stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.

centrists like to use terminology disputes as a proxy battle for actual policy fights, and engaging is often fruitless. if you don’t like the slogan use something else. but the agency needs to be hollowed out, every existing agent needs to be put on no-hire lists, and there need to be prosecutions.

Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.

Nuanced take: I think it's really important to give *normal citizens* who supported Trump and off-ramp and *professional writers, pundits and politicians* who supported Trump should have to wear it like a scarlet letter for the rest of their lives

Average Sunday show interview: OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats HOST: how will you pay for it? OFFICIAL: tariffs HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed HOST: thank u for ur time

I don’t get how they can fetishize meat this much and still make it look terrible. This dude eating a big ol plate of gristle.

Delighted this is so popular, but suddenly feeling remorse that it'll probably outdo the 60 panel comic about higher-dimensional geometry I'm working on.

The Ellison/Weiss CBS News of today would insist they couldn't platform Eisenhower without also platforming Göring and if anyone pointed out how ridiculous it was they'd talk about the importance of "open debate" and if you complained loudly enough they'd say "come debate that on my podcast"

This is a very, very good concise refutation of both the dishonest right and the grifty centrist people who make the temperature point.

“The video, which appears to be a video, contains people saying and doing things we can neither confirm nor deny which may or may not prove or disprove or neither previous claims made by various people we are a serious newspaper.”

I think being government-skeptical, like being pro-free-speech or any number of things, has been kind of ruined in the public eye by dishonest hacks.

No one who treated "wear a mask when you enter this store" as horrific tyranny actually believe in deference to state authority. It's Schmittian friend-enemy politics all the way down. "We" should be able to do whatever we feel like without consequence. "They" should be harassed, repressed, killed.

Big if true

Pretty sure Denmark has universal healthcare because they voted for it and pay higher taxes and accept other trade-offs for it, not because they‘re hoarding a magic healthcare tree, but that’s too complicated for the ballcap-selfie-in-car crowd.

“WHAT, YOU JUST FOUND OUT THIS IS BAD?” No, I did not. But perhaps it’s good to keep saying bad things are bad rather just accepting them as part of some sort of back-patting edge lord nihilism

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

All of those people who claimed to be desperately worried about mental health at the start of the pandemic seem to no longer care about mental health. It was obvious at that time that they did not care, and frankly, they never will. That little dip in deaths by suicide was in 2020.

When the LAPD arrests a dude at a gas station they don’t take over the gas station and use it to gas up all the cop cars tho

FYI: New Year resolutions don't begin until Monday Jan 5. You're allowed to maintain your bad habits for the rest of the weekend. I don't make the rules (actually, I did make this one, but my vow to stop making arbitrary rules doesn't kick in till Monday).

Boycotting Constitution Hall because the DAR won’t let Marian Anderson sing has costs. It may end opera. Is that worth it? By Megan McArdle, 1939

a lot of dumb dumbs at the Atlantic, but man, Caitlin Flanagan is on another level

ultimately a lot of these guys have the personality trait where they encounter dipshit bullying (which is what a lot of anti-masking sentiment is) and their natural reaction is to make sure the bully thinks they are cool and shouldn't get lumped in with the rejects and losers.

I need follow-ups to Christmas movies showing the reality a year later. Jack Frost paying taxes with no SSN. The family with 12 puppies who can’t afford vet bills. The woman who inherited a Christmas tree farm learning about property taxes. Where are THESE movies, Hallmark?

I think one of the defining things about our era and about conservativism, is an inability to distinguish between like, the actual government, and mid-level marketing managers at Target (who choose "happy holidays" to avoid leaving out non-Christian customers)

you can tell so much about people by whom they give the benefit of the doubt to

You Wouldn’t Download 60 Minutes

New Forbidden Course at Bari Weiss’s University of Austin: watching bootleg copies of 60 Minutes smuggled in from Canada

told my landlord he no longer has to apologize for being white and he lowered my rent by 25%. told the grocer it's now the trump kennedy center and he sold me potatoes for $1. told PG&E it's a christian nation now and electricity is free. try it sometime

Bari Weiss going from purported brave defender of free speech and open debate to chief censor of reporting about a federal concentration camp is so grimly hilarious

turning nazism into something that sounds like bland centrism is the culmination of the modern reactionary project

Everyone is twelve theory remains undefeated. Credit to @veryimportant.lawyer

Confidential to N.S.: live so that you never feel compelled to write a snide, defensive, multi-paragraph explanation of what an analogy is in order to refute people saying you’re a dipshit.

CBS should make me editor-in-chief and it will be 24 hours nonstop coverage about arcane menswear rules no one knows or cares about

Every “this 90s video game soundtrack did NOT have to go this hard” video essay fails to note President Clinton’s pledge that by the end of the decade, America would create a video game soundtrack that “goes extremely hard”

Bluesky is a nursing home for people who know what firewire is

My flight got pushed back. Any suggestions what I can do during the extra time?

Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted

washington post reporter code-switching on twitter and bluesky like a key & peele sketch

sitting next to a sweaty guy on a plane who just finished a workout at terminal 8 while wearing a shirt, tie, and suit

What will the children think if Bugs Bunny no longer strictly conforms to heterosexual masculinity

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

Tbf the learn to code people were the guys who had to pay the programmers, and they’ve gotten what they wanted. Now they are trying to get everyone to into trades to lower their HVAC bills

It feels like a large part of both culture and politics these days is people wondering “why don’t I feel the way I did when I was 12”

I’m not interested in Olivia Nuzzi’s book because I’m a human being with self respect and if I ever wanted to read dogshit writing about yearning despite having no real problems, I could just dig up poems I wrote in middle school

It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend

Like 30% of the country is absolutely enraged because they thought they were going to be able to be utter shitbirds without anyone being allowed to call them shitbirds, but here we are, calling them shitbirds.

can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport

you don’t understand, under Biden doordash was expensive