Ehhhhhhhhh, I think I’d prefer gentle asphyxiation by nitrogen or a lethal dose of morphine or sudden teleportation to the center of a star.

Geez you communicated that perfectly.

Bingo. Disarm, detain, distrain.

I’ve been having a recent craving to rewatch Conspiracy (2001) in light of the past year.

“Curtis Yarvin…proposed a horrific solution for people he deemed ‘not productive’: ‘convert them into biodiesel, which can help power the Muni buses.’”

Be judicious about the degree of productive capacity you can exhibit…

Number of registered firearms purchased. Family members’ names and locations.

I feel very small…

It’s one of the reasons it’s in my top 2 places to live within the next couple years.

I love how disingenuous phrases like “wiped out $4 trillion” are, as if someone piled up four trillion $1 bills and burned them with gasoline. The perception of $4T was unimagined in the minds of potential share buyers. Or, the appetite to spend $4T in the market was displaced by pessimism.

And another thing! (since I decided to stand on a soapbox) I hate the concepts of market cap and even enterprise value. As if every single one of those outstanding shares is earmarked at whatever the prevailing trade rate is at any given moment. Obviously there’s so much more integrated into the perceived value of shares than just one spot price. I guess it’s why incredible tomes of text are dedicated to security analysis.

I’m not an economist. I’m a failed active investor and born again Boglehead. I know this shit has been studied and debated ad nauseum. It’s just annoying to see sensationalist numbers and verbal qualifications thrown out to communicate a certain message.

Still, I don’t really know of a better way to say it. It’s my ultimate hope fascism continues to communicate how generally unprofitable it is, leading its heretofore mid and low-level supporters to temper or displace it.

You’re not wrong about that.

Do you think they’ve accessed records for the past election to build a database holding every voter and their respective vote(s)?

Performative in MN, but in locations more sympathetic to the GOP agenda is it a beacon of inspiration and blueprint for legalized oppression?

That’s nothing to sneeze at!

Calicus Maximus

Can that even happen in a capitalist society? I thought the pursuit of profit was supposed to fix everything. It almost feels like thefacebook doesn’t have its users’, or even society’s, best interests at heart. If only someone could have made a full length feature film warning everyone about this 15 years ago!

Film adaptation from a recent conference, conducted peacefully, amongst Trump’s cabinet members. Musk portrayed by Stanley Tucci!

How long until the next, deadlier, plague shows up? Laurie Garrett did some pretty great analyses back in the 90s based on population density and mobility in The Coming Plague that worked pretty well for COVID, iirc. With the collapse of biomedical shields at NIH and CDC, I shudder to envision a pathogen like the one in Contagion showing up for Act II of the American Shitshow.

They definitely don’t look entitled and angry enough. Some even seem to exhibit hints of appreciation and humility, which would cause a dimensional rift in the real world. I’ve never seen a less accurate depiction of what this event would actually look like.

Wonder how the dust will affect crop yields…

If you’d like to hold a large cap blend that doesn’t include Tesla, you might like VTV (Vanguard Large Cap Value ETF). I didn’t see Tesla listed in it and I really doubt it’s any of the 339 companies it holds.

And now, I fear, and feel, meetings akin to this one have convened, their seeds carefully germinated and cultivated in tilled social soil, the saplings beginning to bare their first blossoms to be pollinated by ever more inciteful rhetoric, and their thin-skinned, caustically-juiced fruits of actionable vitriol ready for harvest upon the onset of the next seasonal upset.

Well said. One of the reasons I really miss the era before 2016, when the president seemed to care just as much about people experiencing natural and manmade disasters in opposing states as he did in supporting states. At least that’s how I remember it with Katrina and Deepwater Horizon and California wildfires.

It was just an excuse to weave an old Dimitri Martin joke into my day.

To your point, exhausting as it is, I (almost) kind of appreciate how Trump’s and GOP’s blatant behavior has made me, and probably many more in the population, much more aware of events than normal…because things seemed boring and steady enough that it didn’t seem like it was worth the effort to remain well-informed. These days I care much more about civics and voting and activism…so I guess that’s a good thing? Dang, I wish I and everyone else had cared more back before things had gotten this bad. But yeah, the US has historically done some really shitty covert stuff.