Streeck bekommt viel Haue für die Aussagen, aber ich stimme ihm in einer Sache zu: Ich finde auch, dass teure Medikamente für seinen längst verstorbenen Vater absolute Geldverschwendung sind. Und dann die Kosten für den Minibagger, um ihn für jede Anwendung zu exhumieren...

We're now as far removed from the release date of SILENT HILL 3 as SILENT HILL 3 was removed from the release of FROGGER.

Wir haben in all unseren Ländern buchstäbliche "Ausländer raus"-Nazis an den Schalthebeln und eine komplett fehlende Bereitschaft, das so klar und deutlich zu sagen.

Love was never meant to be such a crazy affair and who has time for tears?

Also "You're Not Here". Every few months I catch myself singing this under my breath (I'm a perpetual "singing under my breath" guy). Psychological horror game delivering one of the catchiest songs? Why not. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukum...

I worry about everything all the time and I live in a society that has monetized that, and this is why I am constantly just one intrusive thought from actually running away into the woods never to be seen again.

sex is great but have you ever had someone absolve you of a life-sucking anxiety using data?

Part 2 will always be the better game, but Part 3 absolutely has one of the greatest soundtracks in video game history. Just banger after banger. www.youtube.com/watch?v=enHm...

Noice. Somebody has brought this back to YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xap6...

I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power

Zwischen den Epstein-Enthüllungen und dem hier komme ich immer wieder zu "the rich are a different species" zurück.

Class solidarity is real, at least if you're upperest upper class.

kelly has a daughter around 14, in case you need another reason to puke.

Same with Gunn's SUPERMAN. Whichever problems I had with it, I like that Gunn (unlike Zack Snyder) understands that Kal-El's earnestness is what makes him endearing. I'm absolutely over "irony-poisoned everything". We've had a good 40 years of that now and look where it got us.

Good day later and DISPATCH doesn't quite avoid the pervasive "therapy speak" that is making the round, but what stuck with me is that it had a ton of really sweet little moments and at this point, I'm totally for that in the fiction I consume.

You knew it was coming and here it is..

Söder begründet die Senkung der Luftverkehrsteuer in der Pressekonferenz folgendermaßen: „Ein klares Signal, dass Fliegen in Deutschland wettbewerbsfähig in, vor allem im Binnenbereich.“ Der Wettbewerb besteht im „Binnenbereich“ vor allem mit der Bahn.

Einmal mehr, wie Leute beim Twitter-Kauf erzählt haben, Elon Musk tue das, weil er aus der Familiengeschichte in Südafrika (wo sie gegen das Regime schwarze Freunde hatten) wisse, wie wichtig es sei, dass alle Menschen sich frei äußern können.

Once again: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Isn't it also kinda clear by now that this little clique of super rich predatory men is in fact behind like a ton of articles like this

The things that are being done - in the US, in Europe - in the name of "immigration control" are just plain evil. I know it's a loaded term, but I really think it's necessary to use that kind of clear language. This is evil.

You think it's over, but the penny - like a bad penny ...

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

Ich hab mir jeweils das Abo für DC Infinite und Marvel Unlimited zugelegt. Gebt mal Empfehlungen für Serien oder Miniserien, die ich lesen sollte.

[redacted: Gymnasiallehrkraft. Leistungskurs(!) Wirtschaft(!!)]

Ehrlich, dass niemand hier erwartet, dass es 2025 auch nur einen Politiker gibt, der die ganze Tranche an Epstein-Dokumenten einfach Daniel-Ellsberg-Style leaken würde, ist auch 'ne Anklageschrift gegen den ganzen Politbetrieb.

is it good news or bad news that we have a president 39 points down on "covering up publicly-known sex crimes"

I think it's really bad for our souls to just have these monstrous crimes as the white noise of our era, like a clip from Woodstock to establish something takes place in the 60s

As it turned out, Biden was actually Ford without a Nixon. Yes he got elected in, but he pretended to be caretaker when his primary task was to smooth over the wrinkles and try to return to normalcy whatever that is.

Wir haben auch über Jahre hinweg "nicht Intelligenzschämen" und "nicht bildungsschämen" so weit getrieben, das einige Leute jetzt nicht in der Lage sind auszudrücken, dass all diese superreichen Mistkerle in den E-Mails einfach alle komplette Volldeppen sind. Zehn Meter Feldweg maximal.

WHICH PROFESSION, MOTHERFUCKER?

Eine "soll ich dir ein Bild mit Trump und Bikinimädchen in meiner Küche schicken"-E-Mail an einen NYT-Reporter. AN. EINEN. NYT. REPORTER. Und nichts. Nada. Niente. Zip. Wie soll man da nicht seinen Verstand verlieren?

You should really read this, John. The man's failure to meet the moment is beyond comprehension.

Und, wie gestern schon geschrieben: Da ist auch *das* hier. Biden und Garland haben entschieden, das alles auf sich beruhen zu lassen. Selbst wenn keine Verschwörung dahinter steckt, sollten sie gezwungen werden, sich zu rechtfertigen!

Kühne spendiert - teilweise! - einen Opernneubau in Hamburg, weil ihm das gefällt, und allen voran die dauerregierende SPD applaudiert. Kultur darf gerne was kosten, aber korrekt wäre: Wir besteuern Reiche, u.a. Kühne, nachhaltig und die Allgemeinheit entscheidet, wie die Mittel eingesetzt werden.

Ich hab die Warnung gesehen, dass diese Art von Kritik ("das System") potentiell konspirativ ist und dann ganz schnell wieder bei "wer sind denn (((die))) hinter dem System?" endet. Fair. Ich gehe davon aus, das meine TL mich da ehrlich hält... Aber... aber...

Well, he's certainly stayed consistent on that point!

Streeck hat in der Pandemie gezeigt, wofür er steht. Dafür hat ihn die CDU befördert und jetzt liefert er, was bestellt wurde...

Lutnick is the current Secretary of Commerce and Epstein sent this email three months before he died.

Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."

ME FOR THE LAST EIGHT YEARS: look, i know it's a useful shorthand, but i don't think there's any such thing as a literal "epstein list" in the sense of a list of names JEFFREY EPSTEIN, IN AN EMAIL TO HIMSELF:

It would be a very bad idea to make a movie about the Epstein thing for about a hundred different reasons, but it's very, very important to emphasize that a faithful adaptation would look a lot more like Burn After Reading than a normal spy movie

Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????

there's only a couple of mentions of sulz but they sure are rich texts

Das ganze System ist darauf ausgerichtet, das einflussreiche Personen (gerade Männer) mit allem davon kommen und Biden hat im Umgang mit dem Epstein-Material entschieden, dass das genau so bleiben soll. Bedrückend, dass selbst mit diesen Mails auch so bleiben wird.

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

the reason you are all confused by how poorly written all of these emails are is that all of you have, at some point, had a boss who would have fired you for grammar and punctuation this poor, none of these people ever did

Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.

I'd look at it a little differently: Fetterman's one of the many elites microwaving their brains on sites like this; ergo, they massively overindex on "mean lefties being mean to me" in ways that genuinely influence policy. It explains where we are. The real ask is that they should log off.