No Schopenhauer :-(

I'm never going to tire of making this point. Yes, Trump is probably a pedophile but where were the Dems during the Biden administration? Why weren't victims giving testimonies in the Congress? Would we be talking about the Epstein files in a Harris admin? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Holly sweeet Buddha... <<Only about 1% of the population in the U.S. is vegan. Yet 6.9% of adults aged 51–70, and 15% of those over 70, are B12 deficient, according to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. That means the vast majority of B12 deficiency cases occur in non-vegans.>>

Why are the Dems so useless? Why?

Any website that's based on a feed system is a slop website imo. However, not all slops are equal. From worst to ok: Instagram slop > YT shorts slop > Facebook Slop > Text-based slops, where these are Reddit, BSKY, Substack, News feeds etc. Twitter is hard to rank but it's bad slop.

6.0% PPI y/y is the highest since Dec 2022... time to tote out those 1970s inflation charts!

I'm down 20% on my SHORT #$CAVA position but I can't get myself to admit defeat due to the insane valuation. Also I believe they have already expanded into high margin locations. Expansion from here on out will be to lower margin, sh*tty cities.

CC Clowns at @echr.coe.int

<<When Billie Eilish condemns ICE she’s not privileged, she’s using her platform to talk about an injustice. When Billie Eilish talks about animal cruelty she’s privileged and should learn to stay in her lane.>> Leftie hypocrisy is so 🤌🤌 earthlinged.substack.com/p/billie-eil...

They should be asked to be paid in DRAM instead of Won at this point.

<<Judge Donna Geck previously ordered Sable to obtain all necessary state approvals and provide 10 day’s notice before restarting operations. Environmental groups argue the company violated that injunction by restarting anyway. >> www.independent.com/2026/05/11/a...

Mamdani is becoming weak-sauce. CC: @richardkeppler.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

Immigration courts are a sham since they are directly handled by the DoJ. But this kind of sh*tholistic direct interference with a court’s decision is unprecedented in the history of the US. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “In wrenching interviews, Palestinians have recounted to me a pattern of widespread Israeli sexual violence against men, women and even children,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes.

Incredible community note.

<<One explanation is that one's happiness depends on a comparison between their income and their perceptions of the average standard of living. If everyone's income increases, one's increased income gives a short boost to their happiness...>> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easterl...

I was just feeling that my life was missing something - some tangible void that was hard to put into the words or identify clearly. Ah yes... We haven't had a crisis in British politics for some time. That's what it is. www.bbc.com/news/live/c1...

Somehow we need to take note of the fact that the image too was probably made with gen AI.

1/ I represent myself in various cases that I inherited from my late father in a non-US jurisdiction. And I have grown a burning hatred of the lawyer profession. I have not seen so much money go to such nincompoops.

A Bulgarian (?) Orthodox Church in *Turkey* is having a dispute over whether the religious ceremony should be done in *Bulgarian* or *Greek*. Commenters repeatedly ask "what century is this?" in the comments. We salute them. www.reddit.com/r/AskBalkans...

Become so good that centuries later they make your painting‘s own emoji: 😱 upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

"While 35 countries are participating in the 2026 contest, broadcasters from Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Iceland and Slovenia have withdrawn from this week's event in opposition to Israel's inclusion." Noice. But shame on the participating countries. www.bbc.com/news/article...

While Republicans partisan gerrymandering attempts go unabated, Democrat efforts are getting nullified by the courts, eh? Is that because Dem states have more impartial judges and sh*thole states have partisan hacks as judges? www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202....

Billie Eilish is doing god's work out there. But please, let's not trigger the identity defenses of meat eaters; let's not alienate the carnists, please. Let's be nice vegans and say stuff like "of course it's okay to eat cheese".

Is this really true? This can't be true.

May the stranglehold of the two parties in the US also be broken. Although Farage's Reform is a downgrade in every sense.

Pedal to the floor Thinking of the roar Gotta get us to the show California here we come Right back where we started from California here we come California youtu.be/wq-S8CIU7VA?...

But the strait is open if the captain has balls, as @anadarkocapital.bsky.social has pointed out recently.

<< The company announced last week that its run-rate (annualized) revenue has passed $30 billion — up from $19 billion in early March, and up from $9 billion at the end of 2025. >> www.axios.com/2026/04/13/a...

<<The frustrating thing is that most people already agree with the basic moral point. They don’t think violence to animals is good. They don’t think hurting gentle, defenceless animals for no real need is something to celebrate.. davidramms.substack.com/p/billie-eil...

Sable Baggyshore #$SOC reported Q1 2026 results yesterday. How are they surviving exactly? "Ended the quarter with cash and cash equivalents balance of $52.2 million and accounts payable balance of $37.7 million." sableoffshore.com/news/news-de...

Well this completes an arc first started by Page, Brin and Zuckerberg:

<< First, the interview gave me additional grounds to lament the cognitive capture of the Canadian left by American progressivism, because American progressives are.. losers who can’t figure out how win an election against even manifestly insane opponents.>> josephheath.substack.com/p/naomi-klei...

Sable Baggyshore #$SOC is down -7% on the nebulous news that Iran and US are reaching a deal of sorts. This is so dumb.

The blockade will allow Hormuz strait to be open? Is that how blockades work?

<<Donated $3 once to Wikipedia when I was high a few years ago and still getting emails telling me i'm a fucking hero>> - Substack user Mike We salute you, brother Mike. We salute you.

Same story as always. People assume Musk must know his stuff until Musk speaks about their domain of expertise, at which point they realize Musk is full of it. We had similar reckoning from domain experts when it came to (1) video games, (2) political financing, (3) Covid off the top of my head.

This was such a sh*tty lawsuit to begin with. Congrats @eoinhiggins.bsky.social

<<GameStop doesn’t have anywhere near enough authorized shares to pay $28 billion in stock for eBay... GameStop is offering to buy eBay for cash it doesn’t have, and also for stock it doesn’t have. One gets the sense that GameStop did not entirely think this through.>> - @matt-levine.bsky.social

#$IBKR monthly metrics for April killed it again. I was just wondering why the stonk is above $80/sh on a day when major indices are down. Then I remembered oh they must have released monthly metrics. I wish I could get regular emails whenever they released numbers.

In today’s Vatnik Soup, we introduce Hasan Piker, a Turkish-American streamer and millionaire. He’s best known for his champagne socialism, rabid criticism of the US and Israel, support for the Soviet Union and for Chinese and Russian invasions, and for mistreating his dog. 1/20

Very sad story. It's not hard to make LLMs hallucinate. You need to ask them detailed questions about obscure topics you know about. Instead of saying "I don't know", they make up sh*t. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/w...

There was a dog pile on Chamath on Twitter apparently - like last March? This video captures some of the details. I just wish @keubiko.bsky.social had dunked too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj9R...

😂 CC @bencollins.bsky.social www.thedailybeast.com/alex-jones-h...

As I've tweeted/skeeted multiple times in the past, if you are a Westerner from a rich country and you want to do sh*thole tourism because things are relatively in order in your country and you thirst for chaos, you must be made to sign a waiver that says something ...

It's easy to look at this and think "noice" until you remember the replacement will be someone even worse. apnews.com/article/trum...

I don’t enjoy saying this but some president down the line will have to cut social security, medicare and medicaid spending and also probably raise taxes at the same time.

This guy got Musked pretty bad. www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMusk...

I love how as a retail baggy I can just hold #$GOOGL but you, the student of value investing and/or the investing professional, need to buy some Permian basin energy co because there are some hidden reserves under the CEO's house. Yes I'm sure your "risk adjusted" returns are great.

My friend's company is settling with an ex-employee despite the fact her claims are not meritorious at all because trials are costly. I have a hunch that the plaintiff here calculated that JPMC would surely settle instead of letting this go to court but maybe his gambit has not paid off.