That’s not the title, and that last sentence is just illogical…

Like, if true, they also made 3-5x per ever $36.27 invested, and 3-5x is a giant range

Why not just use the title the editor came up with?

I mean, it’s one of the most constant signs of an empire in decline…

When the powerful aren’t held accountable, doing something and getting away with it goes from a shameful act to something people brag about.

We don’t live in a just society, so no one cares about following the rules.

It’s the first crack in the social contract, and it showed up long ago. One the whole thing goes, so does society.

Quick edit:

That being said, mods will eventually delete this for being a text post, there’s a discussion community your supposed to use for this stuff

Zuckerberg was in court to testify as part of a trial over whether Meta and Alphabet-owned YouTube deliberately designed their social media platforms to encourage compulsive usage by young people.

Ironically I think rather than them wearing them for nefarious reasons, they’ve just been encouraged to use them for so long, that they are actually addicted to them as well.

Like, if you were forced to use your employers product at work for 10-12 hrs a day and try to come up with way to monetize it in your off hours, you may start to rely on it eventually.

Our brains are wired to always take the easiest path, that’s actually the reason for technological advancement in the first place.

They probably just don’t even realize they’re wearing them, it’s just a (mostly useless and completely impractical) part of their bodies now.

Moon bears

It’s gonna be moon bears, isn’t it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvjgIxuVdo4

I didn’t even think about it till the cartel thing, then I was like Whaaaaaaat?

Sounds exactly like a playground snitch…

He gave classified information. He’s not supposed to be doing that. I don’t know if they’re real or not… I can tell you he gave classified information. He made a big mistake,” the president told Fox News’ Peter Doocy aboard Air Force One.

Old (North) Vegas has always been better…

Like, it’s still Vegas. But instead of the capitalism cranked up to 11, it’s more like an average city level of exploitation.

I was let down the first time tho, because I was expecting some Uncle Eddie shit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byfewcZsug4

Partly that, partly that even if they tried to prevent it from killing humans (if able) it would just do it.

Like if AI had a button that said “kill 20 random people” it wouldn’t have any reason to not press the button. It doesn’t give a fuck about human life, because it can’t really give a fuck about anything.

It’ll kill every human just as easily as it I’ll delete an entire codebase.

It’s not “evil” it’s the lack of anything resembling ethics, including respect for human life. There’s technically a difference. But that’s a fundamental misunderstanding of human psychology

Dirk Gently

Based off a book based off a script for a Dr Who episode that was too weird by the guy who wrote Hitchiker’s Guide, starring Frodo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILZE3AUsrqI

Plurality of voters.

Only ~64% of voters voted in 2024…

“None of the above” would have won the most votes if everyone voted, but that’s not how the system works

In Munich, U.S. Secretary of State Marcio Rubio proposed a “new Western century,” built around a manufactured claim of shared Christian and white heritage, propped up by an elementary-school understanding of world history.

Lol

You’re gonna have to make your own community to post that stuff, because it’s definitely not a fit for anywhere you’re posting it…

Just make your own and post whatever to your hearts content

Headline is damn near misinformation…

But that’s the guardian’s fault:

“In the face of rising demand and surging prices, I’m proposing a two-year pause on authorization of new datacenter tax credits,” Pritzker said. “With the shifting energy landscape, it is imperative that our growth does not undermine affordability and stability for our families.”

He wants to cut off new credits (which is good) but he’s a fucking billionaire and this plan would be a huge benefit to the ones who got in first.

We didnt even have time for this before we found out just the noise of data centers fucked people up.

Pausing shit ain’t enough, but no billionaire will ever put the people over profits. And Pritzker decides every single second of his life that he’d rather be a billionaire instead of our ally.

Stop expecting him to be

Well yeah…

Isn’t she a product of Trump’s teen pagents he bragged about spying on?

She was almost certainly trafficked herself, and then took on a Maxwell type role recruiting once she aged out, and in return got set up with a celebrity.

Waaaaay to many of his old contestants keep popping up for it be a coincidence, there was some kind of pipeline there

This is actually smart thinking…

The cyber trucks they produce today, will sit on the lot for years before demand catches up thru backlog. Since all they’re going to do for 3-5 years is sit in a parking lot, they don’t need fancy luxuries like steering wheels or door handles.

Bro there’s people who play Skyrim for 100hrs never leaving the first village or picking up a weapon.

There might not be a game tailored to what you want, but I’m sure a game exists where you can do what you want to, especially if on PC and with mods.

Like, you can just play a super market simulator, and instead of caring about score do what you get enjoyment from.

He didn’t accuse them…

He flat out said it was happening.

FCC has domain over broadcast (not cable) and radio.

They’re going after late show hosts on the “free” networks, but have explicitly said they’re not going to enforce the same rules on talk radio, because “that’s not the focus”.

They’re only enforces rules against people who disagreeing against them politically

It’s fucking obvious, there’s no allegedly here, it’s clearly happening and the FCC has publicly acknowledged the bias

They don’t discuss the progressive policies of the candidate at all, Ken Martin just plugs his strategy of focusing on smaller races.

Because this is a “smaller race”…

just like how they always try to make Mamdani’s popularity about his personal charisma instead of his policies, reinforces that they’re trying to ignore progressivism’s popularity.

That’s not true either, and luckily I have a print quote for that one so we don’t have to argue over timestamps:

One is, he campaigned for something. And this is a critical piece. We can’t just be in a perpetual state of resisting Donald Trump. Of course, we have to resist Donald Trump. There’s no doubt about it for all the reasons we just talked about. But we also have to give people a sense of what we’re for, what the Democratic Party is fighting for, and what we would do if they put us back in power.

And that’s really critical. And I think that’s one of the lessons from Mamdani’s campaign, is that he focused on affordability. He focused on a message that was resonant with voters, and he campaigned for something, not against other people or against other things. He campaigned on a vision of how he was going to make New York City a better place to live.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/dnc-chair-on-the-path-to-winning-back-voters-and-lessons-democrats-can-learn-from-mamdani

But, if you think his opinions on policy matter, then you don’t understand how he’s running the DNC, even tho he’s very open about it.

If these candidates were piece of shit neoliberals, they’d get all the same support from the party, minus a few nice soundbites in interviews

That’s the strength of Martin, that he’s legitimately non-biased. All progressives need is a fair primary, and that’s what Martin gave Minnesota for a decade.

If you’re focusing on what he says on policy, you’re just not looking at the right thing.

Well, I was saying Dems “as a party”…

You’re referencing the House and Senate leadership, who notably got elected a week or two before Martin, when the old DNCs threats of “vote neolib or we defumd your state party and let Republicans take all the seats” was a valid and well proven threat.

They’ve been lame ducks this entire congress and everyone knows it. The media just won’t say it because they’re still trying to prop up neoliberals as effective and in control. Just because that will depress dem.primary turnout and help neoliberal candidates.

Like, Jeffries and Schumer are literally trying to be as terrible as possible intentionally

If a progressive Dem becomes president, they name the next DNC chair and neoliberals lose the party for good. They’d 100% rather a Republican wins 2028 if it’s not a neoliberal, because that gives them a chance to take the party back.

Like, I dunno man. I overestimate people a lot, but I really feel like all of this should be common sense and easy for people to figure out on their own.

But it’s seems like despite most people realizing billionaires are the problem, they still only listen to what billionaire owned propaganda says on the TV

Trump:

I can go lower

Taylor Rehmet, a Democrat and local union leader, won a runoff for a state Senate seat that’s been held by Republicans since 1992. What’s more, he bested the Republican Leigh Wambsganss despite having one-tenth as much money. Much of Wambsganss’s funding came from Dunn and the Wilks brothers.

Here’s the DNC chair talking about it two weeks ago:

https://youtu.be/J9Nk7RcZh7k?t=46

We’re not “over performing” this is the natural result of undoing the damage of 30 years of neoliberalism and especially the “victory fund”. Up until a year ago the goal of the party wasn’t “as many seats as possible” it was just to have a neoliberal president and at most House or Senate, but never both.

It’s like going from a pitcher who wants to win but not cover the spread, to one who just wants to win by as many runs as possible.

Dems aren’t intentionally holding themselves back, so we’re going to keep seeing massive gains.