I struggle to imagine JK Rowling resisting the rise of the Nazis if she was a prominent figure during that time

Very easy to imagine Rowling as a British Nationalist who would say we need to kill all the Nazis and then say we need to kill all the Russians and Kenyans and Indian nationalists and anyone else who crosses the UK.

I could see her doing the “Hilter and Gandhi both need to die” speech.

She’s a British supremacist. The only people who get to do fascism are the ones working out of an office in London.

Definitely beats waking up with a massive headache and cramps every day.

I seem to remember this meme ending with a joke about taking estrogen.

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The really funny bit is that Trump sent $200M in aid to Ukraine back in 2018 and that was just the tip of the iceberg.

As of December 31, 2025, the U.S. had disbursed 58 percent of the $188 billion in spending related to the conflict (U.S. spending is first appropriated, then obligated, then disbursed).

Anyone saying Trump wasn’t enthusiastically sending NATO arms and armor to the Ukrainian battlefront is either deeply misinformed our outright lying. The big difference between Biden and Trump, wrt Ukraine, was that Trump loved to get big beautiful photo-ops with Putin where they were both smiling and shaking hands. Meanwhile, Biden preferred photo-ops where he was frowning and shaking his head.

Say what you will about heroin, but it definitely works.

Going to be hell on your teeth.

I am not going on a hiking trip or mailing myself anywhere

Ah, damn. That was my bet.

Not suggesting this will actually happen, but if the current trend continues at the same rate

It never does. Markets move periodically - early slow change, mid-point rapid change, tail slow change - for the most part. Nevermind that a 62% sell-off raises the question of “Who is selling?” versus “Who is buying?” Dollars are still far too cheap for a plunge that steep.

A short period of time before the Iran war started, I pulled all my money out of the market and am 100% in CDs now.

CD rates are shit right now, thanks to low interest rates.

You’d be better off in utilities or REITs. US energy companies have done very well in the wake of the Hormuz straight closure. I dropped a bunch into United Healthcare recently, thanks to their bargain basement price. Doubt it’ll pay off soon. But I see a healthy upside long term.

Fair enough. Hope you made some money on the plunge. I would not have guessed an 8% drop, given the weirdly stubborn endless equities enthusiasm, but here we are.

There’s a hierarchy to this sort of thing.

Case in point: We’re All In The Epstein Files, a podcast episode by the worst people you know who only have jobs because they’re brown nosers and yes-men.

There’s an entire courtier class that get paid handsomely to defend billionaires. And then they stand up these big media institutions that hire even more people. Bari Weiss, another classic example of a come-from-nothing lick spittle who never saw a boot shiny enough that it couldn’t be improved by her tongue. Now she’s pulling down nine figures in payout, so she can lay off half the CBS workforce at the command of her failson boss, David Ellison.

Sucking up to these people is its own reward. Whether you’re one of the last few non-indie journalists or managers who still has a job in publishing or an insufferable bowtie campus conservative who coasts through the Ivy League by screaming “Failing me is antisemitic!” at any professor to the left of Ted Cruz, there’s a dividend paid out to the loudest and most annoying hacks. From Riley Gaines to Charlie Kirk, you will be rewarded for your piety.

Meanwhile, disobedience to the billionaire class carries its own perils. Maybe you’re someone at Gawker who lost their job to a Peter Thiel financed lawsuit. Maybe you’re a Palestinian journalist who got a sniper round through the earhole, because you were taking too many pictures of a double-tapped ambulance in Gaza or the West Bank or Lebanon. Maybe you’re a student activist on a visa who just got picked up by ICE. Maybe you’re a union organizer on a dozen different blacklists. Maybe you’re just some senior citizen Black Panther, who has been cooling heels in prison for bogus drug or gun charges since the Reagan Era.

Eric Adams has a real incentive to sell-out. Leqaa Kordia has a real incentive to stay quiet.

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It’s called edging

Do not go into that boy’s restroom.

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Are you kidding? Can you imagine what a piece of human artifice from 5 million years ago would be worth to the right collector?

I’m going to take a line from Hob Gadling

Look, I’ve seen death. I lost half my village to the Black Death. I fought under Buckingham in Burgundy. It’s not like I don’t know what death is. Death is… stupid.

Nobody has to die. The only reason people die is… is 'cause everyone does it. You all just go along with it. But not me. I’ve made up my mind. I’m not going to die.

A dollar in five million years

Cause then I’ll be around that long

Happiest couple I know was in an arranged marriage by their parents starting at the age of 9.

They grew up together, went to the same schools, shared hobbies, were fully familiar with each other’s extended families, and the future-wife ended up going down the aisle slightly pregnant. They’ve been together for nearly 50 years, have three kids (one of whom was a friend in high school), and are both thoroughly convinced that American romances are dumb, shortsighted, and a big reason for the country’s endemic poverty.

Of course, this family is also stupid rich.

The couples that I see fail are consistently either poor to the point that they can’t afford a basic standard of living or where one parent is traveling all the time while the other is stuck with perpetual child care. Inevitably one (or both) cheat, or just have a series of meltdowns that end in a break up.

The handful of couples I know where one partner was closeted or just slow to recognize their own queerness seem to be some of the happiest. The relationships tend to be open or poly, to accommodate one or the other. But neither seem to mind. I even know one couple that did get divorced (primarily because the wife was constantly traveling), but you’d never know it given how much time they end up spending together when she’s home.

The “I hate my wife” crowd I do know tends to be the ones that are traveling so much they never really see one another except to deal with some financial bullshit, housework, or kids.

Rachel Bloom, banger

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