Still not nearly as annoying as the French refusal to just say huitante or nonante. “93” is “Quadrupletwenty-thirteen?” Êtes-vous foutant défoncé??

If you had time travelled to tell me 20 years ago, right after seeing Kerry get swiftboated and W win a second term- where the US would be politically in 20 years’ time- my expression would not be one of shock. You’d get a frown, a nod, and a “yepppp… sounds about right.” In fact I even remember telling a friend at the time something like: “20 years from now, this country is going to be basically Russia.”

There’s a nearby Tesla dealership - less than a mile from the beach - and the Cybertrucks are just rusting on the lot. Apparently their steel is as stainless as their self-driving is full.

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Huh, interesting. I always figured the black smoke was because they burnt one cardinal every day they failed to come to a decision to motivate the rest.

Bets on how long before this dude records a collab track with Kanye?

Someone somewhere failed a CAPTCHA at that exact moment.

Teens have access to vastly more potent cannabis than their parents had at their age

Oh FFS. I’ve been hearing this same bullshit for the last 25 years and it’s still irrational Reefer Madness conservative fearmongering.

So what? If anything, more potent weed is less harmful because you are putting a smaller amount of burned plant material into your lungs to get the same effect.

It’s not like people just… consume one marijuana and however high that gets you, that’s what you’re going with today. No, you’re going to continue smoking until you get sufficiently stoned and then stop and put it out.

It doesn’t take long for anyone to figure out how high is too high and how much it takes to get there, and plan accordingly.

It might be a vape pen with 92% THC hash oil in it so you take a couple of sippy little puffs and get mildly buzzed and you’re fine with that. Or conversely you can pack up a handful of that leafy brown prohibition-era crap and do gravity bongs until you cough your lungs out, and get a lot higher, because that was your goal.

They sell those oil-soaked kif-encrusted joints here. You do not want to finish one in one sitting. The point of these isn’t to get insanely baked, it’s that one good hit will do it and you can put it out and save it in the glass jar it came in.

As others have explained already- if you have the kind of brain prone to psychosis, weed is likely to push you over the edge- and that’s likely to happen when you’re a teenager, because lots of people try it at that age- but something else would have triggered it a few years later. And yes it’s just universally worse for adolescent brains. It is already illegal, everywhere it’s legal, for people under 21, which is reasonable. But parents need to parent.

The idea that we can and should protect the kids who are predisposed to go schizo by keeping the available cannabis weak enough that no one can smoke enough of it to ever get really high is just absurd when you phrase it that way but that’s exactly what anyone pushing this “It’s so much more potent now!” pearl-cluching FUD is trying to sell you.

He was dumb but playing dumber. I can’t think of many other examples of people like that except Joe Rogan.

Finds anything and everything that can be set to dark mode and sets it back to light mode, but not while you’re using it and not immediately.

“Why do they do this?” he asks. Because you don’t fail them. Give them a big fat 0 on the assignment, no need to even tell them why.

Then if they beg nicely, let the flunked students do a make-up assignment in the classroom, in front of you, with a pencil and paper and their phones turned off.

Rising Conservative Star Just Guy Wearing Nazi Armband And Crying

We aren’t going to all lose our jobs because AI can do them better.

We’re going to all lose our jobs when the soggy bottom falls out of the stock market once the AI bubble pops, because AI companies- that have made no profit but burned through billions in venture capital- are being valued based on the assumption that they will be able to achieve infinite productivity Real Soon Now by inventing the artificial superintelligence that can put everyone out of a job.

A small silver lining is for all the experienced software engineers who will be needed to rewrite from scratch all the hopelessly broken slop-compomised vibecodebases for all the companies that sold their cow for magic beans out of fomo. I think it will be comparable to the late 90s hiring push to fix the Y2k bug.

The only “weird” thing to me is that he’s choosing that “cowboy” look, as a non-Republican, in the 2020s.

I guess it’s appropriate if you actually live somewhere with cows and barns and hay bales and tractors and barbed-wire fences, and you ride horses as part of your daily life, but otherwise, you are a cringey poser. The literal basis of the idiom “all hat and no cattle”.

Generally it’s to identify yourself as a country music fan but again, why? Country music is just jingoistic pop with a phony Nashville accent. It’s been a trash genre at least since Garth Brooks, and all the non shitty, non-rightwing country music has had to be retroactively rebranded as “folk” to distance itself from it.

Kind of a has been.

What Andrew Tate is for the broccoli-hair incel chuds, this guy was for the trilby hat incel chuds.

Inb4 the “ehrm, ackchyually something something _ephebo_phile…” guy

hypothetical

sigh

If only…

First time I’ve seen this described as “restorationist”. The word I’m familiar with is “revisionist”.

Whatever they want to call it, it is fascist bullshit.

I have never played this game and don’t even really know what it is, but wouldn’t the obvious solution be to have the abandoned bases get eaten by sandworms?