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submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

'An advantage like extreme wealth, inherited or earned, curdles quickly into entitlement. And when entitlement is widely distributed among the very powerful, it becomes everybody’s problem.' Abigail Disney's outspoken pleas begging to pay more in taxes are always a fun read.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

we're living through one of the greatest technological revolutions in the history of mankind and it's not AI

submitted 3 days ago • 52 comments

Reverse Cassandraing, whispering, “Everybody predicted all of this.”

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

Save these for your panicky friends and family members. I’ve had adult men come to the verge of tearfully screaming in my face denying this could be true.

submitted 16 days ago • 22 comments

I wish them both the worst.

submitted 21 days ago • 498 comments

Well, I'm gonna need about 17 Kleenex travel packs with me when I see Wicked: For Good in November. I'm going to just be a bucket of tears the whole time.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 29 days ago • 21 comments

Germany's largest UBI study funded by 200K private donors found that - Everyone kept working, no change in hours - More enrolled in university - More job changes (for better jobs) - More satisfied with work This is the data UBI critics love to ignore.

submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

Finally finished my first play through of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and yeah, it's safe to say it's now my favorite video game of all time.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I don't thing Gunn is using the Williams music to be lazy, or to get a cheap pop. I think he's using the Williams music because that's what Superman sounds like. Like, Superman has a cape, Superman wears that big on S on his chest, Superman sounds like John Williams. It's a part of him.

submitted 43 days ago • 8 comments

Bugs makes this case accurately and eloquently. what happened is not "man speaks from beyond the grave" what happened is "they showed an expensive cartoon in court"

submitted 50 days ago • 40 comments

eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same

submitted 50 days ago • 437 comments

Twelve days in, and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has crossed two million copies sold. We’ve watched in awe as so many of you began your journey. Feeling every step, every emotion, every revelation alongside you. To those just joining us: welcome. Tomorrow comes.

submitted 51 days ago • 170 comments

‘Clair Obscur: Expedition 33’ Has Sold Two Million Copies In 12 Days, Deserves More www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...

submitted 51 days ago • 9 comments

"They think that removing a building's structural support is the best way to preserve your spot on the top floor." The perfect way to describe these gleefully stupid vandals.

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

cats when you give them a bath

submitted 54 days ago • 122 comments

If you’re looking for ransom, I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of symptoms, symptoms that are flu like. I think it’s just a cold? I’m not sure if it’s worth a doctor visit? Where were we? Oh, yeah, ransom. I can’t afford that. Sorry.

submitted 55 days ago • 2 comments

attn please, here is some further Murderbot footage to enjoy incl the definitely best little moment in All Systems Red

submitted 59 days ago • 28 comments

If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.

submitted 60 days ago • 866 comments

Okay hi Act 2 of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33; I have so many new things to learn! But man, that Act 1 finale just cemented the fact that I need Jennifer English to get ALL the acting nominations (and win them) at all the video game awards for this year.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

People sometimes ask "what are the crimes" and let me tell y'all, as a lawyer, that intentionally copying, altering, destroying, or disrupting government computer systems is super-duper illegal if you don't have a spotless paper trail authorizing it, which none of these DOGE people do.

submitted 63 days ago • 82 comments

Yeah, Maelle is definitely my top tier number 1 bae in Clair Obscur. I have had her for less than a day but I would hurt anyone who harms her.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Goodness me, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 may be one of the best games I've ever played.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

As longtime readers know one of my favorite quotes is “The cemeteries are full of irreplaceable men.” The same is true of nations.

submitted 63 days ago • 7 comments

he’s right and he’s right to say it

submitted 63 days ago • 268 comments

so they're mycoblogging

submitted 66 days ago • 442 comments

Now this is a proper headline

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.

submitted 70 days ago • 348 comments

Do not feed the plagiarism machine. Do not feed it while you’re working things out. Do not feed it for a funny social media meme. Do not feed it.

submitted 72 days ago • 2 comments

I was a damn teenager when the Patriot Act passed, and even I saw this coming. Once you build a terrorism exception to civil rights, anyone you want to deny civil rights to is a terrorist.

submitted 76 days ago • 7 comments

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

submitted 78 days ago • 3152 comments

Saw a video of Trump talking about how he loves making deals in bad times because he likes to "buy when everything is down bad". Checks out.

submitted 80 days ago • 3 comments