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When you get into one of these groups, there’s only a couple of ways you can get out. One is death, the other is mental institutions.

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Never attribute to genius that which is adequately explained by wealth.

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JD and I were always hanging out with our friends, grabbing a few beers and swapping jokes, but we’d always suddenly stop and ask the group “ever wonder if you’re a bad person?”

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I think we’re on the precipice of over-estimating this. At its core, this is an ideological project, and they’re not going to be wed to results-based thinking on a 2 year timeframe. Perhaps not on a 4 year one either. True austerity has never been tried, to them.

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I think this is both incorrect and impossible to convince the broader public of. Not because we didn’t do all that stuff, but because it still frames them as something other than one of us. Immigrants are Americans. Full stop. If you want to make a life here, you can.

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"What are we supposed to do, we don't control Congress" "What are we supposed to do, we don't have a supermajority" "What are we supposed to do, our supermajority has moderate democrats"

submitted 12 days ago • 150 comments

Refs are conspiring against the Chiefs

submitted 12 days ago • 21 comments

How is Wired running circles around the reporting of the premier media class? They’re at a disadvantage in almost every way in terms of audience, resources, and reach. It’s an essential question for understanding this era. More pubs need to become them, instead of compete with NYT or WaPo.

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This is pretty brutal reporting, likely not the fault of the reporters themselves. There’s no value to hedging in the media in this moment. Zero. None. But everyone is so sure they can’t believe their lying eyes.

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I hope that Elon Musk serves as a permanent reminder that people can be so wealthy as to reach escape velocity from anything. Literally more powerful than the checks and balances system that the US government was designed around.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

System of checks and balances truly failing right now

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

THE COMING AI CONTRADICTION In today's Odd Lots newsletter, I wrote about the gulf between how traders are thinking about AI vs. how Silicon Valley is. At some point, this is going to have to break

submitted 23 days ago • 33 comments

Honestly, if you can’t position against this as a party, I don’t know what to do with you. I get that we’re all tired, but this shit means nothing to no one and dozens are dead.

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Just got this tip from an airline pilot

submitted 23 days ago • 347 comments

All of you cheering the AI bubble’s demise are celebrating your SB victory with 2 mins on the clock. Mahomes has the ball. Not saying it’s impossible, but you know in your heart it isn’t true.