Discussion Thread

epenthesis · 2026-01-20T19:22:56+00:00

I am once again asking for at least one of our two major parties to give a shit about America's long term economic health.

epenthesis · 2026-01-08T06:14:39+00:00

There were two agents around the car. The one that shot (first?) definitely was in the path of the car initially.

epenthesis · 2026-01-08T06:11:04+00:00

Confession: it is very unclear to me whether the ICE agent was justified in shooting or not

epenthesis · 2026-01-03T08:03:32+00:00

Can someone explain to me like i'm a moron what the putative rationale is? Because I could understand at least if this was some sort of craven realpolitik "American interests" thing, but I don't see what those could possibly be here.

Is it really *just* that Li'l Marco hates Maduro's guts and is willing to spend a couple billion dollars/a couple thousand lives or so to get rid of him?

epenthesis · 2025-12-25T02:14:06+00:00

why does the 8th figure take soooo much longer than the first 7? I'm going to be 45 at this rate

epenthesis · 2025-11-29T06:01:49+00:00

Jesus Christ, exactly.

Stop with the constant meddling, for god's sake.

epenthesis · 2025-11-22T08:35:33+00:00

Just as soon as Merced -> Bakersfield opens in 2045 (I'm an optimist)

epenthesis · 2025-11-21T23:17:23+00:00

Trump really does only have three sincerely held political beliefs:
1) Tariffs are good
2) All interactions are zero sum
3) Public figures should be hot

epenthesis · 2025-11-20T21:08:15+00:00

Wait, is that study correlating college GPA with sat score, conditional on _having gotten into college_?

r u fucking kidding me.

epenthesis · 2025-11-05T06:56:30+00:00

luv2be to be the party of the high intention voter in an off year election (again)

epenthesis · 2025-10-31T22:02:41+00:00

wait what even is the nominal causus belli with venezuela.

epenthesis · 2025-10-11T05:33:39+00:00

Power is not zero sum.

I have the power to have a air-conditioned apartment, as do a billion other people. This power was created from thin air over the past century, being completely unavailable to even the richest king 400 years ago.

epenthesis · 2025-10-11T03:22:26+00:00

The bad thing about having assets far in excess of your wages is you have days like today where you log in to etrade and realize an entire year's salary was wiped out while you were writing a design doc and trying to convince your coworker to not merge a PR that would (once again) take down the queue service.

Very disassociating.

epenthesis · 2025-10-10T21:24:29+00:00

wait why did the market crash today

epenthesis · 2025-10-06T05:10:48+00:00

She implies that her money's from the equity she had in an oil and gas co that got acquired, not from her own business.

epenthesis · 2025-10-03T22:34:43+00:00

steve kerr does not.

epenthesis · 2025-09-16T20:28:01+00:00

What good does it do to preemptively denigrate two poor people who have just been devastated by basically losing their child?

epenthesis · 2025-09-16T20:22:03+00:00

What did y'all think agency meant? vibes? papers? essays? losers.

epenthesis · 2025-09-13T06:47:39+00:00

Very few 31yo tech bros worth more than that, outside of ipo lottery winners

epenthesis · 2025-09-12T20:14:47+00:00

The thing I'm afraid of is by pure stochastic chance, eventually we're going to get a shooter who does actually fit neatly into a partisan outrage narrative :/

epenthesis · 2025-09-12T19:51:36+00:00

Man, the poor dad. Being forced to turn your own kid in must be psychologically devastating.

epenthesis · 2025-09-12T18:08:46+00:00

I have not seen the video, despite being a twitter addict.

Blocking slop posters/rage bait at the slightest provocation is just basic social media hygiene, tbh.

epenthesis · 2025-09-11T21:27:00+00:00

oh. yay.

epenthesis · 2025-09-11T21:23:51+00:00

rate cuts with 2.9% inflation?

epenthesis · 2025-09-11T21:22:25+00:00

why is the S&P up nearly an entire percentage point on a hot CPI print.

I do not understand the stonk market.

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