starting off with a Trump Accounts ad into a gambling ad epic

it's a very funny example of historical contingency that people demanding ever more pixels in video games is lowkey responsible for front-loading the cost of decades of computing hardware R&D before the onset of LLMs

Sam Darnold you need to begin the ascension of Woke 2.0 tonight by defeating the fascist paramilitary force known as the "New England Patriots" tonight the whole country is counting on you

ultimate blackpill is that the vast majority of Americans believe in the Great Replacement it's just that most of them apply it to where they live instead of racial demographics and it's not that far of a jump from one to the other

i don't think anybody is prepared for the tantrums that are going to be thrown after the right blew through their entire cultural pendulum swing in one year

sometimes people on here get too mean about Aella et. al and it kinda bleeds into some weird misogynistic "anti-degeneracy" vibes

and now of course there are people opposing the wealth tax in the stupidest way possible by posturing themselves as specifically "pro-billionaire" i am beset on all sides by complete fucking idiots

the most impactful thing Elon Musk has ever done or will ever do regarding science and innovation in this country is illegally cut billions of dollars of research funds for literally no reason

this is one of those cases where Congresspeople have way too much politics brain and not enough governance brain it's true that the American public doesn't give a shit about this but it's still your job do oversight you have a duty to more than just what voters care about

everyone remembers where they were on 9/11 and when Clavicular ran into a frat leader at ASU and got brutally frame mogged by him

the stars had to align for this one

it's always funny when you see the evil shadow realm versions of the exact same arguments we go through

the thing about liberal democracy is that it is a political system that generally dislikes the use of direct violence but when it deems such violence necessary it metes it out in such a fashion as to scare everybody out of going to war for a hundred years

this is proof that somewhere deep, deep, deep down inside him there is a lion "unhinged bottom-feeder" is something i would say let Punished Jeffries come out, show us who you really are Hakeem

honestly they didn't split NoVA up enough i want a different House rep for each stop on the orange line, during midterms you shouldn't be able to see the grass beneath the sea of yard signs

the racist Trump video is just a distraction from the fact that Clavicular got brutally frame mogged at ASU

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I am getting polarized into being anti-anti-Waymo. There are certainly many sophisticated critiques, but the modal take on Waymo might as well come from an illiterate and innumerate person

some people spend all their free time thinking about politics and yet have no fucking clue what a Democrat or Republican even are

to the people of Madison County, VA you are under new management, pronouns are now mandatory

does anyone have a good way to zoom in on the new VA map so i can observe exactly which rural masses the Arlingtonian elites now rule over? i want to familiarize myself with my new fiefdom

i need you people to think for five seconds about how this would even work seriously sit down for a moment and ask yourself if it makes any fucking sense at all for some Filipino guy to be seated at a keyboard remote-controlling a taxi halfway across the globe like he's playing GTA

get me out of this slopulist nightmare dear god get me the fuck out i can't live like this

the thing about whether or not AI actually makes knowledge work obsolete in the next few years is that if the answer is yes then what the fuck am i even supposed to do about it lol what behavioral changes could i possibly make to prepare for such a world other than like, buy into the Anthropic IPO?

who's gonna take one for the team and try out the Trump-brand HRT?

i'm an Abundance guy for the normal boring urbanism stuff but also tax auditors and consumer GPUs

everyone's worried about young guys getting AI girlfriends but i lowkey don't think that's gonna be their biggest customer base willing to bet there's a lot of guys in their 40s who are willing to spend a lot of money to hire a hot college blonde to look up to them

the only times in my life i have ever consistently gone to the gym was after getting dumped or before a girl i like arrives in town unfortunately i don't think it's possible to reliably generate this kind of motivation on demand

"Nine commandments will have to do" Venator might lowkenuinely be the toughest character of all time

next President needs to give the IRS a Gundam

Basically, Republicans view informing the electorate of their policies and fundamentally unsportsmanlike compared to the noble art of birtherism.

it's over

need a baddie who will eat the co-op Marathon burger paste with me

i genuinely think if you play Bebop you should lose some of your civil rights these "people" should not be allowed to walk amongst us

i forget who but someone on here has a good theory that a significant amount of weird ephebophilia defense comes from the fact that people's visual reference for teenagers is from adult actors playing teenagers on TV real world 16-year-olds are very obviously children

Cutting coupons and buying generic are not indications of "living below the poverty line" and the fact that people think this is due to their brains being cooked by social media content which distorts perceptions of what a middle class existence actually is

someone should really look into this Jeffrey Epstein guy

60% of the median American income is higher than the median Italian income you can't make arguments about quality of life and then use relative measurements

groomers, abusers, and predators being tacitly accepted and protected by their social circles is not a rich people phenomenon they're just doing it on private islands instead of the back of an Arby's kitchen

millions of Americans voted for Donald Trump to bring immigration down from ten times the real number to a measly five or six times the real number

how long before there's a San Francisco startup that bundles substack subscriptions together as a package deal so you can get all your news in one convenient place every morning they could take one article from each writer, edit them all together, and mail them out physically like Hello Fresh meals

it is true that the Washington Post had the same big structural problems that all newspapers outside of New York have had, but that doesn't mean Bezos deciding to chud out last year didn't squander the only remaining value proposition and alienate its most loyal customer base

dropping a bit of personal lore that maybe is too identifiable but i went to an extremely prestigious magnet school and some of the shit you see on the inside of elite academic grind culture is crazy

it's unfortunate that Larry Summers wrote a bunch of papers on my one pet issue (the federal tax gap)

imo every narrative about neoliberalism or globalization is post-hoc rationalization for the fact that we turned the entire country into a factory to fight the biggest war in human history and then turned it off once we didn't need it anymore

what if Kamala's 2028 announcement is just a shot-for-shot recreation of this video

no TOS can be violated on stolen land

you want to fund the IRS to take down billionaires and crypto bros i want to fund the IRS to do that and also take down small business owners we are not the same

that's my woke CIA girlboss governor right there

ooh i can't wait to hear the brothel enjoyer and 10/7 rape denier's take on Epstein yippee