One of the most distasteful forms of 9/11 apologism from the left was that there was a legitimate grassroots beef with the U.S. being in Saudi Arabia, a country that requested said presence and otherwise would’ve been flattened in the Gulf War and/or destroyed by Iran.

People will unironically post stuff like “having ADHD means hitting someone with your car and not realizing it til a year later,” as if it’s some sort of flex about how quirky they are

Just realized that Mark Carney looks like Duck Philips from Mad Men.

Finished reading: Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne 📚

A tough and funny as hell novel you’ll never believe was written in the 18th century (it’s got footnotes, tons of digressions, fourth-wall breaking, and more).

Quite the paragraph here

It’s so fitting that if people know anything about Theodor Adorno, one of the most annoying and self-regarding writers ever, chances are it’s that he hated jazz in such a way that it makes you dismiss all his other ideas.

Very good chance that Donald Trump is the last U.S. politician who has unbridled public enthusiasm for AI.

All the most plausible “AI will kill us all” scenarios, by far, involve it being too dumb rather than too smart.

I’m guessing the Sun City Girls will just never reprint Dante’s Disneyland Inferno.

Still amazed at how accurate a parody of mid-2000s forum posters this is

One reason working-class people distrust academia is that it doesn’t reward work. This feels especially ridiculous in the humanities.

Some much-needed perspective on basically every video clip you see online:

when you see a “date gone wrong” video where the party in the “right” is the one filming, remember that whoever filmed it is a psycho who films arguments with their dates

This is the best piece of art made about 9/11. The backstory is incredible.

A fun thing to do is to look up a line chart of any EU state’s exports to Kyrgyzstan and see if you can spot when the Ukraine war began. Here’s Germany’s for example.

It felt like Stranger Things was on for a thousand years (it literally spanned four presidential administrations) but incredibly it only has 42 episodes. That’d be like two back-to-back seasons if it were a 90s drama.

Modern Catholicism is basically “what if authoritarianism were woke.”

I read all of Schopenhauer’s philosophy in the voice of the Arthur Pensky character from Seinfeld. This might be the most niche thing I’ve ever posted.

It’s fascinating that the big takeaway from 2020s warfare is that cheap drones make it difficult for great powers to impose their wills on smaller foes, yet no one wants to make the obvious conclusion that this means China would lose to Taiwan.

The insta-narrative about the Iran War was the boost it would give to solar and wind, but coal has been the real winner.

There’s no better argument against the philosophy of Hegel than the fact that the most compelling argument often attributed to him—the thesis-antithesis-synthesis process—was actually just some professor’s inaccurate summary of his reasoning. His ideas were so garbled he was one-shotted by a rando.