there's this joke on the chinese web about how intertwined the ccp elites are with the west here goes xi summons his cabinet and announces that it is time to strike america. he proposes they nuke san francisco.

Just a reminder that the Elizabeth Street 'Garden' was only 'born' after city officials started eyeing the lot for housing, which should tell you a lot about a lot.

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Buttigieg is the most elitist candidate since Bush Sr lmao I love him

Everyone says they’d pay more for “Made in the USA.” I tested it. We make a $129 filtered showerhead manufactured in China. With tariffs surging to 170%, we explored reshoring. We found a U.S. supplier. Our costs nearly tripled. I ran a clean A/B test: 👇

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This is the most popular Sears catalog home ever made, The Crafton. It was 600 sqft. Nobody seems to remember that the American Dream was built on the backs of 600 sqft homes.

my date: so... what kind of music do you like? me, nervously listening to my ai assistant earpiece: u-uh... kill the boer?

Have spoken to enough people to realize that the 'Elizabeth Street Garden' psyop is succeeding. Well-meaning folks have totally bought into the idea that the 'garden' is some longstanding city treasure being torn asunder by big real estate.

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Freezing rent, free transit, and government owned grocery stores are fairly rare in Europe. This delusion that Europe is way to the left of the US in all ways needs to die

For the Deadwood heads, I truly can’t recommend this journey enough. Real “it’s a solace having friends” vibes all the way through

Omg how is this real?

𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 So many American political archetypes at once! Old school ethnic machine boss, last of his dynasty. New age ethnically ambiguous guy with “new ideas” that really just boil down to “hey, let’s try soaking the rich again.” Lovable corrupt black cop. We have it all. Fun!

Now that the dust has settled and an Ugandan rapper named Zohran Mamdani has won the Democratic Primary for NYC Mayor, let’s go through his win neighborhood-by-neighborhood. NYC is a unique and insane place and these bizarre election results tell that story.

What are some of your everyday Eric Adams quotes? “Make haters your waiters” is a stone-cold classic, as is “in NYC you can see everything from 9/11 to someone opening up a business,” but I personally get a lot of use out of “first stop is always Istanbul.”

*Open: Office of the president at the new 100% Meritocratic University* President: We’ve admitted the top 2,000 applicants by GPA and SATs. How are they doing? Admissions: Several hundred valedictorians who’ve never gotten a B in their life are now at the bottom of all their...

patient 0 of LLM psychosis

Will 🦥 Menaker LLMs are just McKinsey for the masses. You deploy them when you want an external "authority" to validate the choice you were going to make anyway.

Chase Williams Don’t let your spectres become your hectors at the mansion of success