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the animating principle of capitalism is the transfer of wealth from the people who do all the work to people who do nothing at all
February 22, 2024 at 8:18 PM
the animating principle of capitalism is the transfer of wealth from the people who do all the work to people who do nothing at all
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There's this wild Lovecraftian horror to a grown adult talking about how great it'll be when AI can make full-length movies and books based on a few prompts, because you suddenly realize they've only ever seen shadows dancing on the cave wall for their whole life. Nothing has meant anything to them.
February 18, 2024 at 6:57 PM
There's this wild Lovecraftian horror to a grown adult talking about how great it'll be when AI can make full-length movies and books based on a few prompts, because you suddenly realize they've only ever seen shadows dancing on the cave wall for their whole life. Nothing has meant anything to them.
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leaf blowers are perfect avatars of capitalism - incredibly loud, polluting replacements for effective traditional methods that "solve" the problem of leaves and debris by blowing them into the street
December 14, 2023 at 11:27 PM
leaf blowers are perfect avatars of capitalism - incredibly loud, polluting replacements for effective traditional methods that "solve" the problem of leaves and debris by blowing them into the street
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In some cases, you can and should speak ill of the dead.
November 30, 2023 at 12:33 PM
In some cases, you can and should speak ill of the dead.
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robert kagan is…not great, but the overall thrust of this essay — that there is a pretty clear path to outright autocracy — is basically right. and i continue to think that trump’s great advantage is the entrenched american belief that “it can’t happen here.”
Opinion | The Trump dictatorship
The Trump dictatorship is closer and more inevitable than Americans realize. So why is everyone behaving like normal?
www.washingtonpost.com
November 30, 2023 at 2:56 PM
robert kagan is…not great, but the overall thrust of this essay — that there is a pretty clear path to outright autocracy — is basically right. and i continue to think that trump’s great advantage is the entrenched american belief that “it can’t happen here.”
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"Who is Janet?" — George Santos, when texted about Janet Yellen
November 16, 2023 at 8:51 PM
"Who is Janet?" — George Santos, when texted about Janet Yellen
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Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day for those that celebrate
November 14, 2023 at 9:06 AM
Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day for those that celebrate
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new bsky accounts should get a welcome lootbox containing a comprehensive lore pdf, a coupon for one followback from a good account and three banger posts to get them started
November 10, 2023 at 12:20 AM
new bsky accounts should get a welcome lootbox containing a comprehensive lore pdf, a coupon for one followback from a good account and three banger posts to get them started
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New York Post newsroom finding out the mayor has a Turkey-related scandal breaking in November
November 9, 2023 at 5:32 PM
New York Post newsroom finding out the mayor has a Turkey-related scandal breaking in November
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The hot take (not even that hot) is that Manchin was doomed, and has freed up millions of dollars Democrats can use on less-doomed candidates (Tester, Brown).
November 9, 2023 at 8:39 PM
The hot take (not even that hot) is that Manchin was doomed, and has freed up millions of dollars Democrats can use on less-doomed candidates (Tester, Brown).
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“If you’re angry about THIS, but not about THAT—“
Bro I’m gonna have to stop you there, I am angry about so many things all of the time, I have never in my life been angry about just one thing at a time, my capacity for “things to be angry about” is as wide and as deep as the sea
Bro I’m gonna have to stop you there, I am angry about so many things all of the time, I have never in my life been angry about just one thing at a time, my capacity for “things to be angry about” is as wide and as deep as the sea
November 4, 2023 at 12:30 AM
“If you’re angry about THIS, but not about THAT—“
Bro I’m gonna have to stop you there, I am angry about so many things all of the time, I have never in my life been angry about just one thing at a time, my capacity for “things to be angry about” is as wide and as deep as the sea
Bro I’m gonna have to stop you there, I am angry about so many things all of the time, I have never in my life been angry about just one thing at a time, my capacity for “things to be angry about” is as wide and as deep as the sea
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how did humans hunt and gather before podcasts were invented
November 3, 2023 at 4:02 PM
how did humans hunt and gather before podcasts were invented
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a new mayor has been chosen by the council
So there is literal green slime bubbling up from the ground next to the World Trade Center in NYC right now
November 3, 2023 at 1:27 PM
a new mayor has been chosen by the council
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i like to type up an opinion that would get me yelled at on here and then hit cancel and delete it. writing a letter and then never sending it. whispering into the void
November 1, 2023 at 12:13 AM
i like to type up an opinion that would get me yelled at on here and then hit cancel and delete it. writing a letter and then never sending it. whispering into the void
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Today in Chicago our second most evil alderman is at city council dressed like Sub Zero trying to make it so families need a permit to put up a little free library. I am not lying or exaggerating. In this photo our mostly ok but fake DSA lib alderman is dressed like a little free library. It’s fun
October 31, 2023 at 6:28 PM
Today in Chicago our second most evil alderman is at city council dressed like Sub Zero trying to make it so families need a permit to put up a little free library. I am not lying or exaggerating. In this photo our mostly ok but fake DSA lib alderman is dressed like a little free library. It’s fun
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the objectively funniest period in history was just after the fall of the soviet union because neoliberal academics all got so tremendously fucking high that they wrote shit like "history is over" or "it is physically impossible for two countries to go to war if both have a McDonald's"
November 1, 2023 at 2:19 AM
the objectively funniest period in history was just after the fall of the soviet union because neoliberal academics all got so tremendously fucking high that they wrote shit like "history is over" or "it is physically impossible for two countries to go to war if both have a McDonald's"
This is just every morning for me
October 31, 2023 at 2:12 PM
This is just every morning for me
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76 degrees days from November… our grandchildren are not receiving a habitable planet!
October 28, 2023 at 4:43 PM
76 degrees days from November… our grandchildren are not receiving a habitable planet!
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Landlords are all scum
October 25, 2023 at 11:55 AM
Landlords are all scum