Seems bad that the four major currents in UK politics right now are "we think fascism is good," "we think fascism is excellent," "we think fascism is outstanding," and "we're some other party"

What is it with tradcaths and saying heresies out loud that would've had Martin Luther informing on them directly to the pope himself

As his work would have been orally composed rather than written, I think it's more accurate to consider Homer an early sort of podcaster

I'll believe the Democratic Senate caucus doesn't support him when he is voted out of leadership in humiliating fashion. Til then, "they elected him unanimously" is still the best guidance we have on whether they support him.

Extremely niche shitpost

He's a) senile and b) never had to think about his own coverage one in his entire life, so honestly I don't think there's anything to even make sense of here. The words just don't mean anything

My state has the unique issue that my vote is worth 1.4% as much as a Wyoming voter's lol

It's so funny how you can always tell, after a new Paradox game, exactly which people talking about it are relatively new to Paradox games. "It's so empty" "it feels so soulless" bestie that is just what a new Paradox game is like lol, the whole model requires a few expansions to feel complete

it's bad to want to build the torment nexus but also, we must build the torment nexus so that Elon Musk can be forced to experience a perfectly calibrated punishment that exactly replicates the sum total of all suffering he has caused other human beings

Spotify has played three different songs from persona soundtracks already this morning and it's not even 9am

Heavensward relics are still the absolute peak for so many jobs (BLM and PLD come to mind), and the 2nd best weapon design in the game is the Heavensward DRK relic. The DRK TEA weapon is definitely my favorite though, god I need to do TEA so badly

there was a brief idiot controversy over Fauci making six figures, as though that's not totally reasonable for a late-career physician-scientist heading a large organization.

And the politics of this are terrible. Every time there's a news item about some civil servant with rare expertise getting paid well, a bunch of voters who've never worked in those fields get outraged, and a bunch of people who *have* worked in these fields quietly leave the room

This is true of public service in general. One reason regulators are often a bit clueless is that, in any field involving technical knowledge or expertise, working for the government is a *massive* pay cut. I made about the maximum here as a brand new college grad ten years ago

if a medical event ever fucks up my brain and turns me into a Republican like it did Fetterman, just put me down. I don't want a version of me who betrays everything I believe in running around like that

people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up

Anyway I'd like to propose a new and improved version of the Basilisk: what would an aligned AI think of people who helped create a world where the average person thinks of AI as a technology which talks people into killing themselves?

An underappreciated thing, I think, is that OpenAI wasn't the first to the technology, it was just the first to both have the technology and be recklessly irresponsible enough to actually release it as a product

I feel like referring to the Israeli state as "the Zionist entity" is a pretty unambiguous tell tbph

Honestly I would pay a small premium for an S&P499 (S&P500 minus Tesla) index fund

Are these dweebs seriously doing a press release *today* for a resolution they introduced in January? (The answer does appear to be yes, lmfao)

Well, Thanksgiving travel expenses are certainly on course to be down dramatically...

Elon's brain must absolutely cooked if he can get Chotinered by Joe fucking Rogan lol

straight-up jury nullification. this guy did it, confessed to it, and the jury instructions explicitly said that if he did it intentionally, it was assault.

"unless Democrats realize [the shutdown] is hurting them politically" is a wild thing for him to say if you think about it, because the implication is that this administration's so unpopular that the results on Tuesday would have been *even worse* for Republicans without the shutdown

sure would love to see some air quality readings in that building after they obliterated an entire wing with no discernable mitigations lol

The only way to prevent this is to abolish the American system of government and switch to a parliamentary system (which to be clear we should do, but obviously what the NR actually means is "no legislative process, only legislate!")

Part of the settlement society reached wherein governments will bail out banks was that, in exchange, banks have to accept regulators having a gun pointed at them at all times. We can talk about backstopping AI companies and cryptocurrency "companies"* AFTER they agree to be regulated like banks

Deeply shameful confession: I've never watched an x file

The level of telling on themselves is incredible

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sometimes i forget just *how* crazy the US suburban fear of cities can get.

I mean, big tech companies' employees probably have the highest rates of affiliation with socialist groups of any segment of corporate America so honestly sure why not

the last great quality of life technology we need to invent is a vaccine for posting

"I would like to put two bullets in [Republican legislator]'s head" was only worth -4.5% in Virginia. The party's base doesn't want it laser-focused on bringing down costs, the party's base wants it, er, focusing a laser

rode this goofy-ass gold ship I made during lunch today straight to the graded group A finals lol

When people say Mamdani only getting 50 and a bit% of the vote was an underperformance, there's key context missing: a) his own party's leadership wouldn't fully back him b) *he wasn't just running against a Republican*. Cuomo probably got a ton of votes that would never have gone to Sliwa

And given Jones' margin in Virginia some of them may move on to telling him to go [terms of service violation] himself by the midterms

Important and disturbing questions about Mamdani's plans once he takes office remain unaddressed. For example: when he says he will make the city better for all New Yorkers, does that include Jets fans?

ICE is the absolute pinnacle of "you can tell he's lying by the fact that his lips are moving" lol, literally incapable of just accurately stating what happened

Only a real political genius would think to say both "the shutdown is helping Democrats" and "Democrats must end the shutdown" out loud in public on the same day

Okay last Yankpost but I wanted to bring back this banger.

I feel like one underdiscussed reason Schumer, Jeffries, etc have been so weird about Mamdani isn't even ideological, it's just that it's occurred to them that if the NYC left could run a "nobody" 28 year old & beat Joe Crowley, and then a "nobody" 33 year old & beat Cuomo, it can beat them too

What last night proves, above all else, is that centrist Democrats like Zohran Mamdani, Bernie Sanders, and AOC can work together with moderate Republicans like Abigail Spanberger and Gavin Newsom to push back on MAGA fascism.

My x axis vs y axis hobbyhorse neuron has activated

Yes on 50 is up like 57/43 in counties Trump won lmao

Final update with the results all in and Virginia looks Sonic the Hedgehog's back

Really hope my miserable worm of a governor notices this and stops trying to throw trans people under the bus to build his presidential campaign