at least now countries subjected to imf nonsense know we actually believe all that austerity bullshit, as we are now demonstrating like some inexperienced escape artist drowning themselves

baby has been eating so well recently it makes me so proud

trump is really turning a big dial that says "tariffs" on it and ignoring screams from the audience like a contestant on the price is right

there is no significant ideologically liberal population in this country. the democrats are a center right party representing the interests of the urban educated professional class

it's just natural economic forces that make labor intensive goods like housing cost way more than highly efficient goods like software. one necessary part of the solution to the housing problem is to make construction more labor efficient

the uk is just not a serious country

a lot of ai maximalists view themselves as Big Ideas people. their great obstacle in life is the creatives who refuse to quickly and cheaply create their vision.

this might be the first recession created solely by excessive layoffs from incompetent executives

look i don't mean to rain on your parade but you don't need a nefarious evil to explain why people are ignorant and hateful. it's the default state of humans and the one they will return to just as soon as any force contrary abates

one of the reasons queer people tend to extremes is that coming out is a microcosm of the broader minority experience of polite liberals meaning nothing they say.

if nothing else the utter recklessness, ignorance, and incompetence of the current admin's government shredding tells me they have no idea how fragile and vulnerable they really are

it is abundantly clear that europe needs to remilitarize. it's totally unclear whether it can

i cannot fathom why it struggled more with 10x10 than 11x10 or why which digit is first seems to matter

something deeply reassuring about seeing accounts i respect getting into fights with accounts that have blocked me

enormously tired of liberals mocking trump and elon by implying they're gay, kinky, making fun of how they look, and on and on. so many people are bigots looking for an excuse

i am begging right wingers to realize foreign aid is indirect support of our defense industry

i'm fairly sure that large corporations are sufficiently insulated from reality they could replace their entire software engineering staff with ai and not notice the problem for years

i keep hearing that critical thinking and truth are in danger but i'm not convinced there ever was such a time that they existed

it's boring, but the biggest danger the new admin poses isn't that they'll destroy democracy, it's that they'll torpedo the bond markets and send the world into a depression

i dunno if it is possible to describe the total, incandescent love i have for my child. it's actually really weird, phenomenologically speaking.

anyway, made whole branzinis with potatoes and olives

watching elon have to learn by direct experience that wading into politics would not make him beloved has convinced me that wealth is actually harmful to midwits

one common error is leftists assuming their level of acceptable ideological discord is similar to that of rightists

so $900/hr for this model. just a little more expensive than people. add on what investors expect for margins in tech (~75%) and we're up to a very normal $1600/hr

imagine being so insecure that you need to believe you are in the top 80,000 people in the world lmao

seems europeans missed that the "spend what you're supposed to on defense" was the american position of eight years ago. that deal is gone already. that's not a valid bargaining chip when america now feels that the anti-deterrent effect of european non-spending has already come due

warnings from teachers that kids don't read and have their essays written by bots will always summon to my mind the letter written by an old monk complaining that the kids don't study and can barely read latin anymore.

sometimes i think people forget that the goal is social mobility

generally i think it's reasonable to expect a better argument than "shut up" from people who dedicate their lives to the aesthetic

honestly wild that trump can slap these lawmakers around and he's not even president

fully expect trump to engineer a government shutdown, then say it was not a big deal because many civil servants kept working without pay

the older i get the more people who date and marry significantly younger seem like aliens

i get the point but america has been really, profoundly corrupt for a long time in incredibly visible ways. most everyone outside of the pmc is keenly aware of how much the wheels are greased. inside, they think it's just how things are done and don't call it corruption till it burns them

canadian government collapsing and yet the ndp still won't vote trudeau out. seems like a deep lack of faith in leftism is common in leftist politicians throughout the west. if you don't believe you can win, what are you doing?

sometimes you can really feel how much they meant that the election was about saving democracy

i will always be against the people who want to turn online life into a self-conscious, clout-seeking, profit-making endeavor

honestly this response is so american she should get immediate citizenship

weird to see left leaning people idolize a past where working class prosperity rested on unsustainable destruction of environment, race and sex discrimination, dirty industrial jobs, the huge destruction of world wars, and massive growth in government debt

i'm kind of amused by people complaining about windows getting shittier like it isn't already the worst os with multiple alternatives

in politics, hate is like energy. it cannot be created or destroyed, only changed from one form to another

i continue to believe the future is in small teams with focused projects that refuse to grow into a "company"

i sometimes wonder if extremists recognize that calling a genuinely moderate position far-something is purely for internal ideological signalling and actively improves the general opinion of people who may well hold Wrong views

bluntly, it's because the vast majority of people don't believe the evidence, regard data with suspicion, and believe their own intuition whenever they are not actively and immediately punished for doing so

it's some type of indictment that even the right wing loonies were able to throw together a social media when they threw a tantum, but the left hasn't managed it

you can very much say that political violence is wrong but also admit there are levels of corporate malfeasance that should be considered fighting words

polemics never use real dollars

highly successful white bean pasta with a butter wine sauce

i think we have now crossed the disorder rubicon. by that i mean it will now take more than words to reassert an internationalist order. that lacking such a "more", the default course will be more regional wars and boundary revisions i also don't think anyone is willing to do that "more"

if you don't understand a civil war, watch which way people flee

the solution to shibboleth democracy and increasing access to the median voter is to insist that your civilization is collapsing