Evan A.

Gonna double down with a reminder that if you post a screenshot of text from an article you should alt text it & link to the fucking article!!!! If you found it on the internet you should share the link!!! Do not force me to Nancy Drew my way back to the source by triangulating fonts w/news outlets.

anyone who has been on social media for the last 15 years has ptsd for this exact thing when the charts start to buck and the smart weirdos start to flail and vaguely gesture like this

Why it’s becoming so expensive to buy a car in America Prices are at new highs. Buyers are older. More loans are going bad. It’s not an easy time to afford a car in America.

Car prices are up 30% since 2019. The average new car loan lasts 68.8 months now. One in five pay $1K/month. Used cars avg $25K. The share of loans 90 days past due is 8.6%. A figure not seen since pandemic. And 2008-2009. Now gas prices are up 14% with trump’s global war for oil.

#6. Trust Is Transactional — And It’s Broken I asked what qualities would prove that a politician actually understands their lives. The answers were simple. Be authentic. Show up. Know what groceries cost. “There’s people that really have to make the decision — am I going to pay rent or am I going to get groceries? Politicians are paid. A lot of them don’t understand that the things of the day-to-day life don’t really apply to them.” A third of the room raised their hands when I asked if they had personally faced the choice between rent and food. A grocery store manager who leans Democrat put the representation gap into words: “Most politicians, they’re from Columbia University or Duke University… most people didn’t go to those kinds of schools. Maybe it would be better if someone was there who had a more general experience.” These young people aren’t asking politicians to say the right things. They’re asking them to have lived the right things.

John Della Volpe's focus groups with gen Z are always worth reading:

"I asked what qualities would prove that a politician actually understands their lives.

The answers were simple.

Be authentic. Show up. Know what groceries cost." dellavolpe.substack.com/p/its-not-li...

thinking about current events

Saw a Giants video auto-captioned on Facebook that said “Adios pelonta” so that’s what I’ll be saying all year.

MeToo pushed a few big-name bad actors out of their positions, but it did very little to grapple with the systems and the cultures and the people that empowered those bad actors and allowed them to operate with impunity.

This woman is cool as shit already, and then you find out she could staff an entire jazz quintet herself (plays piano, guitar, bass guitar, drums, and trumpet). Excuse me??

Part of the reason "Breaking Bad" is one of the greatest TV shows of all time is that its central thesis, which feels true, is that there is a monster inside all human beings, and given the chance to come out, it will, indeed, come out.

Anyway, here's an article about a Let the Monster Out Factory.

Copy-paste this but for Taiwan-Korea. The emotion on these players' faces is moving beyond belief.

HAGUE
NOW

Cops are great

(Note that this is a *different* great cop than the one in the other great cop post)

there’s gonna be a day when i don’t need to be reminded that walt weiss is managing atlanta. today is not that day. i don’t mind, because every time i’m reminded, i get to laugh about the new-to-me (again) concept that atlanta hired walt weiss

“Oh you think this printer isn’t a machine? Well explain how a tomato is a fruit?”

This is what these people sound like.

It was about protecting Division III high school girls volleyball.

a t shirt that says protect trans kids with wolverine in pink and blue by A.L. kaplan

LOOK WHAT I GOT

There is no better through line conceived and put into writing than this to explain our current shitshow of existence.

Fun thing to think about very briefly: who currently has better lawyers, the United States or Nintendo

espn decided this was an urgent matter they should push to the Home Screen of your phone asap instead of the inane ramblings of an elderly fascist with soggy cardboard for brains

Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.

Have we all caught on to them constantly violating copyright on their content to try to get it in front of more eyes that would usually ignore whatever the White House posts? It’s a pretty clear strategy.

>let claude code fuck with production
>no backups
incredible.

[star power up music starts blasting]

Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success

The mother is an asylum seeker. Her 7-year-old is deaf and didn’t have his hearing aids when he was detained.

They aren’t smart. We aren’t being beat by geniuses. We’re being beat by our own inert system and the bigotry they run as a meta communication, that we collectively refuse to adress in almost EVERY ASPECT OF AMERICAN SOCIETY

Yeah, this clip will certainly be shown as evidence at the trials.

Honest to god what are these people even good for?

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.

He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

Anyway. They gave Ashli Babbitt full military honors for trying to murder Mike Pence and her family got $5 million in taxpayer dollars.