GLP-1s are an effective treatment for mitigating poaster’s madness, but y’all aren’t ready for that conversation.

A16Z group chats: not even once.

I agree with this post in spirit, but onions are a particularly funny example because onions are subject to unique government prohibitions on what you can do with them-futures trading is banned. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_F...

I figured out how to fix the vacuum cleaner.

when I say things like "this is downstream of Toronto not trying to win the World Series" people jump into my replies and say the Blue Jays played well, and the answer to that is: not according to the scoreboard

Fun factoid: due to the Supreme Court’s verdict in Giboney v Empire Storage & Ice co. , participation in an A16Z group chat is not protected speech under the First Amendment.

What’s the proper etiquette for a tattoo artist who isn’t responding as fast as you would like if you want to maybe switch to a different artist at their store instead?

Bro, I’m not trying pull a Palpatine here, but, dude, you really just gotta let the hate flow through you, man. Know what I mean?

The question is what happens if/when SCOTUS rules the California gerrymander illegal. Does CA just use the new maps anyways? That could get to some interesting issues with the house deciding on the qualifications of its members.

*guy (gender neutral) posting a picture of the most mouthwatering dish you’ve ever seen* “Well, I’m not happy with how it looks, and I didn’t nail the texture, but at least it tastes ok.” I swear, some of y’all are feldspar-knowers, only with cooking.

yeah, this is actually worse than the charlie kirk thing

(Guy who is going through some nasty tooth pain) man, I could sure go for some cocaine right now.

This post is 12 hours hold, which means “Thick Dick Rick and the Husky Boys” has been rattling around my head for 12 hours.

3rd ranked mini golf course in North Myrtle Beach-ass sense of aesthetics.

The local Thai spot that managed to go from 2019 to 2026 with only marginal price increases finally fell to inflationary pressures. Most items on the menu now up 30-60% from the start of the year.

Does everyone else also reset their Balatro runs until they get a decent tag on the first small blind, or is that considered unsporting or something?

Virginia is for haters (laudatory)

CO2 concentrations below 350 ppm.

Police across the country somewhat regularly assassinate critics, investigative reporters, and activists.

I was only on Ascension 2, so YMMV, but it seems like a shiv deck, if it comes together, is absolutely nuts. Fan of Knives gives you elite AOE, and the card that replays your exhausted shivs is just a nuke.

2 Kings 2:23 isn’t really that obscure imo.

Land, sol ring, signet, go.

The switch in Time Stops by Explosions in the Sky. 4:46 youtu.be/BhBo0YZQAAQ

"Is the marginal utility of money increasing or decreasing?" - the greatest thread in the history of Bsky, locked by a moderator after 12,239 skeets of heated debate,

If you understand this post, this is your reminder to get a colon cancer screening.

lol, got my wee joker up to 1776 chips before beating the final boss blind. Yay Abandoned Deck.

I’ve been fond of Barkley ever since elementary school when I had a friend who was a big fan and was visited by Sir Charles in the hospital when he had open heart surgery, so stuff like this is extra nice to see.

There’s actually a whole area of study in welfare economics that deals with this: theory of the second best. If certain activities have negative externalities the socially optimal outcome can be to throw some sand in the gears without wholesale abolition. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_...

Feel like I have a lot of lawyer moots, so, boost?

Alright, gonna try this slay the spire sequel thing. Wish me luck, hopefully I don’t perish of malnutrition.

So, I’m going to be driving about 20 hours in the near future, what podcasts should I binge? I’m all caught up on Normal Men, Patrick Wymann, and Mike Duncan’s stuff.

Road trip coming up so I’m buying oil etfs to hedge against further gas price spikes, like airlines buying jet fuel futures. (This is a joke, please don’t do this)

Supply and demand being mom/that harpy in HR coded because it ends up being a constraint on the ability to just run hog wild and break shit makes perfect sense in retrospect, but I have to admit I didn’t see it coming.

Mines in the Strait of Hormuz was featured in a Far Side comic, FWIW. Not exactly the most obscure of possibilities.

Bluesky (laudatory)

Ok, but hear me out. The ability to distinguish between good and bad sources of information, or to otherwise put yourself in a good information environment, is a necessary skill to have in order to be a good parent.

I don’t think Israel ”controls” our foreign policy in a conspiratorial sense, but I don’t think it’s just another state either. I think our FP elite have come to implicitly see it as essentially an autonomous province of the American Empire, like the dominions under the British Empire

I continue to have the strong conviction that I would come out of a Choitner interview looking just fine, thank you, and no level of hacks getting aethered will change my mind.

@3cblue.bsky.social can you open your DMs? I can’t message you even though I’m following. CC @proptermalone.bsky.social

This is what people mean when they talk about negativity bias on bsky. Good news struggles to break through the noise.

Fish don’t realize that they are swimming in water, and reactionaries don’t realize they are swimming in successful prog cultural sculpting imposed from the top down.

The Joker, becoming etc.

Me, complaining about there being turtles on the arctic continent of Northrend in Wrath of the Lich King.

*finally* beat jokerless. They key was pretty straightforward: open a polychrome red seal ace in an early pack, then just duplicate to your heart’s content. By the final boss I had 9 mult polychrome red seal aces, top scoring hand of 6 million something. Only 2 total sicko achievements left.

Not regretting my anti-Ring stance so far.

In that case, I can’t guarantee that me and a million of my closest friends won’t be taking a day off work on a Tuesday in November in order to give some brownshirt fucks headaches.

liquidating 100% of my Bitcoin holdings just so I can feel like another snowflake contributing to an avalanche.

Can’t believe they are letting Kamala announce that there’s another Bridgerton prequel series coming out next year.

Fireflies, Owl City. It’s not the worst song, but the first time I hear it I briefly got so excited because I thought The Postal Service had dropped a new song, followed by melancholy because clearly they were just phoning it in now, then anger that someone was blatantly ripping them off.

New season of Bridgerton is good (turns out smutty Downton Abbey is compelling TV) but I can help but feel like the main plot is a little derivative, for some reason.