🇮🇱 Benjamin 🇺🇸

i’m not even joking, it was hannah horvath’s brief stint in the iowa writers’ workshop that convinced me not to go to grad school.

رجل الماني من ميونخ كان لديه فضول اين تذهب الملابس في صندوق تبرعات الصليب الاحمر فوضع جهاز تتبع AirTag في حذاء المفاجأة بعد 5 ايام تتبع الحذاء ليجده سافر اكثر من 800 كم، مر بالنمسا وسلوفينيا وكرواتيا واخيرا وصل للبوسنه والهرسك، سافر لهناك ووجده في متجر احذيه معروض للبيع واشتراه ب10 يورو ونشر هذا المقطع سبب الموضوع جدل كبير فأضطر الصليب الاحمر يرد: بأن 10% من الملابس تذهب مجانا للمحتاجين والباقي يتم بيعها لتمويل مشاريع انسانية

Wow! "Sugar Ray" is doing gigs at pavilions in theme parks. Sad!

Two sold out shows for the guy who made the “heil hitler” song.

Okay, it's time to do an analysis of relative power, here. How does Joe Rogan derive his immense power and how does that differ from Piker? Specifically: thousands of different people appear on Rogan, including comedians, scientists, UFC fighters, conspiracy theorists, and, also, politicians. This means that Rogan works as a political influence vector BECAUSE people show up for MMA, or weed chat, or whatever Jordan Peterson is yammering about, and they get politics as a byproduct. Rogan ALSO has influence in other domains, not just politics. For example, there's been a long-running intra-hunter debate on whether or not he's had a positive/negative influence on the sport. So Rogan draws people in on one topic, then exposes them to a whole lot else, including politics. This gives him influencer-status *across the board*. Now contrast that with Piker. Piker's content is almost exclusively just one thing: talking about politics from a "far-left" perspective. Now, another, related comparison: Rogan is also politically ambiguous to the *general* public. We Democrats might see him as extremely right-wing, but that's not what draws all his listeners in. So, in Rogan's case, we have a macho dude whose reach is *sprawling* precisely b/c he has content diversity AND political ambiguity. In Piker's case, we have a dude ranting CCP propoganda at like-minded people and occasionally electrocuting his dog. That's it. The entire "Should Democrats accept Piker?" discussion assumes that Piker is bringing people IN, what we would call a "reach" asset. That's what Rogan is for MAGA, to some extent. But Piker is NOT a "reach" asset. He is talking to either 1) like-minded people or 2) people who hate him. And he is speaking on ONE topic (politics) from ONE perspective ("leftism."). He keeps the already converted engaged to what's essentially CCP/Russian style "Leftism." When you engage with him, THAT'S who you're engaging with. STOP comparing Hasan Piker to Joe Rogan. When you do this, you 1) OVERESTIMATE Piker's power and 2) MISUNDERSTAND Rogan's own influence. Personally, I think "Democrats must find their Joe Rogan" is a ridiculous rabbit-hole overall. Democrats should stand on their own two feet. They just look weak when they try to be something they're not. That said, if you DO endorse the white whale of the "Democratic Joe Rogan" it's most definitely NOT Hasan Piker. For that, you'd need someone with content diversity AND more ideological fluidity/ambiguity.

Our wedding photog was so stressed out by ✨ dynamics ✨ at our wedding that he disappeared for hours and didn’t take any pictures of us, the bride and groom. We took one photo at the end of the night in a photobooth and later realized it was the only shot of us the whole day.

Kanye West performs “ALL THE LOVE” at his show in LA

Summer in NYC is the best place in the USA btw

The official trailer for ‘MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE’ starring Nicholas Galitzine has been released. In theaters June 5.

The NFL owners meetings are underway in Arizona, where GMs, HCs, and some owners will also speak to the media. Teams were informed in a memo that they are prohibited from speaking publicly on the ongoing saga between the NFL and the Referees Association, as the two sides are nowhere close to a deal. As a result, the NFL is preparing to start hiring replacement refs. However, the league wants everyone to avoid saying anything that could create further controversy or potential leverage.

“I genuinely can't understand how the previous generation saw this in 1999 and said "this sucks".”

The 92nd St Y is canceling this long-planned event because of the 4yo tweet where I criticized Biden for picking a justice based on race/sex. So (1) they don’t understand the issue, (2) they didn’t do due diligence, and (3) they still kowtow to woke. For shame.