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i just hit my hit my head really hard and saw how all of this ends: an AI-generated jeffrey epstein appears on stage with trump and tells everyone that all the girls he was trafficking were "too ugly" for donald

insane harvey gorman visual gig in the star wars holiday special where he pours some kind of beer into his head

i like the completely unexplored implication that theres some kind of "service" that could be provided at this bar that would be relevant to droids. just picturing this:

It’s a big problem that over the last ~15 years, the lives of people making $150-300k/year have become as decadent and depraved as the court of Louis XVI

he who makes a Mr Beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a Mr Man

if we could start with a blank slate we would do a lot of things differently, but if the choice is "the status quo, or eliminate gifted programs", eliminating gifted programs would be an incredibly bad outcome. thats all im saying

I definitely think this that of socializing is super important but a lot of kids are just cruel 🤷

I mean yeah, there's a much broader problem where for many families, US public schools are de facto babysitting operations so the parents can go to work, but given the constraints of that existing setup, it's hard to avoid the shitty choice of having to pick some kids to care more about

It depends a lot on the ambient classroom environment. When I got into gifted as a 90s elementary school kid, I cried because suddenly I got at least one day per week where I wasn’t getting bullied and could read books in peace

"thats just a conspiracy by Big RSS Feed to make you buy More XML"

this time around i find myself having to mute a lot more news stories that are genuinely just too horrible to contemplate or learn more about, which i dont really remember needing to do last time

im not staking out a strong position either way, but i find the "they are sooooo cheap" argument to be the better part of drone advocacy. like yeah you certainly wont need to send five F-35 sorties to take out bush guy, but if drones can do the same mission for the cost of a mid-sized honda sedan...

For never was a story of more woe than that of Dershowitz and his perogio

For never was a story of more woe than that of Dershowitz and his perogio

the phrase "big podcast companies" was designed to inflict maximum psychic damage on me in particular

or "give a hug and kiss to dad". BOTH parents!

lol hes 34, lets not talk about the guy like his career is all washed up

and also i would claim that the bridge in "white woman's instagram" is easily up there with the gut punch in "cant handle this"

ramen soup spoon, aka silverware's strongest soldier

not so fast

"Fall, or Dodge in Hell" by Neal Stephenson is basically about this. In his version of Civil War 2/national divorce, the US effectively splits itself into "the cities and the interstates connecting them (reality-based)" and "everywhere else (24/7 personalized AI slop stream)".

“A rich celebration of our shared history” (which sell for $2m and can never be replaced or even altered in any way)

Reporters for some reason think their job is done after they get him to say any one (1) insane thing

I think a huge blind spot for me in understanding the world is that I’m willing to pay potentially unbounded amounts of money to never see, watch, or listen to an ad of any kind

lol no actually the internet literally says august is when they really start popping off 🤷‍♂️

True, but also I feel like heirloom tomato season just ended? Haven’t seen them in my local store recently at least, which is a bummer

It’s a big problem that over the last ~15 years, the lives of people making $150-300k/year have become as decadent and depraved as the court of Louis XVI

This is my plan to quit drinking

It goes without saying but it’s fucking insane that this wasn’t just a one-goof and he keeps saying this again and again

you’re probably right as long as he keeps nibbling around the edges, but if Trump ever actually implements the real tariffs that are in his heart of hearts, in 18mos the very concept will be polling at the same levels comparable to food poisoning

While trying different stuff, I was briefly on an antidepressant that completely killed my desire to smoke cigarettes, which I am proud to say I took full advantage of. Drugs are weird.

Person ahead of you in line: a contemptible moron, too stupid to be trusted with shoes or solid food

Person behind you in line: less real to you than a nameless video game NPC