dalmationblack

"Ro Kanna trades a lot of stocks, but maybe it's fine because it doesn't seem like he's trading on insider information" is a perfect Ro Kanna pendulum sort of sentence

This is how it works repeatedly with Trump — something pretty much everyone agrees is fucked up then Trump jumps in to side with the fucked up thing, and the result is not a story that's like "Trump sides with fucked up thing" but to change the fucked up thing to instead become "controversial"

Always thought it was weird how they said this study was about people not wanting to be alone with their thoughts. If you tell me that there’s a button that will zap me, and I can push it if I want, I’m no longer having thoughts. I’m having thought.

Toaster Fucking strikes again

Some people were making me mad on the internet so I wrote a blog post about it. On the different reasons for people have for being left wing and how people manage the psychological tensions of the fact that they come apart. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

Well listen following a dozen internet-addicted mentally ill twenty-two year olds unskewing polls has never steered me wrong, except for last time when it absolutely steered me wrong.

my train of thought when the edible hits:

This, incidentally, is basically why I've come around on fixed terms Not because life tenure itself is a problem, but because strategic retirement is a problem

A tit for tat cycle with every trifecta certainly isn’t ideal and we do no need to think about ways out of that. But at least that’s a Court where one party’s control isn’t perpetually self-entrenched until enough randomly timed convenient deaths short circuit the partisan timed retirement game.

i do unironically think people that are cosmopolitan need sorta paradoxically be more chauvinist about it tbh. places and people that are cosmopolitan in outlook are better than places that are provincially minded. the kind of performative handwringing about not being 'authentic' is bad and weak.

Donald Trump had the exceptional timing to run TWICE as a challenger against non-incumbents trying to defend the incumbent party in power. Americans like "change" and when you don't have the power of incumbency it is REALLY hard to hold serve. Since 1900 has only happened twice, 1928 and 1988.

(living in a country where smoking is the national sport) “Ya know it’s probaly the inorganic food that’s causing all this cancer.”

Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.

watching how badly RU civilians seem to be taking their service outages convinces me that data centers should be prio targets actually

dems raising money via dumb scare tactics is annoying as fuck but at the same time the level of pushiness does reflect the power that small dollar donations have in opposition to big corporate donors

I'm looking at this speech now, and that is absolutely not the fucking hero of Greek myth. The hero of Greek myth is almost always a dramatically tragic figure who is undone by their own character flaws. In fact, that's basically every single Greek hero. What the fuck are you talking about man.

The fake debate was ‘are people blank slates?’ and the real debate was ‘i don’t want non-whites to go to college’, and the existence of unanswered questions in the fake debate doesn’t mean you have to pretend they’re asking them in good faith.

images that spring to mind unbidden, part 999: "trans-inclusive radical misogyny" // "women should stay out of kitchens"

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4998...

In general I think shirking is a hugely effective tool in the cops political arsenal and whole progressive elected officials have a workable toolkit for punishing affirmative abuses (abuse of force, etc), there’s less of one for negative abuses (refusing to do the legitimate parts of the job)

I’m pretty worried about ICE/CBP going blue-flu to ratfuck the next Dem administration tbh. I don’t really think there’s a good counter to them doing malicious compliance and stopping even normal enforcement, then going “sorry, we had to let that child predator go, due to woke” to sympathetic media

Being middle class in the US really falls into two camps: "We are financially secure because we only make small QoL purchases while saving for major and possibly unexpected ones" "Interest rates go brrrrr"

The Fit really is the ideal car if you're looking for something that can easily park and drive in the city, has flexible interior space, is impossible to shake in an urban pursuit, can transport bikes, furniture, and large objects with ease.

"letting them destroy a city is a small price to stop them from having a nuclear weapon", says man who understands purpose, function of nuclear weapons

Yesterday's news about Jacob Geller broke my heart, so much that I couldn't stop dwelling on it all day. In an effort to make sense of this horrific news and my admittedly complicated feelings about it, here is my article on the Jacob Geller situation: epiloguegaming.com/what-do-we-d...

this kinda reminds me of Golden Gate Claude, if you asked it to recite a poem

Me, a nobody on the internet: Strategic ambiguity is a high wire act but it’s better to maintain the kayfabe than it is to change it The President: We’re trying to to sell arms to China The Speaker of the House: Taiwan is independent Me: No, not like that!

wait it only has 95m views on YouTube? honestly that seems to me like evidence of how siloed it is; I feel like that's a very low number for how many radio/streaming views it has feels like the all time billboard record should have more views than the average Mr Beast video

This website is great morewrong.lol?post=georgis...

The thing that's being suppressed isn't really the party, which can adapt to the terrain. It's the voters in New York and California, and their cosmopolitan liberal beliefs

Narnia books as Isekai Manga