matt hoeft

One day, Donald Trump will die, and his supporters will try to punish the people who say things like this.

@JoePostingg Myocarditis was eradicated across humanity after Norris got the jab

Vaxxed?

@daydenjaniels5 @TheWapplehouse @GentleDoofus Damn knew I should’ve read the replies first

@TheWapplehouse @GentleDoofus I don’t know if you heard but… Jim Kringle passed away

I feel like an idiot. I just learned today Douglas from The Chair Company is Jim Downey.

@TheWapplehouse @GentleDoofus Jim Kringle just died

@GentleDoofus Oh fuck me goddammit he is isn’t he

@Gina_McDee @MySFPUC Thank you!

@mhoeft @MySFPUC openbook.sfgov.org/webreports/det…

$106.5 Million? That's not peanuts @MySFPUC

@elonmusk @weeklyshowpod @CaseyNewton @noUpside Go on his podcast

@weeklyshowpod @CaseyNewton @noUpside Jon Stewart is an extremely skilled propagandist disguised as a truth-teller

How has Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) influenced our democracy? On a new pod, we’re unpacking Big Tech’s election disruption with Casey Newton, editor of Platformer, and Renée DiResta, research professor at Georgetown University. New episode out now! @CaseyNewton @noUpside #theweeklyshow #jonstewart #politics

Cosign all of this, this is the opening act of an energy crisis that will define the second half of the 2020s like covid defined the first half

8. Memorizing scripts is dangerous When you memorize word-for-word: One small mistake can destroy your flow. Instead: Practice in chunks. Understand the message deeply so you can speak naturally.

The bishop of my former congregation worked in for the City of Berkeley. I was his clerk. He told us that when rent control got voted in, the landlords fell into two groups. One group jacked up their rents as high as possible before the law took effect. The others left their rents as was, trying to be nice guys. The "nice guys" then took it in the shorts. Some went bankrupt. Some just abandoned their buildings and let the city grab them for non-payment of taxes. Most followed the policy of never ever letting anyone new back into an apartment when someone moved out. The landlord end-game was if EVERYONE moved out of your complex, you could remodel the thing and then even Berkeley would let you calculate new rents. He said he knew of several apartment buildings in which only one tenant was left, hanging on for dear life. The owner just waiting for the guy to leave. Of course no landlord had any motivation to ever repair, repaint, or refurbish anything in a rent-controlled complex. When I moved to the East Bay I was pretty much pro-rent control. When I left, I thought it was the stupidest idea ever.

Andreessen identifies himself as a Great Man precisely because of this, because he knows his actual output is useless drivel and scams. That's why he considers Greatness as a genetic/metaphysical trait instead of something built on achievement: he wouldn't be Great if it was

the book I've got coming out soon is about how so much of child raising for the middle classes is built off this model, how this leads to alienation and loss of community (and doesn't produce better athletes, mathematicians, or anything). Stay tuned.

I look forward to future generations watching this clip in order to get some sense of how proudly stupid the self-proclaimed Great Men of our time actually were

@pmarca Was Abraham Lincoln a great man of history? George Washington? Thomas Jefferson? Ben Franklin? These men spent large swaths of their lives in introspective thought.

It is 100% true that great men and women of the past were not sitting around moaning about their feelings. I regret nothing.

@paulg @rgigger @davidsenra @pmarca How about Abraham Lincoln? George Washington?

@davidsenra @pmarca What? That's not true. Do you not feel that Charles Darwin, for example, was among the great men of history?

Great men of history had little to no introspection. The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself. @pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about: David: You don't have any levels of introspection? Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible. David: Why? Marc: Move forward. Go! I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home. David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection. Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up and was like: I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again. Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective. All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s. Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff. The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology. And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual. We need to criticize the individual. The individual needs to self criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past. It never resonated with me.

@TaupeAvenger I’m with you

This isn’t true. I like BART and want it to work. That’s why I’m so loud at demanding they get their shit together.

@YankeeWRLD Agree with you but also want to point out teams have a limited number of challenges if they get them wrong so it could very likely happen again even with ABS

I can’t wait for games to never end like this because of terrible calls again. What a horrific ending to an amazing game

@pamsson Very. Should’ve been called out automatically

That was kinda bush league from Caminero running down to first.

@christopherrufo @RichardHanania “Stupid overpromise” that they were well aware of. Aka what everyone else calls a “lie”

Yes, was always a stupid overpromise to say it was going to balance the budget, but it wasn’t a scam. I had an inside view in multiple departments and it was the most idealistic campaign on the Right, with talented and courageous young people who wanted to strip out the ideological corruption in government.

The Right is steadily cannibalizing its ability to advance good policy. Yes, it’s the grifters and psychopaths in the podcast thunderdome, but it’s also the quiet and cynical self-enrichment happening in higher places. In retrospect, the collapse of DOGE was a major defeat.

This is a smart strategy. No longer will the US cower before the tyranny of the Pottery Barn rule. Henceforth, when we break it—YOU bought it, world!