nobody talks about red state regulatory dystopia

You can just say "George Bush did 9/11". You don't have to believe it. Just let the words roll off your tongue. It feels good to say doesn't it? Feels right.

This is also an argument in favor of harshly punishing information sources that get things wrong. If your source isn't exposed to negative feedback for incorrectness, find a new source. A Poster should be Followed based not on their best skeets, but by their worst.

The prospect of even a minor victory in mlps feels like a big Exhale moment for society. The world in which Decent People lose or stalemate that battle is much darker than the reality we live in.

Gaming doesn’t count as screen time. Gaming is books. Unless it’s on your phone - that is screen time. Movies are books unless they are Marvel, who produce screen time. Television is screen time.

all men who believe in freedom are my brothers :)

This is the correct take that a shockingly small number of people actually try to engage with.

Reality is kind of like nature's escape room

ICE does not know who they are dealing with.

This is the attitude that defines Great Cities

This take and the takes dunking on it are pointing at the wrong target. The war isn't on rural America, it's on exurban and large swaths of suburban America.

You expect heteroflexible people to care about impending doom?

Benson Goon

Think about going by Big Tom in 2026

Spent 20 minutes failing to get ChatGPT to fall for deez nutz and laughed hysterically while it politely tried to exit a conversation it was clearly bored of and I think that's the most Bilbo-coded thing I've done in my entire life.

The fact that the US has a bimodal density distribution where one of the modes is just New York urban center is crazy

This is a great point from @seattlebikeblog.com that I hadn't considered before. It makes Harrell's decision to cancel the Lake Washington Blvd safety improvements seem especially disastrous in retrospect. www.seattlebikeblog.com/2025/11/11/t...

Sometimes doing the wrong thing is a necessary step in doing the right thing

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.

Jesus. "the maximum capability density of open-source LLMs doubles approximately every 3.5 months" www.nature.com/articles/s42...

I like both Parks & Rec and 30 Rock. 30 Rock is a slightly better show on the whole, mostly because it's more consistently funny. I don't give a shit how many followers I lose for standing on my truth. Fuck off cowards.

Is Seattle really going to be the election that lets me down?

the future of the democratic party is a coalition of the wokest people on tumblr and absolutely dead-eyed pursuers of the national interest and the maximization of GDP

the political media is a type of self-serious entertainment designed to parse rhetoric as though it is policy while taking no position on matters of actual public concern, because to do that would alienate some of those entertained by the gossip.

"Do you actually believe that or are you just doing a bit right now?"

An upside of AI videos is that they make it real easy to identify current event "commentators" who don't give a shit if what they share is true or not.

My religion is hanging out and crushing brewskis

Seattle now has Back-to-Back Science World Championships apnews.com/article/nobe...

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No matter how I'm doing on an absolute level, I always feel like I'm at the bottom of an equally deep hole of failure.

You fucking people make me happy

The dunks on this its desperation for legitimacy and advocating for conservative DEI are correct, but there's also the problem that there aren't any insightful conservatives, outside of maybe niche subjects unrelated to conservatism.

The night is dark and full of terrors and it gives us something to do

Donald Trump is a feebleminded, frail old bigot with no redeeming qualities, who is unsuited for any office, let alone the presidency. I am superior to him in every respect, as is every person I’ve ever met. Anyone who treats him as a model of virility or statesmanship ought to be laughed at.

God... the last thing this country needs right now is for someone to buy a bunch of stickers of Charlie Kirk's face and start putting them in urinals. Can you even imagine?

"Space" is such an existentially terrifying name for it.

A major thing the "echo chamber" discourse misses is that The Right just doesn't have any insights that can be engaged with on any meaningful level. The coherent aspects of their worldview are bad and dumb, and the aspects that try to engage with the real world are incoherent.

What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart

But we also shouldn’t get too metaphysical or abstract with it: there is a well-funded and powerful political movement that has a fundamentally different attitude towards the permissibility of lying, and they despise consensus reality because their core beliefs about the world are incorrect

The Singularity is best thought about in terms of our ability to predict what the future looks like, and the shrinking time horizon around that, instead of in terms of the rate of technological progress.

One must imagine Milhouse's Dad happy

Gonna start reappropriating the term 'Degeneracy Pressure' to refer to the urge I get to bet on the Little League World Series

the fact that I have a specific set of obligations to my employer, and they have a specific set of obligations to me, puts bounds on that relationship that make it much easier to navigate than if I was doing "stuff" for "the community" in exchange for "membership"

Tangentially related, but it's severely underrated how funny it was when Miami made a play to attract West Coast tech and managed to only attract the worst of the crypto companies, who mostly went belly up within 2 years.

Boy based on the comments in response to this, my sense of awe and fascination towards AI/LLMs is my opinion that diverges most starkly from my ideological peers.