there’s a new chalamet out that’s supposed to be nuts

The best ever advice to achieve a long term goal by Tolstoy:

the guy in marty supreme who's a dick to the holocaust survivor because he supposedly contributed to the death of his son but has no problem taking money from the japanese who actually killed him really sticks out to me. a real portrait of the american WASP racist

oh it's caused by material interests? well why didn't you say so that clears everything right up

The Global South has the right to defend itself.

There’s gotta be a better way to show I’m a good person than by repeatedly watching state sponsored snuff films

In OBAA the entire story takes place over multiple years yet when I left the theatre only a few hours had passed. I found this very confusing and pretentious.

The real problem, as with slavery, is not actually in the material condition of the slave which can be better or worse than average, but in the enduring moral truth that some things ought not to be for sale.

good luck locking in and striving bro, we'll have a pint for you down here in the permanent underclass

Just 3 more months

Data point: At a church youth activity last night, I saw a teenage girl start to use chatgpt to brainstorm funny team names for the game they were playing. Her friend stopped her. "No! We don't use AI for stuff we want to do." She nodded and put her phone away.

if you’re “career driven” grow up. become hanging out driven. goofin off driven

Small amounts of money are great for things like rice and beans to stay alive . Huge amounts of money are great for things like having your every perversion gratified

I do enjoy that the Anglo cultural norm of greeting people with “how are you” and both inevitably responding “good” even if they’re doing poorly is essentially just a quick ritual to establish the person has their shit together enough to not let their personal problems bother you

i read that 40% of americans don’t have $500 and stopped honking at people, these people gonna blow my head smooth off

The Enemy of Civilization is people who see a prosperous high trust society and think you're a fool for not defrauding it.

This

I am surrounded by so many poor people that the local mockingbirds have begun making the low-battery smoke detector chirp.