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I once overheard a guy loudly explaining the “sexual market” to his mom in a grocery store. He probably still has no idea why nobody finds him attractive.

It’s totally fine, the ring is probably also made of lead.

I’d hazard it’s most companies.

My wife’s family loves The Princess Bride, but I love telling them that Stardust is better. It might not be correct, but it’s a pretty fun hill to die on.

The movies are so overhyped and overrated at this point. But Monty Python’s Flying Circus is not, it’s fantastic.

I would add that regularity and familiarity are key as well. How often does he do this? Is it at restaurants where he is a regular and knows them? If he’s a regular who does this occasionally, probably fine. If he hangs out by the kitchen of every Applebee’s or Cracker Barrel he wanders into, he’s a serial killer probably.

They’re right though. This was the plan. Hard to do market manipulation without manipulating the market.

Is it surprising that the people who thought Mexico would pay for a border wall also don’t understand how tariffs work?

Same, but when I began really looking at it and trying to overcome it, I found it’s a very universal experience, certainly not divided by gender.

When you look at these odd archetypes of what people want out of the ideal man or woman, they all share the same core. Strong, independent, doesn’t need help, doesn’t want help. The individualistic experience is such a sad, lonely, miserable, experience. They want to be able to go it alone, but in hundreds of thousands of years of truly human existence, going it alone is such an exception. Our weights and burdens and lives are meant to be shared. They always have been and always will be.

For example, I have a 4 year old son who has been infatuated with ballet for a couple months now. There are dads today who are beating their sons for liking ballet. It’s terrible. But it’s not that ballet is “queer” or that men don’t do ballet. There are plenty of men who are queer. There are plenty of men who do ballet. But, I don’t do ballet. If I beat my son, it’s because I am making it about myself. I don’t want a son who does ballet. That is as narcissistic and individualistic as it gets.

That’s not to say that it’s not toxic masculinity, just that the toxic masculinity is narcissism in a trench coat.

I have two.

There is no such thing as toxic masculinity or toxic femininity. There is only toxic individualism.

Sometimes, you shouldn’t be yourself. The person you are might be awful. Bullying and societal pressure correcting you to a norm can be a good thing.

This just in: man who despises empathy struggles to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes.

Yeah, but the second something juicy happens, we all scroll back and get caught up pretty quickly.

Very true. His donors apply pressure all the time!

I always weigh my pasta. A really large serving of pasta is ~4oz.

They say things like this because their base wants to kill people they dislike. Most people don’t want to kill people they dislike, they want them to win three Guinness World Records for longest lasting, least operable, and largest hemorrhoids.

Do you think there’s a 13 year old girl in Gaza who is writing a diary that will be widely read by children across the world 40-50 years from now?

Elon Musk is 3 beers away from cornering his most attractive niece at Thanksgiving and lecturing her for 38 minutes about how Lincoln started the “War of Northern Aggression.”

I might be wrong here, but tariffs can be very effective tools, but as a slow burn. The way they’re being wielded here is asinine.

If you want to affect behavior, tariffs are a long game. They’re passed by Congress so they aren’t tied to the whims of one man. If you don’t want US chicken or EU trucks, make a law and let decades of implementation change behavior.

If you just want them to hurt, you do them the way we are now. The unpredictability hurts businesses and individuals, inside and outside the US. It makes prices and markets volatile and sows distrust. It hurts the vast majority of people, but benefits people who have the stability and assets to buy low and sell high. Each tariff implementation and retraction is just a mini market manipulation giving people with advance knowledge of what is affected to profit.

Friendly reminder that company towns and company scrips are the industrial revolution’s take on micro transactions.

I feel like someone will be screaming at me in three years because I’ll be unhappy that Liz Cheney is the Democratic nominee. It’ll be the lesser of two evils, maybe.