Working Week in Britain in 2015:
32.1 hours
Working Week in Britain in 1830:
66.83 hours
Working Week in Britain in 1523:
32.09 hours
Source: Bank of England, via FRED https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2021/10/a-short-historyof-working-hours/
Spartan Hegemony:
Start date: 4/25/404
End date: 7/6/371
Duration (days): 12,125
Simpsons Runtime:
Start date: 12/17/1989
End date: 1/28/2024
Duration (days): 12,507
Analysis:
Simpsons airtime surpassed the Spartan Hegemony on February 27th, 2023.
Source: Wikipedia
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Subscriber:
“I'd want to get lost if I was a parcel."
Overheard on the way out of Prospect Park, Brooklyn ~
Strange Matters Editor:
“You know, back there I was reading a passage so beautiful it almost made me cry, which means when you get to it it'll definitely make you bawl. But there were some cute girls nearby I. held it in. I didn't want them to see me sobbing over a copy of Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day."
Overheard at the SM Issue 1 afterparty ~
Immigrant DSAer [commiserating over NYC DSA]:
“Like, my God! These people want to run the whole economy, but they think owning a bar is too ambitious!"
Overheard in the long tunnel connecting the two 14th Street stations in Manhattan ~
SM Editor 1 [lugging a box of issues]:
“Why is nothing, absolutely nothing, ever easy?"
SM Editor 2 [philosophically carrying a banner over their shoulder]:
“I think most things are probably medium difficulty."
Luxury penthouse condo in LA:
$50 million
[e.g. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/9000-W-3rd-St-PENTHOUSE-LosAngeles-CA-90048/2062215490_zpid/]
B-61 Nuclear Bomb:
$20 million
[https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/08/heres-how-much-a-nuclear-weapon-costs.html]
Overheard in an SM Editorial Meeting ~
“A quick genuflection to Foucault en route to what's actually interesting about the issue"
