it’s a choice to play the game on the easiest setting
steroids is an inapt comparison—for the steroids to do you any good, you had to be able to hit the ball in the first place
oh so that’s how the Times found her
hmm, I guess that means the UK is woke, and also Islamofied
a good half of our problem is low hundreds of dipshits gassing each other up on particular websites. if half those guys end up in prison and the websites are gone or neutered, well
Kindleberger trap
I can’t walk out
I’m not the hegemon, baby
Why can’t you see
What you’re doing to me
My security umbrella’s tearing
We can’t go on together
Strait of Hormuz is mined
Can’t keep the sea lanes open
With suspicious mines
Lorenzo Valla was the founder of antifa
“why does mention of the president make you feel so emotional?”
TO: Doug Feith FROM: Donald Rumsfeld SUBJECT: Issues w/Various Countries We need more coercive diplomacy with respect to Syria and Libya, and we need it fast. If they mess up Iraq, it will delay bringing our troops home. We also need to solve the Pakistan problem. And Korea doesn’t seem to be going well. Are you coming up with proposals for me to send around? Thanks.
Crosby deal nixed. Cs and Spurs in a dogfight. We invaded Madagascar. Bam on fire.
I 100% knew that AI would be the culprit here
*Is* this actually the end of conservatism? This might be surprising, but I actually agree with him that it's possible. I have certainly spent a lot of time lying awake at night, wondering if we simply have nothing left to offer a world so thoroughly transformed from our 18th-century origins.
there’s a structural reason here. mamdani’s response was to take an opportunity to make content - and therefore give the rest of the media some easy meta-content - and turn it down. he put governing ahead of content. our political media hates nothing more than someone who denies them easy content.
they were also based on a keen interest in the processes through which reality is socially constructed. Dick believed that we all live in a world where “spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups—and the electronic hardware exists by which to deliver these pseudo-worlds right into heads of the reader.” He argued: the bombardment of pseudo-realities begins to produce inauthentic humans very quickly, spurious humans—as fake as the data pressing at them from all sides. My two topics are really one topic; they unite at this point. Fake realities will create fake humans. Or, fake humans will generate fake realities and then sell them to other humans, turning them, eventually, into forgeries of themselves. So we wind up with fake humans inventing fake realities and then peddling them to other fake humans. In Dick’s books, the real and the unreal infect each other, so that it becomes increasingly impossible to tell the difference between them.
“We live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s,” reads the subhed here: www.bostonreview.net/articles/hen...
Other supposed benefits of the filibuster keep conspicuously failing to materialize. In theory, the sixty-vote legislative threshold is supposed to induce some bipartisanship. Meanwhile, we’re breaking the record for longest government shutdown. There are better arguments for the filibuster—including that it does still frustrate some parts of Trump’s agenda. And of course this is the reason Trump wants to do away with it. But the filibuster constrains the president only in ways that are distorted and strange. The only major policy bills that make it through the Senate these days are passed via the odd auxiliary method of budget reconciliation, which lets the Senate dodge the filibuster for certain bills that deal with federal spending and revenues. In practice, this system perversely ties Trump and his lawmakers more closely together, since the only hope for getting anything significant passed is to graft it onto one of the major reconciliation packages, like the One Big Beautiful Bill, that the president spearheads and promises to sign.
no one ever doubted that the filibuster could on occasion bring favored results; but that doesn’t mean it’s overall a good thing
it’s an accidental creation that hinders legislative policymaking and obscures responsibility.
from a few months ago: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-r...
incredible performance, just a shame it came at the expense of America’s Team
there are of course pockets of white conservatives who display genuine merit; but if their chief proposal to increase representation is for universities to lower their standards, genuinely meritorious whites will, tragically, remain the exception rather than the rule
crisis of morality among the white males. where are the fathers?
is it wrong to think that the Post is being run not as a business, but as a third-tier component of a conglomerate?
and Booker’s answer on The Economy is… tax cuts?!? this weak triangulation had worn out its welcome by 1997
so sick of this guy’s golden tongue and mealy mouth
Normie libs think that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. bsky.app/profile/dipl...
“A new study from Northwestern University warns that coordinated scientific fraud is becoming increasingly common. From fabricated data to purchased authorships and paid citations, researchers say organized groups are manipulating the academic publishing system. To investigate the issue, scientists combined large scale analysis of scientific publications with detailed case studies. While misconduct is often portrayed as the work of individual researchers cutting corners, the Northwestern team discovered something far more complex. Their findings reveal global networks of people and organizations working together to systematically exploit weaknesses in the publishing process. The scale of the problem is striking. According to the researchers, traudulent studies are now appearing at a faster rate than legitimate scientific publications. The authors say the findings should serve as a warning to the scientific community to strengthen safeguards before public trust in s E ence begins to erode.”
“This study is probably the most depressing project I've been involved with in my entire life…It's distressing to see others engage in fraud &in misleading others. But if you believe that science is useful & important for humanity, then you have to fight for it”🧪
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Mayor Quimby even released Sideshow Bob
maybe an investigation of Ted Cruz for rigging the Iowa primaries could illuminate the issue www.politico.com/story/2016/0...
The prescience of this one I think gives it the advantage theonion.com/this-war-wil...
bookmarking all sorts of things on this list!
hope’s mausoleum
we have always been at war with Central Asia
Ted Nguyen and Marshall Newhouse also had a good one www.youtube.com/@JustWinPodc...
oh I meant “serious” to be modifying “podcasters/writers”!
sure, at the end of the day, it’s all entertainment, but an unscripted sport is a different kind of thing than pro wrestling.
