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"They're trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly.
"No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried.
"Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian asked.
"They're shooting at everyone," Clevinger answered. "They're trying to kill everyone."
"And what difference does that make?"
"No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried.
"Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian asked.
"They're shooting at everyone," Clevinger answered. "They're trying to kill everyone."
"And what difference does that make?"
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Pop quiz: both same age, both tea totalers. Can you spot the physical differences?
February 8, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Pop quiz: both same age, both tea totalers. Can you spot the physical differences?
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I don’t understand why so many of you seem to think that the Trump administration is either made up of clowns OR genuinely evil people
Didn’t “It” teach you those aren’t mutually exclusive
Didn’t “It” teach you those aren’t mutually exclusive
February 5, 2026 at 11:53 PM
I don’t understand why so many of you seem to think that the Trump administration is either made up of clowns OR genuinely evil people
Didn’t “It” teach you those aren’t mutually exclusive
Didn’t “It” teach you those aren’t mutually exclusive
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Imagine thinking Kamala’s problem was misogyny lol.
She was a dipshit who tripled down on Biden’s ineptness. The cherry ontop was that she had the personality of drywall.
She was a dipshit who tripled down on Biden’s ineptness. The cherry ontop was that she had the personality of drywall.
Kamala Harris ran a good, very aggressive campaign, but started at a significant deficit, and ran headlong into a ocean of misogyny, which has continued to dog her even more post-election, now that people feel empowered to say what they REALLY think about her
February 6, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Imagine thinking Kamala’s problem was misogyny lol.
She was a dipshit who tripled down on Biden’s ineptness. The cherry ontop was that she had the personality of drywall.
She was a dipshit who tripled down on Biden’s ineptness. The cherry ontop was that she had the personality of drywall.
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One neat trick to vastly improve this website:
February 6, 2026 at 1:35 AM
One neat trick to vastly improve this website:
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This chart seems to suggest a striking pattern: Kevin Warsh's speeches are consistently hawkish, except when Trump is President and about to appoint a new Fed Chair.
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
February 5, 2026 at 9:22 PM
This chart seems to suggest a striking pattern: Kevin Warsh's speeches are consistently hawkish, except when Trump is President and about to appoint a new Fed Chair.
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
#FedEx is a piece of shit company that doesn't deliver packages when they are scheduled to be delivered, and then blames dangerous weather when there is no dangerous weather within 50 miles of either the destination or the truck with the package.
February 6, 2026 at 12:29 AM
#FedEx is a piece of shit company that doesn't deliver packages when they are scheduled to be delivered, and then blames dangerous weather when there is no dangerous weather within 50 miles of either the destination or the truck with the package.
This is an excellent listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiU7....
Fascinating guy, the sleep stuff is crazy, but the mindset is excellent. Do it for yourself. Resonates with a bunch of philosophical thoughts.
Nietzsche's "Eternal Recurrence" comes to mind. You want to have the mindset of the
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Fascinating guy, the sleep stuff is crazy, but the mindset is excellent. Do it for yourself. Resonates with a bunch of philosophical thoughts.
Nietzsche's "Eternal Recurrence" comes to mind. You want to have the mindset of the
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Meet Joe Opio - My Favorite People
YouTube video by Trevor Noah
www.youtube.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:21 PM
This is an excellent listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiU7....
Fascinating guy, the sleep stuff is crazy, but the mindset is excellent. Do it for yourself. Resonates with a bunch of philosophical thoughts.
Nietzsche's "Eternal Recurrence" comes to mind. You want to have the mindset of the
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Fascinating guy, the sleep stuff is crazy, but the mindset is excellent. Do it for yourself. Resonates with a bunch of philosophical thoughts.
Nietzsche's "Eternal Recurrence" comes to mind. You want to have the mindset of the
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Quick tell me to the penny what milk cost in March 2025? Okay what about every other grocery item you regularly buy? Can you tell me the precise quantity you bought of each that year
If you can’t answer these questions to the penny, it’s hard to tell the difference between 1% and 3% inflation
If you can’t answer these questions to the penny, it’s hard to tell the difference between 1% and 3% inflation
I just don’t understand how you get to like 98% of your conclusions. This seems delusional.. groceries are probably like the one thing people do pay attention to.
February 5, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Quick tell me to the penny what milk cost in March 2025? Okay what about every other grocery item you regularly buy? Can you tell me the precise quantity you bought of each that year
If you can’t answer these questions to the penny, it’s hard to tell the difference between 1% and 3% inflation
If you can’t answer these questions to the penny, it’s hard to tell the difference between 1% and 3% inflation
One of the primary goals of primary education should be to educate young citizens such that they can understand and appreciate this writing and performance.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 3:10 PM
One of the primary goals of primary education should be to educate young citizens such that they can understand and appreciate this writing and performance.
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very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth
February 5, 2026 at 12:06 PM
very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
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If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
February 5, 2026 at 12:16 AM
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
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February 4, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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I will die on the hill that not everything should have to exist for profit margins and that public interest and profit are often deeply misaligned.
February 4, 2026 at 2:03 PM
I will die on the hill that not everything should have to exist for profit margins and that public interest and profit are often deeply misaligned.
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“If a newspaper’s publisher makes a bunch of decisions that lose money, and then the owner keeps the publisher while firing the staff who puts out the paper—none of this is really about the money, is it?”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
The Washington Post Dies in Daylight
Civic vandalism and the mutilation of a great paper.
open.substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 6:31 PM
“If a newspaper’s publisher makes a bunch of decisions that lose money, and then the owner keeps the publisher while firing the staff who puts out the paper—none of this is really about the money, is it?”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Is there any media outlet left to shame Jeff Bezos?
Bezos should absolutely be held on the same level as Musk re: Twitter. They both took sustainable businesses and absolutely demolished them, neither replacing what they destroyed with literally anything of value.
Bezos should absolutely be held on the same level as Musk re: Twitter. They both took sustainable businesses and absolutely demolished them, neither replacing what they destroyed with literally anything of value.
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
February 4, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Is there any media outlet left to shame Jeff Bezos?
Bezos should absolutely be held on the same level as Musk re: Twitter. They both took sustainable businesses and absolutely demolished them, neither replacing what they destroyed with literally anything of value.
Bezos should absolutely be held on the same level as Musk re: Twitter. They both took sustainable businesses and absolutely demolished them, neither replacing what they destroyed with literally anything of value.
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Jeff Bezos could have spun off the Washington Post into an independent nonprofit with a few billion dollars for an endowment and been a hero by spending what, for him, is pocket change.
February 4, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Jeff Bezos could have spun off the Washington Post into an independent nonprofit with a few billion dollars for an endowment and been a hero by spending what, for him, is pocket change.
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“.. Maxine Waters just asked Scott Bessent if he wrote a letter to investors warning that "tariffs are inflatonary." His response: No.”
The letter: assets.realclear.com/files/2024/0...
(via @eleanormueller.bsky.social)
The letter: assets.realclear.com/files/2024/0...
(via @eleanormueller.bsky.social)
February 4, 2026 at 4:21 PM
“.. Maxine Waters just asked Scott Bessent if he wrote a letter to investors warning that "tariffs are inflatonary." His response: No.”
The letter: assets.realclear.com/files/2024/0...
(via @eleanormueller.bsky.social)
The letter: assets.realclear.com/files/2024/0...
(via @eleanormueller.bsky.social)
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When you invested in Twitter and Elon ran it into the ground but now you have pre-IPO shares in SpaceX.
February 3, 2026 at 1:07 PM
When you invested in Twitter and Elon ran it into the ground but now you have pre-IPO shares in SpaceX.
There's literally no excuse for anyone to be voting to fund this. People on this site need to stop donating money to any Democrat currently holding office. You and they are part of the problem
This is such a goddamn stupid use of our tax dollars.
This is such a goddamn stupid use of our tax dollars.
Agent: These guys were all threatening us yesterday with hand guns.
...
Agent: *Hand* guns, like threatening to shoot us.
Reporter: You mean like with hand symbols?
A: Pulling them out, trying to engage us.
R: Pulling out literal guns?
A: No. Making... assuming we were going to do something.
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Agent: *Hand* guns, like threatening to shoot us.
Reporter: You mean like with hand symbols?
A: Pulling them out, trying to engage us.
R: Pulling out literal guns?
A: No. Making... assuming we were going to do something.
February 3, 2026 at 4:41 PM
There's literally no excuse for anyone to be voting to fund this. People on this site need to stop donating money to any Democrat currently holding office. You and they are part of the problem
This is such a goddamn stupid use of our tax dollars.
This is such a goddamn stupid use of our tax dollars.
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Krasner ain’t wrong.
Gov. Josh Shapiro called District Attorney Larry Krasner's comparison of ICE agents to Nazis "abhorrent." Krasner responded that Shapiro is "not meeting the moment."
Philly DA Larry Krasner says ‘don’t be a wimp’ after Gov. Josh Shapiro decried his comparison of ICE agents to Nazis
www.inquirer.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Krasner ain’t wrong.
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Out of pocket costs for childcare in Maine: over ten thousand dollars a year on average.
Out of pocket costs for childcare SHOULD be the same as for public school:
$0.
Out of pocket costs for childcare SHOULD be the same as for public school:
$0.
February 2, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Out of pocket costs for childcare in Maine: over ten thousand dollars a year on average.
Out of pocket costs for childcare SHOULD be the same as for public school:
$0.
Out of pocket costs for childcare SHOULD be the same as for public school:
$0.
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My “Just because Nvidia isn’t going to invest $100B in OpenAI doesn’t mean they won’t be able to pay us for the data centers we’re taking out loans to build” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
February 2, 2026 at 11:01 PM
My “Just because Nvidia isn’t going to invest $100B in OpenAI doesn’t mean they won’t be able to pay us for the data centers we’re taking out loans to build” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.