The only party in America capable of losing to the Republican party is the Democratic party. It's a race to the bottom where the loser wins.

Hunter Biden being an excellent Twitter poster was not on my 2026 bingo card.

My politics are, I dislike fanatics. I loathed the puritanical wokescolds with fire in their eyes just as I loathe MAGA chuds worshipping Trump. My people are chill people. Lethargic, phlegmatic, practically comatose in our lack of enthusiasm for any political fad or movement.

The reason this "does lunch cost $28?" thing is such a scissor statement is that no one talks about how they save money on boring things like food. So guy spending $28 for lunch and guy making a $4 sandwich are just doing what they normally do and the alternative seems bizarre.

It's funny to see materialists arguing that identity exists independent of qualia just because they can't measure qualia. Like yeah I guess you can argue that but what even is identity in that case? Why even bother to say "these atoms are me and those other atoms aren't?"

I've said to myself "this idiot's about to kill himself I better go try to save him" in video games enough times that I know blue is right. Blue is inevitable. You can't stop the idiots from running into danger. And you don't want to have only reds on your team. Save the blues.

You simply have to press red. Can you imagine what it would be like living in a society with blue button pickers after it got 51%? We can't afford to let blue win.

Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

These thought experiments are fine to ponder. But the status quo is that these decisions are being made off the cuff by 100 IQ humans who passed a driving test once 20 years ago and have had no further training. I'm positive a machine can do better on average.

In the future, celebrity PR teams will be able to publish self-generating AI videos where the celebrity uses your name and explains that they have exactly your politics before promoting their new film/album to you, a fellow [whatever you are.] Tremendous alpha to be had here.

This could all have been avoided with a little introspection.

There's something deeply surreal about the fact that so much of war now is just guns and missiles fighting other missiles that are targeting evacuated embassy buildings while people film it all on their smartphones from their home and post it on Twitter for the world.

I doubt that anyone I know steals from Whole Foods, but the milieu that the article depicted, where it's normal for perfectly well-off people to steal things because why not, was really upsetting to read about, so I actually want to try to earnestly explain why you shouldn't do this just in case there's someone out there who has never had it explained to them. When a business opens - or really, as soon as a business starts making plans to open - a defining question for the business is how it will collect payment for the goods or services it provides. If you trust the people you sell to, you can be pretty relaxed about this; send people an invoice, most of them will pay it on time, any who don't will pay it a bit late. You have to think about convenience and mistakes but not about people trying to cheat you. This saves you so, so much defensive planning to make sure you get paid. It's so much easier. But if you're selling to the general public, you do have to think about people trying to cheat you. You have to structure the physical store so that it's hard for them to steal. You have to not carry some items that you'd like to sell, because they'd also be attractive targets to steal. If people swap price tags between items, you can't use stickers. If people put things on in the dressing room and wear them out, you need to pay someone a full time salary to monitor the dressing room. The world that we all live in is much poorer than the world we'd live in if people didn't steal. The stores don't carry things that they could carry if people didn't steal. They don't use pricing and inventory systems that would be way easier and more convenient if people didn't steal. But it could be much worse! If I walk down to my local Whole Foods today, items on the shelves won't be locked behind sheafs of plastic - that is only worth it when the background rate of stealing is much higher than it is at my local Whole Foods. When more people steal, businesses have to further intensify security, or go out of business. When you shoplift, you directly and unambiguously impoverish your community. You make prices higher for everybody else, you make stores less usable for everybody else, or you make businesses not viable that would otherwise be viable. The direct impact each time is small, but it's a lot larger than the direct impact of taking some trash out of the trash can to throw on the ground, or pouring just a tiny bit of poison into your local river, and most people have a deep, instinctive abhorrence of antisocially wrecking your community like that. So don't steal. The other thing that it seems possible some people might not understand is that while you might have a social circle that is incredibly nihilistic and cynical and thinks that everybody steals, in fact this is not true. Most people do not steal. Most people, if they learn that you steal, will lose more respect for you than you had to lose. I don't know anyone who has shoplifted except 'as a kid/teenager'. It is not always the case that virtue is rewarded and vice is punished but even before you bring the legal system into it, the risk-reward tradeoff of having everybody you know know that you steal things sometimes is absolutely terrible. Who would hire someone who steals things? Who would trust them around a vulnerable person? Who would want to live in a society with someone who will delightedly and routinely wreck it for the slightest personal benefit? I hope that "Gina" turns her life around. I hope that Gina realizes that she needs to. And if you have been told that it's just a corporation or that having ethics is lame or that if you think about it, other bad things happen too, like wage theft, so that means stealing is okay, I hope you really, actually, think about whether you'd accept any of those as excuses for anything else.

Hot au pairs are wasted on married couples. The only folks who can't enjoy it. When I'm king we will relocate all of the hot au pairs to the homes of single parents. Have fun. Fuck around and find a spouse. Or don't. I don't care, I'm not your mother. Just quit wrecking homes.

Heaven needs to allow conjugal visits. Send tweet.