It is simply fucking amazing how many problems there are that people claim, “There is no possible solution to this problem! None!”

Meanwhile, the solution is simple, obvious, implemented elsewhere already and working perfectly. How does that happen?

so amazing that

– the universe gave us an infinite energy glitch
– the US decided to use it to power giant underwater Gods (Ohio class submarine), enough to power it straight for 30 years
– then entire society collectively chose not to use this energy source for anything else pic.twitter.com/V8VYpVY9at

— Last Contrarian (@lastcontrarian) January 31, 2023

Nuclearify everything. What a waste that we have not.

As a Russian-speaking person of color who was born and raised in Ukraine, I believe that I am in a position to speak on the issue of nationalism and neo-Nazism in Ukraine. A long thread 👇

— Mariam Naiem (@mariamposts) April 7, 2022

Ian Welsh is frantically burying his head in the sand, but I know a couple of Ukrainian people and this is accurate.

This Paul Krugman column about rural America is both wrong and mean. There’s a reason black urban communities and rural America began falling apart at the same time in the 80s. We enabled financial predation everywhere. https://t.co/d9njBSYoK3

— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) January 27, 2023

Yeah, that was typical dumbassery from Krugman. He lost his way completely during the Obama administration and never recovered.

Top US air force general predicts China conflict in 2025.

I’d guess 2028, if I had to. Right now China could not win against the US Navy. The longer they wait, especially if there is a contested election or political issues in the US, the better for them.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

Your regular reminder that Russia is mobilizing its entire society and using up decades of stored-up Soviet weapons in an all-out attempt to conquer a country with 25% of its population and 11% of its GDP, and has so far managed to conquer only around 10% of that country.

— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) January 27, 2023

To Ian Welsh: winning!

To everyone who is not a fucking idiot: enormous disaster.

One thing that’s true is that it’s most often wrong to assign malice to an action or statement that can much better be explained by the person in question being a complete clown dumbass.

She’s great. Very Bonham-esque style. I’m not a drummer, but I do know that’s a very hard song.

Can we stop pretending the Sign Language is a real language? No problem with deaf or mute people, who can be perfectly smart.

But Sign Language is to language what stick figures are to drawing.

It's caveman hieroglyphics spliced with the game of charades. Not language.

— Justin Murphy (@jmrphy) January 19, 2023

LOL what the fuck is this clown shit?

ASL and other sign languages are fully expressive languages. Also, cave men (whatever that means) did not use hieroglyphics and “charades” combined with grammar can be more expressive than written or spoken language.

That’s what’s weird about social media: you can broadcast how fucking dumb you are to just millions of people in an instant, leaving no doubt at all. What a pure bozo.

People blame and judge parents for children’s heavier weights.

As they should! Nearly all obesity in kids is specifically parent-related.

A lot of this obesity talk lately is entering crazyland. Most people seem to believe that obesity is some mysterious force descended from the heavens that can’t and shouldn’t be resisted rather than something that can be changed and fixed. It’s fucking bizarre.

A lot of people really hate the idea of anyone traveling for leisure. It just makes them absurdly angry, and they are convinced it’s some sort of “white” thing. Those people need to get a grip.

Keep ya weirdo ascetic fantasies to yourself. Let people have some joy. Obsessing over what you’re gonna take away from people is no way to go through life.

I think more people should travel far more often.