He’s trying to convince his very stupid followers this is a shutdown he started over transifa. They will overwhelmingly accept this.

Why do I have this gross feeling that in a couple months they’re going to announce they caved to the outrage the bot army and Trump have sewn by then

Best to substitute “Has historically not” when a Trump is on the throne

It’s because we allow property and the homes that sit on it to be a speculative market. We encourage it. The only way for property values to be high, well, it’s a supply and demand thing. If you glut the market with anything, you drive prices down. And people whose entire retirement is built on that won’t be having it, let alone the conglomerate owners…

China is trying to steer into the opposite with laws against it. Not sure how well that’s working, but they can acknowledge the issue at least.

Hey are there any straight guys here, who can answer, does this lady look compelling? Her eyes look like she needs an epi-pen 5 minutes ago, her grimacing-smile looks like someone is holding Natalie Portman hostage, and those photoshopped hands look like she’s being operated by Jim Henson. I don’t get how we like this now.

Apple Pie especially was bad for this, the first one was like “wow they nailed that!” and then 2-24 were like “what the fuck is this now”

As the death of the Internet becomes more obvious, new technologies will spring up to replace it with a decentralized, non-commercial version. Already seeing apps coming out, like BitChat, that don’t use the internet at all.

The only thing missing is manic laughter written in between sentences

He’s grabbing as much as he can for leverage, so he can trade back part of it for peace, but not all of it. Thus he still grows his empire despite having an army at its breaking point.

Steve Jobs figured it out, you just have guys parked outside the engineers’ homes, ready to kill their kids if the demo fails.

Oh I forgot the combo popcorn/sick bowl from childhood, a green Tupperware container. Thanks for that. I can still smell it.

Put that bad boy on the national mall so the park service can come destroy it in the night

Yeah kind of glossed over the part where he’s going to threaten to shorten people’s careers, which sounds a lot like firing?

Several countries already have them, Canada won’t extradite queer people back to the US.

Enough people have copies at this point I don’t think there’s much fucking with it. But I am also unconvinced it will result in anything meaningful.

I’ve been averse to trends like this, but I did get on Facebook and Insta this summer at the urging of some friends (I run a nonprofit so it’s useful to network). By last week I had both apps on my phone and was just numbscrolling through Insta videos. Realized my mental health had gone to absolute shit in weeks. Deleted the apps andI’m feeling myself again.

It really is dangerous what they’ve created, if I didn’t have ambition, I would be right there zombified.

My neighbor introduced himself and his wife to me, and he says “Maritza,” very flat, and I say, oh maRITza" with a little flourish and tongue roll and he’s like “no, Maritza.”

They’re both Mexican and her name is pronounced the full way with their extended families, so I think the point was, don’t accent up the word I just told you. And I haven’t since.

Sometimes my brain just trips on itself and I superposition both as being correct for whichever terminal I’m working with (throw MacOS in there too), I stare at it blankly for a few seconds before remembering the ultimate CLI tool, ↑

And just a few years ago China was basically waving off climate change by giving it lip service and then producing well over the emissions they were claiming, basically thumbing their nose at the entire global community. Now they want to play ball. Even if they didn’t come with a 30% reduction, this is a major step forward.

It’s a real thing, CEOs can get really anxious in their stalls at night, sometimes they will panic and cause the other CEOs to start panicking too. Someone has to go rub their legs and brush them out to calm them or they can hurt themselves.