Lot of people confidently missing the point in the replies to this: if every cent of Elon musks net wealth was liquid, which it isn’t, that’s not even enough money to run the govt for two weeks. The problem less that they have money, and more how they use that money in destabilizing ways.

They hate us for our freedoms, man, I dunno what else to say

There's a certain power in just shaking your head and walking away. Riyadh festival comics wanted the profit but not the losses and sorry buds but you're getting both. It stopped being funny if it ever was, and I don't feel like pretending. Enjoy the audience you chose.

Supervillains were invented because it quickly turned out when writing stories that they often work better when they contain a fucking antagonist.

Lisa Cook is still the standout for me. Firing her requires rewriting the relationship between Congress, the President, and the Courts, but it won't have a meaningful impact on policy, she's not particularly hawkish on FOMC. All that effort *solely* because she's a Black woman.

When you could code silly quizzes on Facebook, it was FULL of "what would you be in medieval times?!" etc.

I made one that nearly always answered "died as a child", "died in childbirth", "lived and died as a servant"

People got SUPER mad with it.

Everyone assumes they'll be at the top of the tree

Do you have the GRINDSET to be a CITIZEN

In the US we have our own clusterfuck going on, but is there really no country in the world with this shit together enough to ban this?

Genuine question - what are OpenAI’s Sora and other video generation tools good for?

I am honestly trying to understand what is so important that it’s worth the cost. If you have examples, I would be interested to hear them.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Remember when the Boston Globe ran this supposedly over-the-top front page to attack the idea of Trump ever being president, and now this is just the news every day? We've fallen so, so far because of this man

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

When you're that wrong about something that important, that's cause to reevaluate how you conceptualize the world and it's also cause for leaders to step down. American politics is often treated like sports, but in sports GM's and coaches are fired for losses (fairly and unfairly) rather fast.

The problem is that while the scandals are reported, the TONE of the reporting and the reactions does not comport with the thing being reported. There were exactly two times in the Trump era where the tone matched the offense: Charlottesville and Jan. 6. And both were huge disasters for Trump.

What I don't get is how women tourist/expats feel safe going to the Gulf given that the official travel advice is "if you get raped don't tell anyone so you don't get arrested for committing adultery"

Should've used this photo

Got to love Amtrak's refundable fares. I've got 2 trips planned over the next two months and a total 7 refundable tickets for a total of 4 one way trips (plus 1 refundable plane ticket 🫣)

Yup. And this is supposed to be some long-term strategy for onshoring manufacturing—which is obviously not going to happen when it's merely the latest whim of one mentally unfit guy, rather than, y'know, an actual long-term national economic policy developed with care and supported by Congress.

She does some bonkers stuff last season that just doesn’t come up again

Look, I appreciate this. TV needs more of this. Let’s have fun again. Seriously things are so bad in the industry and everywhere. Let’s all turn on stuff at night together and go “that was insane” and then surprise there are 20 more episodes and the characters don’t remember being in orbit.

I think it leads to the conclusion that they are bad at politics or that they expect the files to be very damaging. 🤷

you have to admire the political genius of pointlessly delaying the seating of a progressive from a swing state border district so she has more time to do national media hits calling you pedophile enablers

A reminder that if you aren’t spending as much or more time, clicks, and reposts on news you find essential vs news you deplore, you aren’t doing anything real to fix the problem.

And I mean breaking news, not aggregating/collating it.

It’s happened again