Breathing in hefty lungfuls of smoke as I get explosive diarrhea from salad, the sky turns apocalyptic orange while oil companies drill in protected lands, screwworms are eating cattle alive and the president just paid $6 million for rape. And I’m also able to bet on all of it!
We want builders to build starter homes at $200–250k so the next generation can actually... start.
Instead, they sell $400–500k+ homes and call them “starter homes.”
$3,190/month is NOT a starter home.
genuinely cannot believe that the Diarrhea Forever meme turned out to be completely literal. this political era simply cannot be parodied or satirized. the stupidest thing you can think of can and will happen.
Imagine if our smartest people competed to solve energy, manufacturing, disease, and science instead of marketing tools, online gambling, and yet another incremental AI product.
Both OpenAI and Anthropic recently posted job listings with comically bad pay, I think the point is to telegraph to investors for their pre IPO road show that they are financially responsible.
We laborers are collateral damage.
Anthropic should be embarrassed, 65-85k for masters-level techs in the Bay Area is utterly shameful.
Sure you can do it--sadly the market supports it--but it says a lot about a company when they do so, esp a trillion dollar co that positions itself as 'morally righteous'
Populism is structurally incapable of solving problems.
When the only animating principle is appealing to voters' worst impulses — not honesty about tough trade-offs, not leading voters toward real solutions — populists will always make things worse.
And the cycle will repeat.
McConnell has been admitted to the hospital for 3 weeks, without any explanation. Another congressman has vanished for months.
Our country deserves not to be a dysfunctional gerontocracy. We need a legally binding health disclosure law & a mandatory retirement age for Congress.