Lenoxus

New and totally contradictory meaning to the word "Ossification"

It's well-documented that the president maintained a years-long friendship with the world's most notorious child sex trafficker. It might strike you as odd there aren't direct allegations of Trump engaging in child sex trafficking.. except there are. There are SO MANY. They just never get reported!

basically every debate about "government efficiency" is sidestepping the fact that half of the debate actually just wants the government to do less, period a car without an engine is technically very fuel efficient

Hi, I'm William Tell. Welcome to Jackass.

Wish someone would release patches for my vulnerabilities

The fact that Western publics are unreasonably mad at objective trade-offs and tolerable living standards (and have to make up new words to describe a nebulous “crisis”) is bad because it generates real crises (avoiding trade-offs causes debt crises, grievance politics cause democratic crises).

Likewise, when Ghandi famously suggested that he thought that English civilization "would be a good idea", he was referring only to an idea he had for a computer game where you could build wonders and nuke people.

Elissa Slotkin out here demonstrating the vast gulf between a shitty Democrat & the best Republican

I mean, I made this for a reason and I use it about once a month at this point

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

An awful lot of online discourse is basically about policing people’s emotions. It’s fine to react to this by thinking it’s cool and it’s also fine to react with disgust because Elon’s a Nazi. Once you step into the realm of rational thought (not emotion), it’s obvious Elon Musk should be in prison.

You can't get people out of poverty with a one time payment that is approximately the poverty line! You need permanent, well funded, accessible welfare and insurance systems!

Tory men and whig hot takes

this is called ball knowledge behavior

The wealthiest in our country should pay their fair share into Social Security. Scrap the cap!

this is why we gotta stop electing 80 year olds. i'm sorry that nancy pelosi convinced you all that speaker of the house is the power behind the throne, but That's not true, she was just really good at her job at the same time biden was really bad at his. and they were both one hundred years old

remember to leave offerings of interesting pdfs and puzzle sets for any fey being from the internet that may come to take up residence on your internet connected devices.

bro did you know that Tool structured their song "Lateralus" so that every 60 seconds you play that song a minute passes? their genius is incredible!

I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter about forcibly unsubscribing all the other newsletters.

Yes, much like medieval astronomers were smarter than modern geocentrists. One aspect of the stupidity is continuing to believe outdated theory.

Instantaneously collapsed to the opposite conclusion, regardless of how far they'd been separated.

Why do I keep scrolling. What am I expecting to happen that hasn't happened already

Originalism argues that we should follow the interpretive methodology of the Founders (not Originalism)

It drives me insane to see apparent progressives and leftists conflating ugliness and evil both because it’s wrong and because it’s nazi shit! That is one of their famous things! Stop it!!

Chess, a game of moves

Good news, I cured the problems we've been having

I am the house motherfucker (I slide 4 billion dollars into T bills and bond yields immediately explode, its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do)

"The evidence continues to grow. Social media, as it is currently constructed, redounds to the net benefit of illiberal regimes and their allies in democracies. The question is what to do about it." www.liberalcurrents.com/social-media...

Lot of ink being spilled over what is almost certainly just a quirk of how Trump talks. Trying to downplay the significance of selling arms to Taiwan he points out that we sell to lots of people. Very on brand for him to keep running his mouth and “offer” to sell to Xi just to reinforce his point.

Take every farmer’s land, sell it and use the proceeds to fund housing for asylum seekers. Just weeping a gnashing of teeth shit. Absolutely find a way to liberate HBO and stick Ellison with the debt. Liberate WaPo, liberate the Times, make them employee coops with three board seats for subscribers.

Saaaaaaaaaw

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

Computer crimes are already illegal. I do not think “we knowingly deployed software we can’t control” is a legitimate defense against break those laws.

Everyone loves promising lower taxes & voters love demanding lower taxes but they just don't do much politically for a country where taxes are already too low. The novelty is all off

I think ‘rote memorization’ is underrated. Having a ton of shit laying around in your head leads to connections and being able to more precisely describe things.

I'm reminded of one of my favorite passages in Banerjee and Duflo's "Good Economics for Hard Times". "The goal of social policy, in these times of change and anxiety, is to help people absorb the shocks that affect them without allowing those shocks to affect their sense of themselves.."

AI-generated Garfield comics: good, the more monstrous the better AI-generated Calvin and Hobbes comics: sad, depressing AI-generated Family Circus: indistinguishable, passes the turing test

Never forgive them for what they did. Don’t let them do it to anyone else. Bring back all the stolen neighbors

all of the following are true: -99% open borders is the best immigration policy for the US and the world -voters will never allow this to happen -open borders or ICE gestapo is a false dichotomy -general amnesty is the only possible solution for current illegal immigrants

I *think* what’s going on is the West has a threefold conception of the self: mind, body, soul While “soul” has fallen out of favor, people intuitively think about “the mind” as being separate from “the body,” and that becomes internalized as “the mind isn’t a physical thing”

but that’s my emotional support defeatism

It's often a lot of work to explain, in your own words, how a position has been established. People, knowing this, will ask that of their interlocuters in bad faith trying to exhaust them so they can use the absence of a response to suggest they're right. So...