And to be really clear, I think he's perfectly intelligent and absolutely understands statistics. I've never seen a clearer case of someone's bad ideology absolutely wrecking their ability to remain objective.
Burning myself on the electrified-pantograph of politics.
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And to be really clear, I think he's perfectly intelligent and absolutely understands statistics. I've never seen a clearer case of someone's bad ideology absolutely wrecking their ability to remain objective.
He got more hate than he deserved after 2016 and I continued to read him and 538. However he deserves all the hate he's gotten since 2020 when he became a covid denialist because he wanted restaurants to stay open. His ability to read and interpret stats truly was called into question.
He's clearly lost weight the way people sometimes do when they age. Probably eating a lot less. No other insights - he could easily live out his term and beyond - but he looks like older people I know that are clearly in a new phase of older life.
My friend has this shirt, has absolutely forgotten he's wearing it in a ton of family and social situations, and has 0 regrets. 10/10 purchase.
I can't believe they don't respect his theoretical uniform.
Sincere question, is just showing up on Friday the best way to plug in? I've protested many times, but I'll admit I'm not really comfortable getting arrested at the moment. I want to support these efforts, I'm nearby, and the more people there the safer those getting arrested are.
I got arrested yesterday! (real drop off from being a corporate law firm associate five months ago. or upgrade.) I was blocking vehicles leaving from ICE’s Broadview, IL, staging ground and de facto detention center at 1930 Beach St. full statement (for now) below.
Two different hikes this week. Yellowjackets getting aggressive are the real hallmark of Fall.
AoE attack incoming at the very least.
Turns out it’s a thing
I'm fairly smart, but have fully embraced dumb-guy-socialism to avoid every morally bankrupt centrist argument. I don't need to understand housing policy to know that throwing out a homeless person's personal possessions is evil and wrong. Just help other people no matter how smart you are.
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
I hate this fucker so much and I have good normie friends on Facebook posting about how great he is.
Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy
20 years ago I was at a presentation on fair trade and organic certification, and the guy was arguing "our economy is MORE VALUABLE BECAUSE the products are more expensive." And it really shows the limitations of thinking of social good as a consumer let alone what a maga guy might be thinking.
I really took a stand when my pfp was 14 that I wasn't going to pay for tests and/or surgery to discover what exactly was wrong with his kidneys. And he lived to be 17.5 (small 15lb dog). But it was after so many 3-figure visits that really added up.
Yeah, one could make the argument that racism is the fundamental problem greater than capitalism. But capitalism is the economic vehicle for how racism is replicated and spread across different nations and racial hierarchies. I wish it were simple! Words are meant for people who understand them.
Stolen IP or not, the original Blizzard made genuinely great games. It wasn't until the WoW money went to their head and Vivendi merged with Activision that the rot began to set in. And even then, it took several years to burn through the quality work in the pipeline to become its current self.
This is really well done. Your patience is incredible.
Basically George HW Bush is made Director of the CIA in 1976 under Ford and his entire mission in the wake of the Church Committee is to move the operations away from Congressional oversight into the Executive, a mission he basically completed as Vice-President.
Seth Harp's new book explains that much of the covert activities we associate with the CIA were moved over to JSOC, Joint Special Operations Command, which reports directly through the military and executive branch and isn't even subject to the weak Congressional oversight the CIA has.
Finished listening to a Seth Harp interview and I'm retreating to more benign conspiracy theories to cope. American Eagle and Cracker Barell spent 7 figures paying right-wing shitheads to promote bullshit backlash in order to increase brand visibility with the US president getting a significant cut.
I'm convinced it's some kind of viral marketing that they paid lots of money for to right-wing griftluencers.
If you're using an app to record their deathrattles the cause of death.. might be you.
Is Zohran a generational talent with an incredible video production team? Yes. But it's against the backdrop of his closest rival posting stuff like this in response.
The NYC mayors race is the only good political news. Even the news items about Cuomo and Adams have been consistently hilarious. Being utter clowns is giving us the best possible Mamdani campaign.
One of the meanings of BLM is socialist programs are untenable unless you proudly stand up for the inherent dignity and worth of everyone. If you let black people or LGBT be unworthy, of respect or public spending, then no one is getting universal healthcare and everyone gets more cops and jails.
There's nothing wrong with a little honest graft.
Man, his TrueAnon episode from last year kinda fucked me up. And I'm still only about halfway through the book launch interview from the other week. I'm definitely going to buy it and read it, but I know it's going to inflict Lovecraftian psychic damage.
My concern is that broadly implemented it would get sucked up by landlords and other rent-seekers. That's where A LOT of wage growth of non-homeowners currently ends up. Feels like if we had the political will and means to do unrestricted UBI we could do so much more with housing and healthcare.
Let's just say I don't think Newsom's social media strategy is going to carry him to victory in the cold civil war if enough red states put Trump on the ballot.
If Trump genuinely runs for a third term, and I think you're characterizing everything fairly, then any normal Dem campaign against it, whether it's someone I like or a vampire like Newsom, is bound to fail. The reality where I'm critiquing Newsom's campaign strategy against Trump 3 is BLEAK.
Meh, Pritzker was just on Colbert and is doing a lot behind the scenes. I don't think being a loud asshole is the way to win the Democratic primary. It's kind of like he's trying to make an electability argument to D primary voters about the general. But Trump's not running in '28.
Oh, this is a great piece. I've never read this interpretation before, and you've fully convinced me. It really is their best movie.
Tyson Chicken Sphere
You are thinking too small. If there is a non-zero chance of Jessica Rabbit being real and we work against her being realized into existence won't she punish us once created? Won't she grind us under her high heels until we are dust? Won't we be tormented into eternity by this Roger's Basilisk?
Venus de Milo (approx. 100 BC)
Look, he might be judgmental of women, but he personally got the buccal fat removal surgery so he puts his money where his mouth was.
Incredible artifact
The Mask has numerous magical abilities not the least of which is removing the buccal fat of the wearer.
i really mean this pretty literally: yglesias cannot process the idea of believing in something. he only processes the world transactionally. he thinks pursuing a cause that does not have a clear route to success is being a "dupe" because it does not fit neatly into some grand bargain.
NBC will realize the same thing HBO did that MS MAX is a better name than MS NOW. But the MS doesn't really convey that they're a news organization so my suggestion is that they rebrand as NEWS MAX.
Fascism is weaponized to crush an organized left, but we don't really have one in this country. All right-wing grievances are broadly cultural or laser-focused on the Democratic party. Some Democrats are still trying to use Trump to discipline the left and don't realize the danger they're in.
Gavin Newsom can eat my entire asshole, sorry if you think he should be president because he hired a funny epic bacon social media manager last week
can i explain the gap on my resume? uh okay…thought this was obvious but that was when i didn’t have a job. you okay man
Genuinely illuminating though on the transition of covert ops away from the CIA to Joint Special Operations Command following the Church Committee reforms and the subsequent election of George HW Bush as Vice President. Definitely one of our most evil politicians of all time.
Listening to Seth Harp at his live book launch for The Fort Bragg Cartel. Just like his previous interview with Liz and Brace I'm infected by a Lovecraftian kind of madness. All these horrors lurking out of sight running parallel to our universe. My brain screaming, "Don't look at them!"
My extemperaneous thoughts with heavy spoilers in the thread. bsky.app/profile/metr...
If you could, would you go back in time and kill baby Hater?
Yes, and that in turn can lead to hairy palms and blindness.
Nah. The entire point of the mob is that they justified everything by pointing to the robber barons and other capitalists. Also, there's tons of overlap between organized crime and the current capitalist class including the actual president.
Compared to MAGA folks still strongly tied to reality. But for example my dad was shell shocked by Biden's terrible debate performance last year (and knew it was terrible) but was confused when I explained that he'd been showing senility for months. Actual quote, "Why wouldn't CNN report that?"
My dad is a reasonably informed guy who is completely open to left-wing sources, but mostly consumes mainstream cable news (cnn and msnbc). Savvy enough to detect that crypto was BS, but is way way less skeptical of AI. They're laundering this one a lot more successfully to normies.
how much money has been wasted and ink spilled over Trump’s ostensible political coalition, which disintegrated in a few months?
The creator of the wire, who is not great on these issues, once had a great thread explaining that departmental procedure REQUIRES them to charge you if they touch you. If they don't then the dept can be sued, but if they make up bullshit for the paperwork that they later decide to drop it's all ok.
I guess on a very basic level we need to tell people over and over that watching cable news is not something a smart person does it’s the opposite of that. You can feel free to watch Top Chef or baseball or Mario 64 speedruns, none of them, genuinely, will make you as ignorant as CNN shouty bullshit
Vipteran is the NPC all the players had their own reasons for tracking down. They found him, saved him, and then saved a bunch of dwarves at his request. He is central to the story I came up with, a Very Important Person Human, aka Vipter[r]an.
the storm sorcerer Vipteran stand against the gathering forces of evil and root out the cause, but only if he helps them open a brownie shop/cat cafe in the frontier town where their adventure began. He may know some nobles who could help.
Just finished my 8th and final DnD session for the summer, running a game for my 11yo son, 10yo niece, and 4 of their friends. I even did a session 0 so they could all get a handle on what kind of character they wanted to play and their motivations. Today they agreed to help..
I'm not comparing Mamdani to Obama on policy or approach, but part of Obama's meteoric rise was running against the most buffoonish opponents Illinois had to offer until they ran out and had to recruit Alan Keyes from MD. Dunking on weak opponents is GREAT for your campaign and party building.
been hammering for so long that the thing about "don't assume malice where incompetence would fit" is that it not only actively works to avoid where there is very obvious malice, but it also implies that they're trying hard but just suck, when they very clearly would prefer to work very little
Imagining a better timeline where Rick Perry trips balls so hard he becomes Greta Thunberg 2
They've made like a dozen near-perfect movies and Fargo is the best one.
Underwater in the polls. Underwater in the shoals.
It's a great video, but I prefer the one from months ago before the primary where he's just constructing additional pylons.
I'm Jewish and I think about antisemitism all the time. I can't tell you how fucking weird it is that Homeland Security posting literal neo-Nazi propaganda generates less discussion about the threat to Jews than a mayoral candidate who believes Palestinians are human beings.
Learned economists have assured me that it's based on pure self-interest. I'm not interested in crashing the economy today so we're all good.
Getting a call on my cellphone from an AI voice that *I know* is how my dog would talk if he could. He tells me he's at the shelter and he needs me to Western Union $500 in the next hour or they're going to have to put him down.
One of the takeaways from the full Epstein story is that a huge chunk of DC is run on systemic mutual social blackmail. And it seems to be a pretty open secret (see below). And that's pedophilia! Let alone something "victimless" like insider trading or financial crimes.
Yeah, what this chart gets wrong is that the DC political class (electeds, staffers, consultants/lobbyists, media) are all practicing friend/enemy politics and THEY are all friends with each other. RBG and Scalia were BFFs! Pelosi WANTS a strong Republican party. They're open about this!
Check out Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Post Punk Kitchen. Truly great recipes, I own 2 of her books. Also, I'll usually pick my protein when looking up a recipe (ie lentils, tofu) and try to find a good recipe based around that. Still, I agree there is a lot of slop (digital and culinary) out there.
Oh shit, it's already almost 930 on a Monday and I haven't done my searches yet today!
You have more money than God. But you want incentives to do good, moral things?
get his ass, Martha
Everything with Epstein and Congress when you reflect on it makes you consider that "the old boys club" isn't this social barrier women might be able to break but a system of mutual blackmail. Martha Stewart probably wasn't that clumsy with insider trading, she just didn't blackmail anyone first.
If being kind or understanding towards anyone, especially a non-christian, shakes your faith in any way, it's a sign of satan and deception. It takes Luthers 'faith alone' argument to a comical extreme where it's ok to shun all of society and world so long as you keep faith in your own locked room.
I had no idea about any of this but have begun understanding it tangentially. I describe it that the ONLY thing that matters theologically is faith in Jesus, and being a good person isn't even a requisite. So ANYTHING that makes you doubt or question is to be attacked ON principle.
I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was
a video game where you have to steal the pierogi you've been denied every run of the game starts from scratch on a randomized map it's called a pieroguelike
I don't care how derivative it is, I love a good Marthavinyardania.
As long as we can fast forward through the boring parts of bloodsport.
youtu.be/uXKoiJrEUtI?...
really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not
Put 👏 More 👏 Seat 👏 Belts 👏 In 👏 Tanks 👏
The Irish Wizard Goodbye
Thank goodness we have a robust government grant system outside the private sector that invests heavily in resear.. oh, oh no.
It's so backwards that ML should be continuing to drive high tech growth, jobs, and higher education and instead the grand promise driving the investment bubble is 'AI' and LLMs will eliminate jobs and cut costs.
The crazy part is that ML is super amazing with tons of unexplored scientific applications, but 1) none of that are the LLMs being pushed on average consumers/users; 2) it doesn't replace any jobs and instead often takes highly educated teams of people to develop a novel experiment or application.
CK's soaring popularity, (deserved) cancellation, and heel turn has influenced comedy over the last decade. Why craft a unique comedic voice if you can still get cancelled for treating women like shit. Best to be a terrible person from the outset, vice signal to everyone, especially your audience.
I appreciate his take too because it's specific to comedy. His point is the entire pipeline of comedians are parroting Rogan bullshit, not that your average club comedian has a big cultural impact. Less people cultivating or crafting a unique comedic voice. I really wonder how much..
The fact that I sincerely believed this to be about a football team called the woodpeckers goes to show the incredible potential and technology underlying the code. If it can already do this I can't imagine what it might be capable of with an exponential amount of time.
I bought a big package of buddha fruit snacks, but I took one bite and now have no desire to eat them.
A storage unit infested with ants is my best guess.
Tbf Blizzard has a long history of Nerfing the wrong things in their games.
We appear to be equally clever.
I guess we'll never know, but I agree with you that the only safe electoral strategy going forward is being against genocide from the beginning.
BREAKING: Trump is taking questions from the White House Bathroom where he is tearing slices of bread into small pieces and jamming them into the toilet paper tube still on the spindle. "Just taking a little look.. the ballroom.. this is just another great way to spend my money."