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My favorite days at work are the ones where we see how much crap we can pile onto something before it breaks.

OMGAWD- going to the Met Gala as a contractor 🤣

So true 😂 🎥© joshio_bt

A lot of people are asking why more politicians are not like Ben Sasse. Because voters will not elect them, that’s why. They may say they care about character, but most don’t vote that way. Instead they vote party line, ideology, self-interest, or out of pique against a perceived enemy. How can we expect our leaders to embody higher levels of virtue if a majority of voters don’t make personal character a red line? It looks like we get the leaders we deserve.

The Hilton donated the ~2600 dinners that went unserved at WHCD. They freeze dried the steak and lobster for longer shelf life before giving them to 2 shelters for abused women and children. HUGE thank you to the staff that worked through the night under terrible circumstances.

People think they can’t afford this & like… yes you can? My coworker just spent $3000 on another handgun, this costs less for the whole year.

Having a professional house cleaner come every 3 weeks to dust everything & clean the bathrooms, fans, light fixtures, stovetop has made me so much more organized. I’m so proud when a surface has been decluttered for them to professionally clean since the last time 😂

Man, you guys are gonna spend a lot of time digging out analog samples, you shat where you eat.

it’s happening

The biggest unsolved problem (which usually goes ignored) of fully automated luxury communism is that work is the primary governance layer in society day to day. Your boss and your manager matter much more in your daily life than anything happening in "politics". Unless you're directly engaged in it, politics is basically a TV soap for you most of the time. Whereas how your boss is feeling, where the direction of the company is going, the new HR policies, all matter in an immediate and concrete way The need to earn money (or, in agricultural society, the need to grow food) is the dominant structural element in people's lives. The need to stay employable keeps people responsible and accountable. We got a taste of what the world without the need for work looks like during Covid, and we can definitively say that it was a failed experiment This is more a story about men than women, as neighborhoods with lots of random men during the day are typically run down and dangerous, whereas the reverse is not the case. People - the large majority of them anyway - must be employed. They act out in socially dysfunctional ways otherwise If you're a frequent X poster, this might not apply to you. In fact, it's disproportionately likely that it does not. But the median and average person doesn't have projects or passions that define them. They just want to consume. Which is fine. But it causes trouble.

The tooth dreams! My entire jaw rotted out of my head, very visceral. I’ve been having these dreams since I was like, 5, not disturbing anymore, just, “oh, this time…”

It’s very important to keep your old college textbooks so you can remember how horny you were in your 17-21s

You share 98.8% of your DNA with chimpanzees. A group of 200 of them just tore itself apart in a Ugandan rainforest, and researchers have been watching it happen for a decade. A study came out yesterday in Science, one of the top research journals in the world. For 30 years, scientists tracked the Ngogo chimps in Uganda's Kibale National Park. This was the largest known chimp group on the planet, around 200 animals all living, hunting, and raising families together. Then around 2015, the group started splitting down the middle. Two clusters, one on the west side of the territory and one in the center, stopped spending time together. Males stopped mating with females from the other side. By 2018, they'd drawn a line through the forest and refused to cross it. The Western chimps started raiding. Between 2018 and 2024, they killed 7 adult males and 17 babies from the Central group. They ripped infants straight off their mothers' chests. Fourteen more Central males vanished during that stretch, bodies never found, while Western's population climbed from 76 to 108. John Mitani, a University of Michigan researcher who spent over 20 years with these chimps, told NBC he believes the Central group is "doomed." He used the phrase "extinction event." This almost never happens. DNA evidence suggests chimp communities fracture like this roughly once every 500 years. The only other time anyone saw it was in the 1970s with Jane Goodall's chimps in Tanzania, but researchers questioned that case because Goodall's team had been feeding bananas to the animals for years, which may have warped their natural behavior. Ngogo is the first split observed with zero human interference. The cause dates back to 2014. Five males died that year, likely from disease. These weren't random chimps. They had close bonds on both sides of the group, the kind of friendships that kept 200 animals functioning as one unit. Once they were gone, a new top male seized control in 2015, a disease swept through and killed 25 more in 2017, and the two sides just kept drifting until there was nothing connecting them anymore. One part of the paper sat with me. These chimps have no ethnicity. No religion. No political parties. The war started because friendships broke down, cliques solidified, and new group identities replaced years of cooperation. Aaron Sandel, the lead researcher from UT Austin, argued that keeping relationships alive across group lines may be the actual recipe for preventing this kind of collapse. In a species 98.8% identical to us, that recipe failed in under ten years.

Human beings have been around for hundreds of thousands of years and I’m alive for this. Whatever else sucks, this does not.

I’m doing a LOT of hours in a seated position & my body so badly wants to work…on the floor, hips open, checking all these hundreds of installation drawings. Might just be a weirdo & work on the floor in my office.

I’m annoyed that people are using AI to replace themselves. I want that. Every time I ask AI to do something, it gets it wrong. “Pull this section of a BOM off this layout drawing” Sure! I’m confidently wrong! Faster on my own.

I’m an asshole for multiple reasons but you should know how to swim & ride a bike. It is not normal that my nephew is afraid to ride a goddamn bicycle.

Firing. Just soulless. You like this.

Not even an exaggeration. The last few days have shown me that the psychological effect of dealing with other nice people instead of an endless parade of sneering animals or blithering idiots regurgitating propaganda is huge. I had no idea what I was actually doing to myself

Dear Japanese friends: I don’t want plastic glued to my fingertips. Plastic nails are uncomfortable.

No caveats: public transit should be safe & clean.