@jon-nyc According to John Bolton, Trump is already being rolled: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-putin-alaska-john-bolton-b2804856.html

Michael Munger put it best, referencing Tyler Cowen: DOGE was terrific, if unintentional, test of @tylercowen's "state capacity libertarianism." link Ask if government should be doing this. If answer=YES, then ensure work is fully staffed, professional and well-compensated. Across the board cuts=dumb

I accidentally drank a bottle of invisible ink. I’m at urgent care waiting to be seen.

I’ll try again. I just said that. (Re the Vermeer) I don’t remember which paintings they vandalized but some of the artists were grand masters.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/08/trump-nobel-peace-prize-nomination/85584807007/ Pakistan. Israel. Cambodia, Armenia, Azerbaijan ... more countries lining up to nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.

He’s got a house in Staten Island.

@Mik said in I’m glad my daughter’s company doesn’t do waterslides: The did do a lot of work on this ship https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/video-royal-caribbean-water-slide-panel-breaks-injuring-cruise-ship-passenger-officials-say/ar-AA1K9psh Hhmmm … the ad in the embedded video says cruise fare is now 82% off!

https://x.com/GBNT1952/status/1953592908428288205

S’ok. His heat vision can’t reach me from Texas.

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/15imEjNSD3/

I got four out of five correct, but I was a bit lucky I think. I'd like to hear somebody do the same with saxophone. I suspect it would be harder to make an AI sax sound authentic, unless it was Kenny G.

I certainly hope that turns out to be false.

Polymarket has it at 25% that Trump pardons her. [image: 1754612524443-img_6945.jpeg]

I think this thread was just a test to see who's sick enough to open it, given the headline.

@xenon said in Cryptocurrencies and Private Market Assets in 401(k): Doesn't the almost make private equity public equity? Still not tradable though. And will look misleadingly stable in someone’s 401k when in reality the underlying value will be all over the place. (Cliff Asness calls it ‘volatility laundering’)

Just subscribed to the 2000 IU. Gotta up my game.

Oh well, at least we can take pride in having trained our replacement. The dinosaurs didn't train us to take over.

I think that might be second. Biggest instance of hypocrisy is the extent to which they rolled out these affirmative action / DEI policies, ostensibly to help disadvantaged minorities, only to fill most of the slots with kids of rich Nigerians, etc. Once on Loury’s show he and McWhorter both estimated that over half the black kids on campus were foreign born.