior of a cloister.
her remorse could be a blight on that happiness.
Blighted stems often canker. -
I just think you're the kind of person who likes a contingency plan.
contingency fund/reserve/plan
We should be prepared for any contingency.
But for Americans it's a moot point. The State Department says, don't travel to India.
A hot climate enervate people who are not used to it.
entreat.
Her husband was a charming, but lazy and feckless man.
eclectic
Before the poor wretch had time to speak, he was shot.
I wouldn't freeload. I'm not a freeloader.
I got three years' probation, on condition that I stay at the hostel for a year.
There was always a 2 percent surcharge imposed by the city of San Francisco for traffic congestion.
Flood in monsoon season.
On Thursday evening, at around 7 pm Pacific time, Tesla is slated to unveil the newest vehicle in its lineup.
pathbreaking, trail-blazer.
Tesla AI head Ashok Elluswamy intimated that the automaker had at least a sense of the challenge ahead.
This tap water is not potable, it's polluted.
Rate hikes are clearly working—with mortgage rates above 7% and credit card rates going haywire, the Fed must be working on something quite specific to bring down CONSUMER price inflation.
You had supply chains going haywire, inflation shoot up.
common toad, tree toad.
It succinctly covered all the salient points of the case.
She could feel something icky on her fingers.
bastion, citadel, fortress, stronghold
scrap, scrape.
I might scrape through the exam if I'm lucky.
We managed to scrape together eight volunteers.
I can just scrape by on what my parents give me.
Some of the younger men began to pelt one another with snowballs.
The untimely death of the engineer delayed the completion of the project.
For the poorest people, however, growth can be the difference between a good life and penury.
Epictetus was well-accustomed to a hard life, having spent years as a slave.
Gov. Greg Abbott called the state "the modern embodiment of the American dream.
We can argue about whether Apple’s compulsion to never, ever comment on unannounced products is beneficial or not.
Orion by all accounts is a really compelling demo. But it’s also very clearly a prototype device only suitable for demos.
They look orthopedic, like glasses intended to aid people whose vision is so low they’re legally blind.
Unpalatable
She's a dab hand with a paintbrush.
I put a dab of butter on my bread.
dab at the stain—vigorous rubbing could damage the carpet.
He was out of work and living in squalor.
raunchy vs squalid vs squalor
Rock 'n' roll had entered a period of stasis.
The cul-de-sac stasis of life in the suburban middle class?
Happened in real life or audio/video that I can resonate with a scene/context.
Give me your Second Sons and I may not have you gelded.
I refused to ask out of spite.
She was a little rough around the edges, but she was also a really good person, when she tried.
You're too smart for your own good, have anyone told you that?
I believe we can dispense with the bedding, your grace. I'm sure Tyrion did not mean to threaten the king.
Bits and Bytes can wait, people can not.
This file contains a compendium of all of the highest impact events from your life.
The meeting you just blew off? Isn't it important.
Nothing short of the approval of Peterman himself will save you this time.
I'm cutting it close.
Although, if I stand next to a powerful array of magnets, I do get pretty loopy.
vivid, absurd, "outrageous", hilarious expressions.
As it was raining, we stayed indoors.
We stayed indoors as it was raining.
Should you take your work laptop, you must use VPN at every login.
Tipping Non-Public Information.
At work, you found out that Walmart is parting ways with a major food supplier, and you own stock in that supplier’s company.
For the longest time, they wouldn't fess up to it, it was something the community and people had to dig into to find out.
The claim of achieving over 400k TPS over this time period was categorically false.
Never in my life have I seen someone interview in shorts.
I mean that all glitters is not gold.
Because surely if the Democrats had actually stolen the election, the Republican leadership wouldn't have let themselves just be walked over.
He was down in the dumps after losing his job.
The FED in the US taking a backseat, their options become constrained by what's going on on the fiscal side.