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Yep. I played soccer soccer this morning. Got a haircut. Might go out for groceries in a bit. Describing LA in this way is absolutely insane.

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The president exists in a dystopian fantasy world with no connection to reality

submitted 6 days ago • 721 comments

This piece is very much worth reading. It really underscores the reality of what LLM companies are building, and what they think of their users. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

A nice thing about getting older is you can say, “boy i done seen some shit” and even if you if haven’t actually seen anything, people will mostly take your word for it

submitted 114 days ago • 20 comments

Scientists told me why Trump's Golden Dome is a complete fantasy www.404media.co/scientists-e...

submitted 25 days ago • 17 comments

“What he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that'll make it easier to annex us." This is the most extraordinary statement by a Canadian prime minister in the history of this country. The Trump administration is at war with Canada.

submitted 102 days ago • 27 comments

It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them. Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”

submitted 106 days ago • 430 comments

I feel like America got so bored being the world’s superpower it just chose chaotic self-destruction. Like a rich, idle kid getting hooked on heroin.

submitted 107 days ago • 48 comments

screams endlessly

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. “In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”

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"this small country that was invaded by the big country should give itself up to the big country" makes me very nervous to hear from an American president, as a Canadian

submitted 115 days ago • 12 comments

An unconscionable post from Donald Trump about Zelenskyy, in which he calls him a "dictator" and threatens Ukraine's existence.

submitted 115 days ago • 1121 comments

All my life I have studied democratization and autocratization. My 1st field trip was to newly democratic Argentina. I then added autocracies to my portfolio: Cuba, Ven, etc. I think I can recognize the stages of transition to authoritarianism. Here are the boxes Trump has already checked off.

submitted 118 days ago • 60 comments

Corey is TOTALLY wrong here. I buy MULTIPLE haircuts a year from my barber but he BUYS NOTHING FROM ME. He treats me very poorly even though I'm subsidizing his barber shop. Very UNFAIR. But, it would be great to add his barber shop to my property, think of the great things we could do.

submitted 120 days ago • 2 comments

nods repeatedly

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

Lesson for this Trump tariff shakedown bullshit is that you can call him up and say "well okay, we'll do [list of things we're already doing], that's a really good idea" and he will take that as a win. It's like putting a blanket over a budgie's cage

submitted 131 days ago • 115 comments

Incredibly moving Justin Trudeau remarks: "We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."

submitted 133 days ago • 701 comments

Here is the data on fentanyl caught at US borders. The yellow line (Canada) is close to zero because the numbers are so small (50 lbs last year vs some 20,000 lbs from Mexico). Source: US Customs and Border Protection.

submitted 133 days ago • 54 comments

If any of this BS was actually about fentanyl, the US could propose a joint partnership that no one would be opposed to Trump invokes “tariffs” as a rhetorical device, not as an economic tool, because he wants his supporters to see him as someone who strongarms others into giving him what he wants

submitted 133 days ago • 31 comments

A gobsmackingly myopic decision all for the sake of making sure that his fragile ego gets a stroke. Everyone — and everything — else be damned.

submitted 134 days ago • 0 comments

I've activated the emergency newsletter-writing system open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

submitted 134 days ago • 49 comments

This is the appropriate way to report on ~that~ entire scene www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments

Just a complete and utter disgrace.

submitted 135 days ago • 1 comment

I realize now that I have a “trade deficit” with the store across the street. I walked over and bought a jug of milk. The store is abusing me and I’m tired of subsidizing it by buying something at a fair price that I want. I’m going to apply a tariff that will raise the future price of milk for me.

submitted 142 days ago • 68 comments

The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.

submitted 142 days ago • 1244 comments

WIRED has tracked thousands of US military & intel personnel coming & going from classified sites, incl. NSA hubs & nuclear vaults. We know where they sleep, what they eat, and which brothels they visit. It's an ocean of blackmail & national secrets within reach of every spy agency in the world.

submitted 207 days ago • 166 comments