And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

14.11.2025 04:16 — 👍 5487    🔁 1991    💬 2    📌 56

this is worth seven minutes of your time. i've never been prouder to give somebody my vote

25.10.2025 04:57 — 👍 3140    🔁 379    💬 19    📌 3

Everyone always asks Hoobastank, but never How-bastank.

16.10.2025 05:03 — 👍 451    🔁 50    💬 17    📌 4

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

08.07.2025 09:45 — 👍 22650    🔁 4111    💬 809    📌 311

You are consistently my favorite thing on here

10.06.2025 02:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished

04.03.2025 15:50 — 👍 28314    🔁 5918    💬 124    📌 235

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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19.02.2025 16:42 — 👍 9766    🔁 3179    💬 161    📌 355

I've said this in other places, but I think a real problem with discourse today is that people begin conversations on step 8 rather than step 1.

Most of the American public, when it comes to most issues, is on step 1. And there's a battle for telling them what step 2 is.

03.02.2025 18:01 — 👍 123    🔁 9    💬 3    📌 0

Try not to take yourself too seriously. After all, you're an idiot.

31.01.2025 07:50 — 👍 1134    🔁 128    💬 49    📌 20