Chaz 👤

Just here for the news

[Sypth @JustSypth]

Ancaps: "Communism doesn't work because of human nature"
Also ancaps: "So let's assume the landlords would lower rent out of kindness"

[Hüseyin Karakurt @vekilkarakurt]

80 yıl boyunca her yıl 120 gün ve günde 24 saat 12.000 btu bir klimayı çalıştırırsanız ömrünüz boyunca doğaya yaptığınız co2 salınımı 100 ton olacaktır.

bir süperyat haftada 109 ton
bir özel jet yılda 810 ton
co2 salınımı yapar.

yani ömrünüz boyunca yazları terleyerek geçirirken bir milyardar sadece bir haftada sizin ömrünüz boyunca kaçındığınız zararı doğaya verebiliyor.

[alaska 👥 @145k4]

in the 1930s rockefeller spent 500 million dollars to transport 5 cloistered abbeys from the 1100s-1400s all the way from europe atop a hill in manhattan, provided an additional endowment, and then donated the entire thing to the city.

[ᴍᴀɴᴜ. @ESnomanu]

“No sé cómo las mujeres creen en el horóscopo, qué ilusas son”

Yo leyendo que el chamán Nana Kwaku Bonsam dice que eliminarán a Argentina

[Kramerica Trading @KramericaT]

For those who don’t know Shapiro is referencing a problem in 1970s NYC when Hasidic landlords engaged in mass fire insurance fraud throughout the Bronx when they didn’t get the rent growth they wanted.

Such wonderful people.

[milkydraws8 | COMMS CLOSED @milkydraws8]

chill.

[Goomb🏳️‍🌈 @TheGoomb1]

“i voted centrist and got fascism”
this test is based af

[Madisyn Cunningham @MadisynCunn]

she’s HILARIOUS for this

[GL @gldivittorio]

Moderate dems after the GOP overturns Roe, guts voting rights, and collapses entire democratic institutions: When they go low we go high but also use curse words now :)

Moderate dems after DSA wins two primaries:

[❀ @kayinterrupted]

They’re saying no but she said it helped

[Vynn @SurenVynn]

My most woo belief is that all this fascia stuff is true and those who consistently activate full body movement i.e. dancers are the most attractive people because their fascia is fully integrated

[Larry Correia @monsterhunter45]

I’ve been telling people this for years.
GRRM pissed off millions of customers but he don’t give a shit. He got his bag. But his legacy is being such an epic bum ass bum that he crippled an entire genre, ruined consumer sentiment, and killed off an entire generation of epic fantasy authors.

Romantasy and LitRPG grew as a direct result of filling the smoking crater George left in the industry. New writers could no longer get deals to write epic fantasy unless the entire series was in the bag, and nobody can afford to gamble that much time to write that many books they may never sell.

Publishers no longer took chances on new series because customers had got burned by lazy shirkers like George and Pat. Agents wouldn’t represent new epic fantasy unless the whole thing was done. It hurt Indy because dudes had to convince customers that they weren’t bums too. Except when book one makes $50 total, because customers said Im not starting a new series until it’s done! they sure as shit ain’t writing book two. So it’s a self fulfilling prophesy of suck.

In the comments Dunning-Krugerands are saying this isn’t true. Look at guys like Brandon Sanderson. Wrong. Guys like him, or me, who already had established names, reputations, and fan bases were fine. We had enough customers who trusted us we could still do new things and people would come along to make it economically viable.

For example, the only reason my epic fantasy series got picked up is because I was already successful and could guarantee a viable level of sales off my existing fans. Newbs don’t have that. And over the ten years it took for me to write the six books to finish it, the entire time I heard from potential customers, nope, not gonna start a new series that might not finish because of George.

I am fine during this because I’m still gonna make a couple hundred grand off each of those just off my existing fans. Newbs make two bucks an hour, say to hell with being a writer I’m going back to my day job, and you all missed out on the next great author and his absolutely brilliant series, because you were too mad at billionaire George shoving twinkies in his mouth instead of writing.

Nope. Guys like me and Brandon are fine. George’s profound laziness screwed over the new guys. Customers and the industry quit taking chances on new guys. We will never know how many excellent fantasy series we missed out on, robbed by George’s laziness burning so many customers.

Some writers gave up, but others moved into different genres. Which is good. But it sure does suck if epic fantasy is your jam. LitRPG is close but different enough it blew up during this time frame because that’s where the talented went.

Being such a pretentious, bloviating bum that you damage an entire industry and strangle a generation of aspiring artists is quite the legacy.

Kal (who is a good writer btw, check out his books) asks what can we do about this? For me personally I’m just gonna continue mocking George’s work ethic in the hopes more normies realize what an outlier he is, and how they should expand their horizons to read other authors who aren’t stuck up, know it all, dickheads.

And before anybody starts barking at me that I’m such a hypocrite because I’ve not finished all my series, sorry I’ve only finished three of eight so far, and have only written THIRTY books since George’s last one, the next MHI comes out in December, and the last two books are next year, and I’m not planning on retiring anytime soon (if ever).

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

This guy got a longer prison sentence than GHISLAINE MAXWELL
https://t.co/qXydCeYz0M

[EDGE Central @NatSciChannel]

Fuck-You-Die admin passes 2467th Fuck-You-Die law. We all die.

[(sab) 睿燄 • Their Totality @sasponella]

https://t.co/tPQDtA3ex0

some of this shit is genuinely evil. Besides the crazy race based discrimination it looks like if you get rejected from one job and a diff employer uses the same screening ai then you get double blackballed??? For 330 days straight???

[Zo Brown @receipts_lol]

This is a farmer who tried to talk about data centers in the USA.

[Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor]

Oh my god this whole thread

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