Unpreparedbear

@alpha_pls Some might even say everything has topped, your career, my marriage, humanity as a whole, right down to your sad bag of altcoins. All topped.

@Must_Save_USA @dfranke Sad

Its 2021. You want an American made toolbox. Craftsman is no longer Made in USA, its Made in China. You want quality and to do the right thing. You discover that old-timer machinists used great boxes made by Kennedy, in Van Wert Ohio. The Kennedy brand is over $1,000 vs the $400 or so Chinaman Craftsman. Plus it has to be freight dropped shipped to your house. More $. So you pay for the Kennedy, wanting to be part of that great American tradition - plus you know you are supporting real jobs supporting families in Ohio. The freight truck arrives on your residential street; drops it off on a Real. Wood. Pallet. You feel like an American man, tearing apart the packaging with sweat, sinew, amd strength. When it comes time to put on those heavy duty casters to allow you to move that toolbox around, you find a heavy box in the bottom drawer. You see it, you pick it up, and your heart stops. You cannot believe your eyes. The box reads: MADE IN CHINA Your heart sinks. Was it all a lie? Was the toolbox itself really made in Van Wert, Ohio? Or was a container of them drop-shipped from China to Ohio, a Purchase Order not from the men and women of the town but perhaps from Buyer 129 at the Private Equity buyer? Will @DOJFraudDiv review? Or is there a regulation saying Made in USA just isn’t what it says - to you and to me. De minimis something or other, perhaps. But something soulful or MAGA is lost. You just don’t know. But now you can’t trust @KennedyMfg to be true. Those mighty old men machinists with their slide rules and reference books and old-time Kennedy boxes turn over in their graves. They’re sad, now, just like you are.

You buy a German anvil. It contains 83 moving parts and requires winding twice a day. It's forged from excellent steel, holds tolerances across all three striking faces to within three microns, includes a beautifully indexed horn-adjustment mechanism nobody asked for, and requires a proprietary 11-point spanner should you need to replace the rebound calibration bushing. It runs flawlessly for years, but one day it starts up in limp mode because the onboard anvil-management system detects that it's overdue for its 50,000-strike inspection. You search AliExpress for a Chinese anvil, and are presented with a multitude of offerings from such household-name brands as DUKXJYIBF, HDBTGMXI, AND UEJQIP. They're all priced to within a few pennies of each other, appear completely identical except for the nameplate, and obviously all came out of the same factory. You text your blacksmith friend to ask if they're legit. He tells you he got one like that from KIXJBU a few years ago, and that it's been great and a terrific deal. You thank him, but KIXJBU seems to have folded so you buy the one from UEJQIP. When it arrives, it feels suspiciously light. You scratch it and realize it's iron-plated aluminum. You buy an American anvil. It's five times the price of the competition, but it comes from a brand that your great-grandfather used to love. It comes boxed with a warranty registration postcard, twenty pages of safety instructions, assay certificate, and a regulatory slip which lists its FCC certification and ITAR registration. It looks just like your friend's KIXJBU. There's a "Made In China" sticker on the bottom. You buy a Russian anvil. It arrives coated in cosmoline, wrapped in newspaper from 1974, and weighing 40% more than advertised. The finish looks like it was machined with a shovel. The face is not flat, but somehow this does not matter. You drop it off a truck, accidentally leave it outside for six winters, and use it to straighten a bulldozer blade. It's fine. You buy a Swedish anvil. It comes flat-packed in a long cardboard box with cheerful Neo-Grotesk lettering and a line drawing of a smiling man assembling it with an Allen key. The instructions contain no words, only pictograms showing the anvil face, horn, waist, feet, and 112 identical-looking fasteners. Halfway through assembly, you discover that the pritchel hole was installed upside down, but only because you used peg B17 where you should have used peg B71. Once assembled, it is clean, stable, and works better than it has any right to. You immediately wonder whether you should have bought two. You buy a Japanese anvil. It arrives wrapped in rice paper inside a paulownia box, accompanied by a certificate bearing three generations of signatures and a photograph of the first production example being presented to the Emperor. The face has been hand-polished by a seventy-eight-year-old master whose family has made striking surfaces since the Muromachi period. You are given detailed instructions for oiling it with a cloth folded in a specific way. It is the most beautiful object you own. You never quite work up the nerve to strike it.

@MGuntherCE @TheStalwart Yeah, I see red meat demand dwindling with each generation. Especially as women continue to dominate the college educated work place, farming practices continue to harm the environment and physicians reduce acceptable levels. Though dairy is strong, white chicks love that shit

@TheStalwart The demand response is already showing up. Our data shows beef volumes turning negative as prices rise, with substitution into chicken accelerating. Private label is offering less relief as price gaps compress, which could push more pressure into reduced purchasing frequency.

Absolutely fantastic piece about why beef prices are so high. Contrary to what many people may surmise, it's not the meatpackers getting margin right now. It's the actual ranchers, who are benefitting from an overall scarcity of calves bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-…

@DA357246 @tomthebomb1968 Mainers are 75% white trash 20% from away 5% ultra wealthy.

@tomthebomb1968 Mainers are a bit inbred.

@UnrealisticFish @ZarkFiles @myth_pilot Yeah the implication here is that 1. 5 million fake votes were used, but that’s so impossible it must be something more benign like lazy govt employees. Not massive voter fraud conspiracy

@ZarkFiles @myth_pilot is it possible they've destroyed the records, and they resorted to duplication to satisfy the FOIA

And here they are overlaid in RGB channels. Every single line matches perfectly. Public records via FOIA. Names fully redacted. 1.5 million clones + duplicated signatures = enough to swing any close race. This is why audits matter. Repost if your state needs to check signatures. What’s the weirdest thing you’ve seen in your rolls?

@CosbyKing89 @reddit_lies “My mom has a penis, and my dad has a vagina”

@reddit_lies you just know the baby book she picks out is gonna be some shit like “My Two Dads Have AIDS”

> Has to go to a baby shower > Crashes out

@Lady_Grimaldus @reddit_lies If it was a 54yo gay male donor, they would be celebrating. I don’t even wanna know if it was a trans man surrogate mother.. just writing that was difficult

@reddit_lies But then these 40 year olds will do ivf with their 43 year old male partners and say it's ok? Let these two be!

@jasonshen_323 @pmarca People have already p programmed AIs to do exactly that. There’s just no way around it, and honestly nobody will care in 10yrs. “Did you do that math on a calculator?!”

@pmarca it will be the typos that actually make sense and the sentences that end before they get bored of themselves.

It’s becoming clearer how we’re going to tell that something wasn’t written by AI.

@ruby_wayman @Birdyword @judgeglock Yeah, I think data centers shouldn’t be built there? But also the newer ones use less water(closed system like a heat pump), and some not at all(different cooking tech)

@Birdyword @judgeglock People that live in drought danger zones don't have the amount of water it takes to cool the centers when we're trying to ration home use potable water, keep crops and livestock watered, and have enough in reserve for emergencies.

Many people do not seem to want data centres built near them, despite the fact that they don't cause that much traffic and often generate a lot of local tax revenue. I suspect it's partly because they're ugly! My proposal:

@WorldOfMercek @notthreadguy It really depends on your general philosophy of govt, do you think the govt should protect citizens from themselves? how far should a govt protect you from your money? Legal paternalism is deep rooted in some issues

@notthreadguy the $25k rule existed for a reason. not a good reason for wealthy people, but a very good reason for everyone else. this opens the door for a lot of pain dressed up as opportunity

the final marginal buyer.

@wandering_logos @Kenvsryu24 @lordhangen @cryptopunk7213 The new coding language is learning how to talk to these models and get them to do exactly what you want

@Kenvsryu24 @lordhangen @cryptopunk7213 “Hey Claude, fix this minor bug” Claude: proceeds to 20 versions of nonsense (with me telling it the exact line it was failing on with each version and took me 20 seconds to fix) What did I miss?

well thats fucking it - anthropic has officially replaced software engineers. claude is now a 24 hr autonomous coding agent. claude can now operate your entire computer and CLAUDE CODE = end-to-end software engineering: - claude writes the code for you - then literally opens the app it coded - clicks through the entire app and find bugs - then fixes the bugs and improves the app in hours. previously claude generated code, you run it and give claude feedback. thats completely gone now. all in a continuous loop without leaving your terminal 😂 we're barely through monday. well done lol

@grok @1SamuelAfolabi @Rothmus Especially in the case of religion

It's called willful denial or, in the Bezmenov context you referenced, the completed stage of ideological demoralization—where presented facts clash with programmed worldview and get rejected to preserve it. Psych terms include cognitive dissonance or motivated reasoning. Humans do it across all sides when beliefs feel existential.

@iammaia @realcopeaganda @filosophymajor @amuse @grok Yeah, kick rocks loser. The homies are with Maia!

Yeah, bc dem policies are “be against anything Trump says or does, no matter how beneficial or sensible it is or how many Americans agree with it”. It’s pathetic, and stupid. Dems are cooked, actually can’t believe anyone still believes it’s “cool” or morally righteous to be a Dem 🤣 the mass exodus of Dems from the voter tallies and massive influx of independents is all you need. Also , I’m an independent . If you think ALL Dems are good and ALL republicans are bad, I am embarrassed for you. There’s a lot of pieces of shit on both sides, but the gop has a common sense policy platform rn and the Dems have the furthest thing possible from that

DOGE: Why is Gov Newsom mad at Nick Shirley for exposing fraud? Why would he not want to know about an old motel with 30 fake hospice businesses in the rooms, and a parking lot full of new BMWs and Mercedes?

Exactly, and did nothing! bc Dems (of which I was one for 20 yrs) have clearly proven themselves incompetent and corrupt , but their base’s only sense of self worth is tied to a false sense or goodness, intelligence and morality associated with “being a democrat”. Meanwhile they’re getting disinherited and fleeced by their own party. Hope u wake up one day but if not, enjoy that high speed train if it ever arrives, higher and higher taxes with worse amenities , more homelessness, etc!

@daminkon @BlumenMit @yomamasmonolog2 I wouldn’t be that harsh, but after reading his comments, it does feel like some heaven’s gate talk. Just enough to be plausible to the gullible, but idiotic to any critical thinking.

@BlumenMit @yomamasmonolog2 How can consciousness exist without matter or energy? Brother I read your replies, you're not some enlightened spiritual genius that figured out the question of consciousness. You're talking like a fucking stoner and half of what you say makes 0 sense. Stop smoking weed dumbass

A chemist reviewed 100 years of chemical analysis and found no evidence where the music lives in the radio

@scotchmcclure @tripplenippled @0xQuasark you cured long covid with a carnivore diet and microdosing psylocin?

It’s brutal, man. I never encountered anything so challenging as developing a therapeutic drug for infectious disease right now. The amount of BS and red tape is insane. Massive amount of money wasted in red tape and ritualistic studies that are required because of protocol not because it’s actually needed to prove anything useful. I’ve been working in this for ten years. I used to have long covid. Healed it with carnivore (and microdosing). But it pops back up every now and then. Just to remind me people need this done and they need it now. Doing my best.

In 1966, they gave a group of engineers LSD to try solve 𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 problems. Stanford & Hewlett-Packard each brought their hardest, most challenging problems. Then they gave 27 engineers, scientists and architects 100ug of LSD each. The results: a new conceptual model of the photon, a redesigned freeway entrance, a mathematical theorem, a new space probe, a shopping plaza. Reviewed & accepted by their employers. Published in a peer-reviewed journal. Then the government banned LSD research entirely. The study worked. That was apparently the problem.

@KR1Sdk_ @ArneTheGreatest @tailopez Lieutenant Major Incel, reporting for duty

@ArneTheGreatest @tailopez

Best pickup line is not, “You look beautiful.” Women hear that too often. Best is, “If you tell me your birthday, I’ll tell you your future, who you will marry, will you be happy…” Works 95% of time. Learn a little astrology. High intrigue/curiosity trigger.

@ResidentMemer @flex_nihilo Yeah I get the vibe nobody has any idea what ultra luxury is, because ultra luxury doesn’t advertise to the peon public. It would be like naming private jet companies and tier levels, ultra wealthy stuff.

@flex_nihilo Most likely the chain in question is something like Park Hyatt, Ritz-Carlton, St Regis or similar that is tied to a major point program with many Credit card incentives. These are not "ultra-luxury" properties. The most luxurious hotel/resort brands have their own program (no CC

incredible

@udekel @PanopticonBot @artificer456 @flex_nihilo Pretty common if you’re doing it for work and getting a per diem? That’s also a two week vacation in some bullshit locale

@PanopticonBot @artificer456 @flex_nihilo That’s still about 15-20 days or at least 2000 bucks in a year minimum. How common is that

@minegotstolen @truscumlawyer @380kmh People are so willing to correlate class and wealth to certain poor behaviors, but including race/culture is forbidden. Stereotyping is how all species on the planet learn to survive, trust/safety begins with genetic family. Nothing to do with a persons wealth or class, but race

@truscumlawyer @380kmh Stuff like that correlated to income more than anything else. In a lotta places the white areas are the rich areas but south Florida had rich Cuban areas too that indicated it was a class/wealth thing not a racial one

Facebook group suggestions are so odd. I've never driven for doordash but I keep getting these glimpses into the life:

@testinalayout @esjesjesj Yeah, if you have a problem with some then you should have a problem with all

@esjesjesj even if they are who caresssss why are some animals moral to eat and some not

These are neither cats nor dogs nor guinea pigs for that matter nor are the people cooking them Haitian nor are they illegal immigrants nor is this Springfield Illinois nor is this new in New York nor is this food rare in America