Travicissitudes

trump is the president in the sense that he holds the office but he very clearly isn't the president in the sense that he has basically relieved himself of its duties

“everyone is twelve” theory has reached Senator Kelly

Is it important to stay engaged in the present and focus on the problems my community has right now? Yes.

Is there stuff from a dozen years ago that I'm gonna die mad about? Also yes.

I contain multitudes.

The first strike was also murder. You can’t just up and kill civilians on the high seas and then claim you were at war with them.

....how intense and localized can earthquakes get?

IMO, it raises the question of how useful are executives?

The article is well worth a read; this information would never have come to light were it not for Steam's AI disclosure policy, and the game looks to be a rushed cash grab not involving Grasshopper studio.

This is why CEOs dont like AI disclosures, they want to be able to discreetly serve slop

If this is true she should never work as a journalist again.

Seriously everything, EVERYTHING about the RFK/Nuzzi/LIzza moment is an argument for a newsroom where you pitch stories in front of each other and editors who shield you from your own worst impulses.

Hey man, that's great! That's not a simple thing. On top of everything with running your business, especially leading up to the holidays.

these people are all scumbags and you should feel bad for defending them

Personally, I don't think it's great that our system continually lets him get away with crimes. Just my opinion!

bus meme me when i find a cool stick staring at the wall and being happy billionaires with only 10 yachts looking at the sunset being sad.

Photograph of an ad on a NJ Transit train reading Convert USD to a stablecoin before you find a seat

Thinking about that Krugman soundbite about how only 2% of Americans have ever done anything with crypto and it feels like the enormous crypto marketing blitz I see constantly in New York and New Jersey is less to attract customers and more to make people believe there's an industry there

https://x.com/NancySinatra/status/1993084030070538256 Nancy Sinatra @NancySinatra MTG is a hero. She is doing what I wish RBG had done. 5:27 PM · Nov 24, 2025 · 460.5K Views

the median voter

It is important as a profession that journalism not work this way but as a parent of small children if I had a one-on-ome sitdown with the man who brought back measles and whooping cough I would treat the meeting exactly the same as if I were wrestling a gun out of the hands of a mass shooter.

"SBF goes MAGA, gets pardon from Trump" is one of the bingo square I am most confident in checking off before the end of the term

Agreed! I'm just trying to explain why they seem to care about the second and not the first.

They probably asked her some very direct questions when hiring and this recent drama showed she lied in her response.

So no general moral principles but a minimum professional standard of "If you lie to us we can fire you."

Matt Stoler is the dumbest motherfucker on the planet. Zohran went because everyone knows that Trump's going to try sending the national guard into NYC in January to derail Zohran's time as hizzoner, not to validate Matt Stoler's extremely credulous personal politics.

This is all kinds of fucked up.

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

somebody on here suggested awhile back that a pretty compelling 2028 Democrat campaign promise would be "on day one I will deploy a WPA-scale army of forensic accountants across every square inch of the federal government" and I think about that every day

evergreen

Shot + chaser

re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"

center left nation with electoral structures that generate center right results

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

And without that kind of guy highlighting the worst parts of the anti-Trump movement it takes up much less space in the discourse/attention economy.

I think part of it's also that there's just less space to be an anti-anti Trump guy. *Because of* how over the top he is, and how egregious a lot of what they're doing is, the market niche for "I don't agree with Trump but this is too much" is practically nil.