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I've picked up some new followers over the last few days and I've got to tell you, you're all going to be disappointed
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i worry that a 5-year stretch of nothing but ads for NFTs, bitcoin, and AI is a long enough gap that this nation's once-great advertising industry will forget how to sell a product people actually want
February 9, 2026 at 12:45 AM
i worry that a 5-year stretch of nothing but ads for NFTs, bitcoin, and AI is a long enough gap that this nation's once-great advertising industry will forget how to sell a product people actually want
Fun fact: This is where investment bankers come from irl
Created in dark caverns underneath the banks, from tithes the children of noble families who have defaulted on their lines of credit.
February 7, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Fun fact: This is where investment bankers come from irl
What's even funnier is that the President of the United States of America is probably going to lose to that five year old in a bunny hat.
The PRESIDENT.
Of these United States.
Has a personal vendetta.
Against a FIVE YEAR OLD.
In a BUNNY hat.
Of these United States.
Has a personal vendetta.
Against a FIVE YEAR OLD.
In a BUNNY hat.
BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
February 6, 2026 at 2:51 AM
What's even funnier is that the President of the United States of America is probably going to lose to that five year old in a bunny hat.
I (distantly) remember being 18 and I can assure you that getting an extra year or two of labor out of teenaged me would not increase GDP measurably, these people have no idea what they're talking about
hang on, this just completely doesn’t math out
if he’s talking annual that implies that we’d get a ~10% GDP increase out of way less than a 10% increase in the workforce, probably closer to 3%
if he’s talking lifetime that’s nowhere near enough to retire the debt
if he’s talking annual that implies that we’d get a ~10% GDP increase out of way less than a 10% increase in the workforce, probably closer to 3%
if he’s talking lifetime that’s nowhere near enough to retire the debt
Dr Oz: "If we could get the average American to start working a year earlier, right out of high school, or a year later -- not retire -- or work better during their lifetime because they're healthy, it would generate about $3 trillion to the US economy. That would more than remove the debt."
February 3, 2026 at 11:14 PM
I (distantly) remember being 18 and I can assure you that getting an extra year or two of labor out of teenaged me would not increase GDP measurably, these people have no idea what they're talking about
This is only true if your plan includes people being able to afford that treatment
i’m not even really a skeptic on AI in health care, there probably *are* ways technology can improve diagnoses and outcomes *but you still have to have someone administer treatment*
February 2, 2026 at 9:26 PM
This is only true if your plan includes people being able to afford that treatment
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So how about them epstein files. What's up with those. Where we at on that
January 27, 2026 at 2:35 AM
So how about them epstein files. What's up with those. Where we at on that
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The thing I don’t understand about anarchism is the point where every policy discussion devolves into: “I do not trust the members of my community freely elected to represent me, but I do trust an unpredictable mob of vigilantes.”
I'm an anarchist so I done believe in the government existing much less taking people's kids. But the community should in fact get together and take their kids away to better homes.
January 23, 2026 at 11:06 PM
The thing I don’t understand about anarchism is the point where every policy discussion devolves into: “I do not trust the members of my community freely elected to represent me, but I do trust an unpredictable mob of vigilantes.”
It's hard to judge from just this one picture, but it really doesn't take very many people deciding to shop on Thursday or Friday instead of Saturday or Sunday to clear some stuff out.
It probably takes <50 extra shoppers to temporarily clear out the toilet paper.
It probably takes <50 extra shoppers to temporarily clear out the toilet paper.
yes it’s stupid, but i have seen northerners with hurricanes, so don’t y’all go ripping the atlantans
It's not looking good in Atlanta...
January 23, 2026 at 10:38 PM
It's hard to judge from just this one picture, but it really doesn't take very many people deciding to shop on Thursday or Friday instead of Saturday or Sunday to clear some stuff out.
It probably takes <50 extra shoppers to temporarily clear out the toilet paper.
It probably takes <50 extra shoppers to temporarily clear out the toilet paper.
Look, <insert Democrat's name here> didn't say exactly the thing I wanted them to in the moment I was obsessing over it, in the tone that I wanted to hear it in and through the medium I personally use for that topic, therefore Democrats are failing
I mean 2 days ago people on here were mad that Schumer wasn't messaging to EUROPEANS on Greenland and why should be. Schumer isn't on any of the military committees, it's not his job to talk to Europeans or Canadians
January 21, 2026 at 1:28 AM
Look, <insert Democrat's name here> didn't say exactly the thing I wanted them to in the moment I was obsessing over it, in the tone that I wanted to hear it in and through the medium I personally use for that topic, therefore Democrats are failing
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I said something and my mom said it was funny and then I posted it here and you didn't laugh. I love bluesky but this is unsustainable. Mom said it was funny. Now bluesky will never be the global townsquare. This is proof you aren't fighting fascism enough.
MOM SAID IT WAS FUNNY.
MOM SAID IT WAS FUNNY.
January 20, 2026 at 12:07 AM
I said something and my mom said it was funny and then I posted it here and you didn't laugh. I love bluesky but this is unsustainable. Mom said it was funny. Now bluesky will never be the global townsquare. This is proof you aren't fighting fascism enough.
MOM SAID IT WAS FUNNY.
MOM SAID IT WAS FUNNY.
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I am going to be honest that if you aren’t sure whether or not it would be good if the fascists kill a prominent anti-fascist activist with whom you have developed an inscrutable parasocial antagonism, I really doubt the sincerity of your commitment to leftism or anti-fascism
January 17, 2026 at 1:36 AM
I am going to be honest that if you aren’t sure whether or not it would be good if the fascists kill a prominent anti-fascist activist with whom you have developed an inscrutable parasocial antagonism, I really doubt the sincerity of your commitment to leftism or anti-fascism
I had a dad that was wrong about a lot more than he realized but this is another league, perhaps a completely different sport
he is retired but when he was in practice he provided services through an agency and took insurance; i see a doctor who requires me to seek reimbursement out of network and my dad feels that makes her “my employee”. it’s really dumb
January 13, 2026 at 11:06 AM
I had a dad that was wrong about a lot more than he realized but this is another league, perhaps a completely different sport
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the funniest part of this dumbass obsession with protein from people like RFK, jr. is that there's an actual political problem you could help solve here (farmers and excess soybeans) to help sell this message, but people like him are brain-melted into thinking that tofu is gay
white house social media manager: you get those photos of RFK, jr. for the protein post?
white house content creator: sure did boss, real fuckin' sinister, just like you asked
white house social media manager: what
white house content creator: sure did boss, real fuckin' sinister, just like you asked
white house social media manager: what
January 12, 2026 at 6:13 AM
the funniest part of this dumbass obsession with protein from people like RFK, jr. is that there's an actual political problem you could help solve here (farmers and excess soybeans) to help sell this message, but people like him are brain-melted into thinking that tofu is gay
I think that among a certain set of people that have "USA = bad" as a fixed point in their worldview, USAID is especially galling precisely because it did good things and in particular because people in poorer countries recognized it as such
Discovering the antipathy for USAID on the left has been moderately black pilling for me tbh
January 11, 2026 at 2:15 AM
I think that among a certain set of people that have "USA = bad" as a fixed point in their worldview, USAID is especially galling precisely because it did good things and in particular because people in poorer countries recognized it as such
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Every time I see Curtis Yarvin's writing or posts linked to me I am absolutely floored at how stupid he is
January 6, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Every time I see Curtis Yarvin's writing or posts linked to me I am absolutely floored at how stupid he is
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they are just such tedious people
January 3, 2026 at 2:24 AM
they are just such tedious people
Someone should tell those people that capitalism is the vibes-based economy, but it's not gonna be me
I don’t understand the “oh, you have a LINE on a GRAPH, you think that MEANS anything?!” people who also self-id as some kind of socialist/communist. how exactly are you going to run the command economy, dude? macroeconomic policy made on vibes?
I don't think this a particularly accurate description.
December 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Someone should tell those people that capitalism is the vibes-based economy, but it's not gonna be me
Kind of a separate discussion, but if you're concerned about gentrification then the answer is to support the construction of plenty of expensive, fancy housing in expensive, fancy neighborhoods
by cheap housing, do you mean that you oppose market rate construction?
December 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Kind of a separate discussion, but if you're concerned about gentrification then the answer is to support the construction of plenty of expensive, fancy housing in expensive, fancy neighborhoods
Since anecdotes are all that people want to hear anymore, I'm a straight white man and we're fine, I'm still the job market's special little boy
Academia did not in any way become hostile to men
Academia did not in any way become hostile to men
What that study usefully does tell us is that the 'disproportionality in STEM academia' is not about hiring processes that are biased against women. It's not IMV a useful bit of evidence that disproportionality in the other direction humanities is about bias towards women.
December 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Since anecdotes are all that people want to hear anymore, I'm a straight white man and we're fine, I'm still the job market's special little boy
Academia did not in any way become hostile to men
Academia did not in any way become hostile to men
Me, a finance professor: True shareholder value maximization has never been tried
i think what disgusts me the most is that businessmen valued harassing their female employees over their everything else, including their duty to shareholders
So cool how we just willfully induced a national malaise
December 17, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Me, a finance professor: True shareholder value maximization has never been tried
Drums: Not Even Once
can’t hear you i just finished playing a set with six other bands in a basement with no ear plugs
December 16, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Drums: Not Even Once
I genuinely appreciate getting (free!) takes on this stuff from someone that pays a lot more attention to this than I do
Yeah I get the concern. But the approach Ford is taking from here is genuinely differentiated and focused on competing with China through innovation/leveraging the unique attributes of the EV platform. Will it work? IDK. But it’s not just doubling down on ICE.
December 16, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I genuinely appreciate getting (free!) takes on this stuff from someone that pays a lot more attention to this than I do
This especially makes sense when you realize that the degrees a SLAC and a state school offer are nearly identical once you get past the hype and look at the classes you take
It's a competitive market that you have to differentiate yourself in, and not many people care about what SLACs offer
It's a competitive market that you have to differentiate yourself in, and not many people care about what SLACs offer
I personally think that is the bigger reason why so many small private colleges are declining. Not so much a rejection of the liberal arts, but they lost their core market. And can't compete against cheaper state schools on the one side and more selective private schools on the other.
December 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This especially makes sense when you realize that the degrees a SLAC and a state school offer are nearly identical once you get past the hype and look at the classes you take
It's a competitive market that you have to differentiate yourself in, and not many people care about what SLACs offer
It's a competitive market that you have to differentiate yourself in, and not many people care about what SLACs offer
I don't think that desktop Linux will ever be a really big thing, but Microsoft sure seems to be trying its best to make it happen
I've always been a big fan of their hardware, it's just in the past couple of years that I've started to prefer the OS and that's mostly because it lets you login without tricking you into opening a Bing search because you accidentally clicked the stock photo on your login screen
December 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I don't think that desktop Linux will ever be a really big thing, but Microsoft sure seems to be trying its best to make it happen
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The problems with *most areas of policy* in the US are mostly about political power - who gets to decide how something is done, what money is spent, and who gets to veto what project. "Technology" is just a pipe dream to abstract away from these questions
December 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The problems with *most areas of policy* in the US are mostly about political power - who gets to decide how something is done, what money is spent, and who gets to veto what project. "Technology" is just a pipe dream to abstract away from these questions