@mattyglesias.bsky.social I like your Politix podcast with @brianbeutler.bsky.social but was very disappointed to hear you use the word “r*tarded” in today’s show.
It’s a hurtful, crass word and I’m guessing you dislike the “scolds” who say so. But using it makes you sound like an edgy 12 year old.
i have absolutely fucking had it with 100% of all of this shit. gambling websites, lies, cryptocurrency, rampant corruption, lies, deep fakes, lies, plagiarism, devaluation of expertise, lies, bile, abuse, violence, bombs, genocides, lies, plutocrats, oligarchs, and lies. fucking enough. rules time
This is how gunners write the first week of law school
FSA CARD: Here’s a neat little account you can use to spend pretax dollars on your health :)
ALSO FSA CARD: Hold up, did you just spend $50 at a “dentist”? I don’t know what the HELL that is but I’m going to need six receipts and an affidavit
“We tried to make the reflecting pool Great Again but accidentally made it a toxic cesspool” is such a metaphor for their entire political project
As a point of comparison, it would cost around $40 billion to build a “space elevator” running from the ground into orbit.
www.askamathematician.com/2019/06/q-ho...
Build the space elevator tbh
Constantine on his deathbed
kalshi and polymarket should, flatly, be regulated out of existence
I'm generally not big on moral arguments for this stuff but they are tremendously destructive to civil society as a whole
