The economy is all vibes anyways so if enough rich people decide it’s time for a stock crash it’ll happen

The GOP is just as much a big tent as the Dems but there’s a bigger fraction of rabid hogs that can’t cooperate on anything but blocking actions, so we’ll see

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It originates with chapo trap house podcast iirc

It’s a dunk tank, as in basketball and as in an actual dunk tank, because it was a clever pun

No, there’s a significant amount of oil infrastructure locally. They’ve even got a colonialist extension with Canada: crude oil crosses over to be refined and sold back to Canada

There’s no accurate rabies tests except for brain biopsies

There is more urgency to find alternative revenue sources

What revenue, they’re a government

Gin specifically has a long and torrid history as the Drink That Brings Men Low, with propaganda pieces about the dangers of gin specifically, not alcohol generally. The UK Gin Craze was a full blown moral panic

At least AI is a nonstarter and we’ve reached the part of the bubble where they’re trying to cram it in everywhere possible to try and figure out a way to break even on the cost. AI is $600 billion in the hole

Good vapes don’t get hot enough to be harmful and don’t contain combustion products. Really good vapes have as little as possible besides the concentrate

Every time I’ve done shrooms I’ve been stuck awake for hours with my brain full of angry bees that won’t shut up

Same, it’s lost something important

Is that independent people hawking drop shipped garbage or is it people working in marketing more generally?

Technical aptitude is born of need. Of course this will limit most, but at least some will figure out bypasses.

It took 17 years for Gandalf to research the One Ring because Gondor’s archives aren’t using the Dewey Decimal System. Took like 40 to build Orthanc because the orcs, while vicious fighters, are also unionized and extremely strict when it comes to code violations. Don’t put your boiling oil next to the hot iron poker brazier, folks, that’s a fire hazard.

“We’re putting a moratorium on doing any space science with you, we will never cooperate.”

“Ok, we’ll make our own space station then. By the way, we just brought back some moon rocks from our moon return mission.”

“Oh cool! Please share them with us. We’re not making an exception to the moratorium and will not share whatever we learn with you. Fuck you.”

“Nah we’re not gonna do that.”

It’s always always always romaine lettuce. I don’t know if there’s any in any part of a McDonald’s burger but I know romaine is at fault somehow