Pete

I stand for one issue above all others: Irregardless is a word — and I will defend everyone's right to use it — Irregardless of their political persuasion

I haven't heard a single reason this shouldn't mean automatic jail

This is of course light years away from highly cost effective charity, but I think it says something not great about the tech elite’s conception of their civic role that the Oakland As and Raiders were not retained in the Bay Area.

Get Shai out of any of these all time convos man LMFAOOO

There aren’t adequate words to properly express the depth and scale of trump’s corruption, it’s completely on a scale of its own with no historical equivalent to point to.

We deadass allowed them to give a dude who is just a “star” with no superstar it factor back to back mvps. shits a stain on the history books

This will be trumps legacy. This will be looked upon as the most corrupt move ever by a government official

two time nba mvp completely disappears in 2OT of the conference finals????

@Rylan_Stiles He clearly got hit in the face twice?!?! Is this bait?

@0XCyborg_Web3 @kimmaicutler They're arguing that the 7/11 and it's parking lot are 'history' - and using that to explicitly block housing. So in this case the NIMBY's are making 'history' the enemy of homes.

@kimmaicutler history and homes aren't enemies

You know how reporters are supposed to be objective? I feel like given the quotations and structure of this paragraph, this reporter had some opinions.

My brother in Christ drinking fountains are still free and safer than the water your ancestors drank. Stop pretending you have an innate right to a wide selection of water from the choicest of springs from around the world. Even royalty in the past couldn't dream of such luxury.

seriously incredible that they are clearly testing for dementia, and no one around him is brave enough to tell him. but since he can’t help but gloat publicly about everything he keeps revealing it to the world

Good! Tanking this year has been shameful. Franchises should learn how to build a winner like the Spurs and Thunder: By tanking 4-6 years ago!

Guy who funds crypto scams and gambling apps: This country lacks a moral code

Am I the only one who remembers a year ago when a bunch of teenagers said we had to cut the funding to like Sesame Street and AIDS prevention because we were on the verge of financial collapse? Did we all just imagine that?

This whole “stealing from publicly funded services is good” thing the left in America has is so weird. The European left is many things, but it’s not like this.

At no point does he look behind him. He doesn’t target anyone. He is on his way out of bounds after being bumped and tries to keep the ball in play. You can’t compete against this.

In Lying for Money, his book on fraud, Dan Davies points out that wealthier societies sometimes have a higher level of fraud than those with less. He points to the examples of Canada (more wealthy, more fraud) and Greece (less wealthy, less fraud). The basic reason for this is that fraud, in Davies's telling, is an equilibrium quantity. If you know the people around you are untrustworthy, you simply *engage in fewer transactions*, and transact only with people you know really well (family, etc.). Your economic and also social world gets smaller and smaller. The level of fraud is lower, but you would be better off if there were more fraud *insofar as* it would be because there was more trust, which is the omitted variable causing both fraud and wealth. The level of petty theft is actually also an equilibrium quantity, one for which businesses can plan and adapt. But because it's an equilibrium, if you increase theft, then they will decrease trust. They will put products behind plastic; they will close some stores altogether. The basic insight is this: It's not just that it's wrong to steal, even when a business can absorb it. It's that when you steal, you change the business's calculations, and it opts to absorb less risk. Taking advantage of the system, in other words, makes *everyone* poorer. It's not leftist or rightist—it's just anti-social.

LMAO eleven years later and I still can’t believe no foul was called

In Mere Christianity, CS Lewis has an awesome opening riff about how most people know the difference between right and wrong, but they justify acting immorally by appealing to "special exception." They know they shouldn't hit a friend, but what if that friend was being so mean? They know they shouldn't steal a seat a bus, but what if that person got up and created a moment's confusion and then the seat was up for grabs? Etc. When I read this section, I thought a lot about contemporary politics and the way that people justify their politics, not by appealing to higher principles, but rather by appealing to "special exception" to argue that their admitted indecency is justifiable in context. A lot of MAGA vice is justified by special exception. Trump's defenders rarely defend his crookedness directly. They don't say "it's wonderful to use trade policy to enrich the Oval Office, it's really awesome." They say: Well, look, it doesn't really matter, because the left is so dangerous, Biden maybe did something similar 3 years ago, Democrats would do the same in power, and so forth. I heard something similar in that NYT conversation everybody's talking about. You even see it in the headline: ‘The Rich Don’t Play by the Rules. So Why Should I?’ Why, hello, special exception. When you start arguing that stealing food and French paintings is justifiable in the context of political protest in an age of prevailing distrust, you're similarly not arguing *for* any kind of a universal principle. Nobody actually wants 300 million people stealing fruit from the grocery store. Nobody actually wants every Louvre visitor trying to rip a Manet off the walls. These virtues don't scale. (Because they're not virtuous!) Sap that I am, I want us to get to a place where politics is about fighting for what is right and decent, not about justifying what sort of indecent behavior might be somewhat understandable or technically justifiable given the other side's vice or the prevailing levels of indecency. The point is to build the kind of goodness that scales. nytimes.com/2026/04/22/opi…

“You are just a hater, Jacob. SGA is so skilled the defense is always fouling him.” - SGA fanboys I went back and watched France vs Canada in the 2024 Olympics quarterfinal. I remember SGA was mad at the refs that game since he wouldn’t get the calls he normally does in the NBA. The film doesn’t lie: when SGA is reffed by FIBA refs, he is great but the defense can guard him and can STOP him. The NBA has turned into the WWE. Refs don’t let the defense play defense anymore. If the NBA wants TRUE basketball fans to tune into games again, they have to hire FIBA refs or adopt the FIBA rules on what is a foul. 👊 But we know the NBA doesn’t care about true basketball anymore. They want the scores to be 120-130 every game. GARBAGE ✌️