Nathan Smith

Methodically and carefully irresponsible | I sell lumber | Actual real life certified forklift operator | TTU BBA Alum | @jordansmith0_ |

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Obsession's director has responded after the art director said she earned less than $7,000, while the movie made nearly $300 million

He said the crew "deserve to be recognized" but that those who take financial risks are rewarded the most

[Ethan Brooks @alt_w_v_g]

Tried to log into my bank this morning

Not a new bank. My bank. The one that has my money

First it wanted my password

Wrong

Tried the other one

Wrong

Reset it

"New password cannot match any of your last 24 passwords"

That is every password I have ever used

Created a new one that I will forget next week

Then it said "please verify you are human"

I am human

I have a mortgage

I paid $52.18 for bread, milk, and eggs last week

Only a human would do that

But the bank was not convinced

"Select all squares with traffic lights"

Nine squares

Three had traffic lights

One had the edge of a traffic light pole

Maybe two pixels of yellow paint

Stared at it for a full minute

Selected it

Wrong

"Select all squares with stairs"

Two squares had stairs

One had a ramp

Is a ramp stairs

A ramp is the opposite of stairs

I selected the two obvious ones

Wrong

It wanted the ramp

I am a CFO

I've fired people with more due process than this

But I cannot pass a test designed to keep bots out of my own checking account

"Click and hold until the image stops moving"

A jigsaw puzzle piece floated across the screen

Held it

"Verification failed"

Held it for thirteen seconds

My finger cramped

"Success"

Then a new screen

"Your account has been locked due to suspicious activity"

The suspicious activity was me

Trying to access my own account

Called customer service

The phone menu had ten options

None of them were "your website thinks I am a robot"

Thirty-seven minutes on hold

The same fourteen seconds of smooth jazz

Looping

Every ninety seconds a voice told me my call was important

It did not sound important

Finally a man answered

"Thank you for holding, my name is John"

That man's name was not John

We both knew it

I did not press the issue

John asked for my mother's maiden name, my first pet, and the street I grew up on

He unlocked the account in forty seconds

Forty seconds

The bank trusts John more than me

And John does not exist

Final tally

Nineteen minutes of captchas

Thirty-seven minutes of smooth jazz

One man who was not named John

To access money that is mine

At an institution that emails me every single day asking if I want a home equity line of credit

My wife walked in

She said "what are you doing"

I said "proving to a computer that I'm not a computer"

She said "are you winning"

I said "I just spent an hour deciding if a ramp is stairs"

She said "that sounds like something a computer would do"

She wasn't wrong

She usually isn't

Plz fix. Thx.

Sent from my iPhone

[Gene Parmesan @dsonoiki]

this attitude explains a lot of the Bernie style attitudes towards wealth

they simply do not understand the concept of risk

these folks wouldn’t agree to ONLY get paid if the movie makes a profit

they wouldn’t agree to some sort of clawback where they have to pay back some of their income if the movie flops

producers put capital at risk and it paid off

these same producers will make other movies and some of those movies will lose money or barely turn a profit

that said, it would be a nice gesture to pay a bonus of sorts like how Taylor Swift paid bonuses to her tour staff

but we can’t all be expected to be Taylor Swift

there’s only one Taylor Swift

[The Critical Drinker @TheCriticalDri2]

And she'll get 100 times as much for her next movie. That's how career progression works.

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

He literally deserves worse. Ned got swatted to the point that he knows the cops

[frostzy @lmkifiwin]

> be Bowie Knife99
> just a guy with an Xbox
> buy Forza Horizon 6 on launch day
> drive like you always do - like a lunatic
> ram, swerve, and pit-maneuver strangers into walls
> the Drivatar system silently records every felony
> uploads an AI clone of your driving to the cloud
> deploys hundreds of you into other people's races, 24/7
> within days, thousands cry about you on Reddit, X, and Steam
> the community calls you "the Herobrine of Forza"
> official Xbox UK tweets "Happy Bank Holiday Monday to everyone except bowie knife99"
> a fan opens a fake X account in your name to taunt your victims

thousands of players are at war with hundreds of clones of you. you don't know any of this is happening. happy bank holiday.

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

The same person who helped block the Jetblue and Spirit M&A is now complaining about fewer choices for consumers

You literally cannot make this up

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

NASA Artemis passing close to the Moon

[FreeElChapo @cloutpriest]

Billy, this is Tiger Woods. He has amassed 15 major championships, is tied for the most PGA Tour wins, and has spent over a dozen years as the world’s number one golfer. His only defect is he cannot operate a motor vehicle.

[Grant Tremblay @astrogrant]

Some dude just … has a Saturn V interstage ring on a Gainesville property he bought and he doesn’t know how it got there

[Rock Solid @ShitpostRock]

This is a 15 year old game btw

[mads 🐞 | NOAH KAHAN 39 DAYS @dubsinfive]

there you have it folks. oklahoma does, in fact, have snow plows. they even have names.

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

This Don Lemon clip from October is an all-timer.

Don attempts to lecture two people on the street in Chicago that crossing the border illegally isn’t a crime.

And gets absolutely destroyed.

After being thoroughly humiliated, confounded and confused, he declares: “You guys are getting things mixed up!"

Brutal. 🤣

[A Gene Robinson @AlBuffalo2nite]

A grown adult blocks traffic in a luxury SUV, gets corrected by a citizen, escalates instead of complying, exits the vehicle, invades personal space, attempts to seize someone else’s property, and then discovers that actions still have consequences. That is the sequence. No mythology required.

This is the defining pathology of modern white liberal entitlement. Rules are for everyone else. Correction is treated as oppression. Personal accountability is replaced with performance outrage. The moment resistance appears, they collapse into shock because the world did not yield to their arrogance.

Bear spray is not the story. The story is escalation. The story is boundary violation. The story is a person who believed status insulated them from consequence and learned otherwise in real time.

That reaction you are laughing at is not cruelty… it is recognition. Recognition that the script failed. Recognition that reality does not negotiate with entitlement. Recognition that society only functions when boundaries are respected.

If you block a street, get corrected, assault someone by trying to take their phone, and ignore every off ramp offered to de escalate… the outcome is self selected. @libsoftiktok @EndWokeness

No victim narrative survives a clear timeline.

#SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

She is 100% correct.

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

Like this?

[Gain of Fauci @DschlopesIsBack]

Asking the interview to be “aired in full” is the exact definition of being transparent.

[Slazac 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐 @TrueSlazac]

Who remembers the r/antiwork Fox News interview that singlehandedly ended the entire subreddit

[EducatëdHillbilly™ @RobProvince]

“Papers please”

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Sanders: "[Elon Musk] spent $270M to elect Trump as president. I think that’s absurd that any one person [can do that]."

Rogan: "What's the most someone donated towards the Harris campaign?... They spent $1.5B just in the course of a couple of months."