Souper Deluxe
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Middle aged software engineer. Hillary 2028.
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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I’ve long maintained that it was a mistake for Congress to have abolished itself.
January 3, 2026 at 10:57 AM
I’ve long maintained that it was a mistake for Congress to have abolished itself.
They're going to charge him with narco terrorism and send him to CECOT
January 3, 2026 at 10:48 AM
They're going to charge him with narco terrorism and send him to CECOT
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So we’re just announcing foreign strikes and kidnappings of foreign leaders on social media now? No Congress. No explanation.
This is madness.
This is madness.
January 3, 2026 at 9:28 AM
So we’re just announcing foreign strikes and kidnappings of foreign leaders on social media now? No Congress. No explanation.
This is madness.
This is madness.
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You have to wonder if the strikes on the "drug boats" were just a way to test which generals would follow illegal orders wrt an undeclared war with Venezuela and weed out those who wouldn't.
November 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
You have to wonder if the strikes on the "drug boats" were just a way to test which generals would follow illegal orders wrt an undeclared war with Venezuela and weed out those who wouldn't.
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Hard to believe a FIFA Peace Prize laureate would do this.
January 3, 2026 at 6:56 AM
Hard to believe a FIFA Peace Prize laureate would do this.
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I HOPE YOU BOYS LIKE MEXICO. NEVERMIND. I MEAN PANAMA. WAIT. I MEAN GREENLAND. WAIT NO I MEAN TEHRAN. HOLD ON. VENEZUELA. FORGET THAT. NIGERIA. OH WAIT. TEHRAN AGAIN.
January 2, 2026 at 1:03 PM
I HOPE YOU BOYS LIKE MEXICO. NEVERMIND. I MEAN PANAMA. WAIT. I MEAN GREENLAND. WAIT NO I MEAN TEHRAN. HOLD ON. VENEZUELA. FORGET THAT. NIGERIA. OH WAIT. TEHRAN AGAIN.
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This is why they want us talking about day care scams.
December 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This is why they want us talking about day care scams.
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1/ Tina Peters is in prison for criminally breaching election security, not for exposing fraud. No court, audit, or investigation found widespread voter fraud in Colorado. Mail-in voting in Colorado has existed for years, is used by voters across parties, and has been upheld by courts.
December 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
1/ Tina Peters is in prison for criminally breaching election security, not for exposing fraud. No court, audit, or investigation found widespread voter fraud in Colorado. Mail-in voting in Colorado has existed for years, is used by voters across parties, and has been upheld by courts.
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Yup good chart! Real median income hit a record in 2024 (latest data available), real average hourly earnings are now 3.4% higher than in December 2019 and are rising ~1% per year, etc.
In theory, the so-called affordability crisis has improved since January 2023... real disposable personal income has been positive YoY for almost three years now FRED
December 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Yup good chart! Real median income hit a record in 2024 (latest data available), real average hourly earnings are now 3.4% higher than in December 2019 and are rising ~1% per year, etc.
My heart goes out to all the junior developers. It was a stroke of luck when I got my first job - they really took a chance on me. Unfortunately that's only becoming more rare. Source: digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/wp-content/u...
December 31, 2025 at 4:58 AM
My heart goes out to all the junior developers. It was a stroke of luck when I got my first job - they really took a chance on me. Unfortunately that's only becoming more rare. Source: digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/wp-content/u...
Hopefully models get small enough that you can run them locally to avoid advertisers sneaking into the responses.
The power of suggestions ... "OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT “Prioritize” Advertisers in Conversation" futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT "Prioritize" Advertisers in Conversation
OpenAI employees working on ChatGPT report plans to unleash sponsored advertisements above organic results.
futurism.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Hopefully models get small enough that you can run them locally to avoid advertisers sneaking into the responses.
The right wants you to defend criminals. You can be pro-immigration while agreeing that fraud deserves immediate deportation.
December 31, 2025 at 1:10 AM
The right wants you to defend criminals. You can be pro-immigration while agreeing that fraud deserves immediate deportation.
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james cameron every few years
December 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
james cameron every few years
Nevada because Vegas is close to so many national parks. Rhode Island was adorable if you're up this way go to Providence and Newport.
December 30, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Nevada because Vegas is close to so many national parks. Rhode Island was adorable if you're up this way go to Providence and Newport.
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The world’s largest accounting body will end online exams due to rampant cheating using AI tools.
I think this will be the endgame for any entity that wants to preserve the integrity of its testing processes including job interviews. It’s too difficult to outpace AI-based cheating at this point.
I think this will be the endgame for any entity that wants to preserve the integrity of its testing processes including job interviews. It’s too difficult to outpace AI-based cheating at this point.
Accounting body scraps remote exams to combat cheating
Decision follows scandals at Big Four and comes as AI tools make it easier to circumvent invigilators
www.ft.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The world’s largest accounting body will end online exams due to rampant cheating using AI tools.
I think this will be the endgame for any entity that wants to preserve the integrity of its testing processes including job interviews. It’s too difficult to outpace AI-based cheating at this point.
I think this will be the endgame for any entity that wants to preserve the integrity of its testing processes including job interviews. It’s too difficult to outpace AI-based cheating at this point.
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I think the speed at which the dam breaks on fossil fuels is going to make people’s heads spin, the cost and deployment speed of solar is going to be really overwhelming really fast
December 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I think the speed at which the dam breaks on fossil fuels is going to make people’s heads spin, the cost and deployment speed of solar is going to be really overwhelming really fast
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Mass Effect style dialogue wheel except the only dialogue options ever offered are "No, yeah, for sure." and "Damn, that's crazy"
December 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Mass Effect style dialogue wheel except the only dialogue options ever offered are "No, yeah, for sure." and "Damn, that's crazy"
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My two cents: Anyone who has worked with data knows that analytics involves a lot of repetitive manual tasks—essentially the intellectual, well-paid equivalent of wood chopping. In the short run, automating those functions will require organizational changes, but we'll get used to it.
December 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM
My two cents: Anyone who has worked with data knows that analytics involves a lot of repetitive manual tasks—essentially the intellectual, well-paid equivalent of wood chopping. In the short run, automating those functions will require organizational changes, but we'll get used to it.
Bonds failing to sell means people are expecting higher inflation means bond rates have to go up means mortgage rates have to go up. And there goes the housing market.
BREAKING 🚨: U.S. Treasury Market
10-Year Treasuries suffered their largest delivery fail rate in 8 years 🤯📉
10-Year Treasuries suffered their largest delivery fail rate in 8 years 🤯📉
December 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Bonds failing to sell means people are expecting higher inflation means bond rates have to go up means mortgage rates have to go up. And there goes the housing market.
Couldn't agree more. hazn.com/deathbed-reg...
![A blog post about deathbed advice/regret, from December 26, 2025.
A common social media trope is posting advice from people on their deathbed. Usually about things they didn't do. "I should've been more there for my loved ones" is a classic tune, "I should've cared less about what other people think" is another hit, usually culminating in the banger conclusion of "I should've done [a super specific personal thing like opening up a hobbyist store or buying a house in their favorite hinterland]."
I don't value this kind of advice much, it's too cheap. Just like complaining is just so cheap. Maybe there are good reasons at the time to not tackle the thing they are regretting, or they were too whiny in the first place to do transformative things. I think that's my biggest problem with deathbed regrets, it feels like time-travelled whining about your life situation.
When chronic whiners annoy you — those who love non-stop complaining more than solving — mention that their complaint just became a top deathbed regret candidate. Or you can be polite and internalize that you are probably gonna hear about the same person on their deathbed advising the exact opposite of what they're doing now. That way you can be just like me and whine about other people's whining.
So yeah I don't value regrets packaged as advice, especially from people who never acted on their advice — a.k.a. people on their deathbed. "The uncaught fish is always a big fish" is the appropriate Turkish saying1 that captures my mood.
Better advice comes from things people actually did. This is fundamentally because advice doesn't work that well, but being a role model does.
Anyway, "be less on social media" is another advice/regret I am sure will be on people's lips on their deathbeds. I'm sure because I hear it a lot. People are aware of this regret pre-deathbed and free to act on it now. Or they can just post on social media about deathbed regrets.
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December 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Couldn't agree more. hazn.com/deathbed-reg...
I wonder how it looks if you consider that homes have gotten bigger
December 28, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I wonder how it looks if you consider that homes have gotten bigger
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“the president seems to be using the doj to hide his years of involvement with the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history” feels like a story worth reporting on
December 27, 2025 at 4:22 AM
“the president seems to be using the doj to hide his years of involvement with the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history” feels like a story worth reporting on