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@DiMartinoBooth @apolloglobal What happens when these people retire?

Obvious via @apolloglobal “With the three largest passive S&P 500 funds now holding more than $2.6 trillion combined & Vanguard's VOO alone crossing $1T this month, prices are increasingly set by mechanical flows rather than by anyone judging what companies are actually worth.”

@GreenTextRepost Yep, we’re taught to revere this book and its “deep insights into human nature.” Why? What “insights”? Golding fabricated the entire scenario, nothing like this has ever happened. Why do we feel such complex emotions about something totally fake and not reflective of reality?

@L0m3z It’s because the DoD and CIA finance that kind of wartime propaganda. Had this convo with Gemini when watching Homelander the other day and realizing it was propaganda from the govt.

There was a genre of post Vietnam era military adventure pulp that used to be ubiquitous in libraries and bookstores when I was a younger. <200 page novels about special operators in exotic Cold War hot spots on the hunt for treasure and glory. I used to love reading these. Totally gone now. Men/boys didn’t just stop being interested in this kind of stuff. I’ve never heard a good theory of what happened to the publishing industry to make this kind of product disappear from the mainstream market. It’s like we all just opened our eyes in 2010 and we were …*here.*

@LoneWander927 @jerr_rrej Check out every commercial on TV, specifically posted to @StupidWhiteAds

@jerr_rrej I've never seen any "Jewish propaganda" designed to emasculate white men. Do you have any examples of it or are you just talking out of your ass?

@ROACHINSIGHTS @qualitylearnc It’s mostly the birth control. Estrogen increases puffy fat just under the skin. Causes that saggy, flabby look that’s universal among young women nowadays.

@qualitylearnc Seed oils, processed food, and hormonal birth control. Previous generations didn’t have 25 year olds with grandma tits. Modern diet is poison.

Why are they always saggy? What is going on in the American diet to make a 25 year old sag like this?

@DestroyGQP21 @mtaibbi I want fewer people voting. There should be an intelligence test to vote. I’m also ok with the “challenge” of voting in person. If you’re too lazy or low status to make it to a polling station, I don’t want you deciding who governs.

@mtaibbi In general, do you believe more or less eligible people should vote in elections? In other words, do you think we should make voting as easy and accessible as possible to eligible voters, or not? (We can define eligible later, if that is a point of contention for you.)

Before 2022 automatic use of mail-in ballots was restricted to voters with disabilities, members of the military or overseas voters. After COVID everyone got a pre-paid mail ballot and you didn’t need an excuse to vote by mail anymore - a pattern repeated in many states vote.santaclaracounty.gov/voters-choice-…

@NWDegenerate @mtaibbi Things are not working fine here, we have the same problem where the leftists steal more and more ballots as the counting days pass.

@mtaibbi Make Election Day a national holiday and it could work. However, we were voting by mail here in Washington State long before COVID, asshat. Things are working just fine. 🙄

Yes and the proliferation of “mostly mail-in” systems enabled by outsourced private ballot harvesters is a major, revolutionary change in how America does elections - and there’s no reason for it post-Covid. Why can’t people go to vote? It’s too hard? Wtf?

@DavidBCollum @RudyHavenstein Futures aren’t “being manipulated.” Futures ARE the manipulation.

I think I recall the day that the true genius of @RudyHavenstein really hit me:

@The_Real_Fly Sell the news.

Iran deal expected to be signed this week, as early as Monday, per Fox News.

@swanlake322562 @qualitylearnc Creed has got some bangers though.

@qualitylearnc Christian rock music is FUCKING AWFUL. You deserve the guillotine if you listen to it.

Some of you be like

@Quarktoro1 @weardjupiter This post is moving to me in a more powerful way than most poetry.

Backrooms is about to make over a hundred mil at the box office. What is the next 4chan post that should be adapted into a feature film?

@ScottGoetz_ @kunley_drukpa Is there a white team? I don’t even care about any soccer team, but if there’s a white team, I want to wear their merch.

What should be emphasised is that they are the black team in a near sectarian way. It’s not quite the normal contours of the UK thing where this is generally applied to ethnic minorities.

@kunley_drukpa Don’t worry, this system will be dismantled within our lifetimes.

VISA policy one of last extant ‘Right Wing’-coded pieces of realpolitik policy. Broadly, if your country is ‘not a good country’, is poor or if your citizens disproportionately behave badly, overstay visas, behave like criminals or scammers etc, you just get locked-out of travel

Story here is few years ago Thailand massively expanded its visa-free tourism programme to different countries and then immediately saw a rise in criminals, scammers and rude and cheap tourists. Has now decided to massively reduce visa-free tourism again because it isn’t worth it

@YUMakeMeLogin @kunley_drukpa I’m guessing it’s actually a Mexican dude.

@kunley_drukpa Same latina? Trying determine if these are patterns with the demographic or the lady

WATCHING ‘RYAN GOSLING STARS AS RYAN GOSLING’ ‘I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE’ REVIVALISM FILM ‘PROJECT HAIL MARY’ (2026) WITH A LATINA WOMAN Noticed ‘Project Hail Mary’ (called derisively by some ‘Project Reddit’) was available on streaming. Saw it described as a Neo-‘Scientism’ film in the sense of it is thematically very ‘I Fucking Love Science’ but where the ‘Scientism’ here is ‘Scientism’ in a not massively woke way. Andy Weir Hard Science ‘Scientism’ where the author is too much of a sperg about making sure all ‘The Science’ is correct to care about properly getting into the weeds of social commentary and where the mostly upbeat plot is basically just the main character ‘doing science’ to ‘solve science puzzles’. I’m a big sucker for this kind of techno-optimism, I’m not embarrassed to admit I do actually ‘Fucking Love Science’ Suggested to Latina ‘friend’ and she perked up and said “yeah of course let’s watch it, actually I’ve seen it at the cinema twice already I really liked it I want to watch it again”. Thought ‘huh’? No offence to her she is sweet if a little ditzy but did wonder what was wrong with either her or ‘Project Hail Mary’ that she went to the cinema to see it twice. TLDR enjoyed the film but wouldn’t pay to see it twice, also I don’t have a vagina either. Strange Film stars Ryan Gosling as himself which is great casting because Gosling does borderline Reddit but not full-on Reddit really well, you know he has enough charisma to float above ‘Reddit-ness’ even if a lot of his mannerisms are Reddit-coded. This casting prevents the film - despite Weir’s Reddit tendencies - from ever becoming properly Reddit, it has a lot of Reddit moments but Gosling as himself means it escapes full ‘Reddit-dom’. Contrast vs if Ryan Reynolds had been cast instead With ‘Scientism’ in general it’s easy to descend into ‘Reddit-ness’, to get too excited and prematurely ejaculate a load of insipid moralisms into it. This is a shame because I am very pro pro-science messaging. I mean science here in the proper hard empiricism sense - Bacon, Kuhn, Feyerabend etc. Basically Fine Carl Sagan ‘Scientism’ descended into New Atheism ‘Scientism’ descended into the mess that was popular culture in the 2010s, then the COVID debacle too… ended up tarnishing ‘Science’ as a brand. ‘Science’ has been in need of a proper revival since Plot is the sun and every other star within a few hundred light years is being eaten by space bacteria so Gosling has to go into space to the one star nearby that isn’t being eaten by space bacteria in order to find out why. When Gosling arrives he discovers spooky aliens have also traveled there for the same reason; their home star is being eaten by space bacteria too. Build-up to the alien reveal has a dash of cosmic horror about it, the interior of their ship is aesthetically a bit ‘I Fucking Love Science’ “uh actually intelligent life probably isn’t going to be humanoid it’s probably going to be Truly Alien” (fractals made of xenon, the air is ammonia etc) but it still manages to be tasteful ‘Alien’ alien Single surviving occupant is revealed to be a rock alien Gosling names ‘Rocky’. Unfortunately it turns out Rocky’s species is a Reddit species - he talks and acts like a Redditor, is unambiguously Reddit in conception. Latina found the Rocky character hilarious, kept laughing out loud at him. Not even at the sometimes bordering Reddit-escape velocity quite sweet funny dialogue bits, at like the bits where he would be walking around and slip on a banana skin, at the very Minions-esque spiritually Indonesian parts of the character. Rocky is kind of cute to be sure but he isn’t laugh out loud funny - that and all the parts where she didn’t really seem to understand the ‘Space Is Really Fucking Big Science 101 Science’ to be honest I was starting to get the ick Overall, some Reddit moments (esp. Rocky) but on balance a mostly not-Reddit film. Promising move towards a post-Reddit ‘I Fucking Love Science’ ‘Science’

@feelsdesperate Travel is such a dumb goal. Sure, maybe it’s cool to see Roman ruins or Angkor Wat or whatever for the first time in your 20s and 30s. But once you’ve seen enough of those places, enough of the cute European towns, you’ve seen em all.

Traveling really isn’t that impressive. It’s not hard to do. You just go to an airport and get on a plane. It’s not a big accomplishment. Then you go somewhere and you have no responsibilities or obligations and just wander around and so of course it’s pleasurable enough. Traveling is fine. I’ve been to about 45 countries. But it’s not worth making big sacrifices for or delaying real life more than a year or two or anything like that.

@biancoresearch Interesting how the 3 peaks are 18 years apart, and that there’s a well known 18 year cycle in residential real estate. Looks like the 2007 babies will be the final bag holders of overpriced real estate.

Fertility peaked in 2007. 2026 is 18 years later, when this "baby bust" starts heading to college. Only the beginning, and ALL schools should prepare.

@kunley_drukpa He’s wrong. The mistake everyone makes is assuming that consciousness arises from matter. Seems more likely that consciousness is a fundamental property of the universe, very possible that matter arose from consciousness.

“I put it to you that your experience of consciousness is merely a sophisticated sequence of individual perceptions and data points that - loosely tied together - create an epiphenomenon of what only appears to be consciousness” “…” “Ergo, it is not consciousness proper” “…”

@QuetzalPhoenix It’s not a slur if it’s an accurate description.

Someone did a big graffiti on one of the fancy malls here recently, it just says "GAY"

@memechaotic That’s a strange looking cat.

Kinda weird.

@itsautomata @misanharriman Strange that he could’ve paid an admin $150K/year to do those basic administrative tasks, yet she gets paid a 50% equity stake in Jeff’s creation.

MacKenzie Scott gave more in 2025 than Musk, Page, Ellison, and her ex-husband, Bezos, have in their lifetimes combined. Let that sink in, folks. Via Forbes. #matriarchy