Zak Berrie

Based take.

The optics can really vary. Not that that accounts of all differences.

I really notice the difference when sailing between the $20 pair and the $200 pair.

Every election since 2016 has been rough.

Yup. The “wingnut welfare” system has served them very well.

We should not support our partisans?

I’ve been remote since 2006 or so with periodic meetups with team and clients. Such a better way to work. Don’t waste time with commuting or the watercooler.

Yup. It’s going to be vaccine tourism and getting our US affairs in order.

Please do.

I just think that in a few years “Joe Rogan of the Left” is going to sound as silly as “Rush Limbaugh of the Left.” Or “Father Coughlin of the Left” It’s a category error.

We’ll never have our own Father Coughlin, but we might have another FDR.

Maybe spreading bullshit all day to sell scammy supplements just isn’t the same business on the left.

Maybe that’s not something to be upset about.

Of course. It’s just happened so many times now. Almost like my sense of “F that candidate” is my best ability to predict the outcome of the primary.

I have now worked in the general for three candidates that I’ve said I’d never support in the primary.

I think it’s just anyone using modern attention politics to oppose Trump would get notice.

And people are eating it up.

Came here to say this.

Apparently you can construct sentences that are normal sounding in both Frisian and English.

Larry Ellison is a truly awful human being. He’s managed to dodge a lot of the billionaire hate but that’s not because of anything better about him.

His kids obviously never need to work, so why media? It’s pretty clear they want to be the next Murdochs.

Mass expulsions to “prevent a famine” are next.

Okay but the Feast of Seven Fishes.

Pizza as we understand it today was invented in NYC or just maybe in Boston.

Yeah. Damn this sucks.

What can’t be cleaned off of cast iron?

OUT: Ezra Klein and Joshua Micah Marshall

IN: Michael Hobbs and Peter Shamshiri

Newsom isn’t confused or uninformed about any of this. His position is very calculated.

He thinks a mild anti-trans position will win him more voters in the ‘28 general than it will lose him.

If by some miracle there’s a massive shift in public opinion he can pivot if he needs to.

We got an avocado at a farm stand in Hawaii that was the size of a pineapple, really tasty too.

They’re all making accounts on Wayfair right now.

I think at some point I’ve said “that person is dead to me” about every presidential candidate that I’ve later worked to elect.

Gavin is dead to me.

I made hummus in SEA with calamansi lime juice. It was the mezze of a fusion restaurant in hell. Still ate it.

Man: Bluesky is dying because it doesn't have any ideological diversity Goose: What kind of diversity are you missing? [ man running away ] GOOSE: WHAT KIND OF DIVERSITY, MOTHERFUCKER??!

Paging David Neiwert

Going marginally viral on Threads made me never want to open that app again.

Yeah, this is something we can plan for.