This dog comes out to watch me cut the grass and runs away when I try to give her a pat. Resumes watching when I start cutting. Goes back into her yard when I’m done. This dog is my boss now and I couldn’t be happier.
Patrick Stewart's entire body of work, but as Picard in particular, is something that connects the person I am today with who I was as a kid. It collapses time for me. I still have the same awe and fascination with his performance and belief that it represents the best of us.
Billie Eilish brother Finneas says
id rather see the world set ablaze in protest like in France than watch it die under the boot of fascists and pedophiles
Alberta separatists crying about an oppressive liberal government in Ottawa while driving $120,000 trucks and SUV’s while planning their second Mexico vacation this year.
Some of you aren’t afraid of socialism. You’re afraid someone you consider beneath you might receive something you had to struggle for. And instead of questioning why you had to struggle, you’ve decided everyone else should suffer too. Fascinating little psychological prison you’ve built.
It’s just beyond belief the size, scale, and audacity of the giant far-right drug cartel that Narco Rubio has been steadily building across the breadth of Latin America
An extremely relevant paper, given the renewed concern that wealth taxes lead to massive out-migration:
The Norwegian wealth tax "exodus", discussed in global media, never happened. At most 100 individuals left. Tax revenue increased by +71.5%. No changes in business activity.
In 1975 the UN passed resolution 3379 that Zionism is racism. The Israeli ambassador went on the podium and tore it up.
There's nothing new under the sun. We're condemned to do this over and over.
Hey y’all, gentle reminder that you can critique the genocide without using language I don’t like. That’s how we stop the bloodshed. With critique. I wrote an entire substack on this.
wow instead of telling the restaurant what you want, you can now tell a computer to tell website to tell a restaurant what you want- great american innovations in the field of rent seeking and middle-mannery
NYT now confirms it.
He knew about Oct 7.
He stood down IDF posts.
He moved a festival of kids a mile from the unmanned IDF line.
He slaughtered his own people to justify slaughtering 100 times more Palestinians.
It was all by design.
An evil beyond imagination
It's useful whenever someone like Sam Altman or Elon Musk says "there's a good chance AI is going to kill everyone!" that you just substitute "I am" or "we are" for "AI" in your head and everything begins to make sense.
Look, is AI making our lives better? No. But is it making things less expensive? Unfortunately, the opposite. Now, is it making the internet a better place? More slop than ever, actually! But does it allow us to spend more time being creative? That's actually the thing it's best at stealing without shame. Though, surely it's making us smarter, right? You’ll never guess, but…