Peter Marino

"Men are disturbed not by events, but by the view that they take of them" Epictetus

"A farmer doesn't like a handout" ... speaking from the most heavily subsidized industry ever

Truly one of the most befuddling entries in The Criterion Collection But I ain't complaining....

"We want to govern from right of center, but need the excuse that we were compelled into it by the opposition rather than went there out of preference"

Wait, what? It's not widely known that CC stands for Carbon Copy?

I have been baffled for years as to why tech keeps trying to push "Personal Assistant" applications of whatever they're building, and I have to conclude it must simply be because the executives themselves are entirely incapable of managing their own lives and therefore conclude we all are, too

... or indeed any political history anywhere, ever. There were good reasons US companies long resisted affiliating themselves this explicitly and ideologically with one party (and one political figure!)... it's a highly "politically leveraged" position with massive risk exposure

Lula the Rula

Terrible things are not inevitable

They're rage baiting us, right? They have to be

Me at my performance review

I want off this ride

I don't know, man... I like Alex Gibney and I hate Musk, but even those facts were never going to be enough to motivate me to sit through four hours about the guy I already dislike him the maximum I can. I'd really rather not spend that much more time thinking about him Perhaps this was common

Lady on the subway this morning at 0830 drinking a White Claw... Finished it, crushed the can by hand, put it in her handbag, and immediately pulled out... Another White Claw Absolutely killing it

lmfao

I did not realize these were unclear

Jesus saw *this* in the Garden of Gethsemane, that's for sure

We've all been cursed ever since they came in the fluffer....

My unpopular but persistent belief is that almost everything in our lives has gotten better and we’re weirdly incapable of seeing it.

William Goldman said it years ago about understanding the audience, and it remains true: "Nobody knows anything"

doing 15 to life because my children are too large

I mean, this has been something they wish they could do since they came in. By saying so out loud he merely confirms what anyone with an ounce of observational sense would have known for nearly two years at this point Can they? Would it work? Totally different questions! But they would *LIKE TO*

It's just one thing after another, you know

I do not begrudge any individual for making such a choice for him or herself, but to do so with the insistence that the US will be ever thus as it is right now strikes me as a deeply myopic presentism The reversion will come

Preemptive? Haven't we been striking them for months?

Be careful, before you know it, he's going to tell them he has the secret to save Padmé

To the extent that Trump ever had a political (rather than media) superpower, it was energizing low-propensity voters, capturing a base inaccessible to anyone else. With his project in tatters, and heading towards the literal grave himself, this power does not pass to anyone - it simply evaporates

For sale Inflatable cat Used once

He could have just said "turn an ocean liner around" He didn't HAVE to pick the most famous sinking ever

The expression “one-shotted” tells you an immense amount about how Musk sees the relationship between education, knowledge, and belief.

If only

Yes the French, a famously sedate and placid people, not given to political protest or violence ever at all

The hallmark of the modern reactionary is that they are so immersed in their own bullshit that they don’t understand how facile and corny their understanding of the world is.

"The religion police can't do shit" [the Inquisition would like to know your location]

The Butlerian Jihad has already arrived ... it is just unevenly distributed

Beasts of No Nation for Tax Purposes

New Moochspan just dropped www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

I'm not entirely sure what this "danger" is Even if we concede that the video is "extremely cool shit," which I do not, the maintenance of a moral posture towards the self and the world that white supremacism is repugnant, vile and base is a far more worthy effort than gawking at something "cool"

Tbh I don’t know if it’s the media or just the politics around EVs are rancid: 1. Our EV national champion is run by TEMU Albert Speer 2. Republicans think climate change is fake and gay 3. Dems think EV strategy should satisfy a UAW wishlist first