the whole thread, yes, but this is it in a nutshell. “Americans simply don’t want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country.”

equally bonkers is Luffy as a Christ-figure he’s every first-year philosophy major after one bong and holding court from a beanbag in the corner of his dorm room.

nailed it

This is a fair question (the answer is no) but I am begging people to just quickly check out U.S. Const. art. I, § 9, cl. 7 because it's really not about counting dollars.

Should one have to take out a loan every time the government grinds to a halt?

I’m always down for a story that gives me a glimmer of hope at the end. Let’s go.

You are all missing out on some next-level posting. For shame.

Hard to tell what evangelical denomination Kirk claimed when most (all?) appear to be claiming him. But I thought he was Calvary-affiliated (heavy Calvinist, like many a theobro). If so, they don’t play well with NAR-type (heavy charismatic) groups.

Charlie Kirk’s entire business model depended on exactly this. Without 1A protections, that entire sphere of influence would be untenable.

This is the correct question. Otherwise this is just rage-bait used to drive engagement, one step removed from “litter boxes in classrooms”-garbage.

“The Left needs their own Joe Rogan.” and time is a flat circle again

The man doesn’t miss

Doing that thing where I work out and feel sore and it’s wonderful/awful all the time. Gonna be healthy even if it kills me.

Cracked the code

Somehow, still not the Onion

This was his appeal to the evangelical right, in a nutshell. That and the obligatory trad wife-angle.

Elon Musk’s $1T pay package, if he eventually gets it, would exceed the GOP’s Medicaid cuts. It’s about $3,000 per American. It’s enough to buy all of the real estate in a number of states. It’s about the size of the annual Defense budget.

If the general principle here is that the federal government subsidizes higher ed activity and these innovations, I very much look forward to the period of forced nationalization of tech companies.

Do what now. (Pretty slick way to introduce collective ownership of the means of production, actually.) www.axios.com/2025/09/10/h...

I mean, we couldn’t regularly afford half and half during university. And then it just kinda stuck.

Cordelia Cupp is on the case

It’s all fun and games until someone summons the King in Yellow.

True now and true before 2007ish, but I’d argue that the Tea Party stuff in ‘07, then MAGA in 2015, really was the rise of a New-and-not-establishment-controlled-Thing. I feel like the Moral Majority tried to be a thing but it was co-opted pretty quickly.

Speaking as a non-economist, neither do we

If you’re a dad, please regularly tell your son you love him

This can only end well

I remember these! There were like 4 or 5 of these, randomly released. Pretty great at the time

Remarkable story in Mother Jones.. no wait. The Daily Beast. No, sorry. Slate? The New Republic? Let me just take a big sip from my brandy snifter and look at the URL… www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

The constitution explicitly bans bribery. It’s not like they had a big list; it’s only like three items.

Hey, @scottbraddock.bsky.social, longtime listener, first time poster. I know it’s a long shot but is there a neat thing to do in/around the Capitol with teenagers? We’re taking the tour, etc. but didn’t know there was anything especially neat and/or off the beat path

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

There’s some free tool that lays out network racks + patch panels and generates an image, right? I’ve been recreating the whole dang wheel all day.

Also define doxxed? Their names made public? Like the names of every police officer, teacher, judge, govt employee?

Colbert's show will end 20 years after he pissed off everybody in Washington by sticking it to Bush and the shitty DC press corps to their faces.

He’s right. Both my wife and I worked “manual labor” jobs after high school. Nothing better to motivate you to finish college, I say. It’s both noble and also not that great. Stay in school.

I'm not going to repost any of the insane antisemitic conspiracy bullshit that grok is spewing today, but it highlights how absolutely essentially is that we not let LLMs become a form of epistemic grounding for our society.

This entire thread has been great. If you've ever been even agriculture-adjacent, as I have been, it's hilarious. I've done just enough to know that it's not for me.

i'm an adult, doing adult stuff, at my adult job and then stuff happens and i'm 40-going on 15 again. cripes

what

He miraculously survived a head wound. The book isn’t clear about a lot of things except for that and IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED ON LIVE TV. Anyway.

Nature is amazing

spoken like a diehard White Sox fan

The Internet Archive has rolled out an extremely effective new tool for searching for old Geocities GIFs. I'd apologize for what I'm about to do to this website as a result, but that would be a lie, because I won't feel sorry at all gifcities.org

<thread> On the left: June 12, Judge Breyer writing that THE test for whether the US Marines/Guard violate Posse Comitatus will be whether they've engaged in "detaining" civilians. On the right: June 13: See for yourself. Note: The DoD has confirmed the detention of civilian to Reuters.

We’re two steps away from Fort Rommel, Camp Hirohito, & FOB Adolf. Beyond parody.

Or, OR, he’s going to lose this thing That’s right…I give my enemies no possible way to make me the fool

Great podcast: respectful of both listener and subject, great production, timely(!), and is ostensibly neutral. Worth a listen.

So many of the replies on this are just unfiltered wish projection.

That M language is kind of ok, actually.