Good. Fuck Google and fuck the ai slop

32k/year seems hard unless you’re really pooling expenses or live in a cheap metro area

Napkin math, I guess it checks out if you can get rent for < ~$1000, have no debt, and no car

On the one hand, fuck adams. On the other, I appreciated him splitting the idiot and asshole votes between him and cuomo.

Uber has always sucked, so I’ll continue to not use them.

Watters is a piece of shit and he doesn’t deserve his wealth and peace.

“divisive” is such a weird complaint. It ignores the value of whatever people disagree on. As if being divided on “pizza or burritos” is just as bad as “should women be allowed outside”.

Conservatives say stuff for effect, not because they believe in truth or consistency. They are dishonest, broken, people. They should not be trusted.

Is he showing any of his work, or is he just making stuff up? Seems like he’s just making stuff up.

Also, everyone should look at the “wealth to scale” webpage: https://dbkrupp.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ . Humans are not good at scale, and this helps visualize it.

We should condemn ICE. Is Maga on board with that? I don’t think so.

No shit! All these CEOs that bent the knee to trump should suffer some actual consequences.

I’m so tired of idiot CEOs being glamorized. They are not smart. They’re wealthy. Tremendous wealth makes you stupid.

Well, it doesn’t help that a big faction of one of the two major parties, the republicans, fundamentally doesn’t believe in government or democracy. They do not want a government that provides services to the public.

I typically avoid videos because I vastly prefer reading, but I make an exception for those. I just watch them at double speed.

My elderly father had this idea that “workers don’t know how to run the business”. I told him about all the idiotic things the management at my old job did over the advice of the people actually doing the work, and I think it made him think about it.

Wikipedia is right there in a number of languages. Not asking people to do academic research, read above a 6th grade level, or leave their house.

People who propose such nonsense bills should face negative consequences.

Rfk Jr sucks, is responsible for misery and death, and should be removed from office.

Paradox of tolerance is resolved when you view tolerance as a treaty. If one side breaks it, they no longer benefit from it.

If two factions are fighting and call a truce, and then one side starts fighting again, it’s nonsense to tell the first side not to fight back because there’s a treaty. The treaty has been broken.

There’s a Sartre quote about that.

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7870768-never-believe-that-anti-semites-are-completely-unaware-of-the-absurdity

I think a root cause is conservative emotion driven decisions. Some people will look at facts and from them draw conclusions. Conservatives prefer feeling things and from them deciding what to do. Cities feel scary and alien to them so they must be full of crime and danger.

It’s probably not a coincidence that religion, the kind that prioritizes feelings and faith, is also popular among the right.

They’re shitty people by most reasonable metrics.

They don’t care about what words mean. They will say anything, anything, to try to secure power. They are bad people. They are bad people.