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Hey, the tautology store called, and they confirmed they were a store that sold tautologies

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

still can’t believe the pro-“marketplace of ideas!” grifters keep trying to deploy “social contagion!” as a negative. in what universe are those terms not both lousy descriptions of the exact same mechanism

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The more interesting take - and the harder piece to do right - is not "Wow congestion pricing is so successful so quickly" but rather "why did so many think or want congestion pricing to fail? And why did so many other people listen to them for so long?"

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

In college a professor quoted a farmed saying you shouldn't have to be a superhero to do the right thing and it's been my North star for how a society should function for awhile

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Was at a conference dinner a while back and one guy said "The future is AI. It doesn't replace senior developers, but no more need for juniors." To which i replied: "Where do you think senior developers come from. Straight from the womb?" He went quiet, then wandered off to a different huddle.

submitted 11 days ago • 65 comments

It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts

submitted 13 days ago • 119 comments

Our local store is already closing (longstanding building/landlord issues.) A new one whose opening was announced now likely isn’t. Luckily it’s MA so we just have to go another mile or so, but having to drive and pay double will suck, and this was all completely avoidable and unnecessary.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Buddy Guy has been "Who is that man? He's incredible" my entire life. At least once a decade, he surges into wider recognition, then becomes sort of invisible--except to dedicated enthusiasts.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

The combination of "May the Fourth be with You" posts and posts memorializing May 4, 1970 at Kent State seem the perfect contradiction for a collapsing empire still trying to pretend that it is a plucky rebellion.

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty, — to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves. Samuel Adams

submitted 24 days ago • 18 comments

the amazing hubris of people who grew extremely wealthy and successful because of the stability that these systems provided then deciding that they probably didn’t do anything that important because wealthy and successful people never even saw them do anything is a v shitty way for us all to die

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Pope Robert Ford

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Americans succeeded at creating a social material environment of (relative) safety but failed to produce a learning environment that would successfully communicate the reasons to maintain an environment of safety after the normal harms of the world passed out of common memory

submitted 31 days ago • 30 comments

a major issue with video games is that they produce a bunch of people who consider themselves brain geniuses for solving problems that were designed to be solvable. as a remedy, we should be making more games that are actively and irreconcilably hostile to the player. thank you

submitted 45 days ago • 39 comments

Bring back everyone who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. No one should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

submitted 37 days ago • 108 comments

2014 everybody

submitted 37 days ago • 6 comments

Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep its basic functioning has to discourage lying. rewarding it instead is suicidal

submitted 42 days ago • 54 comments

You can’t be a transphobe and an anti-fascist. If your human rights are not for everyone, you are passively or actively collaborating with fascism.

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

All protests are different in their own way but at the heart of them they are all usually pretty simple: It doesn't have to be this way. I refuse to let it be this way. We refuse to let it be this way. www.welcometohellworld.com/which-side-a...

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

never seen it put more concisely than this. one sentence. completely correct.

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

"It was almost as if American upper management, regardless of religion or politics, instinctively understood that maintaining the right of an ethnocratic settler-colonial outpost to exterminate an unruly subject population was essential to its own survival."

submitted 47 days ago • 3 comments

this quote from hunter s. thompson is 24 years old

submitted 113 days ago • 8 comments

This is me telling you that you owe it to Val Kilmer to introduce someone to "Top Secret!" for the first time

submitted 48 days ago • 43 comments

Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits

submitted 48 days ago • 195 comments

Rot in hell, Strom Thurmond

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Speaking of Bob, test your ability to distinguish Dylan lyrics from Death Grips lyrics: youtu.be/SMuPAPli0aI

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

‘Why aren’t people in the streets’ stares in the tune of people showing up on a few hours notice all over the country to protest state kidnappings

submitted 54 days ago • 3 comments

it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight

submitted 54 days ago • 45 comments

I am increasingly coming to the view that the primary sociopolitical problem in America is a (deliberately created) illiteracy crisis, of which fascism is an epiphenomenon.

submitted 57 days ago • 8 comments

IT’S ALWAYS FAILED RECONSTRUCTION

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

If the lesson you take from this current moment is that there is some "return to normal" that you think will happen, I think that you're going to be very disappointed. If you question whether what you were previously living under was ever normal, then you're on the right track.

submitted 59 days ago • 31 comments

we believe we are special and we simply are not

submitted 59 days ago • 586 comments

Nothing says "run the country like a business" quite like dismantling your accounts receivable department.

submitted 61 days ago • 6 comments

There’s one group that single-handedly has the power to prevent the destruction of US science & long-term competitiveness. But they’re very unlikely to do it. The heads of R1/R2 research universities could jointly threaten to pull out of March Madness unless federal research funding is restored.

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

serious answer: the sabotage of reconstruction

submitted 68 days ago • 38 comments

In retrospect we should have reacted much more strongly to people being like “you’re just virtue signaling, you’re just saying you have virtue, you’re just treating virtue like it’s a good thing for an adult human being to have, you just want to run around everywhere having morality and being good”

submitted 70 days ago • 69 comments

Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.

submitted 70 days ago • 61 comments

going to share this here youtube.com/shorts/Hb6eL...

submitted 74 days ago • 56 comments