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sports, politics, occasionally complaining about modernity. letters after name haver (educational psychology)
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Some people deeply need to log off and go outside Jesus Christ
so just ignoring the actual like insane thing here, switzerland does not have a prime minister. its a confederation with a president.
Trump: "So I put on a 30% tariff, which is very low. I got an emergency call from I believe the prime minister of Switzerland. She was very aggressive ... I didn't really like the way she talked to us, so instead of giving her a reduction, I raised it to 39%."
February 11, 2026 at 5:58 AM
so just ignoring the actual like insane thing here, switzerland does not have a prime minister. its a confederation with a president.
larian knew exactly what they were doing
February 11, 2026 at 4:54 AM
larian knew exactly what they were doing
Even like a decade ago it would be a driving story that every pol would be expected to comment on
Honestly I’m shocked Trump hasn’t claimed she was kidnapped by cartels
Honestly I’m shocked Trump hasn’t claimed she was kidnapped by cartels
This Nancy Guthrie story is a 90s news story happening in the middle of the downfall of the Republic. Like if OJ was happening during Vietnam.
February 11, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Even like a decade ago it would be a driving story that every pol would be expected to comment on
Honestly I’m shocked Trump hasn’t claimed she was kidnapped by cartels
Honestly I’m shocked Trump hasn’t claimed she was kidnapped by cartels
“I will take the side of massive violations of human rights and dignity for do made up bullshit”
Here’s the whole sad bag of pathology if you can stomach it. What an absolute subnormal.
February 10, 2026 at 9:16 PM
“I will take the side of massive violations of human rights and dignity for do made up bullshit”
If you care about the nuts and bolts of college sports, subscribe to Matt’s work.
I get it. Nobody has enough money to pay for every paywalled thing they want to read.
But there is no way to write about what I write about, at the *scale* I write about it, and pay all of our bills just with ad revenue. Paywalls, for us, are necessary. You all wouldn't like the alternative.
But there is no way to write about what I write about, at the *scale* I write about it, and pay all of our bills just with ad revenue. Paywalls, for us, are necessary. You all wouldn't like the alternative.
February 10, 2026 at 7:39 PM
If you care about the nuts and bolts of college sports, subscribe to Matt’s work.
Last thing and then I’m mostly done for today— but one of my biggest pet peeves in This Space is listening to people claim to be high information but routinely display about (or less than) the same level of civic incuriousness and moral dereliction as the “hogs” they disdain.
February 10, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Last thing and then I’m mostly done for today— but one of my biggest pet peeves in This Space is listening to people claim to be high information but routinely display about (or less than) the same level of civic incuriousness and moral dereliction as the “hogs” they disdain.
“Nothing has changed for the better in my entire life” is an incredible statement to make if you are older than like 12.
Also tells me a lot about your demographics!
Also tells me a lot about your demographics!
February 10, 2026 at 7:23 PM
“Nothing has changed for the better in my entire life” is an incredible statement to make if you are older than like 12.
Also tells me a lot about your demographics!
Also tells me a lot about your demographics!
Okay but even if you believe this they didn’t and it was fucking 35 years ago. We can move on to the current situation.
Elliott Morris' "actually any Democrat could have won in 1992, even Bernie Sanders" seems deeply foolish and uninformed to me, a person who lived through 1992.
February 10, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Okay but even if you believe this they didn’t and it was fucking 35 years ago. We can move on to the current situation.
One of my consistent takes for like a decade plus online has been that there is no meaningful difference in a US Context between these two words. As we fight against literal Fash, it is even more imperative to cut out the dumb infighting.
This goes for all of us!
This goes for all of us!
a thing we should consciously do on this website is stop just imagining LeftistsTM and LibsTM in these cartoonishly stupid ways, as though these guys in people’s heads are in any way representative of either
the thing that gets me about the antivoting leftists is that they don't just want to not vote. they want to not vote and have all the rest of us admit how cool and good it is. a participation trophy for laziness
February 10, 2026 at 6:57 PM
One of my consistent takes for like a decade plus online has been that there is no meaningful difference in a US Context between these two words. As we fight against literal Fash, it is even more imperative to cut out the dumb infighting.
This goes for all of us!
This goes for all of us!
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a thing we should consciously do on this website is stop just imagining LeftistsTM and LibsTM in these cartoonishly stupid ways, as though these guys in people’s heads are in any way representative of either
the thing that gets me about the antivoting leftists is that they don't just want to not vote. they want to not vote and have all the rest of us admit how cool and good it is. a participation trophy for laziness
February 10, 2026 at 6:45 PM
a thing we should consciously do on this website is stop just imagining LeftistsTM and LibsTM in these cartoonishly stupid ways, as though these guys in people’s heads are in any way representative of either
We’re all 38 year old dorks who engage in politics, unless you’re a complete weirdo who should go away, we prob agree on 99% of things and all voted correctly.
The flip side to a lot if this infighting is basically this but from another perspective.
Like virtually everyone on this website who isn’t a tankie weirdo is a reliable dem voter who almost certainly has voted in every election since they were eligible lol
Like virtually everyone on this website who isn’t a tankie weirdo is a reliable dem voter who almost certainly has voted in every election since they were eligible lol
February 10, 2026 at 6:43 PM
We’re all 38 year old dorks who engage in politics, unless you’re a complete weirdo who should go away, we prob agree on 99% of things and all voted correctly.
Today’s vibes
*endless screaming*
February 10, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Today’s vibes
unrelated one of my schools is doing this for their community engagement event and I am asking many questions about our country: www.radkids.org
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February 10, 2026 at 6:06 PM
unrelated one of my schools is doing this for their community engagement event and I am asking many questions about our country: www.radkids.org
I have a lot of thoughts about when people take themselves too seriously and come of sounding like tiny dictators when it’s, at best it’s a first among equals thing
February 10, 2026 at 5:58 PM
I have a lot of thoughts about when people take themselves too seriously and come of sounding like tiny dictators when it’s, at best it’s a first among equals thing
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It’s because he was a meme and now has a Super Bowl ring
kinda dont understand how sam darnold has become a central talking point of the super bowl. certainly wasn’t his best game. but we did see an all time defense pummel their opponent so bad it never felt like they were in the game as seattle racked up field goals
February 10, 2026 at 5:43 PM
It’s because he was a meme and now has a Super Bowl ring
I am once again asking why we are having a Google meeting when we’re all in the same building that is one floor
February 10, 2026 at 5:31 PM
I am once again asking why we are having a Google meeting when we’re all in the same building that is one floor
There are people who I very much enjoy their non political opinions but whose political takes are just ass
February 10, 2026 at 5:09 PM
There are people who I very much enjoy their non political opinions but whose political takes are just ass
You know, I do support wedgies
February 10, 2026 at 4:15 PM
You know, I do support wedgies
One of things people on this site need to learn to do, and it would make them much happier, is to simply understand that not every message is for them. Related, they should learn what a rhetorical device is and how they function.
February 10, 2026 at 4:05 PM
One of things people on this site need to learn to do, and it would make them much happier, is to simply understand that not every message is for them. Related, they should learn what a rhetorical device is and how they function.
it is wild to me that a guy claiming to be an expert in us politics would write this shit, because yes, this is a very basic point about how our system works.
one thing that has always confused me about these hypos where the House refuses to recognize Dem winners—the House isn't a continuing body, and it wouldn't be the current House that would be seating anyone. it's the incoming House. www.vox.com/politics/478...
February 10, 2026 at 12:57 AM
it is wild to me that a guy claiming to be an expert in us politics would write this shit, because yes, this is a very basic point about how our system works.
lol
Trump, in the middle of his latest unhinged Truth Social screed, claims that if Canada makes a trade deal with China, "the first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup."
February 9, 2026 at 11:13 PM
lol
A lot of people sound a lot like characters they very much would not identify with from various episodes of TNG/Voyager that address the nature of “artificial” life
I think a lot of anger about AI-art is that people mean different things by ‘Art’
-Art the quasi-spiritual conceptual process and means of interpolating life
-Art the production of cultural content that satisfies some subjective standard
-Art the product people will pay for
All different.
-Art the quasi-spiritual conceptual process and means of interpolating life
-Art the production of cultural content that satisfies some subjective standard
-Art the product people will pay for
All different.
Literally by definition an LLM cannot ever produce something above average, but there’s a big market for mediocre.
February 9, 2026 at 10:10 PM
A lot of people sound a lot like characters they very much would not identify with from various episodes of TNG/Voyager that address the nature of “artificial” life
February 9, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Thought experiment: if Trump offered to Resign in Disgrace in return for not getting prosecuted would you take it?
February 9, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Thought experiment: if Trump offered to Resign in Disgrace in return for not getting prosecuted would you take it?