Oil prices hitting a localized maximum, so no surprise Dubai wants to move more of it more quickly. Also, the war has wrecked hell on their tourism economy, so they’re probably staring down some ugly long-term financial projections.

Amazed the rest of OPEC didn’t simply loosen production standards in response to the war. Now seems like as good a time as any.

Anyone who thinks doctors don’t fly Spirit, but can explain why they haven’t updated any of the magazines in the waiting room in twenty years, please speak up.

Voting is difficult so people have lots of excuses

Disenfranchisement is public policy, so people are prohibited from casting their votes.

I’m sorry, that’s just my instinctive response to the b-word.

Crazy to consider how much we spend on drug enforcement when the most expensive and destructive high you can buy right now is Polymarket Dailys.

You’ve obviously never been an addict.

Obviously.

You can absolutely hate a thing you’re using and feel like quitting isn’t possible.

I’ve been told I’m not an addict. I’ve been told social media is addictive. I’ve been told I’m on social media. I’m rattling around the contradictions.

Addicts can also love the thing and not feel like quitting, because the thing they’re addicted to gives them a feeling of empowerment or a release from anxiety.

Social media fulfills a craving for socializing that humans naturally desire. It offers to fulfill this natural desire through a low-cost, easy-access interface. And it feeds this craving continuously, often artificially through synthetic interactions with no real counterparty. And it does so with the goal of influencing the audience’s understanding of the world and consumption habits, two things humans also natively seek.

Talking about social media like an addiction misses the core drive towards its adoptions and proliferation. You might as well say you’re addicted to food and air as to say you’re addicted to text and video. These are sensory stimulations everyone is always pining for, whether or not a phone screen is the delivery mechanism.

The challenge people face isn’t the social media, it is the absence of non-social media as an alternative. We’re caged animals looking out the window and you’re complaining about “window addiction”.

I haven’t read a word of it, or even seen a preview, but after the opening tomorrow I’m going to turn in the worst review anybody has ever read. And I’m going to close your play. Would you like to know why? Because I hate you. And everyone you represent. Entitled. Spoiled. Selfish. Children. Blissfully untrained, unversed and unprepared to even attempt real art. Handing each other awards for cartoons and pornography. Measuring your worth in weekends Well, this is the theater, and you don’t get to come in here and pretend you can write, direct and act in your own propaganda piece without going through me first. So, break a leg.

How is this not reposted on LeopardsEatingFaces yet? Real missed opportunity to get people angry at you.

Finding out the DNC has an unpaid intern working the Lemmy beat would be so fucking funny.

That the account moderates “A Boring Dystopia” carries levels of irony my mind can barely even grasp.

be hated

They aren’t hated. They have billions of users (and tens of billions of bot accounts) all rattling around trying to run this same influence model from within the various platforms.

In so far as everyone complains about everything constantly, they are a source of perpetual complaints. But the idea that people can spend hours of their lives on YouTube and then claim “I hate this”… No you don’t. You obviously don’t hate it. You love it. You love your slop.

You remind me of the guy who was trying to argue with Charlie Kirk a few months back.

Oh no. I’m so sorry. I’m the reason Trump Won Again, aren’t I?

he won’t put his finger on the scale of any primary

My brother, I have an amazing deal on a bridge if you’d just jump into my DMs really quick.

Thats why voting in Dem primaries is more important than ever.

If you see a candidate worth voting for then you should vote for them. But never forget that NYC has some of the most byzantine and restrictive voting laws in the country. Worse than Florida. Worse than Texas.

So save the finger-waging at The Voters and reconsider how much Wall Street machine politics keeps a stranglehold on the statewide offices, such that guys like Mamdani are far more the exception than the rule.

he made a specific point of praising a demented rapist and lauding the pedophile party as heroes

He made a point of praising a President’s pick for the Antitrust Division of the DOJ. He didn’t praise Trump and he certainly didn’t praise pedophilia.

Slater’s tenure at DOJ was short-lived and unremarkable. So feel free to mock Yen on those grounds. But this has dick all to do with Epstein. It has nothing to do with the bloated ICE budget (which received bipartisan approval) or the assorts nightmarish cabinet appointments, many of which enjoyed supermajority support in the Senate (Rub’em All Out Rubio was appointed unanimously ffs).

he jumped head first into the cesspit for no reason other than he believed it.

He’s a Tech Goon and Trump had a ton of Tech Goons on his team. These people aren’t partisan, they’re corporate lemmings. By 2028, I’m sure Yen will be lining up to brown nose the incoming Dem administration. By 2032, he’ll be back on Team R, shocked at how the party that did everything Tech wanted has betrayed his customers again. Oh, and incidentally, insisting that the only way to protect yourself from Mean Old Big Government is by upping your Proton License to Double Super Secure.

And so, even though our opinions on age verification coincidentally align, he can fuck right off.

He’s endorsing the poison so he can sell the antidote.

The proposed tax, which has drawn opposition from Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom

Yeah, he fucking sucks.

I gotta wonder how many current gubernatorial candidates support this thing. Presumably not Steve Hilton or Chad Bianco. Billionaire Self-Proclaimed Democrat Tom Steyer does not seem to be a fan, although he’s playing the mealy-mouthed “I don’t support it because it doesn’t go far enough” gambit. Idk about the rest. It’s California, so apparently everyone and their pet dog is currently running.

Older versions of him work. The newer versions tend to be Wizard in a Gundam.

Band T-shirts are sometimes — or even often — the highest quality T-shirts available.

Small local bands tend to source from local manufacturers and distributors. And as they consider their merch a form of advertising, it pays to invest in material that lasts.

But the bigger and more volume-based franchises tend to get their clothes from the same global production and distribution chains as every other Fast Fashion brand. Taylor Swift isn’t contracting with a dozen different local print shops per venue to fill an order big enough to saturate a stadium. She’s going to the same folks that sell to H&M and Zara.

The market can remain irrational far longer than the economy can remain solvent.