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i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

submitted 2 days ago • 732 comments

i took libertarianism seriously in college because i thought civil liberties mattered and everyone like me is a socialist now

submitted 65 days ago • 14 comments

This makes me so mad

submitted 133 days ago • 47 comments

Hi, I’ve been a software developer for 30 years, including in very large IT projects. Everything about “DOGE” and a bunch of Hitlerjugend walking into a data center and optimizing a code base and data grown over 70 years in a few days is complete bullshit on its nose. Sincerely, Thomas

submitted 134 days ago • 225 comments

CORPORATE DEI WEBINAR: If you meet someone from East Asia, you should avoid asking "So which kind are you?" JACUZZI DEALERSHIP OWNER: Well, that's it. Time to start the Fourth Reich.

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“Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex: you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.” James Baldwin

submitted 166 days ago • 64 comments

I wonder if it ever bums rage against the machine out that 90% of their listenership thinks their songs are about how guys who own parking lots or whatever shouldn't have to pay taxes

submitted 188 days ago • 248 comments

This piece is as good as everyone says it is. It’s incredible.

submitted 203 days ago • 14 comments

I still think people are nuts to be fighting about campaign message when voters keep telling us over and over they didn’t hear campaign messages.

submitted 208 days ago • 30 comments

i decided to do a half batch of this recipe on a lark and they turned out beautifully for a first attempt + they were stupid easy, highly recommend it

submitted 207 days ago • 4 comments

this concept can be applied to almost every phenomenon in American discourse such as the positives and negatives of capitalism, history, equality, climate, and so on. Shocking how much the right will scream and rant about "facts" they kinda sorta learned as children

submitted 211 days ago • 0 comments