Connor Phillips

Husband & father | Data analyst | Comm PhD | Not as famous as @ConnorPhillips but way funnier

[Connor Phillips @cldphil]

@linaposting @miatapilled Which one has the highest ranked F500 company?

[McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins]

Mitt Romney to Harvard Business School graduates: "There's more to a country than its economy. To be a great nation, it must also be a good nation. The world needs good men. It needs good women. Good leaders. Good parents raising good children. There is no national success that could compensate for failure to be a good and noble people."

[Kyle 🚄 @KyleTrainEmoji]

PICARD: Data, shields up

DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.

[camera shakes]

WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS

DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

Whoever designed this needs to be fired immediately:

[𝚃 @T_wontmiss]

24 years old.
Fully paid off Costco hotdog.
It's not "parents money".
It's not luck.
It's consistency.
It's discipline.
I grind EVERYDAY to live this lifestyle.

[The Mayor From Jaws @OvertCanadian]

Guy who sucks at building boats: no, it's supposed to be like that. I made it like that on purpose.

[Jay Black @jayblackisfunny]

Right now, Kristi Noem is at home, depressed, eating ice cream, and watching the ending of “Old Yeller” over and over again to try to cheer herself up.

[Will Bredderman @WillBredderman]

Worst of all, gym classes are making them run miles an Uber could cover in less than a minute.

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

Nothing is quite as European as demanding that your emergency WW3 meeting must only occur during normal office hours.

[Rhys @RhysSullivan]

https://t.co/aOuv0PX8GW

[JPCampbellBiz @JP_Biz]

Ok brother, do you think you could make Outlook search work when you have a minute?

[John Palmer @johnpalmer]

https://t.co/KrI5bqIUkH

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

This isn't something I like to talk about in public — the point of concealed carry is not to draw attention — but like many Americans, I carry everyday. The purpose of the second Amendment is the prevention of tyranny. What happened today was tyrannical, so I wrote about it. 🧵

[Vic 🌮 @VicVijayakumar]

had dinner with wife at a mexican restaurant last night

looked at menu, they were trying to raise prices from $18 to $24 for her favorite entree

wife was like "i think we can have claude make this"

told waitress trying to gouge us they done

1 week sprint

cloned & replaced cochinita pibil and carnitas

restaurant manager freaks out "how do we solve this"

this is going to happen so much in 2026

[McQuaid @michaelgmcquaid]

You are missing quite a bit.

1) Credit is a privilege, not a right. Much of the world doesn't even have access to unsecured revolving credit lines. It is a blessing that those who are responsible and live in the west get to enjoy.

2) Income has absolutely nothing to do with credit available. Credit worthiness is determined by FICO, or your prior credit responsibility. Outside of a couple select products (Amex Black), nearly every credit card is available to anyone who demonstrates longstanding responsibility and has a high credit score. i.e, high credit card rewards are available to everyone.

3) High earners pay their balances in full monthly and don't have late fees, so lenders are only able to earn a profit via transaction fees. Rewards are their competition mechanism to convince high earners to be apart of their ecosystem.

4) Retailers or vendors pay higher transaction costs for high reward credit cards, so this isn't entirely being subsidized by lower income consumers who are more likely to pay interest or late fees.

5) Low income consumers with mediocre credit have astronomically higher risk of defaulting on the debt, thus the higher APR. High APR and late fees don't only facilitate rewards for the credit worth (or wealthy) - they act as insurance for lenders taking a risk.

6) Our current credit system has a completely even playing field in regards to consumer loans. Consumer protection laws mandate this. What is lacking is a knowledge gap between those who are financially savvy and those who come in with blinders on. This is mostly an education/knowledge issue, not an income issue.

[Connor Phillips @cldphil]

@SleeperHQ 1. Make rookie draft ADP available. Seeing their overall ADP means it’s hard to place which round they’re going in.

2. Rumble-style playoffs PLEASE.

[NYPrepper @nyprepper1]

⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️PENTAGON PIZZA INDEX SUDDENLY SKYROCKETING!! 770% ABOVE NORMAL AT PAPA JOHNS NEAR THE PENTAGON!!

[Connor Phillips @cldphil]

People on this site will post explosive claims with zero citations, and then I guess Steven Pinker (who is no idiot!) will just retweet it.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

This is fascinating...

[Connor Phillips @cldphil]

Hi @SleeperHQ going ahead and requesting this for the coming offseason updates: Rumble playoffs so the top 4-6 teams can duke it out wks 15-16, and the prizes go to the top scorers over those 2 weeks.

[Drew Breunig @dbreunig]

Claude: "I've defined phase one of your project to be completed during weeks 1-4 and updated the spec."
Me: "Implement phase one now."
*5 minutes pass*
Claude: "Phase 1 is complete."