Also, if someone's 401k goes up great, but it's relying on basically a betting market for peoples futures instead of a robust pension system that guarantees their ability to thrive in retirement

Not my point at all. I'm saying when people judge the economy based off of the stock market its a terrible metric of how well the economy for most people is doing. Your retirement going up is great, but it doesn't show anything about how well a regular human can survive day to day.

Why do people still treat the stock market as a real metric? It's literally just vibes of the people with money to invest

New theory: Schumer and Jeffries were never real. They're AI bots run on punch cards from the fifties.

The best use for AI would be setting up washed out Dems like Carville with a bot to interview him constantly so he can keep spewing all the neoliberal junk that broke the working class trust in Democrats he wants without the rest of us having to acknowledge it.

@durbin.senate.gov is a disgrace. His vote for cloture on this CR is a slap in the face to all the Illinois voters who thought he had a spine. Retire and let someone else do the work you obviously can't be bothered to do

I think I can speak for Pisces that for us it's One Headlight by the wallflowers

My only note is Hulk should be the transphobe. Ben would absolutely be clobbering for our trans sisters and brothers

It's only okay to have policy disputes with sex pests. Sure he's a nepo baby who resigned in disgrace but let's see if he has some good ideas about congestion pricing. NY dems can't possibly find a better candidate in the biggest city in the country

Getting rid of woke in Star Wars. Luke only eats raw tauntaun liver so hes swole like the original concept art. Leia can't get legal status after Alderaan is blown up. Han is a sovereign citizen. Turn the incest all the way up. Watto doesn't change.

We need a national project that can bring people together. Let's blow up the friggin' moon.

I mean, yeah, 90% of media doesn't have any clue how to cover Trump still, but people heard the message that he was dangerous and just didn't care because they wanted their material lives to get better and they thought(incorrectly) he would bring that

Maybe Biden should have focused on policy victories that actually affected people instead of on outdated markers of the general economy doing well.

Sports teams should be a public good. Seize the means of leisure

My sister made a great point about Luigi. If we focus on him we risk losing sight of the societal change we need. Catharsis can't come from one act of anger, it needs to come from systematic upheaval. Wars, not battles.

I feel like the debate on ai is demarcated by those who see art as talent vs skill. If art is a talent then it's an evening of the playing field and if it's a skill it's a cheat code to not having to practice. That ai creates bullshit only puts points in the skill bracket

This is just geopolitics. History makes more sense when you realize it's just leaders carrying out old grudges

I don't trust anyone who gets joy from sports. Sports are there to give you pain and self loathing

It's very funny to me that two modern president's have been complete zombies and two of them are the dumbest men alive and we still think it's the most important job in the world.

We shouldn't call them threads on here, they should be skreeds.

Make all media have subtitles. No option to remove them. Yes, for comics I want the speech bubble and a line of subtitles underneath it. I want my novels with a tiny subtitle novel on every page.

I feel like people got so wrapped up in being shocked Trump could win again that they forgot how often repubs shot themselves in the foot trying to do anything last time he was president

We're too quick to think that being evil makes someone smart when most of them are constantly stepping on rakes sideshow Bob style

Obama should come out and say he deployed the drones to Jersey. Really shake things up

Little drummer boy was the original Christmas shoes. Both absolute trash

Why don't we have fusion yet? Someone get those lazy scientists some super glue and tell them to get going.

The secret to a real new york bagel is you boil it in hot dog water.

It'll be like Rise of Skywalker from the sith perspective

As someone failed by the American educational system I'm just going to assume Paddington in Peru is Falklands part 2 and MaggieThatchers's ghost shows up in the climax to show the bear how to revive an empire

I don't have this note on my recorder