RealGregCollins

We used to have revivals, now we have The Current Thing. Both are mimetic spasms.

@newstart_2024 Scott is confusing correlation with causation. Women don’t turn men into high performers by marrying them — they selectively choose men who are already showing strong signs of being high performers for relationships (esp. for marriage).

Scott Galloway said something quietly profound: Men need relationships and marriage far more than women do. Widows are often happier after their husbands die. Widowers? Not so much. Single men in their 30s have a one-in-three chance of becoming substance abusers. When men lack that anchor, they often spiral into online rage, nationalism, and blame. Women tend to pour that energy into friends and careers. Galloway himself resisted marriage and kids for years — chasing more money, more relevance, more everything. Then he had kids with his partner and said for the first time in his life he felt sated. Enough. Like he could go now, even though he doesn’t want to. In a culture that downplays marriage and family for men, this is a reminder that the guardrails and purpose they provide might be one of the most powerful (and unexpected) sources of meaning we have. I’ve seen this pattern in friends and family — the ones with strong family lives often seem more grounded, even when life gets hard. What do you think — do men need marriage and family more than society currently admits?

@ZubyMusic What's really interesting is what it reveals about how issues are resolved on the left. There's actually no debate, the consensus just moves on and then everyone adjusts accordingly. Does anyone remember a debate about pronouns? What other issues are like this?

The incidence of pronouns in social media bios and email signatures is down at least 70% since the peak in 2020.

@michaelmalice Michael Malice is the Mark Twain of X

This is art

@beffjezos Peter Thiel vs. Gawker

Never fuck over someone who is in founder mode. The chip on the shoulder will never fade, and their revenge arc will be on an order of magnitude you could have never imagined.

@vasuman How did Zuck spend the equivalent of Canada's GDP on it and end up with a stale version of Fortnite?

As someone who worked at Reality Labs: the Metaverse had real legs but was obliterated by middle management completely out of touch with how young people actually use technology. I built a V1 tool that game developers genuinely needed, and the moment it was done, it got shipped to a team in London (to die), and I was reassigned to a "higher-priority project" that zero developers asked for. Multiply that by every team, and you'll understand why this never took off yet cost 80 billion.

@pmarca We were all hoping it would turn into a Norm MacDonald sketch. youtube.com/shorts/ViwNXDu…

This is unfortunate, as we had our “are you LGBT?” founder test spun up and ready to go.

Catastrophizing is justified in this case because we’re watching the frog slowly boil in real time. Each incremental increase in temperature doesn’t justify a freak-out, but the total increase in temperature does justify it. Asking the question “what’s the evidence and where’s the data that shows any indication that WA is about to experience a mass exodus to higher-cost California cities” is an incorrect and illogical frame. That’s the equivalent of asking “we don’t know if incentives work or not.” Someone in HR generally wouldn’t say “we lowered Bob’s salary last week but he hasn’t quit yet so I don’t see what you’re worried about.” When it comes to cities and states, by the time the evidence is in, it’s actually too late to do anything about it. My greatest concern is that WA state has reached a progressive event horizon. A non-zero percent of new government spending (that ends up in public-sector union and non-profit coffers) goes right back into electing more progressives, who in turn advocate for more government spending. Once this negative feedback loop starts, it’s very hard to stop. In addition, as each new progressive policy is implemented at the state and city level and the business climate deteriorates, the counter-intuitive effect is that progressives are MORE likely to be elected. This is because voters who are alienated by the new progressive policies leave but those who are excited by them pour in. The remaining voters are progressives who love performative acts that either accomplish nothing or make the situation steadily worse (Seattle mayor’s new priority is a massive levy for….libraries). We are watching the most extreme version of this occur in Portland.

Good lord there’s a lot of disaster porn hyperventilating going on right now about the millionaires tax. Over the 2010s, a period of significantly increased municipal taxation and significantly increased median incomes (and not irrelevantly, significantly increased income inequality), Seattle was the fastest growing big city in America. Over the last five years, Seattle has continued to grow rapidly - we remain in the top five fastest growing big cities. I don’t see any evidence from the last 15 years that our evolving tax structure has become an impediment to our economy or our growth. Meanwhile, big CA cities have lost population. Seattle in the next couple of years is pretty likely to become a more populous city than San Francisco. In 2024, 44K Californians moved to WA, and 27K Washingtonians moved to CA - the flow of people continues to move in our direction. Could that change because of the passage of this tax? Well, sure, anything could happen, but what’s the evidence and where’s the data that shows any indication that WA is about to experience a mass exodus to higher cost California cities, where (for example) housing costs in SF are 25 percent higher than in Seattle, and 20 percent higher in LA?

@chasedownleads @archi_tradition Chase, they have booze, cigarettes and vapes in German vending machines. How are you not a German citizen yet???

@archi_tradition Most businesses are closed on Sunday Don’t want to lose 1/7 of my income

What is preventing you from moving to Germany?

@fuulu92 @antoniogm Interesting! I just paid it without asking any questions.

@GREGCOL75 @antoniogm You did block a passage then. There is a speed margin. 1 km/h too fast actually means 6 km/h too fast.

A real sign of creeping middle age is the growing desire to just move to Switzerland and not deal with the pointless aggravating bullshit rampant in the rest of the world.

@bannan_ken @antoniogm Wait—in Switzerland aren’t you always within 700m of a tunnel entrance???

@GREGCOL75 @antoniogm Don't change lanes within 700m of a tunnel entrance. Swiss police will take your credit card payment on the spot.

@eurofounder Every post is a banger. How do you do it???

Perfect Saturday in America: - Wake up next to a fat woman you met last night - Drink a Mountain Dew - Drive a pick up truck to a Walmart 250 meters away - Buy a 5kg jar of peanut butter - Tip cashier $20 - Get stabbed by a homeless guy in a parking lot - Go to a hospital, pay $6,000 for a visit - Eat eight deep fried pancakes with bacon for dinner - Call immigration office on your Mexican neighbor - Watch TV for six hours - Go to sleep with a loaded gun on a nightstand This is the true American dream

@mttjon @antoniogm Reasonable perspective. ✅

@GREGCOL75 @antoniogm Germany is super nit picky compared to most countries … Might as well have the cleaner more orderly version

@RichHHawk @antoniogm

@GREGCOL75 @antoniogm There are no tickets in Switzerland for 1km over.

@bannan_ken @antoniogm I recommend renting an underpowered car in Switzerland. Otherwise you'll be nagged relentlessly by speed-warning chimes.

@bannan_ken @antoniogm Ugh. My speeding ticket was from a speed camera. The processing fee from the rental car agency was the same as the ticket if I remember correctly (50 CHF for each)

@mttjon @antoniogm Switzerland is better provided you have some serious cash and don’t mind the super-nit-picky rules.

@GREGCOL75 @antoniogm Switzerland is way better than Germany

@antoniogm Yes. I didn’t know that until I was there. An official threatening note that said next time it would be confiscated.

@GREGCOL75 Bikes get parking tickets?

@PNW_working_mom What’s even more disappointing than the ice cream or cheese it actually going to the Tillamook factory in Oregon. Somehow I thought it would be on a green hill with a red barn, windmill and a happy cow in front. Instead it’s a modern, soulless mega-factory.

Can we stop pretending that Tillamook ice cream is good? It’s worse than generic brand. It tastes like chemicals. Inedible. Tillamook cheese? Yes. All day every day. The only cheese I will buy.