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Amanda Mull

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Senior reporter and Buying Power columnist at Bloomberg Businessweek, covering consumer culture. Georgia native, Georgia Bulldog. Opinions mine.

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If I had to speculate, I’d say that in his case, it’s because this group, insofar as he’s aware of who’s in it, is mostly people who he thinks SHOULD be compelled by him, or who he sincerely wishes were

03.03.2026 00:22 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

modern warfare is so uniquely horrifying because it is unbelievably totalitarian in its destructiveness but not really any more effective at achieving political objectives than when you just gave ten thousand guys muskets and told them to walk into the other ten thousand guys

03.03.2026 00:10 — 👍 124    🔁 23    💬 4    📌 3

I’m from Georgia so believe me I am acquainted with a Pub Sub lol

03.03.2026 00:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

He was in no hurry about the crown—if he had been, I’d have gone ahead and gotten it already! He’s a great dentist overall but maybe a touch too chill in this kind of situation. I’ll see him on Thursday but from my convo with him on the phone today he said it sounded likely fixable. Here’s hoping!

02.03.2026 22:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My iron levels are great, this is a tooth I originally cracked years ago and never got around to having crowned post-root canal, so it’s no shock that it cracked again (my fault, unfortunately)

02.03.2026 21:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The molar that cracked was one that had already had a root canal and that I’d put off having crowned for several years, so it is more my fault than the Nerds’ tbh

02.03.2026 21:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That would be most likely to cause a fungal infection or contact dermatitis I would think, and the treatments for those are pretty mild

02.03.2026 21:28 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

My dentist (old school, Brooklyn Italian, wonderful) has a little toaster oven in his reception area to offer warm cookies and pastries to patients

02.03.2026 21:26 — 👍 40    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

At least I went out having fun

02.03.2026 21:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Nerds R&D department helps with the boat payments

02.03.2026 21:07 — 👍 43    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Easily

02.03.2026 21:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Really satisfying that my dentist’s response to hearing this story today was “oh wow those are very good though”

02.03.2026 21:04 — 👍 568    🔁 13    💬 19    📌 1

The guy whose full-time job is renaming and un-renaming the HBO Max app is thrilled by the merger news.

02.03.2026 17:18 — 👍 496    🔁 50    💬 21    📌 2

I don’t think that’s what’s happening there, personally

02.03.2026 17:21 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

02.03.2026 12:45 — 👍 7249    🔁 2148    💬 101    📌 106

That’s real

02.03.2026 05:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes! Precisely!

02.03.2026 05:09 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I know many of you already know this because it’s obvious but you can absolutely take a survey of an opinion desk’s output over time and pretty accurately surmise the views—or at least the intentions—of the people who are in charge of deciding what gets published. I thought we were all adults here

02.03.2026 05:05 — 👍 2311    🔁 306    💬 14    📌 10

Honestly worst thing is that I did it on like the second one so now I’ve just got a full bag I can’t eat

02.03.2026 04:29 — 👍 37    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

(I’m fine, it’s a tooth that had already been root canal’d and it’s surface-level along the previous crack and the filling, so it doesn’t hurt and isn’t even temp sensitive. I will see the dentist this week.)

02.03.2026 04:28 — 👍 54    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Idk what the most embarrassing way to crack a tooth is but “chomped too hard on Nerds Gummy Cluster” gotta be up there

02.03.2026 04:26 — 👍 204    🔁 3    💬 29    📌 3

Like the bible says: live by the sword, no worries

08.01.2026 19:28 — 👍 4110    🔁 591    💬 33    📌 8
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By Tesla's own math, it reveals that its robotaxis are 4x worse at driving than humans, with redactions hiding even more details | Fortune By NHTSA standards, the Tesla Robotaxis are 8x worse than human drivers.

About every 57k miles driven by Musk’s robotaxis one gets into a wreck. That’s four times the rate of humans.

02.03.2026 03:16 — 👍 1942    🔁 697    💬 27    📌 41

“Turns out you can just kill bad people and everything is fine” - Gavrilo Princip

02.03.2026 03:03 — 👍 944    🔁 124    💬 17    📌 5

Couldn’t figure out why there was an “emerging markets transaction” on my credit card and thought maybe it got skimmed or something but turns out it’s because I gave money to a Canadian gofundme? Is Canada an emerging market?????

01.03.2026 18:36 — 👍 46    🔁 0    💬 6    📌 0
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WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

01.03.2026 05:41 — 👍 2274    🔁 946    💬 156    📌 392

And you know, you can extend from this to a real important corallary to "Everyone is 12 Now" theory is "There has been a generation-long project to keep people 12."

Conservative news and opinon outlets, regressive mass audience entertainment products, etc. all propagandize a chilidish worldview.

28.02.2026 20:40 — 👍 2967    🔁 878    💬 22    📌 20

It’s been terrifying to have almost every year in the past 20 years be a lesson in how many people with power make decisions about who lives and dies with little thought or care or even a clear idea as to why they’re doing anything, and it’s terrifying that it seems to be getting worse

28.02.2026 21:02 — 👍 4546    🔁 761    💬 34    📌 23
New York Times: Trump's call for Iran's Revolutionary Guard forces to surrender, with the promise of complete immunity, added a particularly unusual element to the speech. Because the campaign appears to be largely an air operation, there is no one for them to surrender to, no one to take them prisoner or to implement Trump's offer of "total immunity." It may have simply been intended to sow doubt in the ranks if they believed the government was going to collapse.

New York Times: Trump's call for Iran's Revolutionary Guard forces to surrender, with the promise of complete immunity, added a particularly unusual element to the speech. Because the campaign appears to be largely an air operation, there is no one for them to surrender to, no one to take them prisoner or to implement Trump's offer of "total immunity." It may have simply been intended to sow doubt in the ranks if they believed the government was going to collapse.

“Trump's call for Iran's Revolutionary Guard forces to surrender, with the promise of complete immunity, added a particularly unusual element to the speech. Because the campaign appears to be largely an air operation, there is no one for them to surrender to…”

28.02.2026 08:31 — 👍 203    🔁 46    💬 11    📌 7

what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"

28.02.2026 07:46 — 👍 7763    🔁 1232    💬 72    📌 41