something we have learned in the last few years is that the final form of capitalism is less evil cigar-smoking string-pulling monsters in back rooms somewhere and more a bunch of dipshits cooking their brains in group chats

A great essay that offers a fantastic overview of the ways rent and rent-seeking make us all poorer.

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If you want a coming of age story or a story about trans people trying to figure out their lives or a story about small town life or a story that will make you laugh and cry, you want Emily's excellent book.

Reading a student's introduction in an online class that I'm virtually certain is AI generated. 😑

The first week of classes at the college has a very "the first week of classes isn't until next week" vibe

maye musk tweeting about elon

The GameStop CEO’s big plan to buy eBay.

Well, this is horrific. www.propublica.org/article/more...

I've been accused of exaggerating or fabricating the things people say about drivers vs other road users before but a drunk driver deliberately driving on the sidewalk to try to mow down a child & multiple people replying to question the propriety of the child's behaviour is so fucking on the nose.

Dawkins spending his entire career berating basically pretty normal people for being so stupid as to believe in God and then immediately giving himself Roko's Basilisk Derangement Syndrome after talking to the AI catgirl waifus is just the funniest shit.

7 dollar gas. Well, I guess I'll buy an electric car. Oh those are 60 thousand dollars? Well at least electricity is cheap. Oh the government won't build solar panels because it's "Too transgender"? Well at least wages are going up. Oh the idea of jobs is fake now? Well at least everyone is happ

Warning! You might see posts in the wild claiming "Hogwarts Legacy is free right now!" but this is malware, if you try and run it, it'll install Hogwarts Legacy on your PC.

Class in the US is entirely a matter of aesthetics now. Rich suburban kids are “country”. Beard Dudes who look like they love IPAs are “working class.” Teachers who make $32,000 a year but have to dress up sort of nice in JCPenney clothes are “elites“. None of these words mean anything anymore.

I'm telling you, my theory that Jeff Bezos himself is ghostwriting some of these is not a joke.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller May 05,1943

Kennedy Starts a Push to Help Americans Quit Pasteurization The health secretary has long complained that Americans kill too many germs and have too little diarrhea. New policies he is introducing aim to change that.

All farmers are small business owners, and most are millionaires SB owners. You have to abandon sentimentality from old agrarian idyls; these people are small capitalists—literally petty bourgeois—which when you add rural social identity makes them about the most reactionary group this side of 8chan

important technical context for the fossil fuel phaseout conference Colombia just hosted - 50 countries, representing half of global GDP, in attendance, agreeing to plan energy transition

one of my "this'll probably get me in trouble but I'm right" takes is that, while conservatives are scared of American cities and that's just stupid, that doesn't mean we liberals have to conversely pretend they are not annoying and in need of some concerted "we *do* live in a society" interventions

There's green [solar panels] and then there's green [seeing the colour green everywhere]!

look how fancy the ocellated turkey is. such a fancy lad

Backyard had an afternoon visitor today.

"....Honeycrisp apples taste really good, but the tree they grow from has no will to live." www.youtube.com/watch?v=GywD...

TFW you check out a lunch place that's been in your city for 40 years, that you could have visited for the past 27 years you've lived in the city, that you went to for the first time today

compare the elon musk wario sketch to "zelda told me link can't get enough of her. she told me they do it five times a day" "ZELDA DOES DA PILATES" www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rfw...

Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.

Just mistyped “students” as “studebts” and that’s gonna haunt me

I am once again tapping the "it is a genuine qualitative break from 99.9% of human history that society can now produce massive food surpluses with the labor only a tiny percent of the population and nobody has any idea how to grasp this" sign.

That time of week again where I go through my saved list, add 3-4 books to my reading list after finishing maybe 1 since the last time.

every mushroom foraging guidebook: This is Woodland Pot Roast, a tasty little mushroom that adds a delightful flavour to soups and stews. Note that it is often mistaken for Satan’s Fistula, a mushroom that erases the last 9 generations of your family from God’s ledgers.

I think its a cry for help. Blink twice, Walmart! bsky.app/profile/lore...

My review of Beckert's epic "Capitalism: a Global History" www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/the-lon...

Advertise your account with a Simpsons image

Slightly diminish a book The Latte of Heaven

Confirmed. Good thing I'm not doing any real searches for crumble today like "apple crumble" or "why infrastructure crumble?"

Chicken noodle stew for dinner tonight. Who's coming over?

Would like a personal void to scream into today, thanks

*midlife man voice* please... my hotspan

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if our future actually valued stoicism, instead of what it really values, which is moaning and complaining and crying all the time, then refusing to extend empathy to those we exploit.

The exonerative automotive tense

Just browned butter for baking so you know it's getting serious.

Tired: Psychoanalysts doing dream analysis. Wired: Psychoanalysts doing prompt analysis.

Godless and needing new meat free options.

Sociology, Economics, Political Science

drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of MPs get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,

Mission after today's Costco run: Find enough edamame recipes to justify purchase of 2kg bag of edamame