Unsanctioned Buffoonery (Dan)

I don't know that there is a template or a "secret sauce" or a clear-cut lesson to take from this. But if there is one it's the idea of treating social media as the hostile territory that it is, of actually acting like you are a participant in propaganda warfare and not like a consumer.

“protein enriched chocolate chip cookie” is kinda the perfect synthesis of the conflicting american male desires to be a spartan warrior and also five years old

if voting didn't matter they wouldn't be working so hard to stop you

they are going to keep compulsively doubling down on the most vile imaginable shit until they pay a price for it

it really is amazing how accurate the “do you support both Palestine and Ukraine” litmus test has proven to be

When you were in high school and you didn't do well in history or English class it's not because the class was too WOKE or your female teachers were afraid of your MASCULINE ASSERTIVENESS, it's because you were fucking dumb. You were dumb then and you're dumb now.

This is what happens when young men do not have the moral and spiritual courage to just admit that they're dumb.

Yes. The conservative scheme for education is a three-way split: high-priced academies for the children of the wealthy, religious instruction to brainwash the middle class, and a rump of prison-like public schools to discipline the lower class into obedience.

@actualnames.bsky.social Spud Dick www.cushmanwakefield.com/en/united-st...

Do ya’ll grandfathers know you be gambling on your phone like a bitch instead of going to the local bookie and putting your life in danger with the mob?

A New Jersey family recreated OG Anunoby's iconic NBA Finals tip-in with their Halloween decorations

never seen someone adhering to our Enemies more closely, or giving them more lavish Aid and Comfort www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/7a210b0...

the big thing the rise of LLMs has revealed to me is that there is a not insignificant chunk of the population that considers cognition itself to be a frustrating and unnecessary burden

“[W]hen we focus on polarization as the problem, the solution is for everyone to quiet down and be ‘civil’—an outcome that benefits those who are willing to grab as much power as they can without concern for legality or civility.”

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

the hell they can, three straight yamamoto splitters and khamenei's back in the dugout before he knows what happened

Me when my parents rented DEEP IMPACT from Blockbuster

talking with "good faith" conservatives about policy is incredibly frustrating because you eventually figure out that the basis for their beliefs is a combination of easily disprovable factual assertions that act as window dressing for unshakable reactionary gut feelings

cmon man, even with that name, you can’t phrase that first sentence like that

If you want "personalized music" made just for you pick up a fucking guitar. Or else break the heart of someone who already has.

The thing about the florid apocalypticism you sometimes encounter on this site is that a lot of people are less horrified by literal civilizational collapse than by the notion that our descendents are just going to keep muddling through and in less than a century nobody will remember us.

a lot of things could be fixed in this country with a few defamation suits (Schmitt being so stupid he repeated it while no longer protected by the speech & debate clause)

You have been blessed by the friend onion :).

I had one simple criteria for this list, and that was "Which shows do I remember enjoying the most when they were on?"

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved

impeach them all. fuck em. why should they get to fly around on our dime and hurt people? “they’ll never actually removed from office” who gives a shit? I want them miserable every day for the rest of the term. I hope they have nightmares. air their dirty laundry. make em sweat

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

"Only by observing what Fox ignores do the contours of Trump’s second term — the dangerous incompetence, blatant corruption and cratering popularity — snap into focus." I wrote about the negative space in Fox News coverage. www.ms.now/opinion/fox-...

Ms. Piggy, listening to One by Metallica: Darkness?? Imprisoning MOI???

70% of Americans say more Americans working in factories would be better for America 33% actually say they'd be better off working in a factory

honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care

There have always been humans who thought: 1) The world will end soon 2) It will happen in a cool, exciting way 3) It’ll happen to me personally 4) I’ll be a martyred prophet, or a warlord, or otherwise special 5) People who don’t see this are lesser “Sexy apocalypse” is a great phrase for that

So, in effect, this is what the justices pushing this line are saying: (1) Republicans believe they are entitled to win the election, thus (2) Republicans will regard the election as illegitimate if they lose, and thus (3) we have to let Republicans win the election.

Alito is not the only Republican justice who has embraced this disturbing rhetoric in recent years. It is instructive to break down what they are saying: we shouldn't count all the votes, because some segment of the electorate would become angry that their preferred candidate didn't win.