JD Vance had this too. You can’t even get up onto the street where his house is when he’s home now, because he’s so scared of protestors in front of his house that he’s had the Secret Service lock the entire street down just to feel safe.
Very much had this a couple years ago in KY. I was totally planning on driving through and hoping that the storm wasn’t gonna roll through where I was working, but when I got back to the car and saw just how fucking green the sky was, something inside me said “hey how about we listen to the nice security guard who’s offering shelter in the plant”.
Tornado didn’t even come close to me (about 20 miles south), but it was a wild as fuck storm.
That’s the hope. It’s a bad look to just have the cops round up and shoot homeless people - much easier to just have them die on the street or whatever so we can claim they’re all junkies and drunks and weirdos. Turns out corpses can’t tell their side of the story.
So similar to something like a loggerhead shrike, neat.
I bought some on clearance out of morbid curiosity as well. Had two bites between my roommate and I and we threw the rest of the pot out.
To be entirely fair, if his books and interviews are to be believed, every minute of every day, every calorie of every meal, is scheduled, tracked, and analyzed. None of these biohacker guys seem to actually do things for fun.
Aren’t they the guys that did Horchata?
If you want an entry point, I really enjoyed Like A Dragon. Lets you test out the vibe without needing a lot of background on the actual story of Yakuza.
While this is true, in large part, where this has been tried, usually fulfilling ONE piece of the puzzle (i.e. making sure that addicted person has food and a place to call their own where they’re not likely to get stabbed for their belongings) really helps a lot of people get to a place where they’re in a mental state to address the other problems.
It’s a bit like fixing a damaged boat - nailing a plank over the hole where the water’s coming in isn’t gonna fix the snapped mast or the torn sails, but it gets you into a place where you CAN start to fix those.
That’s still only $360b. We could do that with only a portion of the wealth of ONE MAN.
I love how he got minorly blocked from literally chiseling his name into the Kennedy Center, so now he’s talking about demoing the whole thing. True abuser mentality - if I can’t have it, nobody can have it.
Don’t just focus on the books, as impactful as that is worldwide. Dollywood is the largest employer in the Pigeon Forge area now. She founded a bald eagle sanctuary in the 90s. Tons of scholarships in Sevier County to help address a dropout rate that was, at the height of her popularity in the 90s, over 30%. Coronavirus research donations and vaccine awareness. AIDS research funding (through a charity album). She helped fund a hospital, helped with wildfire and hurricane relief, so much more.
You might be right to go “well some of those were probably tax writeoffs”, but she clearly took the words and idea of the early country stars she knew like Johnny Cash and decided “all this money and power is worthless unless I help people with it.”
I was about to say, let’s assume capitalism rather than long-reaching malice. The aristocracy has proven that largely, they’re not great at long-term thinking - so the real answer is more rationally “private equity and the demands of capitalism requiring that even everyday recreation be heavily monetized” rather than “nefarious puppetmasters are conspiring to lock humanity into a work-only lifestyle”. The former can beget the latter, but I believe that’s more a happy knock-on effect than a very pointed and intentional outcome.
After a bit of searching, it’s from Spider-Man Noir (2025) #2.
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This is working less and less because there’s also tools to un-poison that content before ingestion. Scrapers are also getting good at detecting poisoned content before ingestion as well.
Welcome to the arms race.
Nah, that list isn’t what you give a state.
It’s the list of demands you’d give a colony.
Yeah that sounds right. He did the same shit in 2016 and 2020, because he apparently can’t stop shoving his entire fucking foot in his mouth the second he opens it on a hot mic.
Ah, but the trick is that A) Trump doesn’t care and B) the treaty says nothing about selling the moon off to corporate entities. I could definitely see this admin selling mining rights, that’s why Isaacman wants a moon base as opposed to an orbital station (which was the initial plan, as a launching point for future inner and outer system exploration).