John Leavitt

No matter where you are, they’re using the same playbook

One cause of fascist thinking is the petite bourgeoise suddenly seeing its actual place in the system rather then its perceived one - regional gentry against international capital - a lot of management found itself inessential for a while and soon their bosses are going to realize it

This isn't "Bob takes a long time to read something"

This is "Bob literally cannot understand that the villain of a story is doing bad things unless the villain stops and says 'I am doing bad things right now btw'"

Like: part of being functionally illiterate is *not being able to perceive that things may be biased*. Not understanding that someone might be lying, or wrong.

Half the US stock market is now tied to LLM's, which only appear impressive if you are functionally illiterate.

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Turn around, bright eyes

Trump out there looking like Pizza the Hutt

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Images of an old silver 1999 Toyota Corolla for sale

You want a car that gets the job done? You want a car that's hassle free? You want a car that literally no one will ever compliment you on? Well look no further. The 1999 Toyota Corolla. Let's talk about features. Bluetooth: nope Sunroof: nope Fancy wheels: nope Rear view camera: nope...but it's got a transparent rear window and you have a fucking neck that can turn. Let me tell you a story. One day my Corolla started making a strange sound. I didn't give a shit and ignored it. It went away. The End. You could take the engine out of this car, drop it off the Golden Gate Bridge, fish it out of the water a thousand years later, put it in the trunk of the car, fill the gas tank up with Nutella, turn the key, and this puppy would fucking start right up. This car will outlive you, it will outlive your children. Things this car is old enough to do: Vote: yes

Consent to sex: yes Rent a car: it IS a car This car's got history. It's seen some shit. People have done straight things in this car. People have done gay things in this car. It's not going to judge you like a fucking Volkswagen would. Interesting facts: This car's exterior color is gray, but it's interior color is grey. In the owner's manual, oil is listed as "optional." When this car was unveiled at the 1998 Detroit Auto Show, it caused all 2,000 attendees to spontaneously yawn. The resulting abrupt change in air pressure inside the building caused a partial collapse of the roof. Four people died. The event is chronicled in the documentary "Bored to Death: The Story of the 1999 Toyota Corolla You wanna know more? Great, I had my car fill out a Facebook survey. Favorite food: spaghetti Favorite tv show: Alf Favorite band: tie between Bush and the Gin Blossoms This car is as practical as a Roth IRA. It's as middle-of-the-

When I ran the CarFax for this car, I got back a single piece of paper that said, "It's a Corolla, It's fine." Let's face the facts, this car isn't going to win any beauty contests, but neither are you. Stop lying to yourself and stop lying to your wife. This isn't the car you want, it's the car you deserve: The fucking 1999 Toyota Corolla. Google map of cars location

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They should try to play Condor-era Redford, dress so well the government tries to kill you

If I am a Senator and I want to stay in office doing insider trading for 30 years and I'm faced with the possibility of making a bad decision that people won't like, obviously I'm going to pass it off to the guy who's out of office when his term expires.

I think even the stuff with the AUMF and the War Powers acts in Congress is part of this same thing -- Congress has spent decades fobbing off power and responsibility onto the president, because the president can only be in office for two terms.

A computer making a management decision to do war crimes was sort of inevitable because all of our political and business culture is based on avoiding responsibility for things.

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"Oligarchy cannot survive the tendency of the declining rate of profit in capitalism without pouring resources into the permanent war economy. And the permanent war economy requires a permanent war footing."

not a professional assessment, but i always felt that aside from the raging addiction, unstable finances, and impulsive personality, part of pollard's issue was that he was constantly, at all times, going full-tilt walter mitty and trying to imagine a more exciting life for himself

watching a guy snort three lines of coke off a set of classified documents in the middle of a crowded restaurant: okkkk, this guy’s on thin ice but let’s give him the benefit of doubt here

thinking about the nsa supervisor who let off jonathan pollard with a slap on the wrist after he claimed the reason he was late for an interview is because he was being hunted by an elite squad of IRA assassins

Ah!

Cheez

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I kind of believe they just pulled out some bush-era plans for war and didn’t update them/read them

Hospital setting?

AI bros continually telling on themselves. What do they think the purpose of "academic labor" is, exactly?

This is like building a robot that does pull-ups (poorly!) and expecting to get stronger just by watching it do its thing.

sometimes I find it's helpful to have a small tiny thing to be annoyed at. like last week during my volunteer shift someone brought a box of donations to the food pantry that included coffee beans that were best by 2014. this mf had this coffee in his house for twelve years

I thought this was a politically neutral slave state

Qatar has closed its LNG exports, the world's largest; an Aramco facility is on fire in Saudi Arabia; Brent Crude oil is up to nearly $78/bbl and JP Morgan Chase is saying if this war continues, we could be looking at $120/bbl.

If we are doing 2003 again, I demand In the the Cut get a theatrical rerelease and a fair shake this time.

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