of course most people agree with me, but one interesting sort of reply so far has been like "since this sort of bad relationship does happen sometimes, and can be a real problem, what's really the issue with the article." and frankly I just think "emotional truth" is a bad thing

where did providing evidence for claims go. did people always just say random shit. it physically hurts me www.vice.com/en/article/m...

I am disappointed by the shutdown ending. I was kinda proud of democrats for a moment there

That sidney sweeney interview is so funny. just like the full on good cop performance from that interviewer, sidney pretending to have no idea what's going on. i like it a lot

I just don't think Apple will make 133 billion dollars a year selling humanoid robots by 2040. feel free to pull up this post and laugh at me if Apple makes 133 billion dollars a year selling humanoid robots in 2040

so do you guys think Mamadani will flop or slay

there's a guy who judges people's interior design decisions, and at the beginning of all his youtube shorts, he introduces himself as an interior designer. it would be like if I began a movie review with "as a movie reviewer" it really stings every time

this may be the sweetest comment I have ever received. I stared at it for like three minutes. I just imagined him being like "oh my god new little joel, wow awesome" almost stresses me out

I started making little joel vids again and it's so much fun lol. I go through phases of being really addicted to it, and I think, to make it last, I will try to make NO MORE THAN THREE videos there a week. I will do this until the day I die, I feel

Just saw that someone made a very cute animation of my short story Anti-Dog! very cool youtu.be/QYbI4vmmbdA?...

I believe this is the best thing I have made www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym0J...

the only aspect of YouTube's UI that I truly hate is that every time I make a shorter than average video, they inform me that my audience is bored by my video because view time is lower than usual

New video! The Myth of the Woke Right: A Response to the New York Times youtu.be/AOesmBsJAvU?...

what happened to the word "handicapped"? I just heard a YouTuber say it and thought it sounded very old fashioned and wondered why it's not around anymore. is it offensive for some reason? do disabled people not like it?

The End of the Tour, the David Foster Wallace movie, is so weirdly nasty. I read a Brett Easton Ellis (author of American Psycho) very negative review of it, but even that hardly does service to the weird nastiness of this movie

pretty crazy about those hostage releases amiright. Hard not to feel like Israel could have had a deal like this made long ago, given the fact there is still no promise from Hamas to de-weaponize or anything. still, it's an exciting day

I really like the joke people do where they pretend to have just learned about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars, and are like "oh my god". If you're ever wondering if you should make that joke, just keep in mind that it would probably get a smile out of me

one very fun language learning thing I just did was make it so my phone automatically translates everyone's messages to me to french. I'd honestly recommend, it really feels confrontational

I'm genuinely curious about your thoughts on this opinion I loosely hold: The idea that a broad support for Israel among conservatives in America comes down to some desire to bring about the rapture is quite overstated.

UK so crazy. I don't think there's any overt contradiction here, but isn't it odd that on the international stage, they're beginning to take an at least vaguely more pro palestine stance, and at home, it seems they're just going crazier and crazier

I find negative comments on "You Are Into Mouse Trap YouTube" so peculiar. Maybe it's just because I'm used to it on non-fiction work, but for a two page long short story, I'm just like, okay boys let's all relax

tony blair?

could someone smart actually explain to me how the iPhone settings search function is, and has always been, so criminally awful? Why almost no search will ever work on it? it seems so strange for a modern piece of technology

one cannot talk about youtube flops without coming off as self pitying oh my GOD lmao. I knew it would be a flop, but never imagined that "You Are Into Mouse Trap YouTube" would have three times the views of this video. Audience keeping me on my toes tbh

so of course my Osaka vid is a generational flop, but honestly, I'm just so happy about how stupid it is 100% of the time. I think it turned out great lol

I went to the, quite strange, Osaka Expo 2025, and made a video about it! You legally have to watch it because you follow me on the internet youtu.be/D10S6G1InXg?...

Hey I just wanted to let you guys know that my "cloud ranking" on bluesky is a 9.6/10, which makes me something of a celebrity on this website. You might not have been aware but yeah my cloud rank is 9.6

honestly such a stroke of good luck for Gvir that the countermeasures Israel are now forced into are also the thing he's wanted to do for his entire political career. could have easily been a really bad day for him

video www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyU5...

Assassins really creep me out. It’s so weird to have this like strange discourse about the “moral worthiness” of killing people when the killers are always these freaky mouth breathing psychos you’d never want to meet and who through away their lives for nothing

Talking about online discourse in like a meta, “above it all” way can get really pretentious fast. But I do feel sometimes like the two main political conversations the internet has is “should we be happy when bad people die or are killed” and “should I vote for democrats” and I do hate them both

I feel like the gun control conversation is so politically dead at the moment. people really honed in on Charlie Kirk being overly pro 2A in the wake of his assassination, but for how many people was that a central Charlie Kirk problem? It just seems so hard to talk about guns now

I think the reason I’m a little less quick to conclude that the Dark Days are coming and that now conservatives are gonna get REALLY hardcore is that I have no idea what that means. Wow my dad said he was mad. This guy thinks umm, that Charlie was too nice. What are they even talking about

This interaction between the quartering and Milo Yiannopoulos is really quite good

It’s odd to think that extremely famous conservatives going to random colleges and yelling at people in open air, unprotected environments might, just like that, be a thing of the past

I just can’t believe I like accidentally saw footage of Charlie Kirk being murdered

I feel like if the new iPhone air was sold with the external power bank in box, people would go insane

I’m really not over seeing the sexy secrets letter that the president of the United States sent to the most famous pedophile

People can get so wrapped up in very particular ways of “being moderate” and performing moderation, I find it very interesting

I believe that the letter Trump sent to Epstein was frankly a bit much. even assuming Trump was tied to or enjoyed the pedophile ring, it still just seems a bit extra to me. When did “I love you man, have a great birthday” fall out of fashion you know

This video from Linus Tech Tips about how his videos have been doing poorly for the last month is really interesting. Not to judge Linus’ path, of course he’s done well in life, but I really think YouTubers scaling their businesses seems like such a mistake on average youtu.be/KqCV6Rk8kOA?...

I’ve complained about this before but I just can’t believe how shit members only YouTube content is designed. It’s obvious purpose is to spark FOMO, and it doesn’t even do that. it functionally jusy doubles every video in the ugliest way. And it seems trivially easy to solve too

I feel like blocking people after disagreeing with them and feeling like that’s really cool became such a trope on this website

I think Christians could have a really good cultural moment if they started talking about how this kind of take is vaguely blasphemous

I just don’t understand why people queue up for 40 mins to get on a plane where their seat is assigned, why they don’t simply lounge like me. What are they hoping for, are they better than me

Nobody’s ever even asked me if I wanted political org money, like literally why not, am I not a pretty normal uncontroversial guy

I buzzed all the hair off my head because i felt it would look cool but now i have no hair

I haven’t read the oped yet so I’m just referring to this post. When adults wanna buy a thing, what’s our idea for how to make it so they can’t so that a six year old gets their “deserved spot”

So what are our thoughts on the whole “Chorus” thing, if you’re aware what that is. Do we like the org giving money to lefty creators, do we think it’s nasty. Willing to believe whatever you tell me to

I think a lot about what it would be like to be as cool looking as stromae. In my personal opinion of the coolest looking and acting guys ever