Like the whole narrative story of World War 1, the second most destructive conflict in human history, was so stupid in the immediate aftermath basically everyone was like 'the fuck was that even FOR'
“Non-diverse participants” is the euphemism of the year
I’m incredibly disappointed to learn that Analtech in Newark changed its name to Miles Scientific.
The fundamental problem with TACO expectations is he’ll only respond to crude oil and pump prices, and we have some levers to modulate those.
Meanwhile all the other supply chains breaking are acutely felt elsewhere in the world right now and by the time we get hit with impacts, it’s far too late.
When I was a kid, I was very impressed by a guy saw who’d taken the M off this hat:
so you're saying the big bang theory unleashed a chain reaction resulting in the creation & independent growth of several different entities in its wake??
Website that didn't know what The Good Doctor was until the memes showed up 7 years later: "I know what the American people want"
when you’re arguing about politics here on bluesky just remember there’s a young sheldon spinoff called george and mandy’s first marriage that’s watched by millions of people
i mean, for one, Asia contains a whole lot more people than Europe or the Americas
and second of all, emerging markets don't have the same level of capacity to respond to energy crisis that developed markets have the capacity to do
Will we all survive? Sure. There will just be a cascading effect of oil / gas / etc price inflation, followed by transportation price inflation, followed by energy price inflation, followed by transportation price inflation (part deux), and both of these will have a generalised inflationary pressure
The thing about the early Church is that they did a pretty good job of identifying the most plausible texts.
New Gospel authenticated after Jesus uses two different parables to explain it wasn’t him after a spectacular fart.
you can tell Wired has been doing good journalism lately because there's been increased whining by the extraction class about how Wired mysteriously changed in the decade since tech titans fully revealed themselves as sociopaths
from this recent Dorsey interview:
It comes to mind that the “non-magical” option for Jesus’ resurrection is just that he survived a notoriously-brutal crucifixion. That essentially makes him the Roman Empire equivalent of Half-Hanged Smith, and it’d make perfect sense that his sect of Judaism would’ve caught on
i think it's actually instructive to compare him to the Baal Shem Tov, another rural holy man from nowhere who spawned an entire religious movement but who went entirely undocumented during his actually quite recent life
That young Irish fellow? Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.
First, we have to find the most chaotic bisexual Macedonian alcoholic ever to exist. Second, sticks. They got to be pointy, and reeaallyy long...
Probably unpopular opinion: Fetterman and Platner go in the same box
Eggs ran me three greenbacks from my last cheque.
Parker is not good on some issues, but increasing shelter beds and opening more addiction treatment centers has been so badly needed. Good for her for being the one to finally do it.
If Khameini's so great, how come they didn't make a Khameini 2?
Wait... I'm being handed a note.
Oh.
Excited to see what blatant lie from the administration Wall Street is going to rally on today.
Is Iraqi ultranationalism a thing in Baghdad's politics these days? I feel like having your nation's sovereignty treated with casual disrespect by literally everyone on every side for over twenty years would get alienating after a point.
No we are NOT going to try to rehabilitate TikTok as a source of information.
TikTok was and is a cesspool of falsehood and bigotry controlled by an algorithm designed to intensify it.
So here we have the president deeming a lawmaker who has been mildly critical of him a traitor to the country.
Once again, just imagine Obama or Biden declaring some random congressman "disloyal to the United States of America," and the round-the-clock media freakout you would have seen.
every single day it's more obvious how sexually loaded all this stuff is. youre getting dommed by a broadway fop.
“He was extremely good at selling a view of reality we all want to believe” is a statement that explains both why his books are so good and why he was able to behave in an atrocious way and not have people notice.
People are desperate for an explanation for why their "hero" is actually a villain and guess what, talented people are terrible a lot of the time!!
Yes And: this is to me the canonical post about that specific fallacy (partially memorable because "everyone who <did bad thing> should be lightly dusted in flour and left out in the rain" is an all-time Tumblr threat)
