That opening scene, where his date walks out after saying something like "you're gonna say everyone hates you because you're a nerd, but it's because you're an asshole" is the underpinning of our entire economy right now.
Kalshi employees "kind of understand that without the tweets and the streamers and all of the social-media stuff that the traders do for them, usually just for free, their marketing would be a lot harder," said Jack Campion, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Kalshi affiliate. In September, Kalshi briefly signed up a 15-year-old videogame streamer who goes by vertid online to promote its brand on X as an affiliate. A week later, Kalshi ended the partnership. "Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."
what the fuck are we doing
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Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic
President Donald Trump said he doesn’t want to negotiate an end to the war with Iran in a post on social media that demanded Tehran capitulate as US and Israeli airstrikes continue
We are urging strongly that Iran's statehood be preserved. We do not want to see a Syrian scenario here, but rather we want this state to become functional from within itself. And that is why I also appeal, both in Washington and in all talks with the Israeli government, to create the conditions as quickly as possible for this country to be stabilized, for it to get a democratically legitimized government, and for it to be able to continue to exist as a state. It is a country with over 90 million inhabitants, and we naturally also have a high self-interest in this in order to avoid new refugee flows from the region.
Finally someone mentions the upcoming refugee problem that I raised here about a week ago - this should’ve been considered BEFORE the strike.
Merz:
David Ellison has finally won his entertainment empire. ‘It feels like he’s a midshipman and he’s now in command of the ‘Titanic’ — quite literally,’ one Hollywood producer said.
Professor Tangrowth begs for help with the mysterious PC in Pokemon Pokopia
Story of my fucking life.
I wrote yesterday that this failure itself underscores the stupidity of the war raged by the stupid rapist in the Oval Office. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/03/05/o...
Reporter: I asked Trump about rising gas prices. He said, 'That's alright. It'll go way down very quickly.' I said, 'Well, they're pretty high now.' And he said, 'No they're not.'
The print press should always quote him exactly and TV should quote him exactly too, the way they do here:
I wonder if Claude would be “anxious” because the military is using it to bomb schoolgirls or because it’s poisoning the air around data centers or because it’s going to crash the economy or because it’s encouraged thousands of psychotic delusions or all of the above
A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”
Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity
Dems should be going full Willie Horton on all of these chuds.
It would be really funny if this particular war renders the physical infrastructure of American power projection at least temporarily obsolete. I have no idea how likely that is because I’m not a Ball Knower in this space, but it’s probably worth considering.
“…Shahed attack drones represent a major challenge and US air defenses will not be able to intercept them all…The drones, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine acknowledged, are posing a bigger problem than anticipated”
US Employers Unexpectedly Cut Jobs, Unemployment Rises February data call labor market stabilization narrative into question
Congrats to everyone who voted for Trump and a Republican Congress "for the economy." This is what you get, a sputtering job creation engine that can't make progress like before and keeps rolling backwards.
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as an aside Monday's newsletter is about this "dems need to stop being weird extremists on identity politics and get back to kitchen table issues" narrative, and it's genuinely impressive how wildly pervasive and repetitive it is despite being entirely unsupportable in polling
sounds like somebody needs to stop "fixating on identity politics" and get back to "kitchen table issues"
A few hours after NYT reported that the U.S. bombed an elementary school in Iran, killing many children, the White House last night posted this video mixing airstrike footage with Top Gun, Iron Man, Gladiator, Halo, Breaking Bad, Star Wars, John Wick, Superman, Transformers and Dragon Ball Z
This stupid fucking meme has got body shape exactly backwards. Half the fuckin population had just spent the better part of a decade being extra malnourished in the 40s while today even pogs get addicted to lifting and creatine
War is the worst of human endeavors, but the reason militaries do not fight by pure thuggery, as the United States now does, is that it ultimately puts us more at risk and defiles us as a country. What are we even fighting for if we are nothing but the biggest bully on the block?
In addition to common decency. Leaving sailors to drown is outlawed by the Geneva Convention.
This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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Was speculating abt this last night. I think the truly self-aware ones, w/ their own agendas & treating Trump as ~a patsy, are vanishingly few. The vast majority are fully invested cult members who will indulge anything he says or does & filter their doubts through bad boyar cope.
I get they want to do things that are evil, but like: why do counterproductive stuff? These are obviously bad ideas that are hurting their chances to do the things they really care about, because sickos like Miller and Bovino are getting hard thinking about arresting babies.
I guess they're all just wholly brain rotted from Fox News, but going by the Noem hearings, it's obvious that more than a few Republicans realize this stuff is fucking killing them, and it's impossible to assume they didn't know that before it set it in when they could have stopped it.
I get that Republicans, by and large, want to do stupid and perhaps even evil stuff, but what has truly baffled me about Trump II is their willingness to go along with stupid, evil, and *obviously self-defeating* stuff. Why?! Why won't they take Trump in hand?
Trans ppl under attack from the govt could be identified and outed w/o their consent.
Undocumented immigrants would be cut off from the ability to communicate w advocates.
Young ppl seeking abortions won't be able to access info safely and anonymously.
This is what congress is advancing today 👇🏻
