Looks our first post-phyrexian palette cleanser leans into magical and the fairy tale. Not sure how I feel about this endless sleep threat, but we'll see how it plays out.

This is an absolutely spectacular long form article from NYT that walks through small communities in mesopotamia, and how large political and economic changes have made them among the first to experience climate change as a life-threatening crisis. It also foreshadows water wars and how they could increasingly become a part of our political climate.

And if so, who is the play? James Robinson was just signed by the Giants. While I love him on a personal level, it's doubtful to me at this point that he's going to be a meaningful fantasy contributor.

In the spirit of building out this community, I'm creating a playlist of the songs released in a past few months that I found most compelling.

Note that not all of these are pop punk, but the genre is relatively nebulous anyway. Also note that while I have a very diverse musical palette, my strong preference is for music with great lyricism.

Let me know your thoughts! Tracklist:

1. What Hurts the Most - Trophy Eyes
2. Clean-Up Crew - Spanish Love Songs
3. Outlook - The Front Bottoms
4. Gans Media Retro Games - Hot Mulligan
5. JOBBO - WSTR
6. LIKED U BETTER - Jeff Rosenstock
7. We Didn't Start the Fire (Re-Imagined) - Fall Out Boy
8. Fail You - Movements
9. GODDAMNITALL - The Wonder Years
10. Sean - Trophy Eyes
11. NYE - Local Natives
12. Cast Iron Skillet - Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit

For transparency, I only signed up for a Discover card recently because they had a 15 month 0% balance transfer promotion, which is what I've been looking for. In general it's seemed like their rewards were not outstanding and you had to deal with potentially not having the card accepted elsewhere.

My receiving bank botched the transfer and the funds were missing for a bit. Discover was excellent -- every time I called there was a minimal wait for a U.S. based customer support agent that I could understand clearly and was knowledgeable about the situation. I was surprised.

I get that you may go years without ever needing to contact support, but it definitely quickly made a difference for me.

The healthy supply of EVs may not seem as alarming considering that the industry average is a 70-day supply during “normal times,” per Axios, but ICE-equipped vehicles currently sit at a 54-day supply. And hybrids are having a particularly good year, with supply down to 44 days. Plug-in and traditional hybrids from Toyota are making the best of 2023, with current supply for the Prius and RAV4 sitting at under 30 days each. Axios claims that this reaffirms Toyota’s argument that car buyers need a “stepping stone” from ICE to EVs.