The Artemis program is incredibly emblematic of how hard we ruined the governments capability to build a rocket, how we sold the space program to hucksters and war mongers, and how diminished our capability really is

Why your offices being threatened by an Iranian missile strike is no excuse to lose the comradarie of working in the office. My latest for the Wall Street Journal

The “what if Giancarlo hits 500 home runs” discourse is silly because if he gets even 400 PA a year (still a decent if) he’s going to sail past 500 easily

This seems reasonable for a 44 year old guy not doing a heroic amount of coke?

The end result of this is just going to be “okay, we’ll pay the toll to Iran, good luck with this whole thing”, right?

"The guy who is going to get a lot of troops killed is using the military as his personal toys" feels like some straightforward messaging

I know nothing is going to happen on a national level, but it would be nice if my state did things like make it illegal to buy all the toilet paper, again, instead of pretending everything is going to be okay

Does this one end in Brooklyn getting 9/11ed as well?

people are often taking things out of context or are a little trigger-happy, but the journalists on here sure do love to circle the wagons to tell the trannies to calm down and make *that* the big issue as fast as humanly possible 👍

Yelling at the mean trans women seems a bit on the nose for trans day of visibility

Good Good (you're underestimating how much worse things would be without the ban) Good Bad Fine, not really necessary with other things Good Awful Worse Now let's look at some of the other things he's done...

The thing we should learn about AI making things "accessible" is it's not going to lead to a bunch of people who really wanted to do this but just couldn't making cool new things, it's going to lead to a bunch of people farting out garbage

I'm sure there will be no consequence to these companies that run the world deciding they no longer need to make a product that works

Keep in mind the only reason this can be a "good deal" is because a soda is 12 bucks

It's fun how fast we went from "no more identity politics" to "identity politics but only for white people." Probably because very few people actually knew what identity politics are

Hey, whoever is running this account, you should probably delete this

This bot has some good potential

This is just part of a larger project of doing away with the ideas of a protected class that's been going on since the start of the administration. A scholarship for black people is no different than a scholarship for white people. Hate speech towards gays is no different than good speech

Gonna be fun when one of the cheap dipshit teams decide they want to try this and end up screwing themselves for years

When people say things like “free speech sucks” this is what they mean

Hahaha! Gas is going to be 10 bucks a gallon for ever! Haha!

There was a woman eating a 250 dollar snapper for lunch on a Monday who spent the entire time loudly complaining about the DSA, so those people are scared

Oh they’re incredibly scared

I know people that have abandoned their faith over this shit. When does the “no anti-semitism” talk apply to them

A Simpsons hot take is someone said Last Exit to Springfield was the best episode ever 30 years ago and it's been accepted as a universal truth (it still should be very high up, don't get me wrong)

It should be a canonic top five episode and I feel like most lists put in the 20s

Might be in the top five Simpsons jokes and there are at least three bits in this episode that are just as good

Getting kicked off a team for making concerning, anti gay rants, less than two months after they trade for you sets a new standard for "bad trade"

being trans is saying, hey, i have some issues with my situation and I am going to take steps to change my situation and my situation only to feel happy, and then having the world tell you you deserve to be murdered for wanting to help yourself.

Still funny that the Fast and the Furious franchise started with a crime roughly at this level

Does she even pretend to be leftist any more or has she fully settled into just writing tradwife stuff?

The Mets, correctly, blew up the team because the roster was incoherent, and now the roster is entirely guys that could play second base, but shouldn't, and guys who could play first base, but probably can't hit

Why do the people who control these things seem to have much less of an idea of what's going on than I do?

I guess six million dollars a year will be bench player money within a couple years, but 50 million dollars for a guy that slugged .340 in AA?

People talk about the power of Democracy but if your choices for your Senator is the Nazi tattoo guy who will obviously become a kook, a 78 year old fossil, or the Republican who will feel really bad about her vote sometime is Democracy that important?

Giving a government employee anything more expensive than a coffee cup is illegal and we’re constantly told that, the legal team must be cooked

get your vibe coded critical app working? I can do that, let's say $150/hr. you were spending that on tokens anyway. now eliminating tech debt, that's going to cost you $300/hr, $250 if I'm feeling magnanimous

Polling pretty clearly shows about a third of Democrat voters are voting blue no matter who, and the party considers these people both the enemy, and wonders why more people haven’t joined them

The longer we use “burrito taxis” to explain away dissatisfaction with the economy the longer it will take to address this imo

The brave outsider who somehow had a full campaign apparatus from day one is taking insider money? Shocked

There’s a very clear parallel to thinking this is accurate and believing everything an LLM spits out and expanding on this thought any further will get me very yelled at

The Rays being well behind teams that should all be at 0% is very funny

If you have enough money you can say “Star Trek is real” and everyone will take it seriously. This didn’t feel like a think even five years ago

It was the computers fault. Your conscious is clear. Also we are going to give a lot more money to the computer

I saw some post to the effect of “why isn’t Iran targeting desalination plants when they got hit” and it had to be explained that Iran isn’t genocidal maniacs like us

What exactly is the point of politics if there aren’t hardline beliefs you can’t cross