He was a first mover on podcasts, and already being a reality TV celebrity he got a lot of big guests early on.

Justifiable anger can be stupid and usually is.

If you’re not a normie, don’t match with hardcore normies. Usually it’s pretty easy to tell.

UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson

Not quite correct sort of. This is OptumRx, which is owned by United Health Group, which also owns United Health Care, which Brian Thompson was nominally the CEO of. In other words, this is like the sibling of the company Brian Thompson ran.

To be clear, Brian Thmpson wasn’t a billionaire, he was a mid-level at best millionaire worth only $41 million. He was just another star-bellied prole who thought he was in the aristocracy.

Point being, the whole thing is stupid. The health care system, the people getting rich off it, Luigi’s reaction to it, our reactions to it, the media’s reporting on it, all of it.

Really it’s the celebrities more than others keeping it afloat. What’s really inexcusable is that so many Democratic politicians still have accounts - AOC, Bernie, the whole gang is still there helping Elon and Saudi billionaires get richer poor more slowly.

The best solution to the two parties excluding the left isn’t a third party, it’s for the left to register as Republicans and conduct a hostile takeover of the GOP in the primaries.

This can easily succeed in blue states/cities to start out.

It’s not necessarily political, wall street can be very clueless about technology. They all seem to believe they can judge the potential of just about any company, no matter how complex the industry, by merely watching a video of the CEO speaking and judging how smart they sound. Perceived potential can also be self-reinforcing because the more prominent a business figure gets, the more wall street reporters and influencers want to be associated with them - so they’re careful to only praise them and not piss them off. So they can easily be duped by an Elizabeth Holmes/Adam Neumann type who has a strong voice and even stronger connections and promises the moon for a small investment.

Musk’s key innovation was taking that a step further and promising them Mars.

Still can’t beat Saddam though.

So if you’re Trump you get to steal and disclose top secret documents with impunity. But if you’re disclosing information about Trump’s wrongdoing, it’s illegal even if it’s non secret info in the public interest.

Makes me wonder what would have if Trump disclosed top secret info about his own wrong doing? Would we get a perpetual motion machine powered by Trump going in and out of prison?

When they ramble on about something you don’t care about or actively don’t want to discuss, say “Hey I don’t like this conversation, can we talk about something else?”

Yellow: “Oh sorry, I didn’t mean to make you uncomfortable.”
Red: “What? Why don’t you wanna talk about this, is it because you secretly hate me or are hiding something? Now I know we need to talk about it until I’m convinced you’re hearing what I have to say on this topic.”

It’s hard to see the downside of everyone speaking Russian or German when compared with the current situation, but English would be better because 1) It would require the fewest people to learn a new language (sort by total speakers in the link above) 2) would be best for communicating with visitors and 3) fuck Russia

being billigual is really easy

Yeah but how easy is it becoming bilingual? Or in the case of Europe, centivigintitrilingual?

I don’t blame Harris but I do blame Biden. Biden should never have run in 2020 and certainly not in 2024. He was a failed presidential candidate in 2008 and earlier, but he used his association with Obama to win despite being a terrible candidate. His ego almost got Trump a second term in 2020 and ended up getting us a Trump term in 2024. Trump is not a good candidate, he’s not supposed to win. He only won and came close because he had the incredible good fortune of running against Hillary Clinton once and Biden twice.

You all need to just start making English an official language across the EU. Yeah I know that’s very American imperialist of me to say, but most of you speak it already anyway and it would make travel and communication so much easier. It feels like you all are insisting on speaking different languages just to pretend you have unique cultures when let’s be real, once you welcome McDonalds that ship has sailed.

This has been annoying me as well, so many city services got used to just using twitter and then Elon took over and now you just can’t find out about things unless you have an X account. Shortly after the change to X I drove hours to use a hiking trail that was closed - I checked the conditions on the park service’s website, but it was using a twitter feed and the top post was “trail is open, come on in!” because it had been changed to show the top post of all time instead of the newest post.

There should be some non-profit funded by cities that’s basically just a webpage where cities can post important info, or maybe they can have their own mastodon node.

Well that’s infuriating. So these people wanna lock up our elected representatives, then complain when we don’t wanna serve them at restaurants.

My Elon-brainwashed relative alerted me to the fact that on twitter, the main rumor is that he killed himself to bring attention to the drone sightings being a secret Chinese gravitic propulsion technology.

God I hate that site.

I feel like this would be less strawmanny if the kid was saying “ethnic nationalism is evil” instead. Because while no one’s actually defending “genocide”, lots of people do defend zionism and the definition of zionism is basically white nationalism, but specific to jews.

The goal is to save labor, then wages. If the point is that labor only results in improvements to people’s well-being when paired with labor rights, yes. But that doesn’t mean saving labor is the enemy.

Olive Garden is Nickelback for pasta restaurants.

Never Again