(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

Saw a video of DNC chair Ken Martin saying we're gonna bring a knife to a knife fight and dude I appreciate the energy but it's hard not to feel like the Democrats main problem is not understanding when they're in a gunfight.

Forget whether I already shared this. If so, I apologize, but if there was ever anything that deserved a bump ...

This dude got his PhD 5 years ago and works at Heritage - here's his unpublished diss with 1 citation www.proquest.com/docview/2452...

Here's the fired Comm. of Labor Statistics with 20+ years of government economics experience and an extensive publishing record
scholar.google.com/citations?us...

Scotland again returning to its position as a capital of innovation

"people are just not built for modern times, that's why everyone's sick and nuts" DID IT EVER OCCUR TO U THAT MODERN TIMES SHOULD BE BUILT FOR US

Moreover, no matter what else you have to do, you keep feeling compelled to look up and try to follow along.

Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.
-- Hannah Arendt

Genuinely, Germany was *THE PLACE* science was done. If you wanted to study Physics, or Psychology, or Medicine, you learned German.

And then.

They're in the same subgenus as plums and apricots! Basically they are plums if you bred them for the pit to be edible instead of the fruit!

cashews growing off of their fruit, which looks like an inverted red pepper

Also cashews look like this for some reason

Erie Canal was built to access western NY and the Great Lakes, it was completed in 1825

Chicago was founded in 1833, in fact it was the Canal that made Chicago viable as a mass settlement and 2 streets in Chicago are named for the canal and its main proponent. I assume ChatGPT wrote this mess

This is very funny because Mamdani can just basically ignore it -- "broad rent freeze and build more housing is the real way to improve affordability!" -- and let the Landlord Caucus savage Cuomo over it.

The other thing about this of course is that lowering taxes for people who do this is fundamentally the same thing (creating artificial competitive advantage) as raising taxes on people who don't EXCEPT, in the latter, you get more tax money.

Somebody said the other day — was it @warren.senate.gov? That in our society, the poor get punishments, the rich get incentives.

Now I'm imagining a module where you can make friends with the goblins in the very first scenario and then do the whole adventure from the opposite side.

Rowling could've lived in her castle and tweeted "Hagrid wants you to brush your teeth and have a happy St. Swithin's Day!" a few times a year and HP would've had the same legacy as Pooh or Middle-earth, but she consciously chose Evil For Evil's Sake like a badly written children's fantasy villain

mattobrien ate at a diner that had a "FUCK ICE" sign in the window and I've never ordered huevos rancheros so quickly in my life. a "FUCK ICE" sign is basically a michelin star for mexican food in Los Angeles.

Note to restaurants: I will rearrange my day to eat at an establishment that displays a "FUCK ICE" sign.

I will cancel plans. I will leave the chicken in the freezer. I will stand with you.

All hot peppers in the world, in every cuisine, come from South/Central America.

Just saw a reel of a Japanese guy speaking Japanese with a thick Scottish accent and I don't think anything has ever made me happier.

"the goblins, who were also planning to eat the horse, give you a high five and tuck in"

The the thing is that, i just mean from a strategic standpoint, if you taxed billionaires out of existence, you wouldn't need to use them to your advantage, because there'd be no one using them to your disadvantage.

Some would say that this is the primary desired outcome!

Well, yeah, of course.

Three times I have run Lost Mines of Phandelver -- which begins with the characters finding two horses that have been killed in an ambush -- with a bunch of kids, and every time the very first question they ask is if they can eat the horse.

I have eaten
the pierogis
from the
farmer’s market

That Dershowitz
is unable
to buy
because of Epstein

Forgive me
they were delicious
warm and buttery

yeah weird, who could have imagined that most people in the consumer space do not need a robot that will win math olympiads for them

Kevin Roose @kevinroose There's a fascinating tension between what Al labs are building (PhD-level agents that win math olympiads and refactor code bases) and what most people want out of Al (friendly helpers that are pretty smart and can do stuff and don't get a personality transplant every 6 months). typedfemale & @typedfemale • 11h the /r/chatgpt AMA is mostly people begging for gpt-40 back because of it's personality... really not what i expected! pic.x.com/XPG2iGhzcM

1. lol at Kevin Roose smashing together three different bits of marketing collateral for three different models into one sentence
2. Would love to hear him explaining "refactor a code base" then show me where that happened

this is literally just Curtis Yarvin technofeudalist speak and it is malpractice that the New York Times isn’t pointing this out

"do I believe in the rule of law? racial equality? The health and wellbeing of a functional economy? Obviously I do, I -- ah, shit! My money! Nevermind!"

counterpoint, all pedestrians should be given on Javelin light-anti-tank weapon, and be legally permitted to blow up one car every year.

yeah if your poll isn't distinguishing between "hate Dems because they're too liberal" and "hate Dems because they aren't liberal enough" then you're not really doing any kind of polling.