Darrell won't say it, but I will: it's time to defund the fire department.

a lot of you lot turning into the elementary school teachers who hated wikipedia

From a marxist standpoint most anti-AI takes are just vulgar workerism. Ludd was not exactly a Hegelian.

Between the inanity of "67" and the crude appeal of "69" we find the prospect of a genuine revitalization: the Spirit of '68.

its really funny seeing people act like these ads aren't supposed to be defaced… you're definitely sticking it to the man by posting pictures of an advertisement. ragebait economy.

it would probably be pretty cheap to pay the foreign ragebait bot farms to go woke

i think a lot of people are acting with a lot of credulity about the idea that the damning documents in the epstein case are still around. the question is really just how carefully the important ones have been destroyed.

i will admit that as a fan of "Pumping Iron II: The Women" i have long found MTG more charismatic than her contemporaries

if you want to understand why Trump would be trying to butter up Mamdani, keep in mind that Mamdani is planning on embarking on a total redo of New York City property taxes. Mamdani has a lot of power to inflict pain here.

Zohran is proving the advantages of being a polite young man.

if you throw the crown in the gutter, don't be surprised when the gutter reigns supreme

got busted by community notes for "spreading disinformation" on the other site. not happy about it. gonna post more here as a result.

A guy lands in an American airport in 2030. In the terminal, he shouts, "Who supported Trump in 2024?" Everyone looks down. Some shuffle off. Finally, a man says "I did. I wasn't politically aware at the time. I regret it." The guy says, "finally, an honest man—can you watch my bag while I piss?"

this is why we need to defund the fire department

why has this weird man not done a shoot for balenciaga or vetements or prada yet

I know we "do not gotta hand it to him" but referring to Trump as "the dog that hasn’t barked" is a level of poetry that has for a long time been missing from political life. More scandals should involve a few artful aphorisms. It would keep our spirits light.

Very weird claim to suggest productivity isn't up honestly. It certainly seems to be up!

happy Open Enrollment to those who celebrate

this guy wrote a book called "One Hundred Million Americans", presumably promoting extreme immigration enforcement and degrowth-oriented economic policy

it is extremely cool in a way that oratory is a kind of divergent art, where the top performers are marked by idiosyncracy

i feel like everyone on this app lives in minneapolis. does anyone in minneapolis want to hang out on monday. i'm in town for a day and i want to learn about minneapolis.

not enough people talking about how good a bacon egg cheese is. perfect sandwich.

some of the posters on this website are posting things that aren't very smart

harpers gooning piece ignores the straightforward Zižekian read: gooning is when you pretend to have a crippling pornography addiction so the reasons your life is bad can seem inherent to you, and therefore within your control

People don't understand what Hakeem Jeffires has been doing. But it's simple. He knows that people love politicians who are visibly afraid to express their beliefs, and is pandering to them.

we gotta defund the fire department fr

I recommend turning on Advanced Data Protection in iOS settings.

Personally i think it could ultimately be good that we're seeing the vandalism and destruction of the white house, in the same way that I think the cultural revolution and the bombing of dresden both cleared the way for eras less burdened by the weight of the past.

personally i think free trade was much better system than "pay a random amount between $7.50 and $352 every time you order something online"

i understood that most adults don't do any tasks that require them to use their dominant hand but i don't think I realized how few ever do any kind of research or information gathering.

DONALD SHOUP raised one hand and thus he spake: PEDESTRIANS SHALL NOT SUBSIDIZE PARKING FOR DRIVERS

I think peter thiel is actually an eccentric but serious thinker on the topic of the eschaton. You have to be careful to understand to what degree he sees the antichrist as allegorical vs literal but I think a lot of responses to him are just instances of poor reading comprehension.

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

low agreeableness + low openness to experience type network

this take is literally an entire decade late but the first time i heard taylor swift's "Style" i thought it was a shockingly forthright piece of racial propaganda and it's kinda bizarre to me that this isn't the consensus view

imagining a bar where you're allowed to direct one (1) death threat at the bartender with no risk of getting 86ed

its crazy how not having community notes means that people just do misinformation here for fun

i sorta think the anti-LLM bit is a way to get the anti-tech left distracted enough that nobody has time or discourse space left to object to using AI for lethal weapons manufacturing.

if you think you are a leftist and u also think that jay graeber is the most important political target of this moment, or indeed, even that she's wrong on the object level, you are genuinely not serious and you deserve to lose. sorry.

On Twitter they have started swearing allegiance to the Sun God, and declaiming against the idols that we hold dear…

how i feel chomping down on calamari at the bar

Far more dangerous than Trump, I think, is how quickly the last eight months have pulled back the curtain on America's elites and shown everyone how venal, how cowardly and how utterly mediocre the foundation of our society has been.

i think the worst thing that's happened to left-of-center rhetoric in the last couple decades is white liberals adopting a love for empty cliche in a pale imitation of the stylistic cues of the african american church tradition

sad seeing Alan Kay believe so little in the power of cinema

pure bacon culture. totally unhelpful term

an interesting insight you can glean from this article is that when performative moderate types say they are non-ideologica in their inquiry, this typically amounts to: "I enjoy yapping about tradeoffs because they're fun facts, but the political implications of optimization choices are booooring"

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape. Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.