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if you didn't write it why should anybody read it anybody could stick a document into chatgpt and ask for an analysis and if you do it, and present it as your work, you have zero value. you are personally and professionally worthless. you should be discarded. you will deserve it.

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"Ukraine started it" is the "but she was dressed provocatively" of foreign policy. It's not coincidence that the same people push both ideas. They're always making excuses for bullies. Because they're bullies.

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Guy stealing from me: You have to wonder about the motives of the people who noticed me stealing from you. What do they have to gain Me: Wow good point

submitted 21 days ago • 10 comments

For anyone willing to notice the current situation with the gulf makes it obvious that conservatives are able and willing to learn new names, they just refuse to do it for trans people because the cruelty is the point.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Here's a song I wrote for conservatives, but today I'm posting it in honor of all the centrist and apolitical "both sides are bad" types. layercake.bandcamp.com/track/busted...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Assuming that everyone is operating from "good intentions" is a trap for suckers. Anyone pushing that nonsense on you is either hoping you're a sucker, or is one themselves.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I love it how some people will say that scientific terms used to describe well studied social phenomenon is "name calling", and then take offense at the idea that they're not well informed.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

for sale: checks & balances, never used

submitted 29 days ago • 55 comments

Fun fact: Fiscal conservatism harms more people every single day than de-segregation ever has throughout history (zero people).

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

stop using substack

submitted 40 days ago • 7 comments

As Jesus famously said, Love thy neighbor a bit less than thyself

submitted 34 days ago • 613 comments

once you start seeing reagan as a defining villain of our era, its hard to unsee. but what reagan did was dismantle solidarity as an ethic and praxis. he was a simple actor hired to sell the nation on the idea of individualism over collective action; and to divide us up w/ racial dog whistling

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

One of the lessons of the mid-late last century is that consistent systems will beat smart people every day of the week.

submitted 34 days ago • 19 comments

not only was non-citizen voting common but the causal relationship between citizenship and voting was often reversed, that is, voting was how a non citizen demonstrated their commitment to the political community such that they could become citizens

submitted 37 days ago • 58 comments

I think the conventional wisdom about the Cold War is entirely wrong. It didn't end in the late 80s with the fall of the wall, or in the early 90s with the dissolution of the USSR. And it wasn't a struggle between capitalism and communism.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

U.S. megacorps dump mountains of cash into AI, get shown up by a Chinese startup operating at a tiny fraction of the cost, and this guy's takeaway is we need to invest even more in this money pit rather than that our corporations are corrupt. Cool!

submitted 37 days ago • 38 comments

birthright citizenship a) greatly simplifies the citizenship bureaucracy b) prevents the formation of a permanent underclass c) better secures my own rights d) instantiates America as a moral-political republic, not a nation-state based on blood

submitted 37 days ago • 62 comments

Oh no the Chinese are doing the useless thing that gives wrong answers cheaper www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/t...

submitted 37 days ago • 80 comments

I'm thinking we're gonna need a shorthand for people who believed (or claimed to believe) that they were voting for lower prices. Maybe "egg chumps" or "egg rubes".

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Remember when the whole point of crypto was that it didn’t need to be backstopped by any sovereign government

submitted 41 days ago • 15 comments

"The crime tools I work on should only be used for specific types of crimes."

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

It's hard for me to fathom the gullibility required to believe that an administration of billionaires is going to be "populist" and "finally look out for the little guy". How do those people function in their daily lives?

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Discworld QOTD, from Making Money “Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit.”

submitted 45 days ago • 6 comments

AI is for people who don't want to or can't think. Period. I write to figure out what I think and how to think about it better.

submitted 48 days ago • 19 comments

We really need to broaden the definition of the word looter

submitted 49 days ago • 45 comments

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submitted 48 days ago • 34 comments

the shoplifting tantrum was a press operation to make older white americans terrified via breathless media reporting in order to achieve electoral goals. with those goals achieved, they're winding it down. this entire shoplifting panic has been a social experiment, thank you for your participation

submitted 49 days ago • 62 comments

Stop treating genAI CEOs in good faith. Flailing dweebs like Mikey Schulman of Suno are people that took one college art/music elective and gave up while watching those that understood the basis of social norms succeed. They don’t get people so they don’t get “it” and they’re aggrieved as a result.

submitted 50 days ago • 5 comments

The use of the phrase "virtue signalling" dismissively is vice signalling.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

The signature rhetorical style of the tech right is a patina of historical or philosophical sophistication covering up bizarre and deeply silly arguments

submitted 54 days ago • 24 comments

Batman Must Do Better Against Bruce Wayne

submitted 56 days ago • 5 comments

AI is a more than a dead-end: it is death. The death of creativity, the death of the paid artist, and the death of the environment. But, hey! Some rich people got even more money, and lazy people got a shitty image or text.

submitted 56 days ago • 7 comments

If you played an instrument back in high school and stopped: we are in a golden age of decent cheap instruments. The guitars are better, the amps are better. The pedals are cheaper, the wind instruments are actually instruments and not just shaped like them, etc. Jump back into it.

submitted 60 days ago • 360 comments

"just immigrate legally bro"

submitted 62 days ago • 88 comments

Artists: love of process must outweigh love of final product. Why else are we doing this if we don’t love every fucking second of creating it?

submitted 63 days ago • 6 comments

This 2025 stop calling yourself a "content creator" You're an artist, graphic designer, a video editor, an entertainer, musician, a streamer, a cook, a craftsman, an animator, a storyteller, a writer, a painter, a woodworker, a tailor... You are not a faceless "content" machine.

submitted 63 days ago • 140 comments