It’s not inflation. Trump has upgraded eggs into the category of luxury goods. Enjoy!
More upgrades to come!
You could be earning double points.
if March 4 was chosen as the date the tariffs take effect in order to let March 3 be the day of frantic negotiations to postpone them, does Trump/Vance outraging trading partners on Friday render it harder for them to deliver the pretend victories that Trump demands as pretext for postponement?
the difficulty is, Zelensky is not #pathetic.
@w7voa i am so grateful for your work.
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just what Florida needs, a royal dynasty. https://assortedflotsam.com/@politicsbot/114082839670131684
I'm accelerating the pace at which I'm sending letters to my Congressional delegation.
Here's today's, "DOGE massacre at NOAA / NWS threatens Floridians" https://notes.interfluidity.com/vyQHxyjgRairBncH_6NkRg
(I distrust their shitty webforms, so I'm trying docupost.com to conveniently send by postal mail.)
can’t wait ‘til Musk emerges from Ft Knox with photographic evidence of Scrooge McDuck.
the premise of idiocracy was that, over generations, the stupid would out-reproduce the sane. but these people were all alive when idiocracy was released.
this by @radleybalko is breathtaking. i'd encountered almost all of it, but you put it in one place and realize the scale. https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/trump-roundup-five-days ht @buermann
this is what "efficiency" looks like. https://im-in.space/@Chip_Unicorn/114077708550331811
DOGE is murder.
it's unsurprising that Musk and Trump are such enthusiastic fans of LLMs.
they hallucinate in roughly the same way.
for visiting heads of state, meeting only with Trump is a bit of a slight. it’d be like getting a meeting only with the Vice President.
you know you mean something to this administration if, like Modi, you get a one-on-one with Musk (or a one-on-one-ish with Musk and a bunch of his kids).
you know how chain restaurants make up their own clappy birthday songs to gather 'round a table and celebrate customer birthdays with?
if i still had local IRL friends, i'd want to make up a song praising federal workers, then get together and troupe from post office to post office to sing and celebrate them.
the nonfascist political coalition needs to become a bit more Christian in the sense of "whatever the fuck you've said or done in the past, however you've sinned, join us now in our worthy project and you will be welcomed and redeemed."
may the vote be our sacrament.
part of the fascist ethos is that the weak and disabled should die to render the larger community stronger and more beautiful. i think this explains some of Republicans' elite-level accommodation of anti-vax stuff. Republican elites know vaccines are safe and effective. 1/
the problem isn't that vaccines don't work or that they have side effects. the problem is that they do work, and interrupt a "natural" culling of the runts. 2/
the rest of us (well, looking in the mirror, the rest of you) are left with burdens of care and the economic cost of "accommodations". the weak and old should want to die for the greater good of the nation the young and strong would build and vigorously enjoy. /fin
i know Musk likes SF, so it's pretty cool that DOGE is like the governmental version of that story "Gambling Device" by Frank Herbert.
people think the “five questions” thing is about evaluating employees, or more cynically coming up with pretexts to fire them, but i think he’s trying to get government workers to generate data in order to train his AI.