turns out there are some really nasty long term consequences from telling people they're smart if they're good at taking tests

There is a Mishima quote I like using -- "the special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail." It seems to be the only way of really conveying the psychic damage of perceiving the administration and the forces behind it

its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content

93 million U.S. residents are immigrants or are U.S. born and have at least one immigrant parent.

A future Dem admin should quietly encourage foreign leaders to go after X and Meta.

This throwaway joke in Only Murders In The Building was fucking WILD. What a deep cut in a show for boomers

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The stupids turning on Trump is a good sign imo. American democracy isn’t irredeemable.

Think Chuck Prince said it better tbh

It’s almost like there’s not a Permian basin underneath Britain! This is like Saudi Arabia banning alfalfa production.

Illinois needs an organized militia

Ezra Klein: we should all calm down Neighbor I occasionally drink with: the next assassin’s aim should be true to free us from tyranny

One Battle After Another has men in their late 30s posting like kpop stans, and thats beautiful

you know, in more authoritarian countries, seeing that secdef is drunk by 10am and the president is a doddering old man who can't hold a train of thought for 30 seconds is the exact kind of things that gives colonels Big Ideas

It feels like a good time to short crypto

Hegseth will keep the peace by making sure any war with China is lost really quickly.

The only way he can beat Altman is going full porn mode.

In shocking news this week, members of the infamous terrorist group “The French 75” were betrayed by one of their own…a young woman named “Perfidia”.

someone should ask him if the medbed does transgender surgeries

One Battle After Another….what can you even say.

the supreme court has made trump an elected dictator.

It’s so difficult to remember that shorting the most obvious fraud / hype stocks is a fantastic way to lose money.

I don’t know what these things are but I know if I see one in a front facing video I’m about to hear some shit straight from the pits of hell

Fucking unbelievable if they pull this off. Outright bribe. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

he is quitting because he got caught jacking off in his office

It would be very funny if after all the (misplaced) fear of Trump kicking of WW3 the Europeans did it instead. *EUROPEANS PRIVATELY TELL RUSSIA THEY’RE READY TO DOWN JETS

“Low-income Americans tend to do absolutely everything possible to remain current on auto payments, even when they face substantial financial distress. Having a car is essential to having work in the US.” on.ft.com/46uFbFD

Please just respond to Elon’s new political forays by saying: “I’m sorry your dad molested you. Have you considered ending your life?”

This screenshot reminded me of the excellent NYT story on how Joe Manchin actually got rich. www.nytimes.com/2022/03/27/c...

Wait…there’s a $20B nuclear power company with zero revenue?

Agents held a 5 year old autistic girl to lure her father out. "They took my daughter, she's 5 years old. She has autism spectrum," ‘ mom says in video of incident. "Give me my daughter back.” Btw, dad was in US for 22 years. He’s now in detention. on.nbcboston.com/Dae1NNu

Seems bearish for a charismatic leader, oft pictured in a black leather jacket, to face financial calamity.

Inception sequel where DiCaprio has to break into Elon’s brain in 2010 and give him therapy for childhood sexual abuse, thus saving America from fascism.

So, if I get this right, OpenAI is paying Oracle $300BB for computing power, which is built on its partnership with NVIDIA, which is funding OpenAI to the tune of $100BB

Love Cramer’s adhd gremlin brain here. “I bought my wife lingerie on SHEIN”, “My father had a great month selling paper products for the Chinese the month he died”. “The 8th Army is famously Stakhanovite”. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits

yeah people who work professionally in politics can’t say this for a variety of reasons, but I’m just some guy so I can: by now the data shows that Trump has a lot of marginal low-turnout voter support, persuading them to *not vote* is basically as good as getting them to switch.

Like if the French wanted to try Dien Bien Phu again in 1960.

wine moms and meemaws being braver than the troops

Dire

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Tariffs can be deflationary if demand for your product simultaneously collapses. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

among the issues with people not having any knowledge of hybrid regimes in the global South is the fact that everyone assumes contemporary authoritarian governance looks like 20th century totalitarianism