And the parents are vaccinated

She’s surely vaccinated though… Because until recently it was required, and the vaccine is like 97% effective

No, we definitely want geniuses who find the work boring, like Einstein. Think of all they could accomplish when they’re stuck in a tower for long shifts of unstimulating work, think of all the math, art, and science they could produce sounds of planes crashing in the background

Because he didn’t come here to sign it, he came to force Trump make his position clear to the world. He stayed calm, he thanked Trump plenty, he didn’t rise to the insults… He even printed out big pictures to hand to trump one at a time, they way he likes

He kissed the ring so he could make Ukraine’s position clear - they don’t trust Russia’s word, they have no doubt Russia will break any deal made without security guarantees, with good reason. They offered the trump white house investment opportunities to see if that would realign the US with Ukraine, but even if we were to cripple our future with the numbers Trump responded with, he’ll still give Russia everything Putin wants

He was the only adult in that room, and he wanted the world to see it. He made the US position clear (Trump’s position at least) - this isn’t a negotiation tactic or an an effort to get concessions, Trump supports Putin over America’s allies

And it worked. The EU immediately met when he returned, they announced deals for like 1.5 trillion over the next couple years to set up their own military production, and they’re preparing troops to mobilize

Sure… Until they’re overwhelmed with thousands of court cases, and any misstep can be used against them and slowly back them into a corner

This is a viable way to impede them… With a thousand cuts, constant depositions, constant fillings where any mistake has consequences

No… Well maybe, but they have something far more important to be doing - they should sue

Know what the goal of nonviolent resitance is? To get arrested, so you can get standing to sue. You can then challenge the law, over and over, until you find cracks. You can make them put affidavits on record.

And more importantly, you can drain resources. Tie up the courts, drain the budget, exhaust their lawyers. Make them deal with the work of going through endless depositions

All that other stuff is great… But this is a major avenue of attack, and they’ve got no idea what they’re in for

We like to forget, but civil rights weren’t a popular idea - the public being upset at the scale of disruption was what forced the white house to act back then. It might take a while, they might try to ignore the courts, but the bill will come due eventually

Oh no, these are separate events, it keeps happening

Not unless you also swallow something that will explode if you get tasered

You really have to have an explosion already for c4 to explode

I didn’t realize I missed this. These days newsletters are so full of click bait they barely tell you anything, I just kinda figured the format sucked. But I liked this, this felt like the old Internet

It was weirdly calming to read through this… Maybe it was that it felt like you really weren’t trying to sell me anything, and so for a couple minutes I could let down my guard?

Honestly they’re probably taking a loss to punish people who miss payments on their eggs. One person on the debt treadmill is worth a lot more than a few cents… Loans are so shady as an industry, the smaller they are the more they’re just looking to further exploit the poorest people

Either that or they think the dollar is about to deflate lol

Yes and no… They’re very similar conceptually and ingredients wise, but the experience is very different. Frying the outside really firms it up like a French fry, and you get that flavor and texture all around. They also sometimes will add weird things like olives and raisins to it, which is still good, but I don’t particularly like those to start with so I might be biased

You’ve got the right idea of what it is, but you really have to experience it for yourself - a lot of South and Central American countries have their own versions that are very similar, so if you go to a Latino restaurant that isn’t Mexican or Peruvian chicken, you’ll probably be able to find it.

I’ve never tried adding jalapenos to the onion topping though… That sounds delicious. I might have to make that, it is a great topping and adding some heat to it sounds even better

Oh it’s worse.

They’re not trying to figure it out as they go, they’ve drank the coolaid.

Musk and Trump were born into financial empires, everything they do fails but the people scrambling to pick up the pieces behind them got them huge wins and minimized loses

After a lifetime of this, their arrogance has grown to the point they’ve seen the people cleaning up after them as an obstacle. And now they’ve successfully found cultists willing to carry out their orders directly without question, there’s no longer layers of people saying “boss is demanding this, how can we make it not disasterous?”

More than anything, they just seem confused why people are getting so angry at them for doing what they’ve always done more effectively

Papa reyeñas(sp?). They’re so good, it’s basically mashed potatoes with ground beef mix inside, then fried/seared and baked until it sorta looks like a potato again. Then you take finely sliced red onions and soak them in lime juice for 12 hours so they get less harsh and use it like a topping

Honestly, I know how to do all off the top of my head except how long to boil the potatoes…I just would never put that much effort into my meals, so I would need a reason to cook it for others. There’s also a lot of cleanup, you need a frying pan you need a frying pan you wash twice, a big bowl, a masher, an oven dish, a lime squeezer, Tupperware (or a ziplock, but I get enough plastic), a knife, a spatula, and whatever serving dishes

I don’t enjoy cooking, but I’m pretty good at it when I want to be… But I have to want to be

What do you mean? No one stole it. A rogue DEI hire deleted the wallet keys, it happened right in front of me. I can’t give out their name, justice will be done though, but I can tell you they we’re very woke, definitely DEI, and they just tried to destroy my beautiful economy

-Trump on truth social in a month before he’s seen dropping a wallet fob and explaining that this is his wallet, no we can’t know the address, but he’s a billionaire and why would he steal money? But even if he did, it would’ve been the least America could do for such a great president. But he didn’t steal it, he’s a billionaire

Why does noone support my 4d earth theory?

Very, very true. And I mean honestly, the fact we no longer have third spaces and our communities have moved online have given an insane boost to the most extreme voices. Groups based on location and hobbies might lean to one side, but there’s going to be moderating voices

But in a right wing echo chamber, you just have to listen to people attacking others. The left is plenty welcoming, but there’s these people who are just sitting there to attack any perceived bigotry or ideology - like once I got called out for using the wrong pronouns in a new voice chat because I had the wrong name… And it was just this one drunk girl and we just moved on and someone else privately apologized for her, but that injustice just feels terrible

It’s not that left spaces aren’t welcoming, it’s just that it takes one person to make you feel constantly on edge and sour you on anything like it

And it’s not like the right doesn’t do the same - they ban people left and right for perceived purity tests and label you a far left instigator, but pound for pound they need less people because they’re more organized than we are

They have leaders at every level and every checkpoint from general dissatisfaction to rabid Fascism to feed you the next level of hate you need to repeat

We have liberals who hate the left more than they hate fascism and constant infighting between what few communities we do have

We really need to set a set of next step goal posts, like universal healthcare, worker protections, and forcing corporations in line

We need to be able to talk to tankies and just avoid geopolitics, we need vegans to be able to talk about reducing meat consumption instead of all or nothing, we even need to be able to talk to bigots and focus on why they actually agree with our next step goalposts once they understand them

We need to provide a ramp to leftism, even if we have to hold our noses at some of it. We can still have our safe spaces and leftist spaces, but we need to do outreach and give people stepping stones and middle grounds so people can slowly learn, where we’re lazer focused on key subjects and let the rest slide

We also need places where we can organize around issues we all agree on so we can organize and make actual progress, where we don’t talk about end goals, ideals, and values - just on the next step

The truth is, most everyone wants a lot of the same things, and they’d support it if they understood it - we need to be able to teach them issue by issue what we want to do, no matter what baggage they haven’t yet overcome.

Oh, progressives offer them plenty, just not on social issues (and that’s the only type of change on the table)

To put it another way, anxiety is preparing for a fight. It destroys you spending all your life looking for an enemy you can’t see. But we all feel it

The right offers them an enemy, and a way to fight for something better. It’s a bald faced lie, but the need for something to change is overwhelming for a lot of people

I love the unedited fox news interview

Would you release the Epstein files?

Uh… Well… Uh… Maybe? Yeah, I think I would, but I’d have to take a closer look, it could cause problems for people. But yeah…I think I would. Yeah.

After rapid fire “yes” to every other document they asked about, it really stands out

I mean the metrics were good, for rich people

Now it’s just worse for everyone, although the rich will get even more after they buy up everything once we’re in full recession