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08.08.2025 02:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Probably because of SEC expansion.

03.08.2025 12:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's like he heard you being confident in the numbers the other day and decided to specifically destroy your confidence.

01.08.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

[watching a video online where a step-mother gets stuck in a dryer]

me: this happened to winnie the pooh once

[47 second later]

me: but this…did not

31.07.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I grabbed two library books based on stuff I read here, bought another, and subscribed to The Onion.

31.07.2025 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm gonna use this to make episodes of Bluey that teach kids how to form a union and collectively bargain.

Then I'll make episodes of that Amazon Lord of the Rings show where they find out the actual evil isn't the One Ring, it's Jeff Bezos- who can be destroyed in the same way the One Ring was.

30.07.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I generally agree, but they have had 4 years to develop plans on what they'd do if they returned to power. They are executing- to varying degrees of success- the plans they wrote down.

I remain mostly confident in the current numbers, but that confidence will diminish over time.

30.07.2025 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What's truly astounding- impressive, in a way- is that it wasn't 454 distinct jokes. It was the same joke told 454 times. And he got paid handsomely for this.

30.07.2025 02:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Very excited for this to happen and you to talk yourself into it.

29.07.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So they've heard about Geert, then.

29.07.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I thought the 17% figure sounded wrong, so I looked it up. The release is just poorly worded- the actual data is that 17% of buyers pay $1k+ per month as loan payment, not a 17% interest rate.

Interest rates on vehicles are at about 7%. Still high, but not 17%.

29.07.2025 02:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This entire company is run by people who read the Coke/New Coke case study in business school and thought "That could be me some day."

29.07.2025 01:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

1. Joe Biden want to end cancer.
2. Joe Biden bad guy.
3. Cancer good guy!
4. We help cancer now.

26.07.2025 23:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@carrieraisler.bsky.social Saw this earlier and immediately thought "Does Carrie know about this?!!?"

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26.07.2025 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

[CROWD BOOING]

24.07.2025 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Das Kapital 2: It's gon' get UGLY

24.07.2025 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

They teach extremely little about US labor history (I guarantee you nearly 100% of high school grads won't know Mother Jones or anything about West Virginia's miners).

When labor history is taught, it's poorly (like civil rights)- some nice marches and then the benevolent leaders gave new rights.

22.07.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

First you will buy some berries, and they will be consumed within a day. So the next time you play it smart and buy two or three times as many berries, and they eat none of them. This cycle repeats constantly.

20.07.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Very cool for Dame and Portland that this worked out.

17.07.2025 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Agreed! Same goes for TV, movie, book, and podcast snobs. Let people like the media they like!

17.07.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Still a banger. And "Can't pay my rent cuz all my money spent" is like an urban millennial anthem.

17.07.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If we had an actual, functioning government that cared about the people they represent, this shit would be squashed immediately.

Instead we're going to get charged extra if we are flying because of a death in the family or medical emergency or something, because the algorithm says you'll pay more.

17.07.2025 01:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This would be the first cool thing he's ever done.

Which means it's probably bullshit.

16.07.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Crazy that those same exclusive institutions kept somehow churning out right wingers despite the relentless indoctrination from the all-powerful uber-communist professors.

16.07.2025 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Please stop, I can only get so excited.

(I am a longtime personal finance/budget dork.)

And congrats on the new job!

16.07.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I had the best Szechuan food I've ever had at a place near a major college campus. Just a tremendous side benefit of American colleges being a huge international draw.

16.07.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Damn. Beal on that contract, and having given up nothing to get him, is a steal.

And this prompts me to reiterate: It always- 100% of the time- leads to hilarious results when a team owner decides to make all the basketball decisions.

16.07.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You're right, a lot of future "movers and shakers" went to elite schools. Let's list some of these young minds, shaped by "far left" faculty:
Samuel Alito- Yale
Neil Gorsuch- Harvard
Bret Kavanaugh- Yale
John Roberts- Harvard
Clarence Thomas- Yale
JD Vance- Yale
Ted Cruz- Harvard

16.07.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

R/Survivor has always had garbage ass opinions. They refuse to enjoy anything about a show they supposedly love.

16.07.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I like using the other sports as a fun buildup to my favorite (track), so this disappoints me!

16.07.2025 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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