Earlier today, Elon Musk endorsed full-on Neo-Nazi blood and soil ideology.

The answer to what authority ought to bind the USA is the USA itself. Realpolitik doesn't work in a world where lesser powers can enact horrendous and decentralized mass destruction if you put them on death ground. Brings to mind the old adage that "God created men, Col. Colt made them equal".

One ought to be careful about these sorts of statements, but the lesson from Saddam to Gaddafi to Maduro to Kim Jong to Putin seems to clearly be that if you lead any country in the US crosshairs or any that might end up there, you need to have a nuclear deterrent or a well drafted will.

Today I learned there were two versions of "Universal Soldier", one is a folk song about the inhumanity and ultimate responsibility of war and the other is a Van Damme movie about reanimated Vietnam vets fighting in the future. Fuckin lmao.

Today I have: a) been asked to repair terrible work that my colleague produced via Chat GPT, and; b) been falsely accused of having used ChatGPT to draft some of my better work. I am going to become the Joker.

Frankly, I won't believe that the NFL takes this seriously unless he's suspended for at least a game. No, this has nothing to do with me being against him in the fantasy semifinals. No further questions at this time.

I haven't exactly been bowled over by the policy successes of the Carney Libs so far, but CPC talking heads doing crocodile tears over this is a bit much. If you want a system where we vote for parties, support PR (and forswear any power this century). www.youtube.com/watch?v=62ss...

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

There seems to be a rhetorical similarity between the rationales given by crypto boosters and by US government on the Carribbean boat strikes, namely that one rationale (store of value/legitimate strike) swaps to another (have fun staying poor/no war, no war crime) when challenged.

The nice thing about the world cup being in North America is that they don't have to do weird cloying freak shit for the violent tyrant leader of some hellhole like Russia or Qatar.

If we are trying to support the idea that blending orphans may increase the stock price of a tech company we need one (1) study performed by a directional college in Hungary, if we are trying to support using taxes to help the needy we need one million pilot programs with a 100% success rate.

Interesting how scarcity/wealth in smart young people creates opposite problems The conservative bench is so weak, shallow and dumb that they end up wedded to idiots, grifters and nazis. The liberal bench is so deep they end up with stodgy out-of-touch credentialists. defector.com/the-conserva...

To be clear, this is a real trend, but I think this it's more nuanced. On the one hand, yes, of course children have a right to their own bodies and to refuse a hug. On the other hand, part of parenting is trying to build the capacity for your children to overcome natural assholish tendencies.

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Wait, so if we switch to Bitcoin we won't have to pay most of the wine-with-wife fee? I'm gonna save so much.

Trump Denies Writing 36-Volume Comic Titled ‘Don And Jeff: Time Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-denies-writing-36-volume-comic-titled-don-and-jeff-time-pedophiles/

The Canadien Government has made an ad about the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG terminal & PRGT Pipeline, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.

lol

it’s funny seeing canadian media present zohran as a “democratic socialist” like it’s some shocking thing and not just the left flank of the ndp

You gotta respect Aaron Glenn for building the Jets up the same way he saw it done with the Lions, namely with just the worst corners you've ever seen.

Everyone should listen to this. It’s easy to blame Rogan for understanding the situation far too late, but the important thing is that he’s using his platform-with his millions of listeners-to talk about it now. This one show will reach more normal GOP folks than we ever could.

Have we always done this shtick where ceos can just say what they want and people accept it as True and Wise instead of a sales pitch? "Papa John says pizza most important meal for most families" okay who gives a shit

I wonder how much of this trend towards "all the money or nothing" is a downstream effect of index funds. If everybody and their mom is getting ~10%, and you're a VC or finance guy who needs to beat that, you probably can't settle for "good business that makes money". Unforeseen consequence!

Legitimately, one of the most "the Onion couldn't have written it" facts I've ever heard. I had to google to prove to myself it was true.

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

It's interesting, although trite, to note the bad faith involved in the panic over trans mass shooters. If one were to take the logic seriously (if a group commits disproportionate amounts of shootings, take their guns), wouldn't this point to taking guns out of the hands of white men? 1/2

Just in: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flmd.424438/gov.uscourts.flmd.424438.217.0.pdf

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

An argument for UBI you rarely see is that it would support efficient markets. If you have wide gulfs in purchasing power (and boy, do you) the market can't adequately receive signals from many participants. A UBI would align the market with the needs of society more broadly.

I have watched this video maybe 1,000 times over the last 15 years and it’s still funny to me. Why would he say those things. Why would he keep going

George Pickens watching all this fighting and not getting involved

Just got an invoice for daycare for my three year old, and was thrilled to see an $800 reduction in the cost due to the CWELCC benefit. I suspect people could quibble about means-testing but I want to underscore that this is real savings for parents. Good pro-social policy is possible!

Just tried watching Ezra Klein’s latest NYT podcast episode on how the U.S. got to this point where vaccines are so politicized. It’s pretty clear that Klein and his guests—David Wallace Wells and Rachael Bedard—really do not understand why/how the political right turned on vaccines.

My issue with AI is that, at present, it's mostly harm and little benefit, the argument to it becoming transformative is the existing money invested, and the case for that transformation to be positive is "assume communism". So; bad now, likely to be lame going forwards, and if not lame, evil.

Why men great 'til they gotta be great, Don't text me tell it straight to my face, Fresh photos with the bomb lighting,

This would have much more sway if they removed the "youth" part. If my kids need to go hold a rifle for a year, the same boomers who sent them there should be doing the same.

Regarding the liberal fantasy of saving X by posting on it more — @pbump.com has it exactly right www.pbump.net/o/the-power-...

If Mark Carney had told voters he planned to drop retaliatory tariffs in order to stay in Trump’s good books (as he just did today), Carney simply would not be prime minister right now This is another incredible flip-flop from a guy who appropriated “Elbows Up” as his campaign slogan

Doug Ford: We cannot allow a cyclist death gap!

This standard is only ever applied to trans kids. I do not see it applied to other kids who hit puberty faster than other kids. I did not see it applied to Derrick Henry, who was built like a car when he was running over future accountants and gas station attendants on Florida high school fields

Today would be a good day to revive the digital services tax.

It's August 1st, and the kowtowing to the USA on our Digital Services Tax is now officially a failure. Here's hoping PM Elbows Up has something in the can, because the "trust the plan" tank is running on empty.

Probably a good time to ask the Trump-positive people in your life if they would still support him and his message if PURELY HYPOTHETICALLY he pardoned the world's most famous sexual abuser of children.

If we take seriously the idea that AI could create permanent structural unemployment for millions (I don't buy it, at present), then we need to strongly consider programs to support those people, and how to generate the necessary revenue. UBI is sensible, and perhaps crucial in the former regard.

This probably won't be popular on here, but I have zero following, so who cares. IMO this is a valuable text for doing political communication in the current moment: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL46... You can talk to and laugh with people you really disagree with, and you can find points of empathy.

Bari’s key insight as an entrepreneur is that there is a bottomless demand for rich people to have their existing opinions sold back to them as forbidden knowledge

Some of you use Taylor Lorenz as an excuse to air out all your most ableist, misogynist reactionary bullshit. I don't even know that you folks admit it to yourselves, but it is very obvious from the outside.

Fascinating. Microsoft emailed me to say it was raising the price of Microsoft 365, but when i went to cancel it offered me me the old price — without all the AI bullshit. It’s forcing AI on everyone and making them pay more for it, then only telling them they don’t have to if they try to cancel.

Very galaxy brain to look at the Legion of Boom Seahawks holding on every possession and daring the refs to call it, and taking that as a model for political decision making.