Patrick Farley | expert generalist

@jdcmedlock So kick out everyone who's not a net taxpayer? Your terms are acceptable

Benjamin Franklin on people who complain about taxation.

I don't have much of a tyrant teacher story except that I would constantly draw in my notebooks, and like detailed, effortful drawings, because the teacher's words were too obvious and boring to pay full attention to. And some teachers got mad and told me to stop. But those drawings are the only reason I saved some of those notebooks

@shrugdeaIer Yes they make all the worst possible decisions about their health, and then they die. Burning down other people's property doesn't change this.

So burning down a warehouse where no one is hurt is “violence,” but a system that sees approximately six unhoused people die everyday in LA County alone isn’t. Got it.

@goblinodds I just (uncharitably) assumed it's cause boomers like having a working class person who's professionally obligated to be their friend

like we have modern ways to solve every possible problem that a doorman solves and my sense is that the profession continues to be inflicted upon a huge chunk of manhattan bc of unions?? rather than just being like a nice luxury thing for super fancy apartments to feel fancy

apparently nyc is having a doorman's strike, which means tenants have to be prepared to pick up their packages as they arrive. idk how tf that's supposed to work given that amazon doesnt, like, give you a time window lmfao perfect time for me to be doing egg retrieval huh

@it_unprofession I had a gym just disappear one day, like rooms cleared out, equipment being loaded onto a truck, and no one was reachable to refund the remainder of my annual membership. I eventually got it back thru a chargeback though

Canceling a gym membership shouldn't require a hostage negotiation. I joined a local fitness club three years ago and stopped going almost immediately. Yesterday I finally decided to stop paying the monthly fee. I logged into their app. There is no cancel button anywhere in the UI. I checked the website and it told me to call support. Support told me I had to submit a cancellation request in person. I drove to the gym on my lunch break. The manager looked at me like I was abandoning a puppy. He asked why I was leaving. I told him my personal ROI on this membership is completely negative. He offered to freeze my account for a small maintenance fee. I told him I just want to sever ties entirely. He sighed and said I need to provide a handwritten letter of intent and thirty days notice. I am currently drafting a formal breakup letter to an elliptical machine. I might just cancel my credit card. It seems easier.

@SlumRNA_Dog The most likeable kids were always in trouble

Mother of a differently abled son (that she relinquished custody of) just casually admitting that if you’re “neurodivergent and unlikable” it’s the 45 year old female educators job to take you down a few pegs.

@RickACamp @moultano My calorie intake, if I'm paying attention, is whatever I want it to be

@PatrickDFarley @moultano Oxygen intake and food intake have a certain similarity in that they aren’t entirely voluntary.

All weight gain is due to CICO in the same sense that all deaths are due to a lack of oxygen in the brain.

@TylerAlterman Too much common knowledge. With lossy communication you can have lots of plausible deniability

When I have an awkward interaction with a foreigner, it's unpleasant for both of us, but not a big deal. So why is it than, when I have an awkward interaction with an American, the stakes feel existential, like one of us will need to kill ourselves in shame?

@uncledoomer Bell curve meme for beefing with teachers

@ProudSocialist the pedophiles were inside the warehouse huh? how lucky

The alleged Ontario warehouse fire starter Chamel Abdulkarim: “They had it coming…Pedophiles out here fucking children and profiting off fucking wars.” Ok, he’s even more based than we previously thought.

@soncharm That was the original idea, yeah. Vote in someone smarter than me, and he'll solve the problems in ways I don't need to understand

'populist' is such a weird term to throw around in a democracy, because ostensibly literally all politicians are supposed to, indeed required to, be 'populist'. but i guess they're not! i guess we still have elites and nobles who rule us with no reference to public approval

@KarolusWangus @bourbonium Early childhood character formation can be a bitch

@bourbonium Yup. Lots of authority figures don’t live up to their authority. If you’re still stewing about it decades later that’s on you.

This meme explains like 75% of right wing politics btw.

@bryan_caplan Surely you don't want any evil and discussing people following you

It's not constructive but it's true: Opponents of immigration really are evil and disgusting.

@soncharm What are you Japanese? Why are you stopping?

Do ‘urban’ ‘walkability’ bros ever talk about stoplight timing/synchroinization Always fun when you gotta walk only a few blocks but you hit the Don’t Walk on like 2/3 of them & it doubles your walking time When I get the Andy Rooney gig totally doing a segment on this

@PaulSkallas What else are they gonna play? New movies? Who would go?

In case you haven't noticed more old movies are being played in theaters.

@_ontologic If by broad social consensus you mean it's not banned then yeah

@PatrickDFarley Yes exactly my point. If nuclear had social consensus behind it there’d be more. Think about this in relation to AI now

It’s very stupid of AI fans to pretend that massive changes to the nature of work and human existence can happen without broad enough social consensus

@_ontologic doesn't matter; if it were legal we'd have more of it

@PatrickDFarley How popular is nuclear energy?

I'm loving how many media voices want to out themselves this week. "We are actually in favor of killing more innocent people" ok thank you for telling me