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我不喜欢万税爷
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· Jan 27
> Trump suggests something catastrophically stupid
> everyone panics
> market dips a tiny bit
> motivated by the market panic, Trump rolls it back something stupider but less catastrophic
> Nothing eventually happens
Repeat twice per day, every day, until Jan 2029.
> everyone panics
> market dips a tiny bit
> motivated by the market panic, Trump rolls it back something stupider but less catastrophic
> Nothing eventually happens
Repeat twice per day, every day, until Jan 2029.
It’s so funny that MattY is constantly lecturing progressives about how you need to moderate on social issues or accept a billion more Clarence Thomas’s on the SC, but when it comes to making economic policy closer to the idiot treatler electorate suddenly The Republic isn’t on the line anymore
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It’s so funny that MattY is constantly lecturing progressives about how you need to moderate on social issues or accept a billion more Clarence Thomas’s on the SC, but when it comes to making economic policy closer to the idiot treatler electorate suddenly The Republic isn’t on the line anymore
Ngl it’s kinda crazy how democrats have become “the party of meritocratic experts,” but they never listen to subject matter experts anymore, just random Harvard law professors
And of course we get the brain-dead political analysis. The biggest crisis of public education (and the greatest threat to kids with mental illness) is the Republican Party's funding cuts. But guess who gets blamed in the conclusion of the article?
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Ngl it’s kinda crazy how democrats have become “the party of meritocratic experts,” but they never listen to subject matter experts anymore, just random Harvard law professors
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there are a ton of different quality of life indexes but the United States generally sits squarely in the middle of the pack of developed nations, which is about what you'd expect from a very rich country with a poor social security net.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
November 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
there are a ton of different quality of life indexes but the United States generally sits squarely in the middle of the pack of developed nations, which is about what you'd expect from a very rich country with a poor social security net.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Every hard science lab at a public Ivy is like:
Sock Rossi: she/they who did their undergrad at CMU in a completely different hard science
Qingran Zhou: went to Zhejiang university. Has spent 5 digits on gacha games
Abi: IIT grad, a little too into anime
Sock Rossi: she/they who did their undergrad at CMU in a completely different hard science
Qingran Zhou: went to Zhejiang university. Has spent 5 digits on gacha games
Abi: IIT grad, a little too into anime
November 24, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Every hard science lab at a public Ivy is like:
Sock Rossi: she/they who did their undergrad at CMU in a completely different hard science
Qingran Zhou: went to Zhejiang university. Has spent 5 digits on gacha games
Abi: IIT grad, a little too into anime
Sock Rossi: she/they who did their undergrad at CMU in a completely different hard science
Qingran Zhou: went to Zhejiang university. Has spent 5 digits on gacha games
Abi: IIT grad, a little too into anime
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sorry kids we can't cook because us-east-1 is down
November 24, 2025 at 4:17 AM
sorry kids we can't cook because us-east-1 is down
It is funny how bad AI has been at jumping into the physical world
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 AM
It is funny how bad AI has been at jumping into the physical world
It’s always annoying when the rise of the Chinese EV industry is placed as a problem for American car companies. Our cars haven’t been globally competitive for a few decades at this point. It’s Japan and Germany’s game to lose.
November 24, 2025 at 4:03 AM
It’s always annoying when the rise of the Chinese EV industry is placed as a problem for American car companies. Our cars haven’t been globally competitive for a few decades at this point. It’s Japan and Germany’s game to lose.
What really turns me into a personal responsibility jackass is people complaining about the price of gas. Unless you drive God’s own cars (hybrid Honda civic hatchback or Prius), I Don’t Want To Hear It. I more than don’t want to hear it, I want $8 gas for you to suffer specifically.
Just heard a radio commercial for an app saying the average American spends $5,000 a year on gas. There’s no WAY that’s true even in our car dependent country. Average American drives ~14k miles per year. Even if only getting 20 mpg, that’s 700 gallons of gas/year. Gas doesn’t cost >$7/gal.
November 24, 2025 at 2:35 AM
What really turns me into a personal responsibility jackass is people complaining about the price of gas. Unless you drive God’s own cars (hybrid Honda civic hatchback or Prius), I Don’t Want To Hear It. I more than don’t want to hear it, I want $8 gas for you to suffer specifically.
Tbh idk if it’s better or worse that the American left broadly falls for open foreign propaganda. I.e., China is some sort of paradise, Ukraine is full of Nazis, etc
One fascinating and yet expected thing is that none of the big foreign accounts pretending to be American are left of center, or even anti-Trump. Not a single one. Says something about the economics and geopolitics of political grifting
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 24, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Tbh idk if it’s better or worse that the American left broadly falls for open foreign propaganda. I.e., China is some sort of paradise, Ukraine is full of Nazis, etc
Ngl I couldn’t ever be a pilot. Imagine going through the worst turbulence of your life and being The Guy In Charge Of Everything
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Ngl I couldn’t ever be a pilot. Imagine going through the worst turbulence of your life and being The Guy In Charge Of Everything
It is kinda amusing that during the pandemic everyone was so worried about pandemic era surveillance would last forever when even in China they couldn’t maintain covid 0
November 24, 2025 at 1:25 AM
It is kinda amusing that during the pandemic everyone was so worried about pandemic era surveillance would last forever when even in China they couldn’t maintain covid 0
Also like, $300 for tweeting is nice to have money in America but like, life changing in Nigeria.
the majority of the world's English-speaking people do not live in America. or the UK, or Canada, or Ireland, or Australia.
You don’t understand how much I love this feature
November 24, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Also like, $300 for tweeting is nice to have money in America but like, life changing in Nigeria.
It’s a self censoring fact because it sounds ridiculous but there’s a large number of environmentalists who just want us to get by with rooftop solar as the only form of generation and cope with whatever that entails
Anti-solar NIMBYs aren't beating the accusations of being pretty dim bulbs. "Extracting from the sky" is a good one
November 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
It’s a self censoring fact because it sounds ridiculous but there’s a large number of environmentalists who just want us to get by with rooftop solar as the only form of generation and cope with whatever that entails
Would be nice if we could actually capitalize on by far Trump’s worst policy instead of cowering in fear of the leader of the nation’s leading teaching assistant union going on Tucker and saying Democrats hate labor far more than Reagan ever did because they’re not maximally pro-tariff
Generational opportunity for Ds to regain ground on the economy as an issue
November 24, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Would be nice if we could actually capitalize on by far Trump’s worst policy instead of cowering in fear of the leader of the nation’s leading teaching assistant union going on Tucker and saying Democrats hate labor far more than Reagan ever did because they’re not maximally pro-tariff
Tbh probably bad when you buy an index fund today that you’re only getting like the same 7 companies that are all tied up in the same irrational exuberance
I read all the bubble takes but I’m still buying stocks.
November 24, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Tbh probably bad when you buy an index fund today that you’re only getting like the same 7 companies that are all tied up in the same irrational exuberance
Tbh the bigger problem seems to be that only 50% of the pictures are viable products lol
One of the things I've consistently argued is that we absolutely cannot afford tie "the future" or technology or transhumanism down to an aesthetic.
Because "more options" is not represented by reduction to chrome plated pablum, but also because it enables grift like this.
Because "more options" is not represented by reduction to chrome plated pablum, but also because it enables grift like this.
November 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Tbh the bigger problem seems to be that only 50% of the pictures are viable products lol
Disney making way more money from theme parks than movies is a great bit tbh
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Disney making way more money from theme parks than movies is a great bit tbh
It’s obvious engagement optimization is harmful as a second order effect but like moreover do we really want to be spending more time on these sites?
Engagement KPIs have been responsible for infinite scroll UI traps, RecSys radicalization spirals, public shame brigades, and basically every modern ailment novel to the past decade. At some point, you have to recognize that the problem isn't any one technology, it's the metric.
The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
November 23, 2025 at 10:54 PM
It’s obvious engagement optimization is harmful as a second order effect but like moreover do we really want to be spending more time on these sites?
Fuck it I’m woke/acc now
Group DMs on BlueSky would be like Viennese cafes, Louise-Philippe era banquets, or Spanish Civil War era charitable groups. They’d accelerate the invention of Woke 2 by like 15 months, minimum.
November 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Fuck it I’m woke/acc now
The standardized testing discourse is funny because its predictive power on GPA is such a textbook difference between statistically and practically significant that it’s literally the go-to example in baby Wooldridge
November 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The standardized testing discourse is funny because its predictive power on GPA is such a textbook difference between statistically and practically significant that it’s literally the go-to example in baby Wooldridge
It is kinda funny that the right wing was always saying “import the 3rd world become the 3rd world” while the whole “pay for tweets” thing ended up making it so posting right wing slop eligible for life changing money in India and they didn’t really care lol
November 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
It is kinda funny that the right wing was always saying “import the 3rd world become the 3rd world” while the whole “pay for tweets” thing ended up making it so posting right wing slop eligible for life changing money in India and they didn’t really care lol
Ngl I miss 90’s-10’s anglophilia, what even happened to that
November 23, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Ngl I miss 90’s-10’s anglophilia, what even happened to that
Tbh people who talk about the need for a civic nationalism remind me a lot of the people who say we need a progressive church. Yeah it’s called episcopalianism and it’s the fastest shrinking religion in the US. Same vein, full sugar soda sells much better than diet.
Very funny to see someone admit to “British historians write as if slavery was established solely for the moral satisfaction of abolishing it”-ism so explicitly here
November 23, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Tbh people who talk about the need for a civic nationalism remind me a lot of the people who say we need a progressive church. Yeah it’s called episcopalianism and it’s the fastest shrinking religion in the US. Same vein, full sugar soda sells much better than diet.
Very funny to see someone admit to “British historians write as if slavery was established solely for the moral satisfaction of abolishing it”-ism so explicitly here
November 23, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Very funny to see someone admit to “British historians write as if slavery was established solely for the moral satisfaction of abolishing it”-ism so explicitly here