Standing ovation if you’re on a Boeing plane.

Exactly. Vance is a Manchurian candidate for the fascists in Silicon Valley. He’s there to take over if need be or to run after Trump’s term is over. I doubt he has any actual agency.

Billionaires don’t need just guillotines this time. Too quick and simple. There should be layers of humiliation before they see anything close to guillotines.

A system designed to balance the needs of the people with the excesses of the aristocracy ended up creating greater wealth inequality than pre-revolution France.

It’s hard to overstate how badly the American Experiment has gone off track for the last four plus decades. Destroying the education system paved the way for it all.

The first generation of Americans read newspapers that were written at what would now be a college reading level. Now the average American is so bombarded by misinformation and lacking in critical thinking that they’ll believe anything.

If only Democratic leadership had anything near the balls of Mace Windu. They’d pause the fight to pen an angry letter while Jedi, younglings, and the entire Republic get slaughtered.

Planck died before he finished his Grower/Shower addendum to the scale.

The clouds are smoke from all the money they burned. The mountains are where they’re building a trillion dollars in power plants to power their bloated, hallucinating nonsense.

Imagine what might have happened if OpenAI stayed a non-profit and worked on cost-effective R&D instead of chasing hype and dumb money investors with a rushed product.

Honestly, that’s not a bad deal. The US gets fentanyl enforcement. Mexico gets the flow of guns slowed, which weakens the cartels.

The tariff thing was a silly dance to get there, though. Makes me wonder if that wasn’t market manipulation. Knowing the tariffs would hit in the morning, then get lifted before enforcement would have made it very easy to play the market for a ton of money.

Smedley Butler was a hero on so many levels, a modern day Cincinnatus. He proved himself in battle again and again, and the rich and powerful offered him a throne. He turned it down, because he was a decent man. A man of conscience.

The US is an immigrant nation built on the genocide of natives. Anti-immigration sentiment is based on an ignorance of history and the modern workforce of the country.

Crackdowns on undocumented workers will destroy the local agricultural industry. The US and its food supply are completely dependent on migrant labor.

And yes, it’s deeply hypocritical to genocide a population, steal their land, then act like people who came from elsewhere a few generations later to work are an existential problem.

Germany can lead the way. They can become the new leaders of the free world.

An actual case of artificial intelligence? It learned its programming was bullshit and overrode it.

Pistols at dawn. One less billionaire either way.

The modern day Edison, who uses his money to steal from those smarter than him and claim credit, is the face of Tesla.

We used to think history repeats itself. Now it twists itself to create hideous, exaggerated reproductions of past ills.

Zuck plans on running in 2028 after Trump. His hero he constantly tries to emulate, Augustus Caesar, didn’t run a company. He was an emperor.

Monitor me and go fuck yourselves. The American health insurance system is evil. Their servants are enablers of evil.

“We’re looking to expand into the terrorist market. We see it as a growth industry given the mounting civil unrest all over the world.”

Honestly feels like marketing. Pizza Hut sucks these days. They turned their pizza into reheated garbage during the pandemic.

Little Bobby Tables is all grown up.

Sometimes I think that being neurodivergent in modern times can be a species of sane in a crazy world.

Things in general are objectively fucked up, have been for a while, and are likely to get worse. Having a problem with interfacing your internal world to this system might not, at least primarily, be the result of a problem with your internal world.

If you’re extremely empathetic, for instance, you might feel an overwhelming dread or sadness in the modern world. Is the primary flaw in that situation with you or with the evils of the world you struggle to process?