Ken

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

Drew Dalman retiring is very bad for the Bears, imo. A lot of fans were lowkey freaking out about the LT situation but there’s obvious precedence about how they would handle that. Dalman was a key to getting that offense to go and if he’s gone…I trust Ben Johnson but this is a challenge

All Bears podcast episodes are now obsolete

Tired: Friedman Unit
Wired: Trump Unit

This is a very weird thing to post because it never happened! Bernie Sanders wasn't in the Senate until 2007, and the AUMF passed 296-133 (including Sanders) in the House, and 77-23 in the Senate. He was part of a minority who voted against it yes but there were over 150 of them!

Good thread.

Feels like he turned into the upper class twit he always was playing

Right, like if Kamala was “doing a Warmonger Eras”, what do we call what Trump was doing

A shot of two bar charts. At the top is the text “Because I want this”. Below it is a bar chart titled “0%”. There is one bar labeled “Dubai”. Its bar reaches above 10% but below 0. The y axis is labeled 0 at the bottom, 10% at the middle, and again 0 at the top. Below that is some text that says “Not this”, and below that is a bar chart with a title of “Up to 55%”. There is a subtitle of “Top Marginal Tax Rate”. There are various countries listed in the chart with presumably their tax rates displayed. No anomalies in the chart jump out

What is going on in the top graph of this shot

0 -> 10 -> 0

Yeah Shemar went around where he was valued but I was still surprised because I thought there was more risk in his profile than Cincy could handle

But I guess there weren’t really any alternatives at the same level left, so…

Are you confusing him with the Charlie Kirk assassin? Because he was described as a capable marksman. I don’t recall anyone ever saying that the Trump assassin was known to be a good shot

I feel like his political positions and general attitude towards the national party forces him to draw from a worse talent pool but even still he has made bad decisions

I thought flushing things away was exactly what bidets didn’t do

GWBush

This is Wiley. He has never seen snow before and wants to make sure he gets a real good look at it. For science. 12/10 (IG: smileywileydog)

…is this real?

Did I block this from memory?

I deliberately remember him saying Islam was more violent than Christianity. He might have not liked either but he definitely was more afraid of Islam

I love that “Corolla-sized” means “approximately 2/3rds the size of a Corolla”

I gather from what I’ve heard about Tracey that they’re going with the “big nothingburger, distraction” idea. Basically “Russia Russia Russia”, again

I assume wil Wheaton’s ears are burning

100% chance that this discussion about college football contains complaints about the NFL kickoff rule

It's like #9989 on the list of stuff here but I like how he mentions she's a skier and then immediately uses "skate" as a metaphor for getting off easy

Instead of something skiing related

a man is dancing with the words `` no flag , no country '' written below him . Alt: A gif of Suzy Eddie Izzard performing standup; the caption reads `no flag , no country '

No sign, no neighborhood

Which, of course, does NOT mean the converse, I.e. “religion is good and we need more of it” is true either

But rather that many of our current problems are orthogonal to the presence of religion, and twisting that dial is not worth the time

“As we reduce the influence of religion in society everything will get better” seems to not be holding up under evidence

I was excited to see the New Atheists loudly and proudly identifying as Atheist, especially during the Bush 2 era; but seeing them then go on to confidently make obvious reasoning and observation mistakes made me realize that this was not, on the whole, something better

Yeah, there are some formulations of God that I can definitely say don’t exist. But the general question is pretty much by definition untestable, and my answer of “no” has no better reasoning than anyone else’s

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.

I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion

People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

Which is interesting because the obvious answer as to why the groups have that influence is “their ideas are convincing/correct”

And I would speculate that some might retort, “if their ideas are so good why don’t they have more money”

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically