how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

The Luka trade was the exogenous shock that rattled me from my stupor and made me realize almost everyone in power in any field right now is literally, in the clinical sense, addicted to both gambling and attention, and doesn't give a single shit about anyone else. I was clearly not alone here.

I remember this one from a while back

Republicans and Democrats listen to the same cynical think tanks that believe people can be boiled down to simple statistical identities and if you hit enough prerequisites you automatically win votes in those identities. It only works for Republicans because their secret sauce is bigotry.

one unexpected aspect of this: i feel good about that. im glad this shit is unacceptable to me. im glad shame and social behavior and adherence to rules were drilled into me. i feel bad for those coming up in this wilderness. i hope for my kids' sakes that there's a pathway out to something better

The Supreme Court announcing that a president cannot not be held criminally liable for virtually anything he does in office based on nothing in the text, structure, or history of the Constitution was extremely bad, IMHO

#portlandfrog

I really want the use of 'Kavanaugh Stop' to become so prevalent it makes its way into a legal pleading and I want Kavanaugh to write a pissy op-ed about how that hurts his feelings but only applies the Streisand effect to the term.

This isn’t to say they aren’t going to try to do fascism or do very dangerous or sadistic things for the sake of making content, we’re seeing that with the boats in Venezuela, but that you have to think about them as content creators first because everything makes more sense if you do.