oh and

sometimes it's worth to let people be wrong on the internet, especially likely so if it means the space you'd be proving yourself correct in wouldn't be full with 1700 messages from all parties involved rigorously proving themselves Right

I try to apply a three replies rule, as someone who has a bad habit of getting into stupid online arguments. If, by my third reply, they're still completely unwilling to even see another perspective, I drop it. It's not worth your time, it's not worth theirs, and it's not gonna be worth the time of whoever might be reading.

Honestly, these days it's a two reply rule, more often than not

Dog this could be a bingo sheet for us

Anyway, if anyone needs some good news right now: This year has been the most successful kakapo (critically endangered flightless parrot) mating season on record

How many tech bros do you think are actually "libertarian right" as compared to those who just posture that way because that particular brand of "libertarianism" makes good useful idiots?

My current working theory is that most of that sort actually do believe in that sort of thing, and just haven't really examined why they're pretty okay with what the government in practice so long as it doesn't affect their business

Yes, this post was inspired by me thinking about Durov

I say this completely unironically: learn about spiking trees rn

Trump lashes out at Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones in a long Truth Social post:

They have one thing in common — low IQs.

They’re stupid people… everyone knows it.

Look, I don't normally believe that reposting Trump tweets is a good use of my (or anyone's) time, but sweet mother of all crashouts lmao

"All you had to do was pay us enough to live"