Today my five year old who loves numbers scrolled through the calendar to the year 2200 and asked if he would be alive then. I said probably not, but you will have grandchildren. I said it with a smile on my face. But now he’s sleeping, and I’m allowed to be an absolute fucking wreck

Cinco de Mayo explained

Also when I say people need to shitpost more this is what actually I mean

hope is that over the next twenty years we shift the opinion around the ivy league. it’s not the best and brightest. it’s a daycare camp for the richest and most dysfunctional children in america. real scholars go to michigan. they go to ucla and north carolina. they go georgia tech.

woke up and still thinking about these

“go back to the moon but this time we have really good cameras” was a fantastic idea

I’m not saying following what your dick wants always delivers ideal results but it is a hell of a lot better than following what you think other people’s dicks want

I’m sensitive to the idea that social media is inherently a catastrophizing machine; I’m also sensitive to the idea that what’s going on is potentially an actual catastrophe.

My dad asked me why I know so much about moths and I responded “probably the same reason you have a whole room of model cars and can tell the make/model/year of any car by its headlights”

Did a man send you an unsolicited picture of his…

[guy who has a 9mo] they are like giant 9mo olds.

bad news: we found the Racism Vector good news: it's also the Sucking At Your Job Vector

This was literally in Sun Tzu’s “Art of War” which, I have to emphasize, is NOT a repository of timeless wisdom. It is a basic primer on “Dear Wealthy Failsons: please follow these simple rules to avoid getting your entire army killed and the kingdom ransacked because you are completely unqualified”

odd feature of our time in how many liberals and progressive are bog standard monogamous family types--Serwer, Bouie, Hayes, AOC, etc--and how many Traditional Family Values conservatives are fuckin drugged up perverts

this really is the crux of it all, you know? yeah. jefferson didn't. but i do. and i'm alive. and i can act.

"Kamala Harris as Veep and Attorney General" would actually make sense in 2021 tbh

Other folks have already noted much of this, but I think the MAGA 'theory of victory' here is: 1) DHS provocations trigger a riot or attack on agents which 2) Leads to widespread civil unrest in many 'blue' cities so that 3) Trump can invoke the insurrection act and send in the troops...

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

rethuglicans commonly look at the upper midwest and go “oh there’s a ton of germans there of course they’ll be That Kind of german” wrong bitch. we all came over in the 1860s and immediately signed up to kill slavers

Wild how everyone secretly thinks I am stupid and hates me and can give quite detailed answers as to why I deserve bad things happening to me, yet manage to coordinate on maintaining a veneer of civility with me at all times.

I am tired of outsider rebels. I want to hear about square bureaucrats doing their hardest to improve the lives of The People.

You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.

this is fucking incredible

This year I’m going to be kinder, more positive, work harder, and put more faith in myself until the very first minor obstacle throws me off for the next 350+ days

If people in the 70s expected flying cars and interplanetary travel, it's because they were dopes who took The Jetsons literally. Flying cars are stupid and moving to another planet would suck.

Every man has a moment where he depressingly realizes a girl was flirting with him 10 years ago.

The It Can Happen Here podcast listed Car Dealerships, Supplement Salesmen, and MLM’s as the unholy power base trinity of the right (you can probably add Silicon Valley to this list too). If any of these were taxed, regulated or curtailed, it would save us all.

you know, these days, many people time of year. but this season, try when to everything a special time — it just might become which with you

the Falklands war was an act of imperialism by a European country (Argentina, 97% white) against the indigenous people (the English) of the Falklands and their suzerain, a country with substantial populations from the Global South (the UK, 86% white)

the Czech Legion needs to be adapted into more settings, because "we're a third party in this civil war and we're going to fight our way to the other side of the world to get home" is awesome (and a great gaming premise)

Trying not to spiral into bizarro small-c conservatism but is what it means to live in a decadent society? God is dead but the devil lives in the gulf between recognition and action?

Calgacus, Vercingetorix, Hannibal - early advocates of walkable cities

I mean, when you put it that way, it doesn't sound so bad.

I'm sick of being told by grifters and people who can't code their way out of a wet paper bag that soon LLMs will replace programmers. Repeatedly prodding the plagiarism machine until it spits out something that looks right doesn't produce quality and it doesn't produce results we can trust.

They don't want traditional masculine virtues, which is something they give; they want traditional masculine rents, which is something they get.

haruspexes will literally read the entrails of a goat the day before battle with the athenians and tell you, "the omens are poor, strategos" 🤣🤣🤣 my brother in zeus, you couldn't have told me this before we marched all this way?💯🗣️🔥

do you love SLEEP and hate HAVING COLDS ALL THE TIME then BEING PARENT OF PRESCHOOLER may not be for you

I for one will welcome our Chinese overlords #Beerjacket #China #Tsingtao

youtu.be/rj-Zj83iYiM?... Take heart in knowing it will never be worse than this

While the American constitution and government were hardly perfect in their initial design, many of the governance issues in the country today have more recent origins than people think.

The idea that all this stuff is both fixed and obvious strikes me as…not rigorous.

We print dollars. We are plenty liquid whenever we need to be. This is where his background as a private businessman completely fails him.

The ideal State has invented a kind of WWE kabuki politics that draws the attention of dullards and reactionaries so that sensible college educated professionals can administer social democracy (with just enough inequality to keep us on top)

what in the goddamn fuck is this supposed to mean

Let's talk about abyssal gigantism: The tendency of animals found in ocean depths to be substantially LARGER than shallow-water cousins. This is the giant squid (Architeuthis dux), which can reach 13 m (~40 feet) long from 'head' to tentacle tip. They can live at depths of 1000+ m. (📷:NTNU Museum)

VP Cheney will be honoured with a 21 gun salute accidentally aimed directly at 21 of his friends