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It took me years to appreciate gelato alla nocciola. Chocolate, not hazelnut, was my flavor when I was a child. Eventually, I moved on to gianduja, which is sort of like chocolate for grownups ~ an inspired combination of mostly chocolate with a dollop of hazelnut paste mixed in to round out the flavor. While visiting Puglia some years ago, I ordered a s… ncG1vNJzZmiapaS7orDOppynoZOWe7TBwayrmpubY7CwuY6pZqCdnJbBsHnApaOaZZ6ksKS1zqWY

Tasmanian Argentina-based geologist, trader, & mining investor. I quit the rat race 2 years ago & am passionate about living life on my own terms, free thought, answering to no one while building wealth, & documenting my story every step of the way. By Jordan 🇦🇺 · Over 3,000 subscribersNo thanks“Quit your job? Break from the herd? Move to Argentina? Trade options and live well? This guy has pulled it off.

Welcome to the 69th (nice) update from the Gradient! If you’re new and like what you see, subscribe and follow us on Twitter :) You’ll need to view this post on Substack to see the full newsletter! We’re recruiting editors! If you’re interested in helping us edit essays for our magazine, reach out to editor@thegradient.pub. Want to write with us? Send a pitch using this form. Google recently found itself in hot water over its Gemini AI tool's depiction of historical figures, including the Founding Fathers and Nazi-era soldiers, as people of color.

A TikTok therapist just had a meltdown online. After crying about how much he hates his job — too many people complaining to him, not enough people thinking of him as a human being — he posted a follow-up video to say that he had just lost his license. “You all got your wish,” the caption read as he tearfully recounted the loss of his career and income, all because of a vulnerable TikTok video.

Geoffrey Boycott has a column in the Daily Telegraph. It's one of the few things left he is allowed to do. The BBC finally distanced from him. Though they did so years after his Domestic Violence conviction in France. And they even kept him on even after he said he would need to blackface to get a knighthood. In this column - from what they call in the UK a paper of record - is this line "

Years ago, when I was still figuring out my stand-up comedy career, I took a day job at The Punch Line Comedy Club in San Francisco. It was my job to call people and tell them they had “won” free tickets, the fine print being that you could only use your “winning tickets” on a night when the club wasn’t going to already be packed with a paying audience. People were excited until they found out that they would only be able to use them on a Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday — not popular date nights to say the least.

Draft script: You might be familiar with the George Carlin routine, Saving the Planet. This skit is brought to my attention at least once each week. In this skit, Carlin indicates that the planet isn’t going anywhere, but we are. He implies that the living planet isn’t going anywhere. Rather, our species will go extinct, with little or no impact on non-human organisms. This short video addresses this issue. I will undoubtedly refer to it frequently in response to the many ignorant messages I receive.

Okay, I didn't immediately take ENQUIRER articles editor Steve Herz seriously when he said I was headed to Miami Beach because George Clooney is shacked up with his male hairdresser. Herz explained that the tip had been phoned in by a pretty reliable source. A realist, however, Herz doubted the information but his bosses wanted it checked out. So off I drove from the magazine's headquarters in Lantana, Fl., down I-95 to always-happening South Beach and the very posh Delano hotel, where Clooney was residing.

Hello, reader. It’s Jeremy. Today is a special occasion, because this week’s post is from my friend Mary Catherine, a fellow film/TV aficionado who is constantly writing about what she’s watching. Which means she’s perfect company around these parts. Also, she chose a Brendan Fraser movie to write about, which makes this the third Brendan Fraser movie covered on Dust On The VCR this year, which makes us the internet’s leading purveyor of Brendan Fraser content, I think.