It's darkly funny anytime one of these consultant pamphlets comes out about how Democrats can scientifically carve up the electorate to eke out a win, meanwhile the current president spent the campaign swaying on stages, giving 45 minute speeches about who's nice to him. Riding in a garbage truck

Trump said he aced a very hard IQ test, turns out it was the one where you have to tell a lion from a camel. The only thing is… it wasn’t an IQ test. Yikes. He said it was very hard, though. He bragged he ‘got them all right,’ like he just cracked the Da Vinci Code.

Heartened by the return of one of the classic Trump bits, which is when he sways faintly and says "I'd like to see low IQ [person of color he saw on TV] try to pass the test that's regularly administered to me by medical professionals, the famous unbeatable Test To Determine Extent Of Brain Trauma,"

makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies

it's crazy that if you're a cat, your only two life outcomes are eating out of a trash can or getting treated like a little baby

Reminder: November 4th is extremely important, don’t forget to vote!

We’re putting food on the table in Argentina ($40 billion), yet MAGA Republicans are threatening to withhold SNAP funds already allocated by Congress. MAGA = Make Argentina Great Again.

Please kill me

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

the three little pigs? heh, you mean a skill based mats-gated huff and puff roguelike?

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

putting on a random simpsons on and....

This company doesn’t do anything by virtue of the fact they’re trying to do everything. This isn’t a business!

My wife’s (in some cases three-time) trump voting relatives have started mentioning the ballroom to me, negatively; anecdata but I’d like to see some high quality polling. I think it’s a mistake by certain elite elected Dems to think this story isn’t breaking thru

there's a video somewhere of chamath palihapitiya saying that he used to donate millions to democrats but couldn't get a meeting, but is able to with republicans. like everyone, rich donors want to feel special. no better way to make them feel special than a WH ballroom, earning parties more $$$

the point of the ballroom obvs has nothing to do with aesthetics. it's to create an architectural structure to honor the patronage networks that currently dominate US politics. previous WH venues hosted maybe a couple of hundred people; this hosts nearly 1,000 rich donors.

The fire chief in a Columbus suburb said this of Amazon: "They wanted to do background checks on all my firefighters; I wouldn't let them. And we've struggled to gain access to emergencies. They'll stop us at the gate, and our medic units have been delayed. They're denying us access to patients."

the most corrupt administration in my lifetime

it's never occurred to them. they have zero idea that in the lawless, anti science, brutal world they seek to usher in, defective weirdos like them would have been used for food and firewood

one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it

So where are the so-called “savings”? The truth is, there are none. Despite the rhetoric, the government is spending more and borrowing faster than at any point in U.S. history, even as critical public services are gutted and oversight is weakened.

MAGA keeps saying Trump is “saving taxpayers money” and “paying down the national debt.” If that were true, why did the U.S. national debt just surpass $38 trillion, a record high in American history?

I'll cautiously say I've noticed more skepticism about AI in the corporate world and it's mostly because people's coworkers are creating extra work for them. They don't have the vocabulary to describe it yet but it's basically the "Why should I read what you couldn't be bothered to write" thing

Basically all US policy is at this point about indulging Trump’s irrational obsessions, petty grudges, and corrupt grifts, and then taking secondary and tertiary measures to mask the consequences of those policies.

Another great product launch from OpenAI!

Conservative conceptions of manhood always included being quick to anger and the tinge of violence but it also included not whining, being taciturn, being hardworking , etc. Clint Eastwood, not a 12 year old raging at Mom for not having chicken nuggets.

For all the ink spilled on manhood, this is the crisis in masculinity. I get, on some level, why a whiny, queeny, bratty blowhard appeals to people who resent the notion of self-regulation or restraint. But something is fundamentally fucked up when that's "macho".

They’re doing this because it’s so successful

Marty McFly arrived in the future (2015) Hill Valley 10 years ago today. It was also the "95th launching of the USSA space shuttle", according to this concept art for a 2015 smartphone-like device. In reality, there were 135 launches from 1981 to 2011, all space shuttles combined.

Trump is having his own “let them eat cake” moment while so many go without pay, he’s busy building a ballroom and tearing down the people’s house.

Had to do a fact check earlier in the week as to whether I said “chunderfuck” in an interview. To be clear, I did

i don't get it. omen sushi in nyc is cheaper than nobu in malibu, where you dined last year without your wife

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

What, if anything, did the No Kings protests accomplish? I've seen that pop up in everything from genuine inquiry to sneering dismissal. For anyone asking or facing that question, here's an answer. Everything isn't all fixed, of course. But the protests accomplished at least these seven things:

No Kings protests were one of the few times Trump, MAGA, and right-wing media were reacting to something the opposition did, rather than the opposition reacting to whatever they do. Adopt a principle from war strategy: generally better to be taking action and forcing opponents to react. Good point.

I guess I just feel like it should be a bigger deal that Penske Media owns the Golden Globes and ALSO Rolling Stone, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Indiewire, GoldDerby, and Deadline, plus 20% of Vox Media

THEY DIDN'T SEE HOW BEN SOLO WAS ALIVE???? THAT WAS A BRIDGE TOO FAR????? AFTER THEY "SOMEHOW, PALAPATINE RETURNED" A GUY WHO FELL 6000 FEET INTO A POWER CORE????? HELLO?????

the conversation we should be having is that AI is developing and will certainly displace many workers, and we should develop government programs to even out the losses and gains between workers and capitalists. but instead we argue about whether a trans person was on netflix

Once when canvassing I asked a voter his #1 concern and it was "yard sales are not enforcing sales tax"

dr. soong on star trek the next generation is really funny because he's like if dr. frankenstein left behind like a dozen basically finished practice monsters labelled "alive_human_finalfinalfinal(3).psd"