Doors close and options narrow. The way you think about the future fundamentally changes.

You have to remember not to project your decline onto culture, society, and the world. You have to remember that many, many things are better now than when you were young.

Hi, you’ve reached my voicemail. At the tone, please hang up and send me a text.

Y’all realize that the Odyssey is fiction, right? Are you going to be upset if the Charybdis isn’t period accurate? What about the 6headed dragon? Look too much like Tiamat?

This is reddit level media criticism. Mindless contrarianism over focused on trivial details. At least we’re not arguing over the race/gender of the cast.

The Monroe Doctrine was a 19th and 20th century through-line where America intervened militarily in Mexico and South America.

The biggest difference between then and now is that the Monroe Doctrine was supposed be the US ‘protecting’ this hemisphere from European Colonialism, and Trump hasn’t bothered to lie about his motivation.

This was, is, and always will be an American colonial project.

That’s the 2nd amendment in action.

What do we say about a person who points at an 0 for 2 record as evidence their ideas are working?

so that when men wash their hands

I never did coke to get high, I just liked the smell

The oil companies don’t want to invest because in 10y when production recovers, who knows what oil prices will be? Even if they could pump it out tomorrow, Oil is cheap, and driving it down would bankrupt American oil production.

The logic of “addiction to foreign oil” is outdated. America is an energy exporter.

The problem is that the oil companies don’t want to. The real timeline for actually producing oil is like ~10y. And who knows what demand will be in 10y. Even if they could magically transport it out of the ground tomorrow, oil is already cheap and pushing it down would bankrupt half of Texas.

America is an energy exporter, the days of “addiction to foreign oil” don’t apply anymore.

This special military operation has been compared to Russia for obvious reasons. But one not obvious thing they have in common is the resource plunder is a bad deal for the conquerors. By the time Putin could tap Ukraine’s coal reserves or Trump Venezuela’s oil, there is an excellent chance these resources will be worth much less than today.

Many people have touted the leverage Venezuelan production could have on Moscow or Tehran. But they always leave out that this would hurt Houston just as much.

I know people who are proud that they don’t wash their hands, their ass, or their feet. Knew a girl from HS who dumped a dude because he never wiped his ass. And it wasn’t because his family had a bidet.

Everybody forgets this. The time when “a single income could provide housing, transportation, and collage for a family of four” only existed for white men. Thinking this was universal is just lefty false nostalgia nauseatingly similar to MAGA.

M$ has done more to convince people that AI is bullshit than anyone else and I just want to thank them for their hard work.

Some of the first real home/office PCs had only one floppy drive and 640kb of RAM. Fancier machines had a second floppy. If you were a millionaire, you could get a HDD with upwards of 30Mb storage.

Scott Bessent looks like he’s trying to do a Will Farrel impression of himself.

One step at a time. Maybe we stop using tax dollars to cause child starvation before we ease into preventing child starvation.

If you’re using the dish to prepare raw meat use a disinfectant, otherwise If it looks clean, it’s clean.

If you think Idiocracy is the future (or the present) you believe in eugenics. It’s a cute move, but it’s writers have a worse understanding of evolution than the makers of Pokemon.