not all economic policy has its impact felt immediately, and it is normal to give a president a couple years into their first term for their policy to ripple through the markets towards equilibrium; but what they are doing is carving the economy up into more digestible pieces for billionaires.

if you are just today learning about Monty Python's Holy Grail, then i envy you

$300K sounds about right. or we could just have Universal Basic Income and education systems that allow students to graduate free of debt so that potential parents aren't worried about their children starving to death in the AI drone wars

i'm less worried about the cause of RFK Jr. and more worried about the possibility he pupates into his final form as some kind of eldritch horror

we can flat out EXCEL if given the proper support, and that support often comes down to knowing when to step in and when to back off. like if you want me to crush a work project: 1) be direct about it, 2) give me clear guidelines/parameters, 3) give me space to do my thing, 4) enjoy the results

get out of here, loch ness monster! we don't just give $3.50 away!

Protestant Work Ethic is one of the most evil ideologies humanity has ever devised

there's a big difference between genuine loneliness (which can be experienced by anybody, of any gender) and men being pissed off because they aren't getting laid as much as they want. i feel like most people talking about the "men's loneliness epidemic" really mean the second of those two things

GLOW, Bojack Horseman, 3 Body Problem, Kaos, The Watcher

depends on how you define "satisfy," but we could give all 8.5 million people in the world decent living standards using only 30% of the global resources we currently consume. 70% of those resources would still be left over to reward the rich with luxuries

living your life with joy and optimism in a hostile world is in itself an act of resistance