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submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Bad policymaking: all too often, government adds layers of requirements and accountability checks to deal with bad apples but which equally constrain ethical leaders. Just get rid of the bad apples.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Elaine: He said you should see your own show? Jerry: He said I should see my own show! E: So what did you tell him? J: What could I tell him? If I wasn't me it would have been good advice! George: What's going on? E: Jerry's doctor told him to see his own show G: Your doctor has a show?

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.” I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.

submitted 6 days ago • 46 comments

Over half the answers AI gave couldn’t be trusted. Not even after the AI was given access to the BBC’s website and prompted to use BBC News articles and sources. The BBC tested: - OpenAI’s ChatGPT - Microsoft’s Copilot - Google’s Gemini - Perplexity

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

i guess i never posted about it here before but president's day seems like as good a holiday as any to bring it back up: we don't have nearly enough federal holidays. that's why i think we should create around 30 more, each anchored to the friday or monday around a significant union army victory

submitted 7 days ago • 39 comments

from a friend of Sam Nordquist’s family:

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

the plan? we fire hundreds of USDA employees during a bird flu outbreak that's causing the highest egg prices in US history

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

This is huge. My petition got approved. It challenges the UK government to the lift the Puberty Blocker ban on the grounds that it contradicts article 8 of The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of The Child. Please sign and Repost ✊️🏳️‍⚧️ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 19 days ago • 62 comments

despite everything, the world is beautiful

submitted 11 days ago • 109 comments

It is actually genuinely funny that the Army looked at the Executive Order and said "no"

submitted 12 days ago • 152 comments

"Only Murders in the Building" actor Jaboukie Young-White once impersonated this government organization with his Twitter account on MLK Day, saying, "Just because we killed MLK doesn't mean we can't miss him".

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag. KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense. KOKO: jealousy professor

submitted 588 days ago • 46 comments

I would NEVER condone this, but if you’ve already tried talking to family members about their politics and they are truly unreachable and you’re afraid they’re susceptible to getting scammed, then it would probably be really easy to just scam them first. Rob them blind. Shut down their internet. etc

submitted 24 days ago • 22 comments

submitted 19 days ago • 57 comments

“Audacious.” What the fuck are these people doing.

submitted 19 days ago • 391 comments

Actually had something cool and positive happen this week. So let me share that since we could all use some good news. kfor.com/news/oklahom...

submitted 20 days ago • 7 comments

this is the right frame imo. good! now every congressional dem needs to hammer it anytime they're within a country mile of a news camera

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

That sounds you hear is a long-retired COBOL programmer being asked by a broccoli headed 19 year old failson dork to come back as a consultant to fix something they ignorantly smashed, and him asking for your yearly salary per hour.

submitted 20 days ago • 59 comments

Trade deal talks with Canada at an impasse because Canada keeps insisting we take Drake

submitted 21 days ago • 14 comments

Trans folks seeking passports: Here's something potentially useful, to a small group. If you are in: Michigan Minnesota New York Vermont Washington You have access to an "EDL". This is a drivers license that can be used for LAND AND SEA (not air) entry to Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean. (1/3)

submitted 21 days ago • 19 comments

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

submitted 24 days ago • 509 comments

My plan to take a notebook with me everywhere I go incase I feel like writing has finally paid off!! Last Friday I sat in @thefreetradeinn.bsky.social and thought about what makes the best pub seats and the value we attribute to different forms of comfort. 8bitsandbobs.co.uk/2025/01/29/t...

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

submitted 26 days ago • 49 comments

NOPE (2022)

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

malort has the best advertising for any alcohol out there. “it tastes like shit, you’ll hate it, and everyone visiting you from outside the midwest will despise it” and every one goes wild for it and can’t get enough

submitted 28 days ago • 233 comments

This is the first legitimate good use case for generative AI: hurting other generative AI companies

submitted 28 days ago • 24 comments

NOPE (2022)

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Ichiro is now a hall of famer but he was also the funniest man in human history

submitted 33 days ago • 31 comments

Jesus Christ

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

tv seasons should be 22 episodes long and at least 30% of those should be pure crap

submitted 40 days ago • 142 comments

Hahahahaah. This sucks man.

submitted 41 days ago • 8 comments