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interviewer: how are your listening skills?

me: absolutely
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customer: I’m looking for a cheese grater

me: than what?

customer: can I see your manager?

me: I don’t work here

customer: you have their shirt on

me: well yes technically I’m SUPPOSED to
August 18, 2023 at 4:37 PM
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boss: are you planning to work today?

me: I already did

boss: no, you have to do it all day

me: what
July 7, 2023 at 11:30 AM
people really need to read this link
in which the Chief Strategist and Portfolio Manager for Simplify Asset Management discovers how anachronistic & damaging “the poverty line” metric is in the USA— www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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interviewer: it says here you’re not afraid to challenge authority

me: no it doesn’t
March 10, 2025 at 12:17 PM
avg cost of a car: @48k*
avg use: @6 years*
avg cost/yr: @8k
avg cost of insurance/yr: @2k*
avg cost of gas/yr: @3k*
avg trips/yr: @1500*
avg cost/trip: @8.67,

excluding parking, tolls, repairs, maintenance, etc

(*in the us, according to various more or less respectable looking internet sites)
This is one of the reasons congestion pricing works.
i wonder how much of Americans' views on driving vs. transit would change if they had to pay for gas/insurance/etc every time they turned on the engine

"i'm not paying $5 to take the train to work twice a day when i can just drive" is a genuine opinion held by so many people
November 24, 2025 at 2:21 AM
if only there was anything anyone could do about any of this
Stunning development: Senators now confirm the Trump admin’s 28-point “peace plan” for Ukraine wasn’t a U.S. plan at all. It was a Russian wish list. Follow along. This is crazy. 1/
November 23, 2025 at 12:31 AM
correction: welfare spending IS through the roof — ALSO the billionaires (o&g subsidies, OBBBA tax benefits, so much more)
Left-wing vs right-wing populism in one picture.

This couldn't have been more perfect. Ignoring tradeoffs and blaming the main outgroup as the solution to every societal problem.
November 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
starting to wonder if maybe all COPs are bad
“The lack of concrete commitments in the final text of COP30 shows us who is still benefiting from the delay: the fossil fuel industry and the ultrarich, not those living the climate crisis every day,” said Ilan Zugman, Latin American and Caribbean director for 350.org, an environmental group.
Climate Talks End With Dire Warnings, but Little Action to Slow Warming
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
he meant. he meant meaning. he meant being meant. he meant meaning itself
November 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
roadmap: here’s how to get there

compass: *points*
See Carbon Brief's take on the version of the text circulated before COP30's final plenary

(Not final but no complaints raised in the room)

unfccc.int/sites/defaul...
November 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
guns don’t kill people. bullets kill people
A climate deal without explicit language calling for a fossil fuel phaseout is like a ceasefire without explicit language calling for a suspension of hostilities.
#COP30
November 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
daughter: daddy, who’s your favorite child?

me: aw honey, I don’t have a favorite. you all need to try a little harder
November 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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It's sad that Brian the emu was ostrichsized by the other birds.
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
it is possible to despise him with all your being and simultaneously fucking love this
Q: Stefanik has called Mamdani a 'jihadist.' Do you think you're standing next to a jihadist right now?

TRUMP: No, I don't. I met with a man who's a very rational person
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
they’re busy condemning socialism
If Congress will not pass a resolution condemning Trump’s unhinged calls for the imprisonment and execution of elected officials, they’re essentially giving him permission to keep pushing for political violence.
November 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I too condemn socialism *finger to ear* okay no sorry I mean socialites
BREAKING: The House passes a resolution condemning socialism, per FOX
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Hal hadn’t survived three Thanksgivings by being stupid.
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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"Let's go over this one more time."
"I know what-"
"ONE MORE TIME."
"Fine."
"What is it you're looking for?"
"A garbage bag."
"In which room?"
"The kitchen."
"What do you do when you find it?"
"Bring it to you here."
"I'm counting on you, Tim."
November 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
lawful, unlawful, potato, potahto
REPORTER: “Trump accused the other side of encouraging political violence. Isn't that what he is doing?”

LEAVITT: “Why aren't you talking about what members of congress are doing telling the military not to follow lawful orders?”

REPORTER: “Actually, they said ILLEGAL orders.”
November 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“commitments”? are you serious? you KNOW this is completely false
November 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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"You don't speak German, Tom."
"Well, you can't really talk, Martin."
"Touché."
November 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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“Men only want one thing.”

Not true. There’s like three things.
November 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
“quiet, piggy” would make a lovely epitaph
November 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Our 1st PA door knocking of ‘26 Sat was joined by @msnownews.bsky.social & @swingleft.bsky.social with exec dir Yasmin Radjy!!

Hear more at TMNYC's UWS MEETING SAT mobilize.us/s/WD9c9o

Check out this positive & exciting new way to engage voters @ OurGroundTruth.org

m.youtube.com/watch?v=t6yc...
Yasmin Radjy | Chris Jansing Reports on MS Now | November 17, 2025
YouTube video by Swing Left
m.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
asshat
Trump: "When I left, which was a rigged election by the way. They used to go crazy when I'd say 'rigged election.' Nobody complains anymore because now they realize it was and it's been proven and it continues to be proven."
November 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM