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@bubbleboi Can't wait for them to miniaturize this and deploy it on their robot hunter-killers.

Republicans may be retards, but at least they're *my* retards.

"The Romans occupied England in the 5th century, so anyone of Roman descent has a historical claim to the land." It's one of the best sketches I've ever seen, it is so accurate and highlights the situation in Palestine.

@thechosenberg Why is the divorce rate so high!?

You gotta be a real miserable sack of shit to be embarrassed by this

@_jokeocracy @ded_ruckus

the most high quality far right people combine very high openness with extremely low agreeability and low neuroticism. it estranges you from normies but you can still find your people

If the GOP can’t pass a bill supported by 85% of America while owning the House, Senate, Presidency, and SCOTUS then I think it’s fair to question the entire democratic system

@SomeBitchIIKnow That’s vanity

At the beginning of No Country for Old Men the main struggle the old timers have is wrapping their heads around senseless violence for the sake of violence.

@justalexoki Me pitting enemy assistants against each other to find the best answer.

told claude i'd been talking to chatgpt and uhhh

@konsevdi @growing_daniel He is clearly highly agentic

@growing_daniel How did he manage to get in contact with these people and how is this all real? My brain melted.

This article is so good harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

@Michaelfiore Crape murder

Set aside your biases for a moment and look at these 3 pictures. Which of these 3 Crape Myrtles would you rather look at all winter in your yard? Image 1 is one that was recently topped. Image 2 is one that was topped a year or two ago. Image 3 is one that was pruned to tree form and NEVER topped. You can debate whether topping helps them bloom (it doesn’t), but seeing these trees in these 3 states while dormant reveals the natural beauty of the structure of the crape myrtle when it’s allowed to reach it’s potential.

@pegobry_en Jumonville Glenn

Fun fact, what triggered the Seven Years War was a war crime (executing unarmed French prisoners) by a young English Lieutenant named George Washington

@Cernovich Woke mind virus laying dormant like herpes until conditions are right to reemerge.

Woke did not die. It’s waiting to return. Like a cross dressing serial killer. Waiting, watching …

@DefenderOfBasic Sales/marketing depending on how you plan to GTM

who do you pay if you want to start a company "bottom up" ? like you have a few engineers, a solid product, users, but you don't have a CEO, and a few other critical "top of the pyramid" functions (I think that's the service I am starting to offer)

Dudes rock.

If you have a great wife, you can share problems with her, and she will share the load and plan with you. If you do not, you'll have to internally emotionally process and handle things alone, and then once stabilised bring the post-processed version of that handling to her as a plan. "Great" here then is not so much an ethical judgement in so much as it is an evaluation of capacity, so by great, I really mean: very high functioning. Lower capacity means a less robust, more collapse prone character, meaning less dependability and thus separation, because the shared struggles that would bond you, are in fact, largely handled alone (as a man) even though she would believe otherwise (that you handled it together). Full transparency, meaning "to be fully merged" meaning "to share everything with her" requires a certain level of potency from her. And irrespective of potency, the man still has to be the stabilising pole, because no woman no matter how great she is wants a man she cannot lean on. In fact, the strongest women often long for a man to be the respite they do not have to be strong for, their fantasy: to collapse into him. So it's not that they need "always be equal in burden", just more the case that: "when there's a real problem, she can rise to the challenge without leaving him to handle most of it alone." In simple terms: if her system can’t handle the raw signal of a dire problem, he has to pre-process, dilute, and protect her from the full blast by either taking care of it without her knowing, or bringing it to her as a more manageable issue after having grounded himself first. This means although together, there is always a gap, a distance, a chasm - because it is not two people taking on the world together in the self-flattering way they'd like to think, but a man curating reality for a dependant in the same way a parent would for a child. This may sound unflattering, but it is not the exception - it is the rule.

The Jeff Epstein saga isn't a scandal about pedophilia, it's about a Russian word called 'blat,' a Soviet-era word meaning 'the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures.' It's about a kind of government. As with the large number of 'blatniks' in the Soviet era who made sure their factories got what they needed outside the formal state procurement process, Epstein greased the wheels for the neoliberal state. His job was governance. What does that mean? Well it's clear that Epstein was an entrepreneurial broker across multiple public and private bureaucracies, helping organize 'under-the-table' deals among the legal, business, intelligence, and political elites to allow them to escape the rule of law and traditional conflict of interest restrictions. It's statecraft to allow a superclass to systemically escape the formalized rules. The pedophilia and prostitution were part of it - that is obviously violating the rule of law - but so are the random favors Epstein bestowed. Like Epstein sending Senator Joe Manchin's request for a yacht, a request which came from the First lady of the Virginia Islands, to a random NY financier who might have one. Or working with Joi Ito at MIT and billionaire Reid Hoffman to restructure the Bitcoin Foundation. It's all about matching capital and talent and inputs outside of the restrictions ordinary people are subject to. This kind of governance is particularly important in Soviet-style states, where everyone knows the rules are fake, where skirting the system IS the system. Epstein and his affiliates thrived because of the weakened institutions of the United States, institutions enfeebled in many cases by the men in his network, like Larry Summers. These men adopted multiple roles - advisor, businessman, academic, board member, regulator - and put on the hat that best maximized their self-interest and the self-interest of their narrow network at that moment. The old world, where handing someone your business card meant you represented that institution, disappeared in the 1980s. Over the course of the 1990s, neoconservatives, neoliberals, bankers - ultimately Epstein's network - built this new social order. It was one where you couldn't succeed through the formal rules, but if you were let into the networks of trust by blatniks, you could do anything you wanted. While all the specifics of Epstein's network are not known, and while conspiracy theorists often have crazy views, they have correctly fingered that the world of meritocracy and formalized systems is increasingly a fraud. And that the real government lies elsewhere. In short, when formal democratic institutions like Congress stop governing, the networks of men like Epstein fill the power vacuum. Epstein built what Roy Cohn always wanted to have, but never achieved, because the then-institutions were too strong for him to break. Here's a passage from sociologist Janine Wedel's Shadow Elite on how this form of governance works.

@1000yearhouse Beautiful

A house that takes half again longer to build, but lasts a magnitude of order longer, is a time preservation machine. The higher math perplexes the majority of consumers; the Market approves the confusion.

Wellness check on Peter Schiff.

@JesseKellyDC Concept2 rowers are fantastic, low-impact and a great complimentary piece to AssaultBikes.

Do you use a rowing machine and do you like it? Knee is a little banged up.