Travis

Aspiring Entrepreneur: “How can I prepare myself for the future of business?”

Me: “Start uploading pictures of yourself with random names in the alt text so it takes longer for the seeker drones to locate you.”

It’s a very solid pic to be clear, I just don’t like change

You startled me with that new profile pic I was like who is this stranger

This dude should be demanding entry to the ICE facilities alongside the youths.

It’s time to suit up Obi-wan, your fellow politicians have outplayed you in the halls of power and are now in the streets terrorizing the citizenry with violence.

Meet them on the field or make way for those that will.

I’m like 80% sure that Chuck Schumer thinks he’s a junior variety reporter gathering b-roll on congressional personalities.

We know he’s lying Chuck. We know. Go to a protest or something; make yourself useful.

Good.

My 80yo father’s take on the current state of politics: “Seems to me like it’s just a bunch of white supremacists run amok.”

The man has a way of getting right to the point.

Gallows humor is all I got at the moment 🫠

It’s so funny if you just read this credulously and walk it out.

He’s implying that one day we’ll realize that prediction markets… what? Actually predict the future like precogs? JFC

Things continue to get more unhinged.

We must immediately and without further delay eliminate and abolish redundancy

Honestly I’d say it’s more anarcho-capitalist / Austrian school than neoliberal

Well yes but of course a proper shitpost must rely on common vernacular not the more erudite (and often correct) academic variants.

Okay so a couple things:

1. International free trade (and the apac Americana generally) is definitely an aspect of neoliberalism that’s being actively reversed

2. MAGA types rant about neoliberalism as part of their populist / nationalist America-first schtick

So that’s where I’m coming from.

🤝

I totally respect your objection to the framing of my original post up there. Sometimes gallows humor can be a way to draw attention to hypocrisy, but I’m with you that this is at its core a very grave situation.

We have gotten very bad at civic sensibility lately and it’s pretty sad.

Oof

Already at around 30k I think. 🫠

Don’t believe I’m in that cohort, but I would rather see my own insurance go up again than have it happen to people who were receiving the subsidies. This administration is a horror show.

One would think that’s how it works, but it’s strange times over here in the land of the mad king

Amen friend.

Everything about this administration is a horror show of injustice.

I’m not entirely sure I agree with you on this.

Like, Trump is actively taking a state interventionist stance: actively suppressing speech, taking ownership in private sector companies, picking winners and losers via policy…. that ain’t neoliberalism.

Well not the ‘haha’ kind of funny more like “this fish smells funny”

They’re pretty great. I always have a pair in the travel bag as the backup for my backups (it’s nice that they’re unpowered).

Tariffs duh bro

Loops are a type of (unpowered) earplug with adjustable noise reduction. Pretty solid, great for any sort of live event.

ANC is just Active Noise Cancelling so like AirPod Max or Sonys or whatever

You have to admit it’s hilarious that literally 6mos ago Argentina was the country MAGA was saying was gonna dunk on all the neolibs and show them how to run a proper economy and now they’re literally begging for (and getting!) a handout from American taxpayers.

Clown ideology. 🤡

Roll up tonight into this spot we like the food at even though it’s a bit of a scene, music is bumping it’s densely packed. Even as we get seated we’re armoring up—ANC cans on the kid, Loops for my wife, I’m fiddling with AirPod (already in ofc) settings.

Thusly does the neurodivergent pack forage.

This is INCREDIBLE. The Bearded Vulture has multigenerational nests that last for hundreds of years, built in very secluded places — and they’re FULL OF ANTHROPOGENIC ARTIFACTS.