Ben Wakefield

There's a salary range where you COULD afford DoorDash every day but really shouldn't and I think some people fell into it really hard.

Chris Murphy: "I think this is the most serious constitutional crisis the country has faced, certainly since Watergate. The president is attempting to seize control of power, and for corrupt purposes ... he's trying to crush his opposition ... this is a red alert moment ... our democracy is at risk"

🧵 If you’re applauding the abolishment of the Department of Education, you need to do a little research. You have ZERO clue what the DOE actually does.

Here’s a reality check on what the Department of Education actually does:
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Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year.

2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0

Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

Corrected a mistake? Fucking cowards...

In a statement posted to God Is A Geek, the site’s staff reiterated that Robinson did not actively participate in its operations, but that they nonetheless felt compelled by his recent actions to cease publication entirely. “We have run the site independently of Calvin for several years now in the hopes that we would not have to lose the hard work we have poured into it, the access we have worked hard for, and the relationships we have developed,” God Is A Geek’s editorial team wrote. “However, it has become increasingly clear that we can no longer separate the site from the owner. As a result, the entire editorial team will be stepping down with immediate effect. We will create a new site and our future content will be published there, bereft of any connection to Calvin Robinson. It will be hard to start again, hard to walk away from the work we’ve done here off our own backs, but this is the right thing to do.”

yesterday it came to light that calvin robinson, a priest who recently lost his license for giving an elon-esque nazi salute at a pro life conference, owns a video game site called god is a geek. today the site's entire staff quit in protest

aftermath.site/god-is-a-gee...

Security tip for iPhone users: holding the side button and one of the volume buttons for two seconds will lock your phone and disables Face ID until you enter your password. Useful for situations where someone may try to unlock your phone without your consent.

in case you needed some good news in the face of all the horrors

we can make them lose piles of money yet

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

Iraq passing laws to legalize child marriages for girls as young as 9 because of "religion". We are going back in time

BAGHDAD (AP) - Iraq's parliament passed three divisive laws Tuesday, including amendments to the country's personal status law that opponents say would in effect legalize child marriage. The amendments give Islamic courts increased authority over family matters, including marriage, divorce and inheritance. Activists argue that this undermines Iraq's 1959 Personal Status Law, which unified family law and established safeguards for women. Iraqi law currently sets 18 as the minimum age of marriage in most cases. The changes passed Tuesday would let clerics rule according to their interpretation of Islamic law, which some interpret to allow marriage of girls in their early teens - or as young as 9 under the Jaafari school of Islamic law followed by many Shiite religious authorities in Iraq

Proponents of the changes, which were advocated by primarily conservative Shiite lawmakers, defend them as a means to align the law with Islamic principles and reduce Western influence on Iraqi culture. The parliament also passed a general amnesty law seen as benefiting Sunni detainees and that's also seen as giving a pass to people involved in corruption and embezzlement. The chamber also passed a land restitution law aimed at addressing Kurdish territorial claims

Iraq passing laws to legalize child marriages for girls as young as 9 because of "religion". We are going back in time

one of my most consistent takes, pre-election, was that a lot of people were going to find out just how much the federal government does that they take for granted - because it would stop happening

here we go

Hundreds of Subreddits Are Considering Banning All Links to X Dozens of big subreddits have already banned all Twitter links, and posts about potential bans are some of the most popular on the site.

Hundreds of subreddits are considering banning all links to Twitter/X in a pretty powerful display of collective action:

www.404media.co/hundreds-of-...

XP shell skins

Computers used to bang. Aston Shell, Yzdock, real millennialcore before UX design was just padding.

a not insignificant number of media people should be reflecting on their role in elevating rufo to this level of prominence. he couldn't have done it alone.

Big Tech billionaires had a front row seat at Trump's inauguration. They were seated in front of Trump's own cabinet. Tells you everything you need to know.

Somehow "Elon Musk Is a Genius" and "Elon Musk Doesn't Know How Hands Work" are being said by a lot of the same people

The deal be wants to renegotiate that he says has resulted in the US being ripped off is the deal he negotiated and signed the first time he was president.

the “President Musk” jabs landed because they were true, huh

fucking hell

if there is one funny thing about yesterday’s blitzkrieg of executive orders is that it makes the “democratic opposition went too far last time” crowd look like total dipshits

I don't **want** to know anybody who doesn't see and call this what it was... there is zero excuse.

news orgs: if you’re not willing to call the Nazi salute what it was why should we trust you about literally anything

“mathematicians dispute whether two and two add up to four” level horseshit

They aren't even hiding it anymore.

Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s AT Protocol Entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s AT Protocol, he shared in a TikTok video posted on Wednesday. In anticipation of the coming U.S. TikTok ban, which will go through on Sunday unless paused by the…

Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s AT Protocol

a man with a backpack carrying a small animal on his back ALT: a man with a backpack carrying a small animal on his back

It's Friday. And on Friday... DANCE, we must? 😩

good morning to everybody but me because I just spent two hours debugging something only to realize my mistake was not passing an optional parameter in

in other news, my job is safe because I was chatting with copilot the whole time and he ain't figure it out either 😭

There is no good place to host email it seems. Proton looked nice but always felt expensive for what it was.