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modest proposal
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modest proposal
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I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection.
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Joined August 2011
- amazingly, "dont pick a fight with a narcissistic billionaire who owns their own social media site" isn't specific enough
- This anecdote from the Comedy Central roast of Trump is almost too perfect
- gonna start a thread of bonkers pandemic era charts
- WeWork used artificial intelligence to learn that people drink coffee in the morning so they should hire a barista
- Xi calling TikTok “spiritual opium” goes so hard if you really think about it“The concession was TikTok. For Trump, forcing the sale of the high-profile app was a populist victory framed around national security. For Xi, however, the app was a low-cost bargaining chip. He had privately dismissed it as “spiritual opium,”
- every single thing about this is stupid including the finale
- Goldman strategists calculate a 72% probability that 10 year treasuries outperform the S&P 500 over the next decade
- Holy shit the transcript is real he really said the wall needs to be transparent so you don't get hit in the head by 60 pound bags of drugs
- Don't blame me I just voted for [crypto, tax cuts, deregulation, insert insignificant personal policy preference] not the destruction of the institutions and order that provided the stability and opportunity for me to succeed
- As incompetent and inept as I thought Trump was, I would've taken the over on a special counsel named by 120 days. Stunning achievement.
- I’m begging people to go back and read the contemporaneous reporting of the housing market from spring of 2005 to mid 2006. It was meticulously documented by the mainstream press how insane consumer behavior was, and how prices subsequently began rapidly declining.
- Trump can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent
- Zuck with an open letter to every company in tech: "Since we reduced our workforce last year, one surprising result is that many things have gone faster" "Indirect costs compound and it’s easy to underestimate them" "A leaner org will execute its highest priorities faster"
