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Exactly what you'd expect from someone who was in a polycule with Ayn Rand.

AI is so overfunded there's >$1 trillion in circular deals, the capital is used to manufacture revenue. Nuclear energy is a proven loser, no real breakthroughs in decades and the LCOE keeps going up. This is a smash-and-grab, a couple oligarchs get the money while the rest of us get cancer.

Pretty cool how Trump has already baked corruption into the Federal Reserve. There's no policy reason why you'd want the Fed to keep everybody on their toes, but it unsettles swap markets and so makes having insider information far more lucrative.

I believe that episode is the one with the delightful sequence that begins with "are you with us?"

Just speaking my personal opinion, but: I think nurses are good, and I think it's bad when the government murders nurses. Just my $0.02, maybe some people disagree.

I've mentioned this before, but one reason Navarro, a talentless hack and liar, hates the Canadians is because they are extremely skilled and technically orientated trade negotiators and he keeps getting outplayed by them in any actual detail-orientated agreement.

Oh no this was literally "the Art of buying Fish," here's a reference to it where he recommends loudly disparaging their fish until they have no customers, and then you can buy it on the cheap. Total asshole! www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6...

it does actually sound like taylor farms and the white house teamed up to try and blame taco bell for the outbreak. unprecedented corruption

We don't talk enough about The Lost Rubbish of Alexandria. Demetrius's 30 tiresome books on 60 lines from Homer. Didymus' made-up gossip about dead poets. ("Ought to be unlearned," wrote Seneca.) Nicander's remedies that did more harm than good. Lynceus' guide to annoying fishmongers. Mid or worse.

I have more baroque and painful punishments in mind for those vultures.

I propose a new law: Every politician, PAC, SuperPAC, whatever, and all of their staff/employees, must receive on their personal phone, with a push notification, every single fundraising text they send out. The texts must also be sent to the personal phones of their family and friends.

Part of what's bizarre about this situation is how many small-and-mid-sized businesses despise it too. If you're not big enough to dump health insurance on a legal department and find creepy cost arbitrage wins, then it's basically one big paperwork nightmare and persistent large monthly expense.

No, but last year it did self-identify as "MechaHitler"

TSLA reports earnings today, so I asked several AI models to evaluate it as an investment. GPT Sol: looks butt Kimi K3: ass Fable: ce n'est pas un investissement, c'est un derrière Grok: (((They))) have always been conspiring against Elon Musk, a singular genius of our time. [Word Count: 14]

This is still one of my favorites: "oh, so you're comparing your product to the extremely expensive weapon of genocide the villains built using forced labor which included (as a deliberate act of sabotage by one of those laborers) a fatal flaw that allowed the heroes to obliterate it?"

Seriously. Nolan's version is *more* linear: e.g., the foot-washing/scar flashes back only to the injury, and not all the way back to Odysseus's freaking birth, and Nolan left out the extensive flashback history of Odysseus's bow.

Agreed, and it's so deeply wired that right-wingers are incapable of understanding culture outside of narrow political utility/grievance. They literally can't perceive The Odyssey, or Sinners, or Bad Bunny at half-time as artistic works, they graft their malicious politics onto it and they're done.

The Odyssey is a nice example of the problem with every effort to "understand" Trumpers. There's nothing to "understand" here: this man has no idea what happens in Homer's epic, he's an arrogant dimwit with a made-up version in his head that he uses as an excuse to be weird and racist. That's it.

This dude never had much intellectual firepower but now he's just a dolt. "Broadly shared economic growth" is an abstraction that hasn't happened in his lifetime and won't happen under any policy he advocates, while "affordability" is an essential part of how people actually experience the economy.