Kathryn

Probably drinking coffee somewhere

[scott 🌞 @scottdomes]

it’s a bit ridiculous to say “the time you spend scrolling could be spent building a business/writing a novel/reading the classics”. sometimes that’s true but usually scrolling happens as a result of cognitive fatigue, and the idea that you can just “swap in” another intellectually demanding task means you’re treating your body/mind as a machine

a better approach would be “the time you spend scrolling could be spent taking a stroll/napping/staring out the window/having a meandering conversation with a friend”. that’s both more palatable and probably what we’re actually craving when we reach for our phone: a brief break from the demands of life, and a time to let our mind relax

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

It’s interesting how mid-level films from the 1990-2010s suddenly seem like masterpieces.

[BroBro🇦🇺🏇🏻 @realRick_AUS]

Government: who radicalised you?

Me: you did. You take half my money and bring in millions of migrants who hate me and then give my money to them.

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

The idea that enforcing the law is racist...because minorities break the law more...and that must be due to racism...may be the stupidest "crit" idea.

[space cadet 🇪🇺🌐🇩🇪 @actsmaniac]

no idea why socialists get so morally superior and righteous when socialism has literally not worked even once

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

Older Conservatives have no idea that this is what every single Right-wing Millennial and Zoomer experience when they interact with anyone of a similar age to them on the Left.

We don’t see Leftists as union members, college professors, or Hollywood directors. We see them in the same way Mystery Grove described them.

They hate us. They want the worst for us. They have broadcast their intentions to hurt us for years, and there is no universe where we will ever allow these people to inflict their sadistic fantasies upon us without a fight.

[Leila Hormozi @LeilaHormozi]

It sounds cliche, but every unsuccessful person I know believes the world is rigged against them. Every successful person I know understands life doesn’t fight fair and decides to win anyway.

[Viv 🪩 @battleangelviv]

i think the uncomfortable truth is that europe is able to prioritize “work life balance” and promote a slower lifestyle because other countries (like the US) are doing the heavy lifting when it comes to creating and scaling new technology and in turn, enabling prosperity

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Scott Jennings: "If I can’t trust you not to put a boy in a teenage girl’s locker room, how will I ever listen to your plan for taxes and the economy? ... I will not, because I’ve already concluded you’re a lunatic."

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

important not to judge an entire religion based on *checks notes* 1500 years of history and the actual teachings of its prophet

[Grace Chong, MBI @gc22gc]

Dillon: Is the goal really that Americans compete with the entire world for jobs in their own country? That’s one of the most psychotic ideas I’ve ever heard, and it only makes sense if you’re part of the asset owning class paying cheaper labor to service what you own.

[💫 @wexlervgoodman]

the concept of a random scene of a woman digging around a recycling dumpster in albuquerque being more vibrant and visually striking than jon m chu’s modern interpretation of one of the most colorful films ever made

["D." Fool @FoolOfD]

Literally everything from Black Friday sales to Amtrak riders is at a "record high" because you have 100,000,000 new neighbors nobody bothered to tell you about.

[Marko Jukic @mmjukic]

"Boomers designed the system to collapse around 2030-2034, right as they didn't need it anymore."

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Wrap your head around this…

The Democrats that told us illegals were not receiving SNAP benefits are now suing the Trump Administration for cutting off SNAP benefits for illegals.

[Katherine Boyle @KTmBoyle]

Never forget if mothers asked their pediatricians questions about the studies showing risk of myocarditis in children before 2025 you were routinely called a nutjob.

We need to get used to societal distrust of most experts and institutions. It will take generations to rebuild.

[bumbadum @bumbadum14]

“Hey I know we imported 100 million people so you can’t get a job, made your degree worthless, made housing unaffordable, and steal 30% of your paycheck to pay for our retirement. But stop getting mad. The victim act is getting old”

[Mason @webdevMason]

"You can't just pop a tent up on a public sidewalk and live there" is like the most basic and reasonable policy imaginable

[rachael 💫 @witty_genstein]

I do not believe the fertility crisis is, at its core, about economic factors.

Out of my 20 or so closest friends from Harvard, only two of us have kids at 30. These are all people in top 1-5% of income for their age bracket, extremely privileged wrt job security.

They aren’t having kids, and it’s not because they are worried they can’t afford them. They are simply doing other things. They are traveling Europe, or flying to Vegas to see concerts, or focusing on their careers/personal interests/hobbies. They have too much they want to do “before kids”, so they are waiting.

A lot of people in my peer group stuck in a kind of statis, trying to extend their 20s infinitely. “Millennials think they are still teenagers,” as Logo puts it.

So I see the fertility crisis as more of a spiritual issue. People lack the desire to start families. And why would they when way, way more cultural weight is placed on things like personal growth and career achievement and “having fun”. It’s not high status to be a parent, in the way becoming a founder or a doctor or earning a PhD is.

Economic uncertainty has always and will always exist. That’s not going to be what raises fertility rates.

Fertility rates will go up when raising children becomes the default first priority, not a second or third priority that you “get to” after a bunch of personal achievements. This requires a fundamentally different cultural narrative that reorients people around a project that is bigger than themselves.