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Personally, I wish to extend a hearty congratulations to Canada, a noble, prosperous country that I understand conducts background checks as part of its fast-track immigration application process, on their thrilling 4 Nations tournament victory

You know what lives in my head rent-free? The Panama Papers. We found out about all that money that rich people have been hiding overseas, and it just got memory holed.

In this vein, when someone says leftists just want to virtue signal, rather than accomplish anything, they’re usually the one who really thinks politics is about virtue signaling.

I met my wife at a bar 10 years ago today. If you’re able to, I highly recommend meeting your future spouse on Valentine’s Day, then realizing you love each other three days later. Even better if she’s (or he, they, whoever) Mexican. Super fun experience, 100000000/10 stars.

Me: Check it out. Friend: Uh why are you wearing four watches? Me: Look closer. Friend: Ok, uh, is that…merma- Me: That’s right. MERMAID PORN. Friend: Haha what the hell man? How much did you spend on those? I hope it wasn’t more than $40. Me: GUESS AGAIN. I’LL GIVE YOU A HINT. YOU’RE LOW.

This also gets at something I was thinking about recently: Wealthy people are assuming they’ll be able to get whatever medical care they need no matter how bad society gets, but you can’t benefit from medical care that doesn’t exist because the government didn’t fund the research to invent it

Sometimes I look at something and think “ah, of course, how did I not predict that?” and “the first copyright lawsuit against an AI company to succeed is about protecting legal intellectual property” is immediately one of those things

Our friend Mahmoud Muna has been arrested, he runs bookshops, wonderful places of curiosity and knowledge. With love and solidarity to the Muna family x www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

@jbenmenachem.com Salaam is backed by Keith Wright if that’s helpful for understanding his politics a bit

well THAT’ll teach the people threatening your life a lesson!!!

Everything Trump and Musk are doing is basically a Nathan For You idea: In the absolute best case scenario, people tolerate your bullshit long enough for you to generate a moderately-sized, one-time profit at the expense of totally destroying your reputation and ability to function long-term

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.

Years ago Fox News did a Halloween segment where a reporter took candy from kids, then told them that’s what taxes are. The kids predictably lost their shit, and the reporter validated them by agreeing taxes are unfair. It never occurred to the reporter he was like the children throwing tantrums.

I can't get over how weak so many capitalists are when the backbone to a lot of their profits -- federal investment and safety nets -- are being gutted. Probably aligns with the death of long term value plays as everything descends into rents and looking for exit liquidity.