Rachel

The political vibe of the winter olympics so far

Yes. I know they’re all chuds, and I still love them.

It’s sort of funny how much woker the US winter olympians are compared to summer olympians. They’re much wealthier, whiter, more educated.

Food takes are all ridiculous. Food is ridiculous. Oh you’re craving some specific dish? Grow up and drink a beer.

I don’t want the trains to run on time. I don’t want trains at all. I just want the roads to have no potholes.

No that’s still the White Lotus

the quakes, yes

You can tell someone didn’t grow up in California when you walk into their bedroom and see a painting hanging above the headboard.

@memles.bsky.social I’ve been reading some of your old blog posts on Mad Men. Great stuff, thank you.

Donald Trump is bad.

Hard to see any good future for the United States at all.

Just remembered that Peter Thiel was one of the original anti-polling guys.

It's simply true that young people are paying higher taxes than old people paid in their working lives, to fund benefits they will likely not see.

"Pay 6.2% tax to fund the retirement of someone who paid 3.85% in their working life" is obviously unfair.

www.ssa.gov/oact/ProgDat...

Going to get really into Zen in 2026.

I simply choose to not be sick.

I feel like everything costs a thousand dollars now.

the question is, to what degree is it possible for Electoral Moderation Pragmatists to recognize that having won governing majorities, they need to pivot away from Electoral Moderation to Actually Governing in ways that can lock in future majorities not by messaging but with the power of the state

America needs 100 years of austerity

They’re cooking the data, they’re eating the jobs.

This is what eating oreos feels like

The median Xitter user these days is someone who imagines they will preside over tribunals of political enemies.

Letters on an overpass spelling out: One Nation Under Fraud

#NJ
#VisibilityBrigade

The Chinese are likely going to return to the moon before Americans and it's going to hit the American space establishment like a nightmare

Pretty funny that a single Trump post triggered the biggest liquidity run in crypto history

Came up with something in my sleep. Rye pizza dough with caraway.

One Brandon After Another

the pine tree flag?

New lib signaling phenomenon in my neighborhood: taking down their stars & stripes, and putting up the California Republic flag.

Sora is not the real problem here. The real problem is that in 12, at most 24 months, there will be a Sora clone from Tencent or Alibaba that is just as good and can be run by anybody with a 5099, at which point everyone in society needs to rapidly agree to treat all digital video as fake, period.

I get a bit doleful when a dryer ball starts to fall apart and I have to retire it.