Vik Jindal

Seeker of wisdom. Speaker of truth. Purveyor of endless flow.

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I love this explanation. Intuition should never be underestimated. It’s a feeling. Some might say a good feeling.

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@Daractenus The Easter bunny looking very uncomfortable

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@kofinas @Citrini7 @alapshah1 Absolutely. Also, it’s just an article.

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@Poison_2_ @Huanusa That whole class was incredibly valuable

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@TonySneedprano Where is Spider-Man when you need him?

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@thesohom2 Thanks!

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I’m going to explain to you why things are going to get a lot worse/weird, but also that Trump is closer to the swan song of his power. It’s what I call the “jumping the shark” theory.

If you’re not familiar with the term, it comes from the show Happy Days. At one point, the show was very popular. But over time, the show’s popularity began to wane. As a result, they began to do increasingly desperate things to keep people watching the show - like when they had one of the main characters in the show, Fonzie, literally jump a shark tank on jet skis in his leather jacket. It was absurd. Hence, critics called this “jumping the shark”. It marks the point when someone starts doing stunts or gimmicks to capture attention and it usually corresponds to a decline in said attention.

Trump is in his jumping the shark phase. When he was elected in 2016. He triggered a lot of people with what he said and did. These days, even as he does more, the emotional charge is actually less. You can feel it. People aren’t glued to the news anymore. We’re sort of bored of the schtick. Thus, he is doing increasingly bizarre and rash things in order to “trigger” people.

Why? Trump needs emotional attention. A big part of his power in politics comes from it. His people love him, but ask yourself this. If the left didn’t hate him as much as they did, would the right love him as much as they do? Probably not. The right love that he triggers the left. In some sense, the angry attention of the left is the furnace that gives his whole political apparatus power. And he knows this. So, in order to keep the emotional attention, he has to do crazier and crazier things. But the problem is, there’s a small bounce in the ratings, and then we go back to being “over it”. He just doesn’t do it for us anymore.

The interesting thing about the jumping the shark moment is that it’s a telltale sign that we’re closer to the end than the beginning. But it also marks that things are going to get exponentially weird until we all (including political right) have had enough of it. He’s quickly approaching the eye roll phase of his presidency (think Game of Thrones final season bad).

What comes after that is anyone’s guess.

[Department of State @StateDept]

The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.

The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:

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Jumping the shark theory in full effect.

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I’m going to explain to you why things are going to get a lot worse/weird, but also that Trump is closer to the swan song of his power. It’s what I call the “jumping the shark” theory.

If you’re not familiar with the term, it comes from the show Happy Days. At one point, the show was very popular. But over time, the show’s popularity began to wane. As a result, they began to do increasingly desperate things to keep people watching the show - like when they had one of the main characters in the show, Fonzie, literally jump a shark tank on jet skis in his leather jacket. It was absurd. Hence, critics called this “jumping the shark”. It marks the point when someone starts doing stunts or gimmicks to capture attention and it usually corresponds to a decline in said attention.

Trump is in his jumping the shark phase. When he was elected in 2016. He triggered a lot of people with what he said and did. These days, even as he does more, the emotional charge is actually less. You can feel it. People aren’t glued to the news anymore. We’re sort of bored of the schtick. Thus, he is doing increasingly bizarre and rash things in order to “trigger” people.

Why? Trump needs emotional attention. A big part of his power in politics comes from it. His people love him, but ask yourself this. If the left didn’t hate him as much as they did, would the right love him as much as they do? Probably not. The right love that he triggers the left. In some sense, the angry attention of the left is the furnace that gives his whole political apparatus power. And he knows this. So, in order to keep the emotional attention, he has to do crazier and crazier things. But the problem is, there’s a small bounce in the ratings, and then we go back to being “over it”. He just doesn’t do it for us anymore.

The interesting thing about the jumping the shark moment is that it’s a telltale sign that we’re closer to the end than the beginning. But it also marks that things are going to get exponentially weird until we all (including political right) have had enough of it. He’s quickly approaching the eye roll phase of his presidency (think Game of Thrones final season bad).

What comes after that is anyone’s guess.

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@elonmusk is it possible for each user to design their own algorithm? In other words, we tell the x system in plain English the kind of content we want to see and the kind of content we don’t want to see, and the system interprets that and modifies our filter accordingly.

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@eevblog Field of Dreams

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@aubreystrobel It’s pretty much the worst.

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@JustAnAISWE @emilyinvc Underappreciated comment

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The guy is a class act.

[Jeff Park @dgt10011]

Buffet's few final thoughts in his final letter-

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@JDVance Do you think your wife hopes you’ll convert to Hinduism? Would it bother you that she hopes your faith is so weak that you’ll see her point of view?

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@scottmelker This is the whole point of the grift.

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@Teslaconomics I’d bet that Warren considers Elon completely uninvestable as a person. And he is comfortable missing something like that.

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@3x_QQQ @saylordocs I was being facetious. I’m not involved.

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@MakeGoldGreat That’s pretty funny.

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@TaviCosta And the fundamental difference between this JPEG and your pet rock is what exactly?