No one should be immune from the sharp tongue of the true satirist

Patriot. Traitor.

Ilya was right and predicted much of this

People who can watch this and hate on Elon are absolute dogshit human beings. Change my mind. The humility to be like “I was really just kinda YOLOing this thing, didn’t think we would get here”. Most people would get up there and jerk themselves off. Bezos would have done a yoga pose to suck his own dick while everyone watched. The big nerd just wants to build cool shit and maybe help us be a better civilization in the process. People hate the mirror he holds up to their failures.

The only way out of our civilizational pickle is to accelerate as fast as we can

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

Right. Just because there is a complicated European phenomenology attached to your feelings doesn't change the nature of the behavior and its social effect. Communication is not one sided and one's own interpretation of one's own behavior does not necessarily have primacy over that of anyone else. "Trauma" can explain and justify a lot of things subjectively but objectively, or intersubjectively, it is often utterly meaningless. This notion that traumatized people are not subject to the same social judgment as everyone else is absurd. Nearly every person who ever lived is traumatized by something and none of that is relevant to what is good, evil, right, wrong, appropriate or not. When you use trauma response as a justification for your own failure to act in accordance with good judgment and attempt to normalize it you damage the virtue of everyone around you and corrupt public morals. Denying your own agency, playing helpless, spreading culpability and responsibility to all around you, and taking none for yourself is a sign of poor judgment and untrustworthy sociality.

This is a physique forged over the course of decades in the crucible of self discipline to be admired by other men, not for the pre menopausal lust of some mouthy broad, I demand you speak of it no more

Dear small percentage of Boomers who can actually be told things: Here are some facts, to help you understand what Millennials are trying to tell you. Here is what the middle-class experience is right now. Not for losers, but for your average hardworking, but unexceptional, dude born in 1992. - No company pensions. Ever. No job offers this. - Laid off every 2 to 3 years. - No vacations. Ever. If you are lucky, you have 10 to 15 days of annual "PTO" (paid time off). But this is not vacation. This is your sick days. You can take a break with whatever's left over. - If you are not lucky, you have "unlimited" PTO. Which sounds nice, but in practice it means you get sick days and nothing else. - They pay social security taxes, but they know they will never receive those benefits, because the system will crash first. - Not promoted. Ever. - No annual raises. Instead, these are effectively pay cuts, because they don't match inflation. - Because of this, can only get a raise by changing jobs. Some judicious prevarication about salary history is recommended. - Good chance you'll have to change careers at least once, possibly more, as industries get rugpulled by offshoring or work visas. - Total mortgage cost on a median house in 2026 is 104,600 minimum-age-hours. This is 50 years of full-time work. - For comparison, a 1972 purchase would be 23,750 minimum-wage-hours, about 11 years of full time work. What this all adds up to is that Millennials can't buy homes until they are past their child-bearing years. And, no, scrimping and saving doesn't change that equation. This is with scrimping and saving. I am not a Millennial. I am GenX, the child of Boomers. I do not need to be told how much Boomers forwent luxuries to save, and how hard they worked. I know exactly how much they did of each. I was there. I saw. They worked hard at the beginning of their careers, and lived frugally for about 5 years to save up a down payment. After that, things gradually eased up, bit by bit. Until, by retirement, a lot of them had nice fat stock portfolios and multiple rental property investments, and Caribbean cruise holidays. And this seems, to them, like a fair and natural progression. But as America has been hollowed out and by a corrupt political machine, those doing the robbing have left the Boomers whole, and placed the burden of that corruption squarely on the backs of younger generations. For Millennials, there's no light at the end of that tunnel. Just another tunnel. And another after that. They have been standing between Boomers and the reality of the modern economy for 20 years. At some point, they are going to break.

The anti-data center activism is partly funded by China and is certainly supported by it. It is anti-American and if it succeeds, America loses.

Opening one’s mind to orthogonal ways of viewing the world is painful and generally at odds with the way most human minds work. It takes real effort and intention to consider possibilities that potentially threaten the proverbial “status quo”

This is all downstream of the refusal to deal with communism when it was a fledgling movement in the 1950s and 1960s.

When future historians look back at the late 20th and early 21st century, they will rightly pillory everyone who argued that Joe McCarthy was the bad guy.

I can't tell you how satisfying it is to watch this miserable shitbag who cheers for murderers and the downfall of America to squirm like the mud-dwelling worm he is

Amazing

You may be wondering why immigrants hate us so much. After all, they were allowed to come to America, and prosper greatly by doing so, and a large portion of the population bent over backwards to welcome them and make them feel at home. If you don't understand realpsych, you would expect them to be grateful. But that's not how people actually work. Human beings are grateful for gifts and favors only up to the point where they feel they can no longer repay them. Once that point is passed, once a person can no longer repay his debts, then he has a choice between two narratives for understanding the rest of his life. "I am a charity recipient, not a self-sustaining human being." "I was entitled to what I took from those people, because they are bad, or weak, or horrible, or something." In other words, if you give someone too much, more than they deserve, more than they can possibly earn, they become ungrateful little swine, precisely in order to preserve their own psychological well being. And they will surround themselves with others who participate with them in that collaborative lie. Sometimes people can make entire careers out of pandering to the over-privileged and under-deserving. Careers like "publicist". Or "immigration lawyer". And they will invent an entire mythos to preserve their self-worth. They will convince themselves that thriving off undeserved gifts makes them the elite of humanity, while those whose inheritance was taken from them are some mental stereotype of drunken "Biff", who partied his way through a second rate IT school. There's just one small problem that they must handwave away or ignore if they can. Biff's great-grandparents build America into the greatest nation on Earth. Biff's grandparents won WW2. Biff's parents invented the internet, and flew astronauts to the moon. Biff's entire tribe was thriving. Otherwise there would have been nothing to give to immigrants, and no reason for them to come here. Meanwhile, all of the places that the immigrants are coming from have existed a lot longer than America, and been filled with the ancestors of those immigrants, and lots of other people who are like them in every way. They had centuries, sometimes millennia, to get their shit together and build something where they were. They didn't. They had to go live in someone else's country, for "opportunities". Of course they have to pretend that they "deserve" those "opportunities" more than the very people whose ancestors created the "opportunities" in the first place. Because otherwise they would have to admit the one thing their self-esteem could never endure.... Leaving their own nations, and their tribes, was an admission of abject failure.

Gonna try to explain this to tech CEOs again: Young Americans are pissed. They feel betrayed. Half have embraced the far right & want to cut off your access to cheap foreign labor. The other half have embraced the far left & want to cut off your head. One side will win. Choose.

I’m not a bot but we can simplify this debate about immigration in a few sentences. No one gets a green card with an IQ less than 120. No one with a green card can chain migrate anyone from their family other than their wife. No one with a green card gives birth to a US citizen. People with green cards can become citizens after ten years of top decile tax payments and passing an American culture test.

Facts

Unlocking bots to clear trees instead of doing it by hand is always a satisfying milestone in every playthrough