If I had to fight off booty warriors for 2 years I'd become Yujiro Hanma

"actually, my side made it illegal to collect data on this, which is how you know we're right about it"

Alexa play Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy by Tchaikovsky

if we bring back house parties people will fall in love again

If you understand why people tolerate and even defend pit bulls, you understand a lot of why the country is the way it is really the perfect analogy

Capitalism is when you have to go to school and then get a job and go on vacations, eventually dying Unlike my better system in which there are no bedtimes and you live forever

For a woman who claims to like compressed packages why does she seem so unimpressed?

People will tell you “HRT is reversible” when this is what awaits you

"it's called being a decent fucking human being" - most hostile unpleasant person you've ever seen

Almost every judge I’ve identified as being involved in the rapid prosecution and incarceration of individuals who participated in the Southport riots has a history of letting convicted pedophiles walk free with no jail time. 🌞 A short thread on "two-tier" justice:

I shipped an essay yesterday about how relatively smart people are oblivious about what life on the low end of the IQ distribution is like. It mentioned UBI because what stimulated me to write it was somebody else's thread about a recent study of UBI. I should have expected what happened next. Lots of clever people tried to come up with clever ways to fix UBI's failure modes by time-structuring the payouts, or erecting restrictions on what the money can be used for. I was gobsmacked that only one person in the entire thread pointed out the obvious: if you try to trickle payments so that UBI recipients can't overspend, all you will do is create a market niche for shady characters peddling predatory payday loans. At which point your clients will revert to their careless high-velocity spending, after the shady characters have taken a rake off the top. I waited in vain for somebody to point out that we already know what happens when you try to put use restrictions on transfer payments. There's plenty of experience about this around EBT cards - people spin up informal markets in which they can sell the planner-approved goods they don't want for money to buy the disapproved goods they do want. They don't mind that they're usually taking a huge nominal loss on these transactions, because they want what they want and not what planners think they should want. All such proposals are doomed. They're technocratic wankery, perfect examples of what Nassim Taleb calls "fragilista thinking". They illustrate another chronic failure mode of smart people. This post may look like it's about UBI, but it's really about that failure mode. All you would-be social engineers continually trip over your own blindness about second-order consequences. Especially the second order consequences that come from the fact that the people you are trying to help, or nudge, don't want what you want. They want what *they* want, and they don't care about your clever planning except to the extent they can exploit it to pursue their own desires.

Bro what happened lmao

I love when the men v women sports argument resurges, because there’s always some guy proudly arguing “why am I such a huge pussy then?”

Never related to a post about immortality more. 😭

Remember, 1 month ago it was disinformation to say there was something wrong with Biden's health

5 bar days

everyone in business knows this is how it is

The only people who don't want to be anonymous online are attention whores who deserve everything that happens to them

Liberals: “IF TRUMP GETS ELECTED, HE’S GONNA INVOKE PROJECT 2025! REEEEEEEEEEEEE!” Trump: “No, I’m not. Everything you need to see is right on my website. Liberals: “YES YOU ARE! REEEEEEEEEEEE!” Trump: “Like, seriously. I’m not. I’ll even go on record to say I’m not. I was also, literally, the President. I didn’t invoke any of that when I could have.” Liberals: “REEEEEEEEEEEEEE!” Trump: “See, this is why you all are crazy.”