one time a popsicle turned me bi

I think you’re the one who’s got it backwards. you think $174,000/yr isn’t enough to motivate the average Joe? you think someone making a million a year is gonna take an 83% pay cut if they can’t take bribes and do insider trading on the side? closing the loopholes and leaving ordinary pay as-is seems like a great way to get rich people out and ordinary people in

me reading LotR: such a shame that Denethor son of Ecthelion, Steward of Gondor, was driven to madness and despair by the misleading visions of the Palantír

me picking up my phone 5 seconds after waking up: alright, let’s see what fresh hell is going on in the world this morning

highest DUI rate of any manufacturer (or so I’ve heard)

Obama negotiated a deal where we could literally walk in and inspect their facilities capable of refining nuclear material at any time for the price of a plane ticket. the only reason there’s concern that they’re producing weapon-grade nuclear material is because Trump couldn’t handle the idea of a black man accomplishing something and wiped his ass with that agreement

apparently that’s what happened with Teddy Roosevelt. party leadership didn’t like him as the governor of New York because he was too progressive, so they “promoted” him to McKinley’s VP, a position where he would have less influence. but then someone shot McKinley, and suddenly Roosevelt had a lot of influence

ceci n’est pas une truck

yeah but then the people you’re talking to are 4chan users

maybe it means when you’re riding on a pedestrian path that crosses a street used by cars, you’re supposed to dismount and walk across. I think I remember being told as a kid that’s what you’re supposed to do, although it was never explained to me why that was supposed to be safer. I guess so that you slow down, so drivers are more likely to notice you’re there, instead of running you over and then saying “they came out of nowhere!”

me going from Swedish Satanic doom metal band Ordos to Hazel English

say you have 100 million dollars. you invest it very safely and conservatively and get a return of 5% per year. you now have a permanent income of 5 million a year, without doing anything to maintain it. 5 million a year is $13,700 per day.

if I were forced to try to spend on average $13,700 a day, I don’t know how I would do it without just giving most of it away. even after I’d satisfied my wildest fantasies there would be so much left over. to have that level of wealth and continue trying to get more should be treated as a mental illness

and that’s only 1% of 1%, i.e. one 10,000th, of a trillion dollars

everyone with a net worth over 100 million while others starve on the street is guilty of negligent homicide

I feel the same when I scroll past comments on porn sites and see people complaining that the actress has tattoos. why does that ruin it for you so much, bud?

yeah that’s not gonna happen. if it doesn’t happen on live TV they’re gonna cover it up until they can pull some kind of fuckery. there will be a handful of very specific bets on kalshi at the very least

yeah, I’ve had a job

a couple years ago basically this exact same story happened with Anne Hathaway. there was an interview in a British publication where she mentioned she was an arsenal fan and it was published with the headline “Anne Hathaway reveals she’s a secret gooner” which was received differently by audiences who are not familiar with British sports teams

the Anne Hathaway kind, or the to Anne Hathaway kind

me too, I was like, damn this guy had a really bad date at the roller rink

they keep talking about how it’s for ecological protection but never explain what one thing has to do with the other. how does limiting umbrellas protect the environment?

I don’t understand how anyone is still pushing coal. shifting to renewable energy sources has been a national conversation for decades at this point, anyone who was heavily invested in fossil fuels has had plenty of time to diversify into clean energy and come out ahead through the transition. I could understand twenty years ago someone saying “no, we can’t switch to solar, I only own coal mines, I’ll lose so much money!” (I don’t endorse it, I think people who think like that are morally disgusting and the world would be better without them, but I understand why that would motivate their opinion). but if they haven’t seen which way the wind is blowing and invested in wind in all that time, they deserve whatever they get