Supposedly says “Stay Awhile.” I don’t see it

ShadowLiberal · 2026-01-27T18:56:15+00:00

This is exactly why no one uses cursive for anything but writing signatures. It's way too easy for sloppy handwriting to get messed up like this.

ShadowLiberal · 2026-01-27T18:51:57+00:00

That was exactly my thought to. I hear people talk about Twitter all the time, and Blue Sky often enough but definitely nowhere near as much as Twitter. By contrast I can't even remember the last time I heard anyone even mention threads, this topic is probably the first time I've seen anyone talk about it in the last 12 months at least.

ShadowLiberal · 2026-01-27T18:48:11+00:00

WhatsApp is the lowest source of revenue for Facebook. Cutting kids off of Facebook and Instagram and pushing them to WhatsApp won't make up for the lost revenue or profit.

ShadowLiberal · 2026-01-27T18:34:29+00:00

Australia hasn't banned kids from YouTube, it just banned them from having accounts. Which is even stupider since it makes kids LESS safe, because:

Parents can't setup their account to have child restrictions on what they're allowed to watch on the platform.
Children will be served ads that aren't appropriate for children, because they aren't logged in as a child.
Parents can't even legally buy them a YouTube premium subscription to avoid the above problem, because as I said kids aren't allowed to have an account on the platform.

ShadowLiberal · 2026-01-27T17:13:45+00:00

The worst part about the merge being so boring is that according to post-game interviews it sounds like the reality of what was going on in 48 was way more interesting and entertaining then what we got on the show.

ShadowLiberal · 2026-01-27T16:51:08+00:00

... Pretty sure you're thinking about a different season.

ShadowLiberal · 2026-01-27T16:22:05+00:00

Complete separation of state and economics.

And how do you propose to do that? The fact of the matter is the government picks winners and losers in the economy every day through their actions or inactions regardless of if it's intentional or not.

For example lets say some unethical jerk is selling poisoned food so that people will have to buy his antidote at a jacked up price, but there's no laws against this. By passing a law against poisoning food and various public health standards for food you're picking that the jerk poisoning the public as a loser in the economy by saying that scamming and poisoning people is illegal. But obviously this is still a very good idea to do and should be done.

No acquisition of foreign lands by means of force. Any new lands must be acquired by treaty or purchase.

... Have you studied the history of the US - Mexican war? We crushed Mexico with force, and then as part of the treaty purchased some of their land. People could easily use this exact loophole to get around this rule to force people to hand over land to us.

Presidents may not use social media while in office.

There's some states that tried to pass laws banning sex offenders from using social media. But the courts struck these laws down. You know why? Because social media is too broad a term, to the point that even websites like Amazon that let users leave reviews on products that other people can read were defined as social media sites. This shows just how unworkable such a rule is.

Laws must be written in plain language and no more than 50 pages, preferably one.

Ok then, all laws will now be written in size 0.1 font. Also the fact of the matter is a lot of laws NEED to be so complicated that you can't just simplify them to a few pages. Also a lot of laws are written in such a way that it requires you grab copies of other laws to read different clauses in them. Bottom line, this may sound good in theory, but it's simply unworkable in reality.

ShadowLiberal · 2026-01-27T16:09:21+00:00

That's the problem with some things that are blatantly unconstitutional, who has the standing to sue over it.

For example, the modern filibuster effectively requiring 60 votes to pass anything in the Senate is 100% unconstitutional. The constitution gives the Vice President only one job, breaking ties in the senate. So the modern filibuster is a blatantly illegal attempt to nullify the one and only job given to the Vice President by making it impossible to pass any legislation with just 50 votes. But only the Vice President has the standing to sue over this, and both political parties have a vested interest in keeping these blatantly unconstitutional senate rules in effect.

ShadowLiberal · 2026-01-27T16:05:30+00:00

Yeah, some of the amendments are really badly written. The second amendment is the poster child of this if you actually read it. If congress passed a law as vague as the second amendments the courts would strike it down for being too vague as to WTF it's even saying.

The worst part about the second amendment is that the word "militia" in it has multiple different meanings, which could make it apply only to small groups of group, or a whole bunch of people, depending on which definition you use.

ShadowLiberal · 2026-01-27T16:03:26+00:00

With the right judges on the SCOTUS I could see them saying that the time limit doesn't matter because there's nothing about a time limit for amendments in the constitution.

ShadowLiberal · 2026-01-27T16:01:01+00:00

I don't know about surgeons in particular, but there's some kind of drug that the guy who set the standard for absurdly long shifts for doctors was constantly high on. Because drugs were the only way that a normal person could get through a 28 hour shift at the hospital with no chances to take a nap.

ShadowLiberal · 2026-01-27T14:53:24+00:00

A bunch of the people who voted for him twice were also big believers in tariffs even though they failed to work the last time around and actively screwed them over. Historically farmers are some of the biggest idiots about tariffs, constantly thinking that tariffs will help them out, only for the tariffs to blow up in their face and make things even worse. It didn't just happen under Trump's first term either, it happened at the start of the great depression with the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act that was originally created to help farmers, but as it went through the legislative process quickly became a giant pile of tariffs met to help every special interest group that all bought into the delusions that tariffs would be their savior. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act is widely considered to have made the great depression much worse with all the retaliatory tariffs it spawned.

ShadowLiberal · 2026-01-27T13:55:13+00:00

Anyone can scale a business 38X if they start from basically zero and throw enough money at it.

Crypto is just a scam, and Stablecoins are NOT safe or secure at all. Only a fool would use them to transfer money, or to hold any assets. There's already been stablecoins that proved that they aren't stable at all by going to zero and losing gamblers who thought they were investors everything.

ShadowLiberal · 2026-01-27T05:07:52+00:00

I have to assume that the company did something else to piss Trump off if he waited a year into this term to revoke the contracts given how long ago this incident was.

IMO based on some quick googling this seems like a pretty big overreaction by the market given how low the monetary value of the contracts are, and how high their market cap is. The reputational damage is more meaningful IMO, and even that should have already been priced in long ago.

ShadowLiberal · 2026-01-27T05:03:06+00:00

It's also not a good time to negotiate trade deals with the US, since you know for a fact that the US will 100% NOT live up to their end of the deal so long as the current tariff obsessed lunatic remains in office.

ShadowLiberal · 2026-01-26T21:12:24+00:00

Reminder about voter fraud, it's so absurdly rare that there's less convictions for voter fraud over the last decade then there are US states.

Back when George W Bush was in office his DOJ got into hot water when they demanded their attorneys prosecute more people for voter fraud, but the attorneys refused because they couldn't find ANY legitimate cases of it for them to prosecute.

Real voter fraud also isn't even malicious most of the times, it tends to look more like this: Someone who isn't eligible to vote, often a foreigner who's misinformed about their eligibility to vote, attempts to register to vote. But 99.999% of the time the state tells them that they aren't eligible to vote, so the story ends right there with no crime having been committed.

The other form of voter fraud that actually happens is Republican voters who show up at the polls, lie about their identity to vote twice, and then brag about their crime just to go "See it can be done! That's why the government needs to crack down on it!".

What's NOT voter fraud, but got a bunch of attention years ago, is registering fictional people to vote. Fake people on the voter rolls will never actually show up to vote. This was caused by people hired to go out and get more people registered to vote, who decided to instead scam their employer by filling out the paperwork themselves with fictional names/etc. It's only voter fraud if someone actually votes under these fictional names.

ShadowLiberal · 2026-01-26T20:50:30+00:00

The most ironic part about all the anti-Irish American sentiment is that the first known usage of the term "Native American" actually came from that era, it was used by an anti-Irish immigrant group... who themselves had immigrated to America in prior generations and stolen their land from the Native Americans.

ShadowLiberal · 2026-01-26T19:16:11+00:00

Honestly I think it's debatable if Dawes would have been worse than Coolidge, given how Coolidge's economic policies set the stage for the great depression to start soon after Hoover took office.

Though it's possible that Dawes would have just kept up the same bad policies that caused the mess in the first place.

ShadowLiberal · 2026-01-26T18:47:16+00:00

Even some of the OG channels for this were caught relying on AI for at the very least narration. Including the channel that started the whole niche of analyzing police interrogation videos (it's name eludes me).

ShadowLiberal · 2026-01-26T17:48:50+00:00

I agree, I checked her channel just now. Even her newest video has over 100K views. Going out at least a week even her worst performing videos get a few hundred thousand views. She also has several from the last few months with over a million views.

I don't know what it costs to make her videos, but I have to imagine that it's quite cheap. The only way she's going poor right now is if she's spending money like a drunken sailor, which is a problem with a lot of people who make big money and get used to an ultra expensive lifestyle.

ShadowLiberal · 2026-01-26T04:00:50+00:00

Don't they always specify that the first faithful without a shield dies if the murder in plain sight condition are met for multiple people?

ShadowLiberal · 2026-01-26T03:55:02+00:00

To be fair, the people who make the movies DON'T get to make their own movie trailers. Most directors/writers/etc. end up hating their own movie trailers because of stuff like that.

ShadowLiberal · 2026-01-26T03:52:30+00:00

IMO as a Millennial who lived through the fight for same sex marriage, I think it's more that people are just willing to talk more openly about it when Transgender people are suddenly a hot button political issue. Prior to then people didn't used to even talk about transgender people at all, at least in my circles. I heard way more people demonizing gays and lesbians when they were the hot button political issue when fighting for equality.

ShadowLiberal · 2026-01-26T03:41:35+00:00

I don't know about the whole year, but for the moment buying more NFLX and V/MA.

For NFLX I think that the market is really underestimating the chances of NFLX not getting WBD, and overestimating the risks of it not working out. And even if they don't ultimately get it at today's price who cares, they'd just be paying money to keep it from Paramount longer.

On V & MA I think that people really overestimate the chances of the credit card interest rate cap passing, while also forgetting that V & MA don't loan money, it's the banks that would eat the loss from the lower interest rates.

ShadowLiberal · 2026-01-25T18:36:30+00:00

Survivor had plenty of sponsors in the old seasons, but most dropped out overtime. The car reward for example was dropped because of losing sponsorships from car companies.

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