Josh Penrod

Has anyone tried turning social media off and on again?

Father of 4

CXO Marq / CPO Podium / VP UX Ancestry

[Josh Penrod @amishrobot]

@benspringwater ✋🏻

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

New newsletter: THE END OF MORALITY AND THE RISE OF THE 'MORAL BLANK CHECK'

Within a 48 hour period this week, Trump:
- got out of a $100m IRS fine
- secured IRS "immunity" for his family
- created a $1.8b slush fund for his supporters
- was reported for likely insider trading worth nearly $1 billion

Trump's corruption is obvious. What I find less obvious and more interesting is that practically nobody tries to defend him. The closest thing to a defense you get is the common argument that "Biden/woke was also bad," which isn't even an attempt at a defense. It's rather a moral blank check made out to the administration that promises to cover the cost of any transgression.

When you zoom out, it is extraordinary how rare it is in modern politics to hear universal arguments for virtue or morality. Just listen to the way we talk about right and wrong, these days. We hear that 'the rich don't play by the rules, so why should I?' We hear that Democrats are bad, so why should Republicans be good? It is broken social contracts and special excuses all the way down.

We are in a world after virtue. It's the age of vicemaxxing. And that's bad.

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[Josh Penrod @amishrobot]

@ThatsMauvelous The law of conservation of dread

[Bummer T. Vibes, Esq @VibesBummer]

When I’m eating shared nachos I’m always thinking 3 nacho moves ahead of my opponent.

[Josh Penrod @amishrobot]

@SwannMarcus89 There are a TON of utahns of all stripes flipping out about it. Its become a Satanic Panic level of fact-less freak out.

[Josh Penrod @amishrobot]

@MLB @BYUBaseball The view from my son's little league game in Orem isn't so bad either.

[Christopher Koopman @ckoopman]

A dozen states did this to nuclear power in the ‘70s and ‘80s. It helped killed the industry for forty years. Many states have repealed those measures since 2016.

Applying the “will of the people” to infrastructure is how you get a country that can’t build anything.

[Josh Penrod @amishrobot]

@cosmosadderall The internet was a mistake (It was actually cool up until about 2008)

[Conor Friedersdorf @conor64]

It would be useful for a free-market friendly billionaire to give DSA members a compound somewhere, where they get the land free for ten years and the only rules are *strict Communism* and *everything gets recorded on video to see how it all works out.*

[Laura Robinson @LauraRbnsn]

I’m not trying to flex on being a great Christian or anything but I have never in my life had to explain that the golden statue I was worshipping was technically not a calf so you can’t get mad at me

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

My theory is that if you eliminate the "but what about YOUR side?!" argument, modern political discourse in America crumbles (because you'd have to actually defend policy instead of dismissing everything as "political hypocrisy").
Political independents destroy binary politics.

[Josh Penrod @amishrobot]

@cbgrasshopper @Ancestry Geez. I went through a bunch of other traits and this is on the HIGH end of genetic attribution!

[Josh Penrod @amishrobot]

Maybe change that copy to say “your eye for fashion has little to nothing to do with your genes” @Ancestry ?

[Josh Penrod @amishrobot]

@cbgrasshopper @Ancestry “AT MOST 92% environmental” is still killing me 😂

“Oh yeah, that’s barely anything. Man, my genes are really driving THIS fashion ship!”

[Josh Penrod @amishrobot]

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The gambling epidemic is SO much worse than you think.

[Overeducated Gibbon @MostlyMonkey]

I refuse to let car companies build new cars until the used car market becomes more affordable. I am very smart.

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

"The legalization of mobile sports gambling in America was a policy mistake and that the evidence is now clear enough to say so."

[Josh Penrod @amishrobot]

@brandosm I am biased, but its the best sport! Congrats!

[roon @tszzl]

passive observation that once you’ve outsourced state capacity to corporations such as this one it’s bound to be that they come with other aspects of quasi-statehood like internal politics, ideology, internal judiciary

[Woofers @NotWoofers]

Absolutely catastrophic for American men. If you are a sports better break away immediately. It is not worth it. You will not win it back. You will not beat the house. You are being exploited.