Oh what I am, is what I am, oh why
@1900productions.bsky.social
Stumbling through life, trying to catch my breath
Fun fact: the last congress (2023-2025); which was Republican led, gave itself a 34% post tax raise without a vote. Good luck with your affordability issues though.
January 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Fun fact: the last congress (2023-2025); which was Republican led, gave itself a 34% post tax raise without a vote. Good luck with your affordability issues though.
Next time somebody tells you that technology creates new, better opportunities than what was available before; let them know that fast food jobs have grown at 5x the rate of population growth over the last 35 years.
December 31, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Next time somebody tells you that technology creates new, better opportunities than what was available before; let them know that fast food jobs have grown at 5x the rate of population growth over the last 35 years.
Seems odd that a guy who thought he had immunity would kill himself.
December 25, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Seems odd that a guy who thought he had immunity would kill himself.
When Lord Acton said: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." What he was pinpointing is that a certain level of wealth or power, psychosis sets in. They develop God complexes, and there's seemingly no cure other than death. Once above other humans, you can't live w/ them.
December 24, 2025 at 3:29 AM
When Lord Acton said: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." What he was pinpointing is that a certain level of wealth or power, psychosis sets in. They develop God complexes, and there's seemingly no cure other than death. Once above other humans, you can't live w/ them.
@carlquintanilla.bsky.social Strip out the pull forward in EV sales in September and GDP growth for Q3 falls to 3.3%. Consumer Spending drops into the 2s before adjusting for inflation.
December 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
@carlquintanilla.bsky.social Strip out the pull forward in EV sales in September and GDP growth for Q3 falls to 3.3%. Consumer Spending drops into the 2s before adjusting for inflation.
I feel like there's a lot of Bill Clinton apologists on here, and if your partisanship extends to child rape then I'd kindly ask you to go fuck yourself.
December 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I feel like there's a lot of Bill Clinton apologists on here, and if your partisanship extends to child rape then I'd kindly ask you to go fuck yourself.
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even among really smart folks, i think ppl have greatly underestimated just how much resources the ultra-wealthy have put into culture war bullshit to get us to fight each other instead of them
December 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
even among really smart folks, i think ppl have greatly underestimated just how much resources the ultra-wealthy have put into culture war bullshit to get us to fight each other instead of them
Let me explain the difference between percentages and nominal numbers...
Consumer confidence data is basically useless for markets/econ forecasting at this point. There is just no universe where periods when inflation was 5x as high, real income growth was deeply negative, or unemployment was more than 2x current were better than the current backdrop.
December 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Let me explain the difference between percentages and nominal numbers...
I like how every ChatGPT commercial shows a use case that's something a search engine does much more efficiently.
December 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I like how every ChatGPT commercial shows a use case that's something a search engine does much more efficiently.
Hero worship is probably the oldest form of story telling. People want to believe they are capable of more than they are so that they happily suspend disbelief for the sake of a story. You could do this take for most genres like comedies or horror movies (that they aren't realistic).
There's people who I respect and care for that are really into James Bond, but the whole thing is just so divorced and 'I read playboy for the articles' coded.
Absolutely absurd films in which physics, logic and taste have no place. At least the Fast and the Furious movies knew they were stupid.
Absolutely absurd films in which physics, logic and taste have no place. At least the Fast and the Furious movies knew they were stupid.
December 14, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Hero worship is probably the oldest form of story telling. People want to believe they are capable of more than they are so that they happily suspend disbelief for the sake of a story. You could do this take for most genres like comedies or horror movies (that they aren't realistic).
I think there's a lesson for liberals and conservatives from this Netflix documentary. For every East Coast/West Coast Blue State/Red State rivalry, there's a P Diddy pulling the strings.
December 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I think there's a lesson for liberals and conservatives from this Netflix documentary. For every East Coast/West Coast Blue State/Red State rivalry, there's a P Diddy pulling the strings.
Don't know why people think large language models will replace people w/ strong math skills when it's so much better at the things that don't require strong math skills. Misinterpreting data, always agreeing w/ people, being incapable of intellectual consistency. These things are going to run sales
December 12, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Don't know why people think large language models will replace people w/ strong math skills when it's so much better at the things that don't require strong math skills. Misinterpreting data, always agreeing w/ people, being incapable of intellectual consistency. These things are going to run sales
You're a fucking idiot. 38% of Americans are on either Medicare or Medicaid, and they tend to be less healthy than the other 62%. Do hospitals turn them away 🤡?
I pay nearly 10% of my income in insurance premiums, what do I care if it goes to the govt instead of Aetna's bottom line?
I pay nearly 10% of my income in insurance premiums, what do I care if it goes to the govt instead of Aetna's bottom line?
For all Universal HC/Single Payer/M4A advocates.
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
December 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
You're a fucking idiot. 38% of Americans are on either Medicare or Medicaid, and they tend to be less healthy than the other 62%. Do hospitals turn them away 🤡?
I pay nearly 10% of my income in insurance premiums, what do I care if it goes to the govt instead of Aetna's bottom line?
I pay nearly 10% of my income in insurance premiums, what do I care if it goes to the govt instead of Aetna's bottom line?
@mets.com after over 40 years of being a die hard Mets fan, I'm done. I don't know that I'll pick another team, but I can't root for this organization anymore. Being a Mets fan is like having your scrotum used as a speed bag.
December 11, 2025 at 2:58 AM
@mets.com after over 40 years of being a die hard Mets fan, I'm done. I don't know that I'll pick another team, but I can't root for this organization anymore. Being a Mets fan is like having your scrotum used as a speed bag.
Capitalism at the end of the day is dependent on some large entity, be it mass population or government, to overspend. Because the entire point of capitalism is to get entities to pay more for something than it's inherently worth. We call the difference profit. It's just a matter of who benefits.
December 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Capitalism at the end of the day is dependent on some large entity, be it mass population or government, to overspend. Because the entire point of capitalism is to get entities to pay more for something than it's inherently worth. We call the difference profit. It's just a matter of who benefits.
@carlquintanilla.bsky.social
You know Meta was profitable while building the Metaverse too.
That doesn't mean it made money from the Metaverse.
You know Meta was profitable while building the Metaverse too.
That doesn't mean it made money from the Metaverse.
December 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
@carlquintanilla.bsky.social
You know Meta was profitable while building the Metaverse too.
That doesn't mean it made money from the Metaverse.
You know Meta was profitable while building the Metaverse too.
That doesn't mean it made money from the Metaverse.
The POTUS who is so against Transgender & Gay people wears blush, has a VP that wears eyeliner, is building a ballroom, and we've all seen the picture of him going down on Clinton.
He doth protest too much...
He doth protest too much...
“.. What started as a 500-seat ballroom connected to the East Wing grew to 650 seats. Next, he wanted a 999-seat ballroom, then room for 1,350.” 🤡
@nytimes.com @lukebroadwater.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
@nytimes.com @lukebroadwater.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
November 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The POTUS who is so against Transgender & Gay people wears blush, has a VP that wears eyeliner, is building a ballroom, and we've all seen the picture of him going down on Clinton.
He doth protest too much...
He doth protest too much...
Tell me you don't know what the fuck you're talking about without actually saying it.
The fundamental political-economy for the government is that is objectively implementing a soft left economic policy on speed whilst being hated by lots of left leaning people because of its other policies and rhetoric.
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Tell me you don't know what the fuck you're talking about without actually saying it.
I don't know why I'm consistently surprised that anticipation of rate cuts has this global effect on equities. Truth is capitalism demands that some actors perennially overspend. If everyone practiced fiscal discipline the markets would collapse.
Asia-Pacific markets track Wall Street gains on rising Fed rate-cut expectations-CNBC
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I don't know why I'm consistently surprised that anticipation of rate cuts has this global effect on equities. Truth is capitalism demands that some actors perennially overspend. If everyone practiced fiscal discipline the markets would collapse.
They're not gay. Just bipartisan.
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
They're not gay. Just bipartisan.
Weird that they picked the NSA's code words for Trump.
November 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Weird that they picked the NSA's code words for Trump.
The idea that there is no way for the Fed to get a sense for inflation in October is laughable. Everything you buy in the grocery store is tracked by private companies. Same with home prices, rental units, gas, utility prices, etc etc.
November 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The idea that there is no way for the Fed to get a sense for inflation in October is laughable. Everything you buy in the grocery store is tracked by private companies. Same with home prices, rental units, gas, utility prices, etc etc.
We're calling it the ESAD economy. Eat Shit And Die.
November 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
We're calling it the ESAD economy. Eat Shit And Die.
Heard Sarah Eisen try to defend this obviously stupid take, and it completely validated everything I think of her.
Tariffs “don’t raise prices.”
But now that we’re dropping them, they’ll lower prices. 🤡
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/4e55...
But now that we’re dropping them, they’ll lower prices. 🤡
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/4e55...
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Heard Sarah Eisen try to defend this obviously stupid take, and it completely validated everything I think of her.
AI is great for repetitive & low skill tasks like writing hit country songs. 👀
AXIOS: “Two of the hottest songs in country music were generated by artificial intelligence,” pitting AI against humans who earn their living as songwriters ..
A “human singer-songwriter .. is #2 ..”
@axios.com
www.axios.com/local/nashvi...
A “human singer-songwriter .. is #2 ..”
@axios.com
www.axios.com/local/nashvi...
November 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
AI is great for repetitive & low skill tasks like writing hit country songs. 👀