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dazed and confused.

[👻 @hightierchxd]

i like to think that much as a father can derive joy from his child eating a meal of which he didn't partake, God finds joy in watching His children sleep, even though He can't.

[Marc Thiessen @marcthiessen]

Not only is @VP JD Vance still refusing to say what Trump said he should have — that Trump made the right decision to disarm Iran — he’s leaning into his opposition to Trump’s national security decision making as a deliberate part of his strategy to succeed Trump — with Vance insiders telling Playbook that “he not only has the moral high ground but also the wildly more popular position.” The disloyalty is just stunning.

https://t.co/D4dLgK91q1

[James @MKUltraMoney]

Whenever I point out how cheap something is in Japan compared to America everyone goes “yeah but their wages are much lower!”

Sure, but in Japan everyone can afford to go out to eat every night because it’s so cheap, people go out drinking multiple nights a week because it’s so cheap, airport beers are the equivalent of $1.50 and they consider that a scam.

Meanwhile in America no one goes out to eat anymore, no one goes out to bars anymore, and an airport beer is equivalent to minimum wage (plus tip!)

Sure we have more buying power *IF* we leave America, but comparing cost of living and wages in America vs Japan if you only spend inside your own country? Japan has us so beat it’s not even funny.

[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

I remember when I first learned that a high ranking engineer at google I knew wouldn’t turn on the heat in his studio apartment in the winter because power is so expensive. Meanwhile, Oklahoma plumbers live in 4br new houses with an acre of land that are 70 degrees year-round.

[psicologa do jesse pinkman @natofalho]

nunca veria esse gif se nao fosse pelo meu vício em telas

[Gaz 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @GazWiIIiams]

Slovenia producing handanovic at the same time as oblak is objectively hilarious

[Arc Madder❌ #410 @ArcMadder]

Being a black man with an IQ over 130 and forced to interact with median blacks has to be an absolute living hell.

[Dr Charlie Ward @DrcharlieWardQ]

BREAKING 🚨: Kmele Foster: “It's one thing to not think capitalism isn't working, ideally. It's another thing entirely to insist that it is oppressive, that it is bound up with white supremacy.”

Jemele Hill: “How is it not?”

Kmele Foster: “I've always preferred Adam Smith's description of capitalism as the natural system of liberty. The idea that people can own property, that they can exchange it freely with one another for profit, that they can find ways to put their resources to good use and profit in a way that is actually beneficial to everyone else, that there can be gains from trade that are mutually beneficial. These are foundational ideas that have created more wealth than any other system in human history. That is what capitalism is. That is not white supremacy.”

Jemele Hill: “Do you think capitalism has always worked that way?”

Kmele Foster: “I’ve actually just described the basic facts of the economics.”

Hill: “That ain't how it's always worked.”

Kmele Foster: “Slavery is an institution that is older than writing. It predates capitalism. The notion that white supremacy and all these other things are bound up with capitalism in an intrinsic and fundamental way is so absurd and laughable, it barely needs to be defended.”

Jemele Hill: “How was it absurd?”

Kmele Foster: “It barely needs to be defended.”

Jemele Hill: “What do you mean it barely needs to be defended?”

Kmele Foster: “You actually have to articulate what the connections is. How are these two things the same? I'm talking about private property, the right to exchange and sell with whomever you like. What does that have to do with white supremacy?… What is the white supremacy dynamic of private property?”

[Legion Hoops @LegionHoops]

TJ McConnell’s teammates made him sit back down after he got up by himself with no help 💀

[👻 @hightierchxd]

@thesoggyblanket says the wet blanket.

[jacob @thesoggyblanket]

you know art can be funny right like it doesn’t always have to be something deep

[👻 @hightierchxd]

@yadinsoffer 💟

[Yadin Soffer @yadinsoffer]

Ha I love this.

When we started looking at the Hamas tunnel problem we tried every possible solution. The military even got the insane wheeled unitree in a tunnel. Humanoids unfortunately were not a fitting form factor due in one part to the unpredictability of the tunnels and another the lack of tunnel training data for them to be able to balance themselves, breach, and manuever. Image models fail to classify “collapsed slab of concrete mixed with pile of dirt” so autonomy breaks. Maybe world models will figure it out.

We even trained our own models based on proprietary and public tunnel footage. Ultimately humanoids were just not the right fit for the task at hand so we landed on the mini excavator for factor.

Nevertheless rooting for these guys and hoping we see some autonomy in the tunnels because it’s a death trap and a horror no human soldier should endure (Dario may argue no AI should endure it either but that’s another story)

Pictured: me in a Hamas tunnel frustrated from the unknown unknowns

[Jane @janecuts]

$200 for the best 15-30 second edit using our logo

Theme: Weird, Dream-like, Digital Nature (the photos attached after our logo will give you a better feel of the vibe)

Doesn’t have to relate to anything we do as a company just has to look and sound good

[they call me Pencils @CindySinor]

To the negative commenters here’s some clarification. The average adult (much less kid) could not produce a drawing like this with a tutorial, tracing or otherwise. I've taught many adult students, leading them step by step, demonstrating, and giving feedback. The vast majority would still struggle with this exercise. The point of this post is not that he’s royalty (I couldn’t care less) but that a young person produced an impressive colored pencil drawing. All artists go through a learning process and that doesn’t detract from the art itself. Tutorials, classes, whatever, how else do you learn? In my professional opinion, he has exceptional ability for his age and that should be encouraged.

[InvestorFromEurope @TheDealMakerGuy]

For once someone abroad got her name right

[Nietzsche’s Retarded Stallion (NRS) @TheUgliest_Man]

This feels a little insincere, but I’ll bite.

I don’t want to retype all the stats that most people have probably seen by this point so I will simply rehash the following: any post-election political “analysis” that does not first and foremost address the statical shocks and anomalies that make this midterm election the strangest in my lifetime and maybe in American history has already disqualified itself. Dismissing it as saying “yeah well the GOP did fine compared to recent years but the Dems showed up like it was a presidential year” and leaves it at that is immediately and overwhelmingly disqualifying.

If Republicans voted for in a midterm like that, we would take California. If we took California — and even if it was *just* California — you and Dems alike would be asking questions that seem a lot more absurd and detached from reality or “sensible commentary” than the ones people like me are asking right now.

So, Republicans broke a lot of records and lost seats they have not lost (prior to this election) yet this century, in almost a whole century, or some in even over a century. Furthermore, House seats of incumbents over time have about a 98% reelection rate and senators are about 92%. Yet we lost an absolutely shocking and I mean shocking amount of 3-6x incumbent seats that two years ago went red by 10-20 or and still got slaughtered without data showing Republicans defecting in unusual numbers.

Furthermore, Republicans broke a lot of records for most votes for a race in state history. In many cases, even if they did not get those records they still got enough votes to win any prior race in their states history, and yet still got slaughtered.

Continuing, Dems have gotten more votes than most Presidential candidates this century and are even close to getting more votes than Obama did in 08’ when he broke a record for most votes for a candidate in US history — a record not broken again until… 2020. And all of this in a midterm?

I can just keep going and going but you get the point.

All political “analysis” — which is really generous to call it that — focuses purely on **plausible** explanations and nothing more.

**This is not good enough!**

From a simple game theoretic approach, no matter where on earth your starting point was, none of this “strategizing” would make sense for even a second.

Where do you anticipate getting the extra 15-20mm votes from in 2 years? Where? And what if they break another record? In 2026 total Dem projections are approaching 2x the vote count that 2014 had. What is your plan for that perpetually rising ceiling for Dem votes?

If you don’t focus on Qtards, taking the election as being functionally fraudulent or stolen is far more brave, honest, and practical, where everyone pretending otherwise is trying to save face for being so wrong before and turning this into a reframing of how they were only temporarily disgraced but are still super serious and dignified and sensible in their disposition.

This is embarrassing and it is difficult to not hate everyone doing this.

So let me provide a brief breakdown for you:

The **nature** of our “democracy” is two-sided. There is the governing side and the winning of elections side. The governing side doesn’t really matter all that much right now because if we ever lose an election again we are functionally done for. So only as an input into the winning of election side is it really worth our primary focus.

And if you understand the election to be practically stolen you understand your existential battle is one of harvesting votes and manufacturing the infrastructure and safeguards around this more than it is about sensible speculation about which policy is going to get us 20-30mm to appear out of thin air in two years because the fucking high integrity geniuses on X put the magical string of words in their tweets together right.

So tell me, again, which one is more pragmatic?

The one that wants to desperately harvest votes or… debate Iran

[prydwon @bitukyy]

preciso ver esse gif todo dia acho muito funcional pra batalha contra o vicio em tela

[🐍 Ƥşץ𝕔𝔥𝕠pomp_Đ𝔦o̷͝ηуรǗ丂 ඏ @Read_Acted]

Trump finished the wall btw, just FYI, just if you’re curious or whatever

IF YOU EVEN CARE

[Andrew Quinn @hiAndrewQuinn]

i have a friend i admire greatly for his ability to enact sustained, self-directed change over time (not re/ the changes themselves, some are real flubs)

i asked him about it once; he said he has perfected the art of being "merely aesthetically repulsed" by himself

[Try Not To @ Me @UsingLyft]

The sooner black Americans realize white people are the only other group of people who care about them, the better. Unfortunately, many are walking around truly believing white people generally hate them simply for being black