This round trip ( LAS to Long Beach) was $120 in January

how could we know this very obvious grift is grift? well we'd better ask someone

Look, whatever happened was Jerry’s fault

It’s a spicy take but I do find it interesting how a subset of posters will lecture about always supporting unions with one very particular exception

Okay but they should not be doing that.

Enhance

I want off this ride

The thing about this is that people absolutely do not have fixed or very thought out ideas and you should absolutely not base your political strategies on public opinion issue polls.

Pet Peeve: “apps” that are web browser windows

Audience Capture is Real and Strong

i don't think this slush fund settlement can possibly be an official act by Trump because it's a settlement with him. if it's an official act he's both parties to the settlement

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

Grogu has announced he will be stepping away from acting for a while to pursue other opportunities. He's not retiring, just taking a break from movies and tv shows. A source close to his camp says he has offers for a broadway production of Mando.

This one is wild because hantavirus absolutely isn’t Covid and unless you’re huffing rat shit you’re fine

I see the Pirates are back

Virgo: No matter how many times you wake up sealed in a crate, never give up on online dating.

Trump take lube

What is galling about this is that it was obvious to anyone who paid attention he was lying, but the media refused to call it that or punish him for lying. Instead it got “Dems Say So, Trump Sys No — who could know 🤷🤷🤷”

Statehood for DC should be a baseline position and priority in 28

I dislike that I have become someone with a “start of week - process audit” and a “close of week process audit” 🙃

just explicit self dealing

God she’s a piece of trash

The problem with Haidt is that he arrives at the start of inquiry with not just a theory of the case, but end state idea that he simply tells a story to retrospectively explain. Like, Haidt did not start with a premise that “maybe social media is doing X” — he decided it and built an explanation.

I regret this

I think any argument for market socialism needs to begin not with the failure of alternatives but with planned guardrails against its own fail state: markets expanding the share of life they govern, dissolving social relations and alternatives, etc. as they tend to do

Anyway a thing about Guys like Haidt is that they’re trying to sell books. I don’t think he’s quite the Charlatan that Gladwell is, but he deffo fakes rigor and isn’t a developmental psychologist, at all.

JD, you’re not in the WH right now

The good taxpayers of New York have given me a pair of Meta glasses because I am low vision disabled, and I seem to have used them more than a lot of people on here, so let me say a little about my experiences:

I had not looked in a hot minute but @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social they want *what* for a 2-door wrangler with cloth seats?????

The worlds largest power stations are hydro and solar. The largest operational gas powered station is Dubai’s massivelJebel Ali station, and it’s at like 8.7 gw.

Idea— no districts. House reps are elected on statewide maps proportionally

this is pretty much the best argument for regulating them that normies and power brokers will buy and it's exactly the one dems are going to envoke because the casinos who run sports books hate them and that will be a price both ccm and rosen demand

HOI4 is introducing election mechanics. woke nonsense.

As a comparison— 2022 they had about 500k

WV had its primaries Tuesday and only had 250,755 (out of 1,198,933 registered) voters. Fuckin yikes man.

I’m going to skip by the particular coding/AI part of this to say “what the fuck” about the “treatlerite level of convenience hasn’t made anyone feel happier only more lonely” ????????? ?????????

Really think people need to understand that while institutions and organizations have cultures and structures, they don’t for the most part have agency in the way a whole lot of people seem to ascribe

Tbh I think this particular thinking is more revealing about how people view agency and power.

The alt rock guy has fashion takes huh

Picture it, Sicily 2152 — you are the nonbinary second officer of a starship, do you go by sir?

FWIW, I don’t really care about the “no income tax on first 100k” or whatever. The actual fiscal impact is relatively small — and people won’t see it all at once anyway; I’m much more open to the rhetorical question about civic virtue but that’s a losing political argument

Well no, cryogenic suspension probably solves this

Anyway don’t look at cross tabs.

If you send this in an email, I hate you

JUST LOOKING FOR HOLES IN HIS EYELIDS