If I was around for the dawn of civilization I would have immediately understood it as seminal, and would have thought about it through the lens of modern history and economics.

Dads love to text "Call me when you have a minute" with no way to tell if your family has suffered a terrible tragedy, or if he just needs help with the router.

Trump just did an Israeli accent while addressing the Knesset lmao

The Browns haven't had their chosen quarterback since like Baker Mayfield

l listened to one of these podcasts for low IQ people, and I totally get it. Whole conversation sounded to where I was at when I was very interested in politics but also super uninformed. If Republicans are winning impressionable morons were probably cooked

Insane that MTG is the first Republican to hit on a non suicidal legislative strategy(punt on ACA credits, pass a bunch of supply side health reforms, rejigger the credit formula to push everyone on to bronze plans)

Wearing a mask when you're sick is a very good cultural norm, I wish it had stuck a little better. Broad mask mandates are stupid, but targeted efforts to reduce disease are great.

Venue for my kid's birthday party has a no alcohol policy, insane that they're making us tailgate in this weather.

I'm glad the war seems to be ending, but I'm a little concerned aboutr granting Donald Trump and Tony Blair absolute imperium over Gaza

I cannot attend another talk about the security threat poised by AI. You don't need AI to attack unsecured networks or to trick undertrained employees.

In Trump's economy AI will unshackle culture from parasitic artists, and reallocate artists labor towards productive jobs in glass and textile factories.

Used to be religion was the opiate of the masses,but thanks to fentanyl now opiates are the opiate of the masses.

In retrospect "Marijuana is safe because it's a plant from the earth" was a dumb argument. Lots of plants are super dangerous!

The fact that all the Neo-Brandeisian anti monopoly people are interpersonally unpleasant and behave like insane cranks makes me more sympathetic to team abundance. I am not immune to cognitive biases.

Conspiracy time: Trump shutdown the government because the jobs numbers are catastrophic and would probably cause the NBER to call a recession

The US electoral college is barely an electoral college at all, it's a malformed popular vote. The comitia centuriata now that's a real electoral college.

The theme park I'm at is selling 20oz Pepsis and draft Yuenglings for the same price. Not leaving me a lot of choice here...

Someone once called me "The Forrest Gump of weird internet people" and I think about that at least once a day

Feel like fentanyl cut down on the number of people actively up to no good. People just kind of stand there now. Whatever happened to stripping the metal from abandoned buildings, or running shell games on street corners?

Taking Dramamine so I can text and drive without getting nauseous

RIP Bashar Assad. I didn't agree with your politics, but I loved your portrayal of Kendall Roy in Succession.

*Guy inventing the internet* "Wow what a great way for computers to talk to each other, there's no way this leads to real estate mogul Donald Trump becoming the most autocratic president in American history"

I can tell I'm getting older because I increasingly think Franks Red Hot is spicy

How about we all come together and say "Let's stop attacking pedophiles!" - Ted Cruz

Big part of growing up is realizing the Spartans were middling fighters that would have gotten dog walked by a comparably sized Roman, Carthaginian, or Hellenistic army.

This week has been so insane that I somehow missed the fact that Trump did an Israeli accent as a bit while laying out his Gaza peace plan.

Trying to consolidate absolute power by calling the military high command fat is an interesting strategy.

It's crazy how Trump independently invented fascism. It turns out you don't have to read theory, you can just do praxis.

Please stop calling Cyber Security Awareness Month CSAM. Do not send e-mails with ideas for "Participating in CSAM".

This seems bad, but are we sure we want to be scrutinizing old Tumblr accounts...? We'll never have a millennial President unless we do a tumblr amnesty. americanjournalnews.com/tumblr-linke...

RIP Jane Goodall. Nobody will ever look at monkeys as good as you.

I honestly have no idea if shutting down the government is a good idea, or if Democrats can win the shutdown fight. I am takeless.

Progressive tempo runs are proof that God hates us and wants us to suffer

Feel like Sully is kind of over hyped as a pilot. What about all the pilots who didn't crash into a bunch of birds? Why don't they get a movie?

I think you can probably win intracoalitional debates just by being genial. The marginal person in that kind of fight is going to be sympathetic to both positions, so just being nice will go a long ways.

Liberal-conservatives are wrong about everything, but it's pretty easy to share a society with them. The new right causes a death spiral for pluralism everywhere it appears. Not great!

You can just put low calorie whip cream in diet root beer and have a yourself a little root beer float for like 50 calories

The Saudis have spent the past decade buying up all my hobbies. They're going to buy my run club next.

Michelob Non-Alcoholic beers still have the "Enjoy Responsibly" disclaimer. What do we need to be responsible about? Hyponatremia?

Sort of amazing how Substack is so successful despite having the worst UX in human history

My cousin is a professional baseball player, and my grandma posts "Is Joey playing tonight?" on Facebook when she means to Google it like once a week.

In the early 2000s every alt-rock band had a song about Superman. Now nobody sings about Superman. What happened?

I used to follow far right conspiracy stuff really closely, but I stopped because it's way more fun to learn about stuff like "Medbeds" from the president tweeting AI videos of himself.

They should invent marijuana that makes me feel the way it did when I was in highschool

Surprised Trump hasn't tried to fund the government by selling scammy commemorative coins on infomercials. He has basically unlimited authority to abuse seigniorage.

Child-safe lighters are a great product for adults, but they're useless for children. I'm going to create a lighter a child can operate, and corner the market for children's incendiary needs.

Costco Guys notifying the SEC they are at risk of failing to "Bring the Boom" on their 10-Q

Currently submitting to an external security audit conducted by auditors that do not understand the basics of active directory 👍.

Guy who carves "Anti-ICE" into a bunch of bullets, shoots at an ICE facility with unengraved ammo, and then leaves the engraved live ammo in the parking lot.

I love manually maintaining two identical policy repositories that are constantly audited against each other. This is something I definitely have the bandwidth for and has no negative effects on my mental health.