Idk, it seems worse that he’s self aware. Before it could be dumping these women because he gets some “ick” about them that he can’t explain. It turns out the ick is a deeply misogynistic fetishization of youth, but if he didn’t put any thought into it at least you could say he’s a toxic product of his culture.

If he’s aware of it then it’s something he could be working on and changing and he instead makes the active choice not to do anything about it.

Fire and brimstone follow my feet

Because I am a dark Lord who slayeth demons and angels.

Yeah, I don’t want to give him too much credit but it’s been clear that he is at least capable enough to actually lie to his audience while doing something else.

People believing he imposed these tariffs thinking that there would be no retaliation are also being lied to in the exact same way.

Trump has said that he’s very pleased with how the negotiations went. That means he thinks he got something out of his super epic tariff strat.

Believing that Trump wanted to impose tariffs with no expectation of retaliation and then being blindsided by the counter tariffs so he backed down is just naive. The plan was always to “negotiate”.

Literally me atm. Had some coffee left in the pot. 3:30 is way too late for lunch though.

Nostalgic for 2014 only because if I was out there with what I know now I would own life.

Not gonna listen to my 2034 self though, I don’t even know that guy.

Yeah, but what’s the point? Technically you can avoid all murder if you stay at home in your bathtub all day and never leave the house.

I mean the honest reaction is if someone wants to stay home to not get murdered. Fine, I couldn’t care less and it’s stupid for me to have an opinion on that, you live your life.

But it’s a sort of catch 22 that you’ll only go outside if you can be sure the figures won’t change significantly and the only way to see if the figures change is to try going outside.

I think the poaching was only mentioned cause it’s in vogue and it had to make the reader feel bougie.

I think your math is off. At 3$/dozen 2 eggs a day is 1doz/6 days 30/6 =5 5x3 = 15$/month

The reason it hurts when egg prices go up is because eggs were (and are still) some of the most cost-effective protein (especially as a whole protein) you can buy and eggs are in everything.

Keeping your money out of the AI grift was a good idea but doesn’t deep seek imply that powerful AI is coming even faster and cheaper than what was already being promised?

In theory they can, but when a trump backed federal government and law enforcement is breathing down their neck with implicit threats of court cases and funding cuts I wonder if a lot of places will want to do anything.

I keep telling my parole officer this but he won’t listen.

Yeah. No standard covers all use cases. It’s just best to have one standard that makes a lot of compromises.

I appreciate the history. But any conservative in America in the past 100 years, except for a small few loonies, would scoff at the idea that their movement supports the monarchy. People advocating for individual choice and less government intervention still think they’re doing that no matter how much it boils your britches.

Unless you think that language is static and unchanging and has no connection to modern colloquial usage.

If you think that conservatism still means supporting the monarchy, then go for it, and replace whatever word you think I mean with every instance of the word conservative in this thread. I’ll be talking about the people the thread is talking about and you’ll be talking about a very small smidgen of the population.

I mean, this is actually very demonstrative of exactly what I meant when I talked about it being a good check on my left wing bubble.

Old conservatism was people advocating for individual choice and less government intervention.

Misguided, sure, but a healthy check on expanding government into places it didn’t need to be and advocating for the “ideal” capitalism that drives competition and innovation.

For as long as it has existed conservatism has been poisoned by religion of and in the last 50 years it as a party line has descended into incoherence, but it’s interesting to see the best-faith arguments it has as a little contrast to my left wing bubble.

Does Elon musk go around telling people to keep their hair?

Like what?