If you sickos ever make me rich somehow I'm going to wear my style-less middle aged guy clothes and my gender nonspecific goon army can wear any historic Dolly Parton at the Grammys look they want, 1970-present.

Again, darkly hilarious that “steal the oil” has been an obsession of his the entirety of his political career and then he blew up the oil place.

Welcome to Ming America

its over.

I love being a guard for a crime boss, but I hate when coworkers hear a noise and go walk away and don’t come back. We were in the middle of a conversation, rude! Not my job to find him though.

What the fuck? It’s a wholly owned corporation of the state. This is like allowing me to sue PATCO or SEPTA or the MTA

is it a stretch to say today might be, in terms of bad news, the worst Trump has faced as president?

the Democratic Party is going to be handed a windfall current leadership is utterly incapable of exploiting and we need there to be consequences for this time.

As one of the fifteen or twenty genuine Liberal Internationalists in the US, all of whom are active on this site, I do think we really need to confront the fact that a genuine liberal-democratic "rules based" international order cannot be underpinned by arbitrary and hegemonic US military might.

only Nixon could go to China but for winning the war on drivers

Please president furukawa, my people long for their tarriff refunds

next Dem trifecta just changes the date and passes the IRA again, unaltered

The funniest thing about gas prices is trump is going to constantly say they’re the lowest they’ve ever been

we have hit the iceberg, production has been shut-in across the gulf. only question is how bad the damage is [which is predicated on how long this lasts]. bsky.app/profile/sky....

so the world's energy mix looks like this. around 20%-25% of the world's oil (7%pt of total energy) and a third of the world's gas (another 7%pt) goes thru hormuz. right now that's been zero'd out, and there's no clear path back. a sixth of the world's energy supply is just... gone.

The thing about violence is that it all so often is *not* senseless. It's tragic and unfortunate.

I think the biggest mistake outsiders have about Israel and Palestine is assuming everyone in or connected to the region hates each other for stupid reasons when in fact they hate each other for pretty good ones that are very hard to undo.

Other deranged billionaire thing I would do is taking that Star Wars roleplay hotel that Disney had that and implement it in fictional setting where it would be totally inappropriate. $5k for a two night lore accurate immersive warhammer underhive experience.

how it feels taking public transit rn

Please don’t spread misinformation. Tomahawks fly at low altitude. It’s climbing like a THAAD interceptor (we are out of interceptors).

I wish these celebrities and musicians would have learned to lead with the legal complaint first and the request secomd

Likelihood of any president in the future apologizing for us obliterating an entire school of children?

We gotta figure out a way for society to grow the fuck up.

everyone is 12 is a nice theory, but the truth is more like everyone is trying to impress themselves at 14

They should make like Tang scribes and channel that insecurity into poetry and drinking instead

I will trade places with these motherfuckers so fast. I already live in the city. Let me be a soft-handed scribe. I won't even do uppers.

a lot of what has made discourse insane is that there's an entire crop of guys who live in dc, do a ton of uppers, and have massive gender insecurity around the fact that they're soft-handed scribes

Cucked! By My Own Privilege many such cases

i don't get it. you can lift at the gym. being a softhanded scribe is like the pinnacle of civilized life, tens of thousands of generations of your ancestors would have murdered to be a softhanded scribe

I trust the Kirkland Security Bureau to enforce the law fairly.

Pitch: Costco is put in charge. Of everything.

Just incredible how, despite having every other party already, anti-trans obsessives are determined that even one clearly pro-trans party should not be allowed.

Gas/sales tax heavy state here: Wait you guys think $4 is apocalyptic?

Ha, and I didn't even mention the tariffs.

A while back we were joking here about how a little over a year ago, some economist must've looked at a monkey's paw and said "I wish regular people appreciated textbook economics more."

Like he could've just come out of the White House every morning like a cuckoo clock, said something outrageous to make his base happy, then went to golf. And people would call him an economic genius because he grew gdp and tamed inflation. But here we are.

Stock market tanking again today and oil *way* up. What's crazy is Trump could've just rode out the current regression to the mean on inflation, combined with an apparent productivity boom. Instead, did the opposite of econ 101: kicked out workers, reduced immigration, started wars of choice.

I know I keep saying this, but I get a perverse sense of relief when things like this happen due to the war because oh hey, reality still exists. It’s not all just content. Cause and effect are still a thing. You haven’t totally lost your fragile grip on sanity.

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Like I said.

Getting bought out by private equity is more often than not a symptom rather than a cause of a failing business

Air travel is the apotheosis of this. A pleasant flight experience with many creature comforts is available to everyone who wants to pay for it. As it turns out, people would much rather forego those comforts in exchange for lower fares, then complain. I don’t wanna hear it!

The Biden Admin was the test of this and The People said "this fucking sucks, give us cheap shit".

I used to work at a skateboard company that ran its own factory. That company didn’t degrade the quality of its boards because they love selling cheap shit that sucks, they did so because they were competing with cheap garbage and very few customers are willing to spend more on a better product.

Everyone *says* they want beautiful clothing that is made to last in factories that where workers make a living wage; but vanishingly few people are willing to actually pay for this stuff. Private equity didn’t kill Toys R Us, Amazon did.

I am getting very tired of people blaming “private equity” for changing consumer behavior. Private equity didn’t degrade the quality of the clothes you buy, ultra fast fashion and online shopping where you sort by low price, then buy clothes without ever actually touching them did that.

sooooooo we should start a war with Cuba, got it

Even if you didn't know about the mountains, the logic of "Why don't we ignore the already-existing natural waterway and instead build an entirely new one at great expense and effort right next to it?" is amazing