“We’ve bombed 38 bajillion targets!!!” Okay. Is Hormuz open? No? Then who gives a fuck.

Well, I am not sure what my analysis here is worth, but here is my 7,500 word primal scream of a military historian's take on the War in Iran. My best summary: this war is dumb as hell. acoup.blog/2026/03/25/m...

every comment section needs at least one guy just fucking losing it for no reason

If you look at the thread of people replying to the @aselrod.bsky.social “Lenin is bad” post, many of them are under the impression that Lenin overthrew the czar, when Lenin famously did not travel to Russia until after the czar abdicated

We’ve told all the casting agents that the Weird Al biopic sequel is currently on hold, but they just keep sending in headshots.

Thank you Mr President

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what if we build a Waffle House on either side of the Strait of Hormuz and get that FEMA guy to teleport the oil

this is 100% true and it's largely a Keynesian beauty contest of high-engagement politics sickos trying to imagine what will win over the absolute cretins they imagine low-info swing voters to be

good news everyone, I just saw an infographic saying that a handful of big companies are responsible for most of the world's carbon emissions, so this oil price thing isn't going to affect most of us

Socrates was opposed to reading and spent all his time starting arguments with people, he would have loved it here

lmao the eurovision mascot is so ugly I literally screamed at this reveal

I get why people like to dunk on NYT headlines but most of the people replying to this seem literally incapable of parsing what’s being conveyed by the screenshotted text

The Essence of Decision

> Another bizarre angle NE take is emphasizing Douglass’s stated view that the Constitution was an abolitionist document. They’re doing the thing where someone says “America is better than this” and you go “um, actually, America ISN’T better than this”

“saying slurs but leftishly” continues to drive discourse on this app

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

TUCKER: Mr. President, why did you launch this invasion as if Iran posed an imminent threat to America? TRUMP: Tucker, you were a historian, yes? I will take a minute of your time to give you some brief background here. Let us begin with the Rashidun invasion of the Sasanians by Caliph Umar in 542—

Tonight other dumb napkin cartoon…

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.

this is the trump guy urtext

It’s time to heal 🙏

In retrospect this might have been a mistake

Seems bad

Finally, a beer that is not woke

I think Bari is going to different people with different extremely stupid ideas to try to catch leakers

The earliest known example of ‘brain rot’ comes from Henry David Thoreau in his 1854 book “Walden.” “While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?”

>young, telegenic veteran >affiliated with Bernie Sanders >says they regret past homophobic comments >running against the establishment anyone know what Tulsi Gabbard is up to these days?

I did! A good paper, but an even more essential one is Gambetta/Origgi on Italian academia and the preference for low-quality work. Literally everybody I know who has read this and has experience in China has remarked on how useful it is. diegogambetta.org/wp-content/u...

Frankly I’m starting to think we need Pigouvian taxes on video games due to the negative externality of Gamers

Slavery analogy aside, the idea of a progressive tax code is that more tax burden falls on those with the means to pay it. A family with children has less disposable income than a single person with the same income and should be taxed at a lower rate.

“LLMs can’t replace humans because they just regurgitate things they’ve stolen with no critical thought. Also every query uses a gallon of water.”

Driving my stretch Hummer guilt-free because it’s Shell’s fault for selling me the gas.

April Fool’s

Thank you Mr President

JD Vance inspires me to eat healthy and work out because I want to live long enough to piss on his grave.

I think it’s less that US debt is seen as riskier (default) as there is a strong desire to diversify away from exposure to the US economy and the dollar.

This is an excellent piece that I believe I can summarize below.

For no particular reason, reminder that the declassified CIA setlist of music played over loudspeaker at Noriega's mansion includes Never Gonna Give You Up, and the fact this was just two years after the song started in the US means Noriega is one of the first people to be rickrolled unwillingly

a thing that is a constant struggle is not letting myself get negatively polarized because some asshole on bluesky or twitter has a large following of tens of thousands of people saying something stupid — tens of thousands of people is still a rounding error compared to the population

This doesn’t even account for all the people who are being allowed to pursue their various pet projects unsupervised. Like the Middle East hawks are still trying to start a war with Iran and no one is in charge to say no.

Kevin Hassett is right. Dow 36k is totally possible.

ChatGPT ass presidency