Reminds me of the interview where the Roblox CEO addressed the rampant pedophilia on the platform as “we see it as an opportunity.”

Business people are just absolutely sociopathic monsters.

You don’t get it - since I don’t personally understand where that weather information comes from, it is both easy to get and is magic and comes for free from nowhere. It can’t be expensive or hard to get because I get it for free on the internet.

Some.

This is absolutely not everyone, and it’s not even a large amount, but there’s a small but vocal population of military vets who actually peaked in personal self-esteem in the military, never found success in civilian life, and they actually just like the attention of people when they talk about how rough it was.

It’s not actually a moral stance for them - it’s to get attention and try to recapture a moment of when they felt powerful and meaningful.

He did do something.

He cashed in.

Exactly as written in the Constitution, right?

“The President can start wars unilaterally and Congress has to pass legislation to stop them.”

It doesn’t say the FUCKING OPPOSITE, does it?

Fucking clown shoes.

There’s an “i” in “ruin,” Mark.

Only Scout believed in himself.

Yup! The very idea that we can known anything from gathering information is abhorrent to these people.

The only source of authority is “what I say right now”. The end.

“See, it’s different from the Chinese social credit system. That one is based upon doing things that are good for society. This one is around doing things that are good for shareholders/capitalism. That makes this one okay.”

When I found out what it meant when other countries have sovereign wealth funds…

I have no idea how most people in America keep convincing themselves they’ve somehow got a good deal.

And then the restaurant down the street that doesn’t give two shits takes the soup and uses it to make their own stock and serve it to you without the warning. And when the other three restaurants and the soup kitchen see THAT restaurant taking it, they ignore the sign that says “contains piss” because surely, if that first guy was using it it can’t be that bad, and even it it is, well, they can’t get us ALL if we ALL do it, right?

This is actually a post about artificial sweeteners.

Yes. If you’re giving soup to someone who isn’t homeless, you are allowed to pee in it. It’s in UN Charter.

Agreed. I’m happy to let people enjoy PLENTY of stuff I think is a stupid waste of time. Because when grown-ass adults decide to play Beyblade they’re not doing it in a stadium paid for by tax breaks made by defunding my public schools and road repairs.

You’re not taking into account how much anthropic will save on headcount after replacing their workers with ai.

/S

I don’t know why they think he’ll care this time - he’s been publicly pathetic and denounced as such for decades.

My apologies.

Deregulation happened completely randomly in a vacuum like a decaying lump of a radioactive element with no cause.

In all seriousness though… yes, ALL changes happen in a sea of social, economic, and political factors, but someone pulls the trigger, and it’s fair to point at the gunman.

Because consumer protection and regulation seems to have stopped being a real thing after Reagan. Since then everything good has been legacy agencies patching at the edges where they had authority (all gone now thanks to the Supreme Court - see Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo).

Buckle up. It’s only going to get worse.

(This is extra ironic because buckling up is only even a thing because of consumer protections. So I guess get ready to be thrown through a windshield.)

Yes, I know the numbers look bad, but look on the bright side…

In exchange for those higher prices, we also lost the rule of law, the climate, any remaining functional elements in our economy, even token lip-service to the idea of human dignity, and the illusion that America understood ANY of the ideals it spent half a century espousing.

Nobody will ever hold him responsible. The moment he won the election in 2024, it ceased to be a possibility. The only thing that could possibly punish him now is incurable disease.

They’d better hurry up, or else Trump will be forced to give them another month.