Jesse

New dog just dropped

Free speech president doing great

@Billie_T Honestly shocking

I’ve defended Romero plenty but fuck that guy, that’s the weakest move from a club captain in my lifetime

@dieworkwear Genuine question on the demand part: did dressing like this actually "stand out" back then? Cary Grant almost certainly always did, but the fashion itself seemed to be more standard

There's a simple supply-and-demand answer to this question. On the supply side, tailoring shops have mostly dried up, especially if you live outside of major cities such as London, Tokyo, and New York City. This doesn't mean that you can't get a good suit outside of these urban centers. But doing so requires a lot more effort and knowledge. The photo of Cary Grant below was taken to promote the 1940 romantic comedy The Philadelphia Story. When this image was taken, the average man in North America could reasonably expect to be able to to buy a quality suit from a clothier or tailor within driving distance of his home. Such clothiers and tailors would handle all the details. You would arrive, tell them what you need a suit for (work, wedding, summer, winter), and they would furnish the goods. If you didn't know the social rules or expectations around wearing such clothes, they would tell you. If they didn't know, trade publications such as Apparel Arts of consumer-facing titles such as Esquire would tell them. And then they would pass the information to you. Today, you have to do all the work yourself. Supposing you know where to buy a good suit (meaning in terms of construction quality), you will have to figure out whether it fits and flatters. Does the shoulder line look right? Why are there divots at the sleevehead? Are the quarters supposed to be this open? For many men, especially those outside of major cities, these are questions they'll have to answer themselves. Let's now suppose you've done all the proper research and determined that you do, in fact, have a good suit. Now you will need to get it adjusted, as all ready-to-wear tailoring requires some tweaks (such as lowering the collar or adjusting the sleeves). Do you have a local alterations tailor to handle this for you? If you're in a major city, perhaps; if not, then perhaps not. Let us again suppose you've procured the right suit, got it adjusted, and it looks fantastic. Do you know how to wear it well? Once again, you will have to educate yourself, as most salespeople are not particularly useful in this regard. Many are more concerned about looking young, hip, and fashionable. If you want to wear a suit more classically, like Grant below, you will have to turn to the annoying menswear nerds online, one of whom is snarky progressive non-white immigrant on Twitter. OK, let's say you've got it all figured out — you have the suit, it's been adjusted, and you've learned all the stupid rules the menswear guy on Twitter talks about. We now reach the demand side. Most men don't want to dress like this because it makes them stand out. When everyone else is in t-shirts and jeans, or polo shirts and chinos, a gray Glen check suit with a properly knotted tie (four-in-hand, dimple) will make you look very unusual. Grant even has a collar pin in this pic! There are ways you can dress this down — swapping the suit for a sport coat, the shirt and tie for a denim Western shirt, the gray checked trousers for jeans, etc. But you will stand out. Centuries of Western bias against fashion — an area of culture often deemed too superficial and commercial for "serious" people — means that many people don't want to dress in a way that signals they have an interest in clothes. This goes doubly for men. Since fashion was historically considered not something "serious" people engaged in, and women were pushed out of "serious" professions, such as finance, law, and academia, fashion is often coded as a feminine interest today. Thus, if you're a man who dresses this way while everyone else dresses much more casually, you face two problems. First, some people may deem you to be superficial and potentially of low intelligence. Second, some may also question whether you're gay or fully masculine (sexuality and gender, of course, being two distinct things, but often conflated in a way that suggests gay men are feminine). People who reify traditional gender norms only make it less likely that this sort of garb will be worn again. To me, that's the simple story for why most men don't dress like this: it requires much more effort than it did in the past, both in terms of procuring the clothes and knowing how to wear them. Once done successfully, you also have to be a certain kind of character to not care about standing out. It's a supply and demand problem.

@azimmerman512 @danpfeiffer The tweet has the numbers switched. In the image it's DEM +11 on generic ballot

@danpfeiffer GOP +11???

Another poll confirms the generic ballot margin from the NYT

Within one 24 hour period, Trump: - got out of a $100 million IRS fine - secured "immunity" from all future tax investigations for his family and friends - created a $1.8 billion slush fund for lawbreaking supporters - was reported for likely insider trading worth nearly $1 billion All of the obvious things to say about this are true. It's bad. Nobody even tries to defend it. The closest thing to a defense you get is something about how "but Democrats suck" and "woke was also bad," which is not a defense, but rather a kind of moral blank check made out to the administration to give them the right to do anything. But what I'm most curious about is whether this sort of lurid corruption creates a countermovement that successfully returns government to rule of law or whether it's establishing a norm of executive imperialism that every future administration will use to achieve its ends, which can always be justified by the moral blank check of "the other side is worse, so let us do whatever we want."

More insanity

@YedIin His ability to get to the basket wlunder control and finish is super impressive

Dylan Harper is already so good as a rookie it's absurd, unsung hero of that game

Feeling increasingly gross to live here

@AndyGlockner Started laughing out loud

The guy is the plaintiff and the defendant and somehow knows nothing about the settlement

@jaycaspiankang I think the legacy is cemented at this point. Only people who will use his waning years in arguments against him were already delusional about him (i.e., thinking Kobe was better). He should keep going

no way. he should keep playing until he's 46 so we can see how a basketball genius continues to adjust to the failings of his body. Game 1 of the Rockets series was beautiful to watch. Who cares about tarnishing his legacy or whatever. You think he can actually tarnish it?

Becoming some sort of weird axiom that the Dem Senate caucus must have at least one member who votes with Rs on the biggest issues of the moment

@foreverpunk82 @tehTrunk Dang. Couldn't see clear contact on the replays 🤷‍♂️

@JesseDHale1 @tehTrunk x.com/lucaslufc4life…

This is fucking nonsense.

@foreverpunk82 @tehTrunk Got an image? Don't have Sky

@JesseDHale1 @tehTrunk Sky literally just showed it

@AndyGlockner It's been terrible for the game the entire time. Never been useful

@foreverpunk82 @tehTrunk ??

@JesseDHale1 @tehTrunk The red lump on his head suggests so

@groomy1981 @AlasdairGold Guy didn't even know where he supposedly got kicked yet the referee was confident it happened? Nah, no pen

@JesseDHale1 @AlasdairGold Exactly. There was the thing at the beginning of last season where diving was a yellow. Bissouma got punished then everyone seemed to forget about the rule soon after. All simulation should be yellow card and free kick conceded. Cut this shit out.

Tel catches Ampadu with an overhead kick in his own box and the referee is sent to his monitor. Penalty given to Leeds. football.london/tottenham-hots…

@AnasFTL Two truly awful decisions from VAR and the referee

That Maddison foul was right in front of me. Stonewall fucking penalty. I don’t wanna hear anymore bullshit about the Premier League apparently wanting us to stay up. Fucking disgrace.

@YedIin VAR is making the game a lot worse

So used to us getting fucked over that even for a stonewall pen I didn’t get my hopes up

For what?