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Quit freaking out. Remember that in 10,000 B.C., when America had ZERO international trade, a family could afford a house like this on a single income.

submitted 21 hours ago • 428 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 16 hours ago • 39 comments

I must not be the first person to bring this up But there has never been a more vindicated guy

submitted 19 hours ago • 209 comments

Every day we learn anew just how much classified ads were perhaps the load-bearing pillar of American hegemony

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

Me 8 years ago: Can you imagine how crazy it would have been if Twitter existed during WW2? Or the Great Depression? Me 8 years from now: Hey, remember Connecticut?

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I got the tariff But I didn't get no tax relief

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Wall Street bets discord is so goddamn funny right now

submitted 1 day ago • 183 comments

If our democracy dies, this is its epitaph

submitted 1 day ago • 587 comments

Not even a controversial statement to say that if white people wanted this to stop badly enough it would. Not even a controversial statement to say that among the voting populace it is white people's fault it's gone this far. And if you're white and that offends you it's because a hit dog hollers.

submitted 1 day ago • 165 comments

It's weird to have elected leaders who say they want to crash the economy, reinstate segregation, strip human rights and create a perpetual underclass and then have people ask why are they doing this are they bad at economics ?

submitted 2 days ago • 137 comments

I did not make this and don't know who did, all the same - lmao

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

I do not like when the nerds who post graphs on here are all going "oof" and "jesus christ" at the same time

submitted 2 days ago • 149 comments

The question of if a country could fuck itself harder than the UK did with Brexit has today been answered.

submitted 2 days ago • 820 comments

Revealed preferences theory suggests that Wall Street executives value their ability to call their subordinates gay at approximately 8 trillion dollars

submitted 2 days ago • 48 comments

Yes, the stock market may be tanking and our national security apparatus has never been more vulnerable and we're on the verge of both economic collapse and war, but it was all worth it to keep pronouns out of email signatures.

submitted 2 days ago • 270 comments

Microsoft Engineers: we have invented “shift+ctrl+v” which will paste text in the appropriate formatting to its context where it is being pasted Unwashed masses: amazing! This will revolutionize workplace efficiency. It works in Outlook right? Microsoft Engeering: no

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

France raises a fascinating hypothetical point: what if the law still exists even if people might get mad at you

submitted 5 days ago • 125 comments

remember what i said about RFK Jr. being a eugenicist first and foremost? www.marketwatch.com/story/agency...

submitted 5 days ago • 668 comments

A mother and two children loss their lives yesterday on Ocean Pkway in unbelievable tragedy. Harder to accept is, like gun violence, traffic violence is deadly and overwhelming preventable...this loss of life and injury was preventable. We need prayers for the family... and much more

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering.

submitted 7 days ago • 989 comments

Amen!

submitted 11 days ago • 31 comments

if, ten years ago, your entire understanding of politics was that the right wing wanted to destroy everything because they were evil, you had a more accurate and more predictive analysis than functionally the entire American media and political apparatus

submitted 15 days ago • 350 comments

One problem with the idea of reserving due process for law-abiding people is that due process is how we figure out which people are law-abiding.

submitted 18 days ago • 353 comments

really sucks how the White House has basically become rapist wakanda

submitted 18 days ago • 1227 comments

boy this is really testing my deeply held belief that we are all entitled to imagination, fantasy, and a rich and private inner life

submitted 22 days ago • 12 comments

I've been thinking a lot about that bumper sticker which says "everything looks like a conspiracy theory when you don't understand how anything works" and folks it's pretty obvious to me that the people in power right now have absolutely no desire to understand how anything works.

submitted 30 days ago • 229 comments

dressing matching to present a "unified front" except it's 4 different colors so no one will even notice is like, the ultimate Democrat move. i couldn't write something this perfect

submitted 31 days ago • 49 comments

"democrats plan to color coordinate to communicate opposition" is the biggest loser shit i've ever heard. School Spirit Week-ass action. "I do not give facebook my permission"-ass action. are they hitting themselves in the head with hammers at every DNC event

submitted 31 days ago • 67 comments

Apparently the reason the left "always loses" is because some of us are annoying and put people off. The far-right, of course, are a bunch of cool chill guys that are fun and normal 24/7.

submitted 32 days ago • 73 comments

There's such a disparity between the message cybertruck drivers think they're conveying to the world vs the one they actually are which is "it's very easy to sell dumb things to me"

submitted 32 days ago • 93 comments

This gestures expansively is the worst fucking way to teach civics.

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

I came out this morning and found this flyer on my Honda Odyssey. Just because I own a Honda doesn't mean I condone the man's actions or agree with all of his political beliefs, and I'm a little offended at the idea that I should be held responsible.

submitted 35 days ago • 72 comments

disturbing uptick in "we post tweets and talk about them." servile behavior tbh. bluesky is not the Greek chorus for the main character action of twitter, that's loser thinking, have some pride. twitter is dead. post bangers. thank you

submitted 39 days ago • 98 comments

I’ll say it: this is a good idea that should have been done years ago. Next, they should strike more dollar coins and stop printing dollars.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Today, we at Google have a new product: what if you could could ask an app a question? Oh, we do that already? Well, what if we were a little bit worse at it? What if we also sometimes gave you egregiously wrong information? And what if it cost a billion dollars? Still not interested? It's mandatory

submitted 54 days ago • 159 comments

Has there ever been a policy that's been as immediately successful as Congestion Pricing?

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

they can take over the entire country but they can never actually be cool and it will eat at them forever

submitted 54 days ago • 1041 comments

One thing I’ll miss about Biden being President is we won’t get any more of those fun posts from conservatives about how an ordinary family trip to Chili’s costs 140 dollars with a receipt that shows 110 dollars worth of alcohol purchases

submitted 56 days ago • 31 comments

Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?

submitted 58 days ago • 168 comments

my biggest regret in the last decade was not doing PPP fraud

submitted 60 days ago • 21 comments

Some have been so numbed to the creep of power that they keep asking what if this turns violent. Friends, it is violent.

submitted 60 days ago • 31 comments

“it’s probably a black person’s fault this bad thing happened” as a reflexive explanation is just a racist statement, there’s not a level of substantiation that makes it not racist bsky.app/profile/pgou...

submitted 65 days ago • 113 comments

I just wish #yall would signal boost the Black people who are telling you this is Jim Crow more than you signal boost the non-black people who are saying it's Nazi Germany. I know why you won't though. . .

submitted 65 days ago • 23 comments

I'm generally pro-regulation, but what drives me crazy about e-bike regulation conversations is that we never talk about the crazy shit we allow cars to do. Top speed of 200MPH? That's fine! 0-60 MPH in 2 seconds? No problem! Bumper that hits pedestrians in their torso/head and kills them? Legal!

submitted 65 days ago • 3 comments

The administration is not targeting immigrants with violent records. They're targeting the immigrants who are easiest to get: those who show to court and follow the rules. It's a great way to ensure that undocumented people stop coming to court. They're also already ensnaring U.S. citizens.

submitted 65 days ago • 40 comments