My culture isn’t like the others. When it’s warm and sunny, we get together with our friends and consume alcoholic beverages outside.

The real halvening happens every ~25 years

My common complaint about Hollywood movie-making circa now is that we have two dominant modes: brand maintenance tentpole movies that have HR-approved corporate soullessness, or weirdo auteur indie films about a director's private anxieties & fixations.

It’s genuinely shocking how useless Google is as a search engine now. You used to be able to find anything, no matter how old or obscure or hidden. Now it’s nearly impossible to even find something you read a week or two ago. Google now exists to make you ignorant.

maybe the real ai was the psychosis we developed along the way

zerohedge "bitcoin on the brink of (second) bailout for chancellor."

the “abundance” view of a post scarcity, post religious, open boarders and open trade westernized world feels like late soviet stuff. when you run out of ways to stop popular violence your only trade is to say everything is about to be different, they just need to hang on

“And this is why I have decided to dissolve Parliament in order that I should take the reins of My Government...”

If you are European and still haven’t grasped that the EU - both as a collective actor and through its individual members - has no real weight as a geopolitical actor on the global stage, then now is the moment to face this brutal truth. The EU has been completely sidelined in

give a man cocaine and he’ll overestimate himself for a couple hours, give him chatgpt and he’ll overestimate himself his whole life

americans measuring the unstoppable march of time through corporate branding changes is honestly perfect and charming, like japan choosing an era name from ancient chinese literature, or kiribati watching the tides rise

The farce is complete: more ESG funds are investing in nuclear weapons

Only in Britain could the state give pensioners such a significant uplift that they complain that the tax implications are apocalyptic

The whole grand achievement of military power, state capacity, and national development laboriously built up by the European fiscal-military state since 1500 is being consumed in a single generation by the gaping maw of Boomer-Soixante huitard entitlement.

Are you still a believer in UBI Because after summer of 2020 it's marginal right

Ender, that’s wasn’t just data labelling. that was a real Waymo fleet you were driving!!!

Not to mention totally shredding on the banjo

BOLD

What is it with Canada euthanising everyone?

We should consider turning Canterbury Cathedral into a big Wetherspoons. They know how to look after nice old buildings.