"It's weird putting something like this out knowing not only that Team Beast has already seen it in one capacity or another, but also that Jimmy is very likely to watch it personally because he's so terminally online that he can't help but relentlessly name search. Anyway: hi, Jimmy." ow

"Is this a 100,000,000 view idea" if I worked there I would be suck-starting a shotgun

Dan brushes up against good point about how, basically, 'attention' is a finite resource because time is also a finite resource. Which is also the biggest kick in the gonads to a lot of "Anyone can be a creative And Be Successful" rhetoric

"Abusing your employees is bad but selling out to MrBeast is too far" god i love channel awesome comments sections

This is gonna be one of those Folding Ideas videos I keep watching over and over again because I don't think I caught *everything* on that first viewing www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dwa...

why the fuck did we get rid of RTO if this is all adding up to a logistical headache AND we want to cut costs to be seen as 'responsible stewards of public funds' AND be 'boots on the ground government' even if those boots never really leave an office I don't even qualify for WFH either!

It's Only Political If You Disagree

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)

I love being in public service, where I can be asked for input on things that are blatantly political decisions but recognizing that as a genuinely political decision *and* communicating that as such is considered crossing an ethical boundary

if i have to pay for it myself i am inclined to think about it and that is bad. if it fails then you are forcing me to think about it then that is also bad. I just want it to Be and that's it

It's important to never lose sight of the fact that while yes, these guys are all dangerous nazis, they are also some of the most embarrassing losers who have ever walked the planet.

what if we kept the brrrt plane because people on social media said keep the brrrt plane

I repeat: Take away his phone

Trying to unfuck the supply crisis I started by demanding domestic suppliers create more supply from thin air and also they should manufacture More Things Faster because lead times don’t exist and neither does the supply crisis I caused youtu.be/KnsiZOJjfUg

The funny thing is that despite all those executive orders How does he think this will work

wait that was BillO the clown who looked like a Skyrim vampire?

Mandatory “Touch Grass“ feature like Nickelodeon’s Worldwide Day Of Play. Doesn’t prevent you from phone calls, doesn’t prevent you from texting, but Safari or microbloggging apps are temporarily stopped

there is literally one proven policy to reduce traffic congestion long-term. it’s congestion pricing. and Trump just spent a whole year trying to illegally scrap it in New York City

“I’m just gonna go DDOS a small social network for no reason at all” i sleep in a bed raised off the floor

another drawback to all the disinfo floating around about AI causing outages over the weekend: it means you're not primed to see the connection between these two events

How would automated trains save 15 billion though that… no. That’s tunnel money. That’s building underground anyway money

This is ultimately the truth about ST3

it’s my constitutional right as an American to never have to be inclined to think about the infrastructure that undergirds my life such as electricity or water or sewage or anything to do with the internet

“But industrial scale ventilation systems in residential areas-“ yeah that’s kinda what the pump stations I work on use

Steps from Shoreline North Station, a hodgepodge of publicly owned properties are being eyed by neighborhood advocates as a badly needed community gathering space. With city and state support, the idea is quickly taking shape. Story: www.theurbanist.org/shoreline-no...

For context: “Datacenters create infrasound” no, no. noise pollution especially from peaking generators that also produce pollution *are* a problem the ‘reason’ people oppose wind farms unless they’re built in bumfuck nowhere, and overground HV transmission to bring that electricity to us, is not

“I’m not wrong, you’re just in a cult :)” jeeeeesus

Unfortunately people do not want to learn this

love checking logbooks to find that we had to call someone out on OT to once more pull wipes out of a pump

“Even on easter our brave police officers serve-“ so does the dude who picks up your trash but I can at least count on them to be more consistent and timely

Transit construction costs in the US keep rising, and projects keep taking longer and longer to build. One possible explanation? Ineffective, inefficient community engagement processes, we argue @urbaninstitute.bsky.social ⏬

Y’know after having had to clear a facility after a break-in myself, and having had coworkers do the same, multiple times in both instances Why do we pay these guys again?

Pragmata Discourse, or: “Unc does not exist”

Agentic Cannabis Device … the more you burn, the more you earn? I guess?

“Americans don’t have car brain they yearn for mass transit but have to default to cars” well

One of the largest terraforming operations in human history was all the dams in the US west, either for power generation, flood control, or irrigation supplies, and we still have quite a bit of debt to pay for the things we did on the way to this objective (Celilo Falls, for example)

Hell yes

“Actually we can’t bridge over Ballard because superyachts” is a fun argument that totally negates I dunno Construction cranes, which you might need if you’re doing construction on heavy civil infra that I dunno Crosses over Lake Washington

🎶I’m just a singer of simple songs, I’m not a Real political man I watch CNN, but I‘m not sure I can tell you The difference in Iraq and Iran🎶 Alan Jackson, that is a Skill Issue. You’re not some salt of the earth small bean, you’re Denis Leary’s “Asshole”

As the coiner of “They’ll never escape the societally acceptable age regression allegations” I would actually put this blame on the cultural undercurrent of “You were never taught this at school” and a general societal lack of refusing to accept communal responsibility, and *lionizing* that attitude

I could say something about a torment nexus but really this is just daddy issues, as in: I want to dedicate my life to this man with hopes that daddy will recognize me Y’know what, church or mosque or what have you service would be less harmful

>Employer opens up multimedia storyteller position >only opens it up to internal candidates can’t even say we missed the boat on this one if we don’t let the boat dock

Already laughing myself silly at the phrase “Jim Caviezel as Jair Bolsonaro” Both of them deserve each other

"I Want To Get Railed" sign is absolutely winning here

Nuclear Option is so fun: Just Chuck Missiles At Everything and Everyone is Fun Warfare

this gives me a good idea: i'll try to keep a running thread of things that are union-busting that you might not know are union-busting. ERGs are one to start. another one: employee satisfaction surveys! corporations use them to see where agitation is that could potentially lead to a union

Electing man who says prices will go down while he creates the material conditions for prices to keep going up But I can say I feel proud to be American so it’s not all bad

Taco Time NW enjoyers, WE RIDE