None of the young Oxford and Cambridge grads who write everything for The Economist have ever known someone who does manual labor for a living.

80s and 90s era wargame art was awesome. It has glam, but also a hand drawn grittyness.

One of the biggest moments for me or realizing how propagandized westerners are is when I discovered how much improvement happened in the USSR and China under the “bad” leaders. These facts are not in dispute or being surpressed, but the western public is being effectively kept ignorant of them.

This is what they took from us

No way, I was taught that private equity brings reforms to distressed organizations resulting in higher efficiency and better outcomes for customers. Surely the invisible had will correct this obvious failure of the market

This just looks like a normal water jug. Am I missing something?

I use the little plastic clips that come with loafs. I keep a little stash of them on top of the fridge.

Take a deep breath, and repeat after me:

FUCK

GRIFFITH

It kind of makes sense now, I had the causation backwards. It’s not that people write like chatgpt, it’s that so much of the web’s content was written this way when chatgpt was trained.

It’s a combination of comfort and contrarianism.

And of course, then they immediately hide behind LGBT and women’s rights when someone says “hey, that sounds a little racist”

I’m beginning to think that the reason that Gorby and Krushchev are thought of more positively in the west than other Soviet Leaders is because they sucked.

Okay, then I won’t buy them.

I love my little server that I’ve been running for my friends since 2011. I keep literally every map we’ve ever had running on the multiverse, and it’s very nostalgic to go exploring and look at what people built years ago. A very cozy little legacy. Every couple of years we’ll get active again and work on some new project.

A trolly is heading down the tracks towards a philosopher. Do you pull the lever to redirect it?

Thought experiments are only useful if they’re actually plausible hypotheticals, otherwise it’s just a circle jerk.

Trump leans in to the mic, and says “physical challenge”

Host rolls out a giant banana

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