I’ve explained to various non-finance people IRL recently how tight the supply-demand balance in oil markets is, and its asymmetric price elasticity, and tbh most people get it pretty quickly so yeah markets are weird and consensus is still just *somehow* US ends this?
You have no clue who you’re talking at, do you?
The Prairieland case has not gotten enough attention, and it's terrifying. These were a bunch of trans and queer lefties, many of whom didn't know each other before the protest, who went down to a protest and were deemed terrorists and put in jail and denied hrt and medications.
Daaaamn. That is SO good.
This is such a good essay what the actual hell?
MMA, not even once.
One too many boots to the head
That was supposed to say old
I never would have heard it if I hadn’t spent a ridiculous amount of time playing THPS3
The latest White House thinking on the Strait of Hormuz.
I am od, but at least I am depressed.
My autistic 13yo, from the back seat of the van, just starts yelling out “I AM A SURGEON, DOCTOR HAN, I AM A SURGEON, I AM A SURGEON!”
Why are all these billionaire Nazi sex pests so perpetually moist? Why are they all wet, slicked with fluids, greasy, oleaginous, why do they all have the exact sheen of mucus.
What's with the obsession of these freaks for the wetboy aesthetic, the abhorrent slugman aesthetic.
Celebrity Wage Thief George?
Actually, it was always [insert your own public figure]. I remember one person desperate to convince me that Kissinger was the Antichrist, “the numbers in his name add up to 666!”
Although Greta is a bit of an outlier, but I think it says a fucktonne about Thiel.
True story: an hour on the phone with one guy who pushed back on every attempt to check the cabling. He finally relented.
“Yes, the network cable is plugged into the STB.”
“OK, can I get you to trace the cable, and see where it’s plugged in?”
“Ok, it’s plugged into the… oh… the TV.”
“Right.”
Oh sage I caught this earlier from a lovely transfem on reddit I thought you may wanna save it as well.
“Your Honor, I am a young white man. I do not experience any consequences for my actions. You must make this stop.”
This is invariably followed up with an FCR on the ticket because once again level 1 didn’t bother with following the KA, and just bounced it.
Deporting rapeseed oil to Nauru
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
“Yea, I understand it seems silly, but we start with the basics - is it plugged in? It wasn’t? OK, cool. That’s why we start with the basics."
The wild thing about his obsession with end times eschatology, is that it seems to be pretty bog standard fundecostal rambling. I’ve *known* people like him, convinced they truly understand what’s happening, and when it’ll happen AND if you don’t agree with them, you’ll go to hell.
Peter Thiel has completed not one hour of postgraduate theological education
The hubris is breathtaking
The obvious solution is to double down on AI
Birthday weekend is underway. Kids are working on my birthday tomorrow, so we’re going out for Mexican tonight.
Spent the day in hyperfocus, which was basically Timberborn and Whiskerwood.
At some point you’d figure they’d try and staunch the bleeding, instead of “let’s stab it again!”
They’re really determined to shed users, aren’t they.
I actually woke up this morning wondering that.
My next thought was that if he were to glass Iran, the chain of events that triggers would be unthinkable.
I really wish I hadn’t clicked into that thread, and seen the OP