dan p
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a face that screams ask me for directions
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This is very interesting (and yeah, I also had an initial “oh come on, that’s nuts” reaction to the first part of this article, but as I read on, I realized he was making some pretty compelling points)
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 AM
This is very interesting (and yeah, I also had an initial “oh come on, that’s nuts” reaction to the first part of this article, but as I read on, I realized he was making some pretty compelling points)
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Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
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Thinking about that Krugman soundbite about how only 2% of Americans have ever done anything with crypto and it feels like the enormous crypto marketing blitz I see constantly in New York and New Jersey is less to attract customers and more to make people believe there's an industry there
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Thinking about that Krugman soundbite about how only 2% of Americans have ever done anything with crypto and it feels like the enormous crypto marketing blitz I see constantly in New York and New Jersey is less to attract customers and more to make people believe there's an industry there
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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Fun fact: this is explicitly why Dick Wolf created Law & Order: he violently hates defense attorneys and felt tere weren't enough shows about how defendants and their lawyers are scum
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
November 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Fun fact: this is explicitly why Dick Wolf created Law & Order: he violently hates defense attorneys and felt tere weren't enough shows about how defendants and their lawyers are scum
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
(also when somebody "gets off on a technicality" that actually means the cops committed a crime against them)
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one of the underrated factors for the rise in scamming across U.S. society is the death of local media.
It gets lost in the shuffle, but the Speaker of the House is someone who, by all rights, should’ve had his career ended a decade ago by a Shreveport TV news investigative team.
Fond memories of that time Mike Johnson was president of a local law school that never opened its doors, in part because it was attached to a Baptist college that was losing its accreditation, and in part because it was always a scam from the start
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
one of the underrated factors for the rise in scamming across U.S. society is the death of local media.
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my most butlerian jihad coded belief is that we should probably make it illegal – and more importantly, we should work toward a cultural consensus that it is immoral – to design a computer program whose interface uses the first person
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
my most butlerian jihad coded belief is that we should probably make it illegal – and more importantly, we should work toward a cultural consensus that it is immoral – to design a computer program whose interface uses the first person
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Why did we take a mandatory unit on the Holocaust every year in Hebrew school if not to recognize this pattern
this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices
November 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Why did we take a mandatory unit on the Holocaust every year in Hebrew school if not to recognize this pattern
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we really need to nationalize healthcare but we're too corrupt to function so we're just going to have to wade through a bunch of corpses and suffering for the next five years while our feckless corporate press softsells the carnage
November 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
we really need to nationalize healthcare but we're too corrupt to function so we're just going to have to wade through a bunch of corpses and suffering for the next five years while our feckless corporate press softsells the carnage
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Republicans want to be Nazis.
Democrats want to be Republicans.
Democrats want to be Republicans.
This is a straightforward Republican attack line, what the fuck is he doing
November 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Republicans want to be Nazis.
Democrats want to be Republicans.
Democrats want to be Republicans.
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KEEP HONKING
I'M LISTENING TO
THE HONEYED LIES
OF MY TREACHEROUS VIZIER
I'M LISTENING TO
THE HONEYED LIES
OF MY TREACHEROUS VIZIER
November 14, 2025 at 4:15 AM
KEEP HONKING
I'M LISTENING TO
THE HONEYED LIES
OF MY TREACHEROUS VIZIER
I'M LISTENING TO
THE HONEYED LIES
OF MY TREACHEROUS VIZIER
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trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app
April 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app
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let's gooooo www.youtube.com/watch?v=viti...
Robyn - Dopamine (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Robyn
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
let's gooooo www.youtube.com/watch?v=viti...
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It is really frustrating that antisemitism and Islamophobia will flourish, neither the Saudi nor the Israeli government will be held accountable for its abhorrent behavior, and the white nationalists who have ruined America will skate completely.
AIPAC sucks, supports genocide, and is a hub for Christian Zionists as much as anyone. *And* at the same time:
When you vaguepost like this about issues unrelated to Israel suggesting an org associated with Judaism is to blame, you are at least FLIRTING with antisemitic conspiracy theory.
When you vaguepost like this about issues unrelated to Israel suggesting an org associated with Judaism is to blame, you are at least FLIRTING with antisemitic conspiracy theory.
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
It is really frustrating that antisemitism and Islamophobia will flourish, neither the Saudi nor the Israeli government will be held accountable for its abhorrent behavior, and the white nationalists who have ruined America will skate completely.
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People who hate Zohran and everything he stands for: Now that Zohran has won, the most effective thing he can do is betray all of his principles
November 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
People who hate Zohran and everything he stands for: Now that Zohran has won, the most effective thing he can do is betray all of his principles
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My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:52 AM
My god this is for real one of the most incredible speeches I’ve ever seen by an elected US politician: ‘And if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is to dismantle the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This not only how we stop Trump, it’s how we stop the next one.’
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Dems have spent my whole life trying to stop anyone with these politics and this message from getting anywhere because they knew what it would do for public morale and political engagement. Their job was to suppress both.
November 5, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Dems have spent my whole life trying to stop anyone with these politics and this message from getting anywhere because they knew what it would do for public morale and political engagement. Their job was to suppress both.
A immortal image
A glimpse from the Andrew Cuomo official watch party at Ziegfeld Ballroom, via NYPost's Matthew Fischetti
November 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
A immortal image
"NPR doesn't silo people into cozy progressive ideas, we actively launder arch conservative governance into a long list of progressive wins" is not the brag this guy thinks it is lol
NPR does not exist to silo people in a cozy set of ideas. Andrew Cuomo won 43% of votes in the Dem primary. He has a long history. Our reporting includes charges of sexual misconduct & mishandling of COVID care - and describes his long list of progressive wins as governor www.npr.org/2025/11/03/n...
Andrew Cuomo fights for his political life and his version of the Democratic Party
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has a long list of accomplishments, many of them progressive. In the race for New York City mayor, that experience hasn't given him the boost he wanted.
www.npr.org
November 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"NPR doesn't silo people into cozy progressive ideas, we actively launder arch conservative governance into a long list of progressive wins" is not the brag this guy thinks it is lol
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Love him or hate him you can't deny that this is beautiful, concise prose.
Hakeem Jeffries says Zohran Mamdani is not the future of the Democratic Party.
November 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Love him or hate him you can't deny that this is beautiful, concise prose.
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⚠️ Google has given you access to The Computer That Lies.
⚠️ You are now required to use The Computer That Lies.
⚠️ You are now required to use The Computer That Lies.
January 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
⚠️ Google has given you access to The Computer That Lies.
⚠️ You are now required to use The Computer That Lies.
⚠️ You are now required to use The Computer That Lies.
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Lost Cause narratives are endemic to both the Confederacy and Nazis, both of which were taken back in by the American govt after being defeated. their reactionary ideologies were allowed to remain intact, were linked to one another, and allowed to flourish under the surface before taking power
genuinely why do so many americans have a nazi phase or become genuine nazis. on a fundemental level you’d think that we’d have as much shared hatred for nazism as we do for the british
October 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Lost Cause narratives are endemic to both the Confederacy and Nazis, both of which were taken back in by the American govt after being defeated. their reactionary ideologies were allowed to remain intact, were linked to one another, and allowed to flourish under the surface before taking power
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sweet mother of god
Cuomo’s desperate final act is bankrolled by the very billionaires who brought us Donald Trump and the broken status quo.
New Yorkers are ready for change.
New Yorkers are ready for change.
October 17, 2025 at 2:26 AM
sweet mother of god