1. Unfunded purchase orders with unknown terms are not the same as debt. 2. Companies with unsustainable debt will reorganize, leaving the operating business intact and debt-free. 3. 2008 was bad because everyone thought the debt was money good and it was not. Nobody thinks XAI debt is money good.

I'm genuinely curious: if one were to measure the stretch of the PCH from, say, Santa Barbara to Monterey over the last decade, what would be the percentage of uptime?

In my experience--both lived and observed--it's a weirdly underrated skillset that translates well in a variety of contexts!

AOC being personable and friendly to other Dems isn't discussed as an asset the way for example Biden's senate relationships was but being pleasant and charming tends to get you places!

When people hear "it saved my life", there’s a presumption made that we mean without it we would quite literally die. And for many of us, that's absolutely true... But for those of us who rely upon it regularly.... it means our lives are made so much better now that they actually feel worth living."

Hey Natalie, nice enfeebled straw man you built here! People are digging in very clearly on a very basic position with PLENTY of room to maneuver on others out in front of it. You're a trained philosopher, you're better than this, and I think you know it. Please act accordingly.

We have noted your name and have scheduled the day of your reckoning.

In all of these countries, right-wing populists are either plausibly within a single election of gaining power, or in a few cases they already are in power.

Little-known Rule 34 sub-sub-clause: I wrote a novel titled Rule 34 (and triggered a violent wikipedia edit war because they'd previously had a rule saying "no wikipedia articles titled Rule 34" and my book was notable enough to make the cut …)

ok have fun!

A lot of 1990s photos of Oasis look like this to me.

Everyone traveling on I-95 is now a suspected narcoterrorist

I have to imagine hearing this sound in 1969 would have been positively mind-blowing we don't give enough credit to Sly (R.I.P.) for the clarity and power of his musical vision

If you're thinking of getting chunky, cool blonde highlights, save the $300 bucks every eight weeks and just tattoo a swastika on your face instead.

They genuinely do not know how to deal with this. Rhetorically nor politically. They cornered themselves into a political world where anyone who doesn’t agree with the boot is a hysterical blue haired childless trans somali woman. Might as well be speaking mandarin, too.

RFK Jr.'s rejection of the Modern mRNA flu vaccine will kill thousands of Americans each year. But my liberal daughter won't shut about the health benefits of yoga. I have never felt more politically homeless.

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...

Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold

what's the difference between jelly and jam? I'll still be your friend if you take me to see a jelly band

Can't/won't defend the DNC per se, but I will say there's a reason Horseshoe Theory is an enduring heuristic. If you're in ideological lockstep with millions of others, that's a warning sign. Thinking for yourself is good, actually.

"I wish a motherf*cker would"

Age verification? I used to sell shit copper to mouthbreathers in Ur.

This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

a lyric doesn’t have to stop midway through a phrase. i can fix him

"Wuddabout Freedom of Speech?!"

Currently dialed into a community board meeting where a bunch of boomer NIMBYs are trying to argue this NoHo parking lot needs to be preserved and not turned into affordable housing. god, NIMBYs are beyond parody. they must be politically crushed

Post a banger that isn't in English:

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Annihilation (2018)

I also think I just managed to text Bad Bunny's manager. I will let you know id I can get a definitive answer on this but I don't think it was him.

sometimes Youtube is just incredible

Who could say no to such a pleasant and reasonable offer?

(laudatory)

this reads like a poignant and ambivalent Zen parable

they're not terribly bright or courageous, so give them at least a couple weeks to think through the logic and get it through their dipshit heads this file release has been a major W

SCORPION: take me across the river FROG: if I do that, you'll sting me S: if I sting you, we'll both drown F: ok, that makes sense *halfway across the river* F: so? S: so what? F: sting me S: what? F: sting me, like you promised S: no F: sting me so we'll both drown S: *crying* what is happening?

Case in point. Here are my great-grandmother's home made remedies for coughs and indigestion #laudanum

TIL Victorian children were badasses who could hang

color. lesss gren. id=as slep furious ?

genuinely having a hard time taking seriously the prospect of Robert Wright being condescending to anyone

the only person you should punch on the street is e. honda MAYBE guile

It's Elmo's birthday

There was no mastermind or grand scheme, but there was a successful effort by wealthy men, including Epstein, to destroy a status quo that they feared was trending towards greater accountability.