…apparently kier is now schrödinger’s prime minister…& if…wes streeting…hasn’t put in a bid to replace him by the end of the day then the press might declare *wes* as being toast, too…so…it really is leaning into be being the “mother-” of parliaments…whatever…it’s definitely a constructive thing to be doing right now & not coming across like the news calls it the comfort zone…at…all…it even said so in the papers so it must be true
Idk i think if you want to understand why firms price consumer goods a certain way, understanding margins is actually extremely important? bsky.app/profile/erin…
I think both were factors overall but for fast food in particular you can just check this – operating margins at fast food restaurants did not increase in the early 2020s, the higher prices were the result of higher costs (of which higher labor costs was the most significant)
…in fairness…many costs are effectively linked to other costs that have been rising…sometimes because of choices someone made…but…not always the person raising the costs…&…whether they adjust that margin up or down probably serves at least somewhat to indicate some things…like…if after payroll you’re out of business with 2% margin but at 4% you can give out bonuses at christmas & you pick 3% maybe people aren’t expecting bonuses…& maybe dropping from 4% to 3% let you not put prices up for a long time & then you can’t avoid it because what was 3% at christmas is 2% by march because happy new year, we back…bitches…so the price goes up but you’re at 2.75%…well…that sucks for everyone but you might not be the bad guy…if you’re banking a gazillion bucks after tax & when the overhead goes up your margin…expands…I dunno…you probably have rocket launches to pay for or whatever…but…it’s not always nice easy numbers that way…&…like…apparently for the food side of the thing the prices rising haven’t even reflected any knock-on shit from the “oops, we down a strait, folks” bit…so…that seems…not great…but…like…don’t go looking to see which of the “how do I have more fingers than that?” number of multinational conglomerates actually owns whatever makes whatever you were thinking of eating…it’ll just make your head hurt more when it hits you one of them is who the fucking aspirin came from, too…& then you’ll wind up sounding like my ass or something & nobody wants that now, do they?
Indeed the media instead framed this phenomenon as a huge problem rather than as a policy success, putting a lot of negative attention on e.g. fast food prices and other areas where rising working class wages caused inflation in consumer prices.
…& then you’ll only go & take it out on some poor bastard or other
people *hated* the perceived degradation in customer service quality that a super-tight low-end labor market resulted in. Visceral anger esp for the upper class. I described this at the time as "crossing the country-club-server-has-visible-tattoos line" bsky.app/profile/scie…
…& I’m not trynna be crowley…although being able to do 80mph down regents street in a vintage bentley you never have to fill up without anyone batting an eyelid…does sound like it might be a pretty cool gig…so more fool me, maybe
You *could* just say "fuck it" and implement coercive price controls for Burgers knowing it would produce a bunch of negative side effects but that would be insane because fast food is Unhealthy Treats and not actually important for people to maintain cheap access to?
…probably safest to make a bunch of sweeping generalisations & then maybe break for lunch…speaking of lunch
and it's pretty unclear to me if our communist utopia will even have fast food restaurants — themselves a prototypical symbol of capitalist ideology — at all!
…I don’t care what flavor utopia it is…if it doesn’t have fast food that also isn’t bad for you then I’d like to introduce you to a thing the brits called the “trades descriptions act”…because that would be false advertising…misrepresentation of goods, even…if you can’t get pizza or steak or a pitcher of ice-cream you can’t finish on your birthday or whatever…how you callin’ that a utopia, bud?
As a mental exercise go back to 2019 prices and wages and then figure out how much of a lowest decile income will be spent eating at a fast food restaurant twice a day (even restricting yourself only to budget menu type items) the answer may surprise you! bsky.app/profile/dasi…
…this is like delivery breakfast all over again, isn’t it…gotta remember things seeming alien to me doesn’t mean it’s not normal for enough people for it to make sense that’s what they call it…but…if I’m supposed to have been being able to eat food I didn’t make…on demand…twice a day…every day…holy shit I guess I am a lot poorer than I’d been deluding myself about being…because I dunno how many years on my balance sheet wouldn’t be retrospectively listed as being a loss on that basis
I believe there is a better way, but the fact that so many American leftists' anti-capitalism takes the form of "ugh why do I need to understand wages and costs and charts and shit" doesn't make me optimistic that we can pull it off! bsky.app/profile/yoke…
…well…I haven’t got over having breakfast delivered so I dunno exactly what the better way looks like or whatever…but…I’m pretty sure the way we do it…isn’t the best?
“A rough couple of decades” in which oil prices were high and the US became the world’s biggest producer of oil and gas. These people are just shameless in the way they lie to portray themselves as victims.
…see…I’m clearly a fucking idiot because I don’t see what necessitated the couple of decades of that line shooting up…that didn’t have to happen…that was a product of choices…if anyone had asked me, I’m pretty sure I’d have voted “agin”…which…my bad…that’s not me mispronouncing “again”
Boy it sure seems like someone should ask JD Vance what he thinks of the White House ordering DOJ to settle a lawsuit with Trump that could result in the IRS handing him millions of dollars.
…keeping the board shorts industry alive is one thing…providing a visual shorthand for “you’re not actually bigger or cleverer because your clothes are more expensive & we call that “business attire”…might even be useful…but…apparently those aren’t what that guy *is* for even if before the brain trauma maybe he could have passed for them being true?
the pitch deck to sponsor sec. of transportation sean duffy's family road trip reality show (obtained by POLITICO) is as stupid and corrupt as you'd expect:static.politico.com/74/6e/5da7a1…
…there’s passin’…then there’s just passin’ through
I think a lot of modern evangelicals imagine that the fact that most of the Framers were in some sense “Christian” implies that they shared the modern evangelical’s worldview wholesale, a lot of which didn’t really even exist at the time.
"The oligarchs want a permanent ruling class. The extremists want a permanent underclass to grind a boot into. The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law"
…I don’t much recall suggesting that listen to me was particularly smart or useful…or at least I seldom seem to find it makes me feel all that clever & it largely comes costumed as hindrance…but…that’s probably all the courage I’m shorter on than convictions…I mean…I haven’t had any of those handed down to me…but…I sorta thought I found a bunch along the way & I must be some kind of stupid because I’ve been hanging on to the things like I thought they were good to have
like, everyone’s still focused on the price of gas, but the price of everything else is going to be the real problem
every extra dollar you pay in groceries this summer is the fault of donald trump specifically and the republican party generally and if you don’t understand that, you’re the sucker
Especially since, ostensibly, the ENTIRE REASON for the mess we're in is people worried about the price of groceries.Even if disingenuous, that's the ONE THING we're pretending they care about
we got rid of the president of unavoidable high grocery prices to elect the president of avoidable high grocery prices
hope you like the hot stove, we are gonna spend the rest of this term — and some time after — cooking our own asses on it because the president and every single person he has appointed has not bought their own groceries since the clinton administration
every dollar. every time you think “shit, that’s more expensive than i expected”? trump and the republicans. every time your tank costs half your rent or mortgage to fill? trump and the republicans. literally all of this is their fault.
…all…I mean…absolutes are hard…but…eh…ok…all it is, I guess
bluesky — i am talking to you, all of you — need to internalize this and you need to tell everyone you know this. shampoo more expensive? republicans. burgers more expensive? republicans. beer more expensive? republicans.
…stands to reason…I mean…it’s not nothing…we know that much
the republicans think you and the people you know are fucking suckers and idiots who won’t blame them for this, and every time you scream into the text window about dem fecklessness, you prove them right. put the blame where it belongs.
…& I keep hearing how it’s not how it looks because it’s a binary system at the end of the day in the only ways that make anything but no nevermind…so
the republicans think you and the people you know are fucking suckers and idiots who won’t blame them for this, and every time you scream into the text window about dem fecklessness, you prove them right. put the blame where it belongs.
…guess it must be all…by default?
we have a republican trifecta government and this is what they have delivered to us. put your petty fucking bullshit beefs aside and loudly blame who is responsible for what fucking ails you, or, if you can’t help yourself, shut the entire fuck up.
…also…they might not be talking to each other…hell…they might actually be agreeing
California already contributes $250B more in federal taxes per year than it receives back in federal spending, by far the largest donor state in the country. That's not enough for the GOP, they want to steal more and more. Intolerable
…can you sub-tweet a whole-ass congress using an interstate trade exclusivity compact…asking for a friend?
I am only partially joking when I say you can tell what language you’re reading if you can see whether the talking points from a certain government and its allies is “this is all Fake News” or “this is good, actually”
…only…some people seem to get weirdly murderous if you say you want the other brand because you feel icky when you give the money they pay you to something that pays for something that makes you wanna throw up & turn your face to the wall…like that’s what gas chambers are built of or something…&…hand on heart…that shit don’t add up for me?
Say it with me folks: Baijiu Fridays with Tony Dokoupil
It should be pointed out over and over that besides Bari Weiss being completely obsessed with turning CBS into a television version of her anti-woke, pro-Israel blog, she is also extremely incompetent at the nuts and bolts of running a network.www.semafor.com/article/05/1…
"Funny how firing your London bureau chief with institutional knowledge means you fuck up huge overseas stories," one CBS News senior staffer just told me regarding the visa screw-up.
…but…they let any old fuckwit on the plane with a whole seating section for the press…like…any…fuckwit
Musk is accompanying Trump to China.
…anyway
Guys I have bad news for everyone, but eliminating capitalism and having a master planned economy is going to require *more* math and spreadsheets and understanding of microeconomics than we currently need bsky.app/profile/kuug…
…I specifically requested *less* math in my universe…who keeps shoving all the math back in everything when I’m not looking?
I wish someone would corner these chuds on "only when the sun shines or the wind blows." It's spectacularly embarrassing that the ENERGY secretary doesn't know how storage batteries work.
…burgum…buddy…you telling me you never saw a commercial for the duracell bunny…& you’re…how old again, exactly?
If you know an American historian, reach out and see if they're doing ok.The idiots who run this country seem determined to drive us insane with their half-assed reports on the books they never read.
…shhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittt…I swear…I saw some fool literally say *in as many words*…”reading is elitist”…on…a…text-based internet social media forum…how’s that for introspection…what kinda “reading” do you suppose that makes *them* elite at, exactly…because they surely must be talking about the kind of assigned reading they never actually did…or…just maybe…they…would have put that somewhat differently…that three-word-slogan thing, man…I get it makes you feel good to say the thing…but “dipshit talking here”…is technically one of those…& a lot of them are interchangeable…some things actually *are* complex…if you decide they’re simple because the simple expedient of leaving all the complexity out gets you a simple statement that’s easy to remember & you can yell sometimes…& that’s your idea of clever…well…I guess that goes on the pile of “stuff I don’t get but probably explains a lot of why & how a bunch of other stuff that makes no fucking sense is the way it is & apparently can’t be any other way”
Holy shit y’all this is not a drill, David Letterman and Stephen Colbert are dropping stuff off the rooftop of a building near the Ed Sullivan Theater!
If Trump’s leak hunts and probes actually find out who’s been blabbing to, say, Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman….. things are going to get intensely funny
I'm sorry some of you dislike Bluesky. My experience here is pretty good.Maybe it's because I don't think of myself as a political operative posting to win elections or transform politics.I like writing, reading, and interacting, and found here better than elsewhere.To each their own, I guess.
…I mean…I’m not cool enough to get to tell people their thing is a skill issue…but…I don’t even post on bluesky & I still find my chances of finding the parts that seem better than what’s available elsewhere…uhh…better?
“The likelihood of PII appearing in AI training data is only increasing as public data ‘runs out’ and AI companies look for new sources of high-quality training data. This includes information from data brokers and people-search websites.”
…I mean…when it was my lot…people didn’t want to have their picture show up in the school magazine because that shit was basically a brochure & it was embarrassing & they made you take a copy home & your friends might see it…& one might hang on to it & then blow it up on an overhead projector as a punchline in their best-man-roasts-the-groom speech on the happiest day of your life or whatever…that’s…not why there are schools taking down images of their pupils from their websites now…something something…”freedom of speech absolutists”…”what even is consent when there’s AI involved, anyway…nobody got hurt…why you gotta be a bitch about it?”
excuse me but if you try to make your child do anything they don't want to do you should be tried at the hague
All-time favorite “no one knows shit about economics” moment was when businesses started throwing out the “now hiring” signs again, GOPniks treated them doing so as a sign of Biden-induced economic collapse, and the pan-ideological populist coalition did what it does best and took them at their word
Yeah. From last year: “I want to thank Iran for giving us early notice, which made it possible for no lives to be lost”
I‘m told in professional wrestling, veering off script and hitting somebody for real because fuck this, you want to win is called doing a shoot. I believe a lot of American elites view Iran in this light and think Iran very unprofessional and unsportsmanlike for not sticking to the COD NPC script.
People understand that ‘the world economy explodes’ is a feature and not a bug of Iranian strategy, to them
I am very tired of the stupid-savvy 'oh you think politicians were honest before Donald Trump' take, like yes there has in fact been a qualitative change in the way modern american politics have been conducted that is largely attributable to him, and is bad.
‘The world economy explodes’ is a problem for all of us and Trump and the EU and East Asia but the ‘Iranian Government’ currently rules a pile of rubble supplied by China and Russian largesse, two countries that are expanding green energy and have oil already
One man’s price pressure is another man’s arbitrage and all that
just the whole “well, if we make even a great deal for us with trump, what if he abandons it a week later because he sees a chance to assassinate our newest religious or military leaders?”
One country's "economic disaster" is another country's "level playing field".
“we hit them, they hit us, we say thank you, and the show’s over” is probably how he thought this would go
He tends to see everything as a zero-sum asymmetric game, which works here, except he didn’t understand the real asymmetry.
…well…sure…but…symmetrical face is looksmaxxed…natural asymmetries are the bad guy, here…get with the program?
Rand’s father Ron was adjacent to some of the dumbest antisemites and white nationalists in American politics for years…so this seems like a fairly predictable apple/tree story.
William Paul, the son of Sen. Rand Paul, drunkenly hurled antisemitic insults at Republican Rep. Mike Lawler at a Capitol Hill bar “Do you think I’m Jewish?” Lawler asked. “I’m not.”“Oh wow, I’m so sorry for calling you a Jew,” Paul said.
…huh…when you think about it…if both janus‘ faces were the same face…that’d be god-like levels of facial symmetry…maybe you put extra x’s in to indicate the extra levels…I dunno, though…x’s are only 10s…we’re talking about a damn god compared to mere mortals…gotta be…couple of orders of magnitude in that, surely…so…maybe [x*x*x]=k…so…looksmakkking?
It’s also interesting to hear Kent talk about how his entry point into politics was Ron Paul…because of course it was. The animating assumption behind that Conservative Hippie podcast and Ron Paul’s politics is that there’s been a 90 year gov’t conspiracy against you that needs to be destroyed.
This guy is a particular favorite of G. Edward Griffin, an OG John Bircher from the 1960s who is currently shilling crypto and Ivermectin at his annual “Red Pill Expos.
At the 23 minute mark of that podcast interview Joe Kent says that he blames “the administrative state” and “the national security apparatus” for his wife’s death. Not sure it’s a great idea to have someone who believes that put in charge of a major part of “the national security apparatus.”
…in the movies that shit is always the inspired move…obviously…because movies are…about escapism as much as anything…&…when you all think somehow you’re the main character rather than a bit player the director doesn’t even know the name of…eh…shit happens, I guess?
As Twitter became worse environment for sharing external links (such as policy white papers or news articles) it's less of a central node.
…& adjustments…&…periods…thereof, usually…tend to be called for
(I think last week was the first time I was on BlueSky for all of the Jobs Friday insta-analysis. First time! Other occasions I at least flipped back and forth.)
…I dunno…you…listen to the wind…which may be bnlowing hot air or talking in code or whatever it do when it do what it do or whatever
‘The world economy explodes’ is a problem for all of us and Trump and the EU and East Asia but the ‘Iranian Government’ currently rules a pile of rubble supplied by China and Russian largesse, two countries that are expanding green energy and have oil already
China’s problem, though, is that a global recession will completely fuck its export markets, when its manufacturers are already losing money.
…I mean…sometimes you got a five year plan & you think you the big man on campus…&…sometimes…someone calls someone the sick man of asia…&…that beer gets held for a real long time?
Isolate a country from the global economy for 50 years and everyone wonders why they aren’t too bothered if the world melts down around them.
…I mean…if you’re china…that whole “build a wall” thing probably landed pretty different for a start…just sayin’
we are finding out about this because it apparently happened right in front of the reporter. while I prefer my journalism billionaire free I also think it's just generally to our advantage to have more reporters and reporting to expose ghouls
🙃 “‘It’s interesting because the same gender group that’s constantly complaining about how women are gold diggers who exploit them for labor and money … It turns out even they [men] can’t think of what they bring to the table other than money,” she observed.”
"If she has her own house, what will she need me for?" I don't know, dude, maybe be cool and fun to be around and be happy for her success instead being whiny little sad-ass troll about it?www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
A lot of people here are convinced that a bunch of voters who voted for Trump (or stayed home and didn’t vote for Harris) would have gone for the Dems if the Dems had said “hey the stuff we’re doing is good and Trump is bad.”
Biden presided over likely the greatest expansion in US manufacturing in history and our public intellectuals decided not to notice it. People's lives were materially getting better. Wages rose because labor was in such short supply.
Which apparently I’m to believe they hadn’t been saying, which is a very “me or your lying eyes” thing.
The site where people write words are perennially convinced that there was a set of words the Dems could have written that would have Fixed All This.
P1) there exist words to Fix All This P2) This has not Been Fixed C) those who ought to have said the words simply declined to do so, the cads
NEW: Big surprise: all those arrest numbers Kash Patel rattles off when confronted with his nasty drinking habits, or using taxpayer dollars on his girlfriend, or polygraphing agents over missing bourbon – those arrest numbers are all bullshit. 1/ www.ms.now/news/fbi-ins…
I saw these headlines and thought “oh well some jerk wrote a form letter to a kid’s letter that’s dumb” but no it appears that one of the worst people in Congress took time out of her day to talk shit to a 10 y/o and tell him he should be more worried about debt and school propaganda than climate
What a soulless husk of a woman. But of course we already knew this because she is the worst tipper on the Hill by a mile.
The racist streamer Chud the Builder, known for harassment & calling people the n-word on stream, has been arrested in Nashville, apparently for disturbing the peace.
The sad thing is that pretty much everyone knew that this was going to happen, when you have a chud with a gun walking around streaming, asking Black people if they are going to "chimp out" and calling them the n-word. bsky.app/profile/wink…
I've already seen people speculating that various people put a hit out on Chud because they said he's get attacked for what he does & a bunch of fellow chuds think this shooting is going to cause the next BLM "riots". The nazi bar is truly something else.
The guy has his fans (219.4K followers on Twitter) but even a lot of figures in the racist right don't like him. I only found out who he was recently through his feud with Nick Fuentes, who criticized Chud's entire modus operandi as "mean".
…fucking miracle this is only on the order of a half hour late & I started trying to but the brakes on it 20mins ago, really…because that last run sort of pulled my attention away from what hardly seems like it couldn’t have been *something* more important than chud the builder…who…called himself that…voluntarily…which…just on its own seems like probably doctors ought to examine?
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I’m sorry, am I supposed to know who “Chud the Builder” is? Is he related to Bob the Builder? I don’t remember Bob the Builder using firearms, but I confess I didn’t watch too many episodes.
…I sincerely hope literally nobody I’ve ever spoken to in any format knew or knows who the fuck that guy is…even now
…but I’d share your guess as to the root association for the nomenclature…in a bob-the-builder-is-kiddie-stuff-&-this-is-man’s-man’s-man’s-shit-like-in-that-james-brown-song-that-knows-what-time-it-is-no-I-don’t-know-what-listening-or-irony-are…sorta way?
The original was a kids series, but in the gritty HBO reboot he was a down-on-his-luck unemployed worker who turned to crime fighting while trying to outrun his alcoholism.
…not saying it’s worth giving the bulwark the click but on the “who?” side of that?
A far-right idiot amplified by Alex Jones, Jason Whitlock, Gavin McInnis and others has been streaming himself saying racist shit to black people in order to provoke them into violence so he can shoot them.He just shot just a black man here in Tennessee.
…one of these days…@myopicprophet is going to be forced to pull my tab for all the times I run that up being obdurately optimistic about things right before consequential voting happens
…if you don’t see me after that it’s probably because I had to take a job on a oil-rig…or…I dunno…driving some giant machine in a strip-mine somewhere that makes you live in an RV with no internet
…it’s not a small tab at this point
…smaller that warfighting telenovella style & keeping your leading man in hair product & blusher…sure…but aside from the US operational arsenal…it looks like a pretty big debt compared to most of the ones that show up on an anecdata basis
…maybe if I dress up real nice…or…I make my own social media platform…with blackjack…&…hookers…but…no trolls…like…I dunno…the billy goats gruff but fanfic for those dungeons carl crawls…& everyone thinks I’m so cool that it means all my stuff is so much better than everyone else’s stuff that I have the high score & I can break the game however I want…that’s how the internet works so the world must work like that now & we all have the internet the same way because it’s the same internet
…&…there’s more than one kind of illiterate people can not-be
…the magic 8-ball seems to be stuck on “that shit is HILARIOUS, bro”…but…I dunno…at the end of the day…or the end of days…delete as applicable…I guess pretty much all I got is apparently I’m that bloody-minded about some things
…I expect that’ll be those implicit biases we can’t see because they’re baked like all that half-baked not-proper-philosophy business with the less anon Q…that did Quality the way Wit did wit…but…with more motorcycles & less hearts & stomachs of a king & such…speaking of which…if you think that’s weird…the people that did the musical “return to the forbidden planet” also did macbeth…&…if you didn’t know that you missed the fuck out…the setting is…wanna say…soho…there’s chandler-coded private eyes & gangs & one of the well-known lines gets delivered as “yet who would have thought the old bike’d have so much oil in it?”…sorry
…maybe one of these days I stop doing this & just spend all day playing minecraft
…although everyone makes that sound pretty dicey, tbh…like call of duty with shitty graphics…so…I bet the japanese have a game for people who never leave the house where instead of taking over the world you have to keep everything in the system optimized so your character can lie in a hammock on a sunny beach with an endless supply of cold drinks & comic books
…now *that’s* how you stop reading this stuff…do something more constructive…really make something of yourself…or…something
…either way…those people that never leave the house…not loving the part where they aren’t the ones I have the hardest time seeing how they might get that way these days
…not to mention all the ones worried about going perfectly legal places perfectly legally on account of the possibility they might get caught up in a “temporary” “legal” SNAFU that Fs the U as far as maybe some exotic riff on a spell in a gulag…that mere dozens of months ago were on the “essential worker” leaderboard for who gets to not have to not-leave-the-house
…they weren’t lying about that topsy-turvy world bit…I guess I get seasick easily out on the calm deep waters in this big boat everyone’s trying to keep all the berths & births on…well…nearly everyone…there’s the ones trying to go to mars, I suppose?
On top of that, I imagine that CBS & other right leaning media are going to give significant discounts to GOP ads & charge more for DNC ones if they take them at all. Shumer will write a strongly worded letter & Dems will file a lawsuit that will go nowhere.
The sort of funny thing about this is I suspect it won’t happen only because those stations need the advertising and elections are gold mines. Losing 40-50% of election revenue would be crippling, even for the big players. (There’s also a million other ways to spend that money and there are a lot of questions about “let’s put Trump’s face on TV more” being way more of a detriment than an advantage.)
…well…wes done resigned as a stand on principle…not quite said that’s the pitch…but…that’s the pitch…to the (I think but maybe check to be sure) 81 coconuts he needs the shy to be shy of when the wobbling stops & they tally the fallen ones under his throw…it…remains to be seen if you ever need to care if you know who wes is…or if more people will remember the old saw about the hands that wield the knife in the back & the mitts that get on crowns…or…something…don’t ask me…I never understand this stuff to begin with?
And it’s also a fundamental misunderstanding of what is the lever and what is the thing you’re trying to move. Tearing down the idea of profit guiding all decisions, good; tearing down everything capitalism has built because it was built under capitalism, 3 billion dead. Kind of a big difference!
It’s something I’ve become well aware of. When I graduated, I used to piss on learning about economics. Unfortunately, that changed when economics blew up my career as a telcom engineer and nearly left me unemployed in 09. Then again in 2012 when I became 18 months unemployed.
I started to learn that despite my own prejudice that money is important (gotta eat) and that I’d better get my shit together to learn how the fucking system works. The smartest thing I did was change most of my RRSP funds to ETFs despite the howling of my “advisor” at the time.
However, the fundamentals didn’t reaally click in till I started a small stock fund and realized that cool ideas that don’t make money is just as stupid as dumb ideas that don’t make money (engineer bias… where ideas are “currency” instead of well currency. I’m glad I changed over my approach from Cathy Woods style speculation to a Buffet style approach to companies that actually make money. Or I would have lost my fucking shirt in 2002.
As much as I wish that economics didn’t matter, but it does.
I predict at some point soon we will have a case in the Supreme Court on if AI bots are people and therefore can vote. It seems like a no-brainer if corporations are people, AI bots are definitely people!
The guy definitely also got some Hawaiian justice at the time, you can find the video of a local kid kicking his ass & the police are not charging him w/ any crime!
They gave him a medal, lol, I’m not usually pro-vigilante justice but this was the most “Well done, sir” moment maybe ever. Assholes should be more afraid of blowback!
1. I already let my power company know that if they start cutting off my power to protect AI data centers (none in my area yet) that I will be at their HQ. People not AI!
2. GOOD.
I saw a guy walking his parrot this morning on the way to work.
Well, he was walking outside with a conure perched on his arm, but still feels like he was taking the bird for a walk.
Seattle has a Cockatoo that is allowed to fly around a famous Seattle park by his owner. His name is Peach McFly. He is a social media star & though I always worry about him getting attacked by an eagle or birdnapped, I am impressed with him living his best life!
…oh…& if you thought maybe the professional opinion of an account going by dread pirate sex badger might not be as professional as someone who gets paid to share theirs…I could see how you might…but in this instance?
Freidman: Hey Europe. Hold your nose and join the doomed effort by our clinically insane President to open a strait that was open prior to the illegal war against Iran was launched. I am a serious foreign policy analyst.
People will be like ‘Bluesky is all academics & historians’ & I’ll be like, ‘You mean the people who enthusiastically tell me the coolest shit I ever heard?????’
I’m sorry, am I supposed to know who “Chud the Builder” is? Is he related to Bob the Builder? I don’t remember Bob the Builder using firearms, but I confess I didn’t watch too many episodes.
…I sincerely hope literally nobody I’ve ever spoken to in any format knew or knows who the fuck that guy is…even now
…but I’d share your guess as to the root association for the nomenclature…in a bob-the-builder-is-kiddie-stuff-&-this-is-man’s-man’s-man’s-shit-like-in-that-james-brown-song-that-knows-what-time-it-is-no-I-don’t-know-what-listening-or-irony-are…sorta way?
The original was a kids series, but in the gritty HBO reboot he was a down-on-his-luck unemployed worker who turned to crime fighting while trying to outrun his alcoholism.
Shocking, not shocking he used a streaming channel noted for pump and dumping Crypto schemes to provide evidence of him leading to his conviction.
…not saying it’s worth giving the bulwark the click but on the “who?” side of that?
More Roberts fuckery incoming. No reason to pretend we don’t know how this will go.
GOP plans for ‘terrifying’ influx of midterm cash as Supreme Court mulls gift: report
…one of these days…@myopicprophet is going to be forced to pull my tab for all the times I run that up being obdurately optimistic about things right before consequential voting happens
…if you don’t see me after that it’s probably because I had to take a job on a oil-rig…or…I dunno…driving some giant machine in a strip-mine somewhere that makes you live in an RV with no internet
…it’s not a small tab at this point
…smaller that warfighting telenovella style & keeping your leading man in hair product & blusher…sure…but aside from the US operational arsenal…it looks like a pretty big debt compared to most of the ones that show up on an anecdata basis
…maybe if I dress up real nice…or…I make my own social media platform…with blackjack…&…hookers…but…no trolls…like…I dunno…the billy goats gruff but fanfic for those dungeons carl crawls…& everyone thinks I’m so cool that it means all my stuff is so much better than everyone else’s stuff that I have the high score & I can break the game however I want…that’s how the internet works so the world must work like that now & we all have the internet the same way because it’s the same internet
…&…there’s more than one kind of illiterate people can not-be
…the magic 8-ball seems to be stuck on “that shit is HILARIOUS, bro”…but…I dunno…at the end of the day…or the end of days…delete as applicable…I guess pretty much all I got is apparently I’m that bloody-minded about some things
…I expect that’ll be those implicit biases we can’t see because they’re baked like all that half-baked not-proper-philosophy business with the less anon Q…that did Quality the way Wit did wit…but…with more motorcycles & less hearts & stomachs of a king & such…speaking of which…if you think that’s weird…the people that did the musical “return to the forbidden planet” also did macbeth…&…if you didn’t know that you missed the fuck out…the setting is…wanna say…soho…there’s chandler-coded private eyes & gangs & one of the well-known lines gets delivered as “yet who would have thought the old bike’d have so much oil in it?”…sorry
…maybe one of these days I stop doing this & just spend all day playing minecraft
…although everyone makes that sound pretty dicey, tbh…like call of duty with shitty graphics…so…I bet the japanese have a game for people who never leave the house where instead of taking over the world you have to keep everything in the system optimized so your character can lie in a hammock on a sunny beach with an endless supply of cold drinks & comic books
…now *that’s* how you stop reading this stuff…do something more constructive…really make something of yourself…or…something
…either way…those people that never leave the house…not loving the part where they aren’t the ones I have the hardest time seeing how they might get that way these days
…not to mention all the ones worried about going perfectly legal places perfectly legally on account of the possibility they might get caught up in a “temporary” “legal” SNAFU that Fs the U as far as maybe some exotic riff on a spell in a gulag…that mere dozens of months ago were on the “essential worker” leaderboard for who gets to not have to not-leave-the-house
…they weren’t lying about that topsy-turvy world bit…I guess I get seasick easily out on the calm deep waters in this big boat everyone’s trying to keep all the berths & births on…well…nearly everyone…there’s the ones trying to go to mars, I suppose?
On top of that, I imagine that CBS & other right leaning media are going to give significant discounts to GOP ads & charge more for DNC ones if they take them at all. Shumer will write a strongly worded letter & Dems will file a lawsuit that will go nowhere.
The sort of funny thing about this is I suspect it won’t happen only because those stations need the advertising and elections are gold mines. Losing 40-50% of election revenue would be crippling, even for the big players. (There’s also a million other ways to spend that money and there are a lot of questions about “let’s put Trump’s face on TV more” being way more of a detriment than an advantage.)
They just got their xhristofascist paradise!
And then they didn’t expect to all go sideways on them which is why they’re freaking out.
…well…wes done resigned as a stand on principle…not quite said that’s the pitch…but…that’s the pitch…to the (I think but maybe check to be sure) 81 coconuts he needs the shy to be shy of when the wobbling stops & they tally the fallen ones under his throw…it…remains to be seen if you ever need to care if you know who wes is…or if more people will remember the old saw about the hands that wield the knife in the back & the mitts that get on crowns…or…something…don’t ask me…I never understand this stuff to begin with?
Even as a filthy anti-capitalist, the idea that “economics” wouldn’t exist in a non-capitalist world is just flatly ridiculous.
…& yet the rules of the game clearly state that these are the expectations that’s the business of managing
…always beats me how there’s still volunteers to try
…& then I remember who gives up trying to make that fetch happen
…& that’s why I have personal rules about when & how much of what it’s ok to drink?
And it’s also a fundamental misunderstanding of what is the lever and what is the thing you’re trying to move. Tearing down the idea of profit guiding all decisions, good; tearing down everything capitalism has built because it was built under capitalism, 3 billion dead. Kind of a big difference!
It’s something I’ve become well aware of. When I graduated, I used to piss on learning about economics. Unfortunately, that changed when economics blew up my career as a telcom engineer and nearly left me unemployed in 09. Then again in 2012 when I became 18 months unemployed.
I started to learn that despite my own prejudice that money is important (gotta eat) and that I’d better get my shit together to learn how the fucking system works. The smartest thing I did was change most of my RRSP funds to ETFs despite the howling of my “advisor” at the time.
However, the fundamentals didn’t reaally click in till I started a small stock fund and realized that cool ideas that don’t make money is just as stupid as dumb ideas that don’t make money (engineer bias… where ideas are “currency” instead of well currency. I’m glad I changed over my approach from Cathy Woods style speculation to a Buffet style approach to companies that actually make money. Or I would have lost my fucking shirt in 2002.
As much as I wish that economics didn’t matter, but it does.
I predict at some point soon we will have a case in the Supreme Court on if AI bots are people and therefore can vote. It seems like a no-brainer if corporations are people, AI bots are definitely people!
A follow up on two articles I previously posted…the bad? This is now happening…
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/lake-tahoe-energy-source-ai-data-centers-b2975802.html
and the good? (other than this guy being an embarrassment to WA state)
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2026/05/14/federal-agents-arrest-visitor-accused-throwing-rock-hawaiian-monk-seal/?fbclid=Iwb21leARyOodjbGNrBHI6fWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHla76FMleHx5VSn9jTnIGNv5LpRwiJq2KXmDtUF4Js6iAcluABIhYdPmd0L7_aem_M1gIc8BQZff2Md__IPCyvw
The guy definitely also got some Hawaiian justice at the time, you can find the video of a local kid kicking his ass & the police are not charging him w/ any crime!
They gave him a medal, lol, I’m not usually pro-vigilante justice but this was the most “Well done, sir” moment maybe ever. Assholes should be more afraid of blowback!
1. I already let my power company know that if they start cutting off my power to protect AI data centers (none in my area yet) that I will be at their HQ. People not AI!
2. GOOD.
I saw a guy walking his parrot this morning on the way to work.
Well, he was walking outside with a conure perched on his arm, but still feels like he was taking the bird for a walk.
Seattle has a Cockatoo that is allowed to fly around a famous Seattle park by his owner. His name is Peach McFly. He is a social media star & though I always worry about him getting attacked by an eagle or birdnapped, I am impressed with him living his best life!
https://www.knkx.org/other-news/2019-02-15/this-free-range-cockatoo-has-lots-of-fans-and-a-few-haters
Master of pedophile trolling?
…if anyone can do better than the reply/quote/whatever that captioned it
…maybe I’ll have a new favorite of those?
…oh…& if you thought maybe the professional opinion of an account going by dread pirate sex badger might not be as professional as someone who gets paid to share theirs…I could see how you might…but in this instance?
Canada to Thomas Friedman… go fuck yourself.
these people are bad for my blood pressure…
…where do they get these marvellous
toysfreestanding placards?[…still not the joker…but it feels like I might be able to see one of those from here?]
…for instance
…you could go to wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thucydides_Trap
…or you could listen to the lass that won the jeopardy semi with a wrong answer
…it’s…probably the same but one of them seems more…what’s the word…engaging?