Great Depression (nightcore remix)

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i appreciate how everyone walked back their trumpcession and trumpflation predictions approximately one week before the economic data got *insanely* bad

never seen somebody spell "shadowheart" like that before 🤔

finally gonna try a non-durge BG3 origin playthrough i think

never fails to make me giggle that Republicans think Steve Rogers, a man who quit being Captain America rather than help fight an unjust war in Vietnam, would vote Republican

there's actually 3 types: haters (Pritzker), losers (Schumer), and losers who are also haters (Newsom)

Yeah, Newsom being like "ok bet, then we'll just gerrymander California" didn't really surprise me because it's not like he had any high-minded commitment to democratic norms

a friend once described online friends as neighbors, people you trust intimately while you're on the same block, but will probably never see again

Traders are idiot lemmings incapable of independent thought

This prediction is certainly holding up so far!

It's been like 5 years and the "everyone's always talking about e-boy this and e-girl that but nobody ever wants to talk about the e-conomy" TikTok is still rattling around my head on a weekly basis

unfortunately I don't think the paper can fire its owner

love too live in a world where capitalism has eaten literally everything including both the left and itself and every path appears to bend back inward the way "out" stops being a direction which even *exists* inside a black hole

The "cool" thing about Baudrillard providing far & away the most compelling explanations for & predictions of the basic material reality of life in 2025 is that Baudrillard is maybe the bleakest and most hopeless philosophy ever produced

RSS stands for Robert'S ruleS of order. few realize this

Tainted Cup & the sequel are the two I just read & really enjoyed that prompted this post haha

It doesn't help that a) I find most "queer fiction" like, condescending and insulting and cringe-inducing, and b) absolutely everything is trying to be "queer fiction" because it sells very well with a certain kind of straight, cis reader rn

if thr California state government weren't cowards they'd charge Tesla's lawyers with contempt and/or perjury for claiming Tesla never said the things Musk keeps posting lol

I mostly stopped reading fiction because even the ~critically acclaimed~ ~~award-winning~~ stuff getting written nin the genres I like feels sloppy, shallow, derivative, and/or boring

man, reading a couple recent books that I really enjoyed has just emphasized how little I enjoy almost everything published in sf/f over the last ~decade

"there's no such thing as authentic European cuisine" takes drive me fucking insane

*simulates ur simulacrum* òwó

The explanation I saw earlier was that the initial numbers are extrapolations from employers BLS surveys/gets data from directly, and the revised numbers are based on what's reported to the IRS, which is comprehensive but only available later

Fascinating watching people confidently assert that the free market will fix [major social issue] and then absolutely fucking lose it when you describe that as Reaganism

It's always so funny when Christians are like "sure Christ calls on us to dedicate ourselves to bettering the lots of all of God's children, but what the fuck does that idiot know about anything?"

The lack of media coverage is one place where I do actually think it's possible to be overly conspiratorial about the Epstein stuff, because like, there's a very obvious mundane explanation: news media owners are cowards and were scared shitless by the Gawker lawsuit

I wish we got biblically accurate g'raha tia more than like one scene per expansion

let our boy be a slightly terrifying amalgam of a young, naive archon and an exhausted, lonely archmagus who has lived far beyond his allotted time trapped in a doomed world that is not even his own!!!

Unironically believe that The Tape is real and that the *actual* reason it's compromising is that there's children in it

That is a tiny, tiny amount. Cattle farming in the US burns through that *every five minutes*.

A lot of things make sense when you realize that, whatever the official org chart may say, Google's CEO has reported to the CFO for the last decade