Sensitive young man. Film autark. Inscrutable liberal. Semanticist. American. Multi-track drifter. Unreconstructed aesthete.

Los Angeles, CA
Joined June 2014
World where building a CRM for your child's little league team is a couple bucks of tokens but taking the team out to lunch is like $150.
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I cannot believe the crying over the Cheesecake Factory. Obama derangement syndrome is honestly a whole order of magnitude above TDS. The dude can turn half the Republican pundits here into wailing toddlers with an incredibly tame rib. So many people are on here crashing out defending the honor of theoretical random poor people's perception of the Cheesecake Factory. ROMAN STATVE HEADS wailing about elitism. I don't believe you think elitism is bad. I'm sorry. The bit is stale. Trump's whole thing is making nasty digs at people. He has fully turned on PvP, be so for real. He himself would probably laugh at the joke.
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One thing that's been really bugging me lately about AI writing, not because it's AI but just because it's bad writing, is the negation of stuff that nobody was saying or ever really would say. "Every ingredient has a job on a steam table." On the surface, this seems like an informative statement, but it's completely immaterial. Every ingredient in something always has a job. Otherwise why would it be there? The whole construction is a waste of your attention.
The scrambled eggs at a hotel breakfast are 19% water, and they're dyed. A lot of hotels and cafeterias pour them from a carton of Papetti's Breakfast Blend. The spec sheet reads whole eggs, 19% water, then under 2% of salt, xanthan gum, citric acid, annatto color and natural butter flavor. Papetti's is part of Michael Foods, one of the biggest egg processors in the country. Every ingredient has a job on a steam table. Xanthan gum holds the added water in the egg so it doesn't weep into the pan. Citric acid keeps the eggs from turning gray or green under a heat lamp. Annatto puts back the yolk color the water washed out. The butter flavor is there because nobody is going to add butter. The carton keeps for 98 days in the cooler. The plain version from the same company is whole eggs, whey, skim milk, xanthan and citric acid, with almost no added water and half the sodium.
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MANY readers are sending the author CONCERNING fan photos to show off their love of HOMONOID.
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Unironically when I would argue faith with religious friends in high school it would end up here.
Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean
your problem is you're not receiving direct revelations
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Wow there she is. The infamous political Brinksman-ship.
🚨 NEW: Meet Ian Brinksman, 42, a Washington, DC-based government contractor arrested by the FBI today for allegedly leaking TOP SECRET national defense information to a romantic partner who published classified material on Substack. His LinkedIn lists Deloitte, national security consulting, and a current reserve intelligence officer for the US Navy.
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"I used to be satisfied just playing video games. Then I found I required more… unusual entertainment." "Hunting and killing live human beings?" "No. Vibecoding useless software."
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Oh my goodness this could be one for the history books, for good or ill.
If you are hosting a Halloween party in the Bay Area, a couple hosts are considering merging parties into one mega-Halloween out of Lighthaven, which Avalon has that night Please tag Halloween hosts! Let us create the grandest party we can
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Went to the new George Lucas museum and he has the reading chud on the wall.
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Opinion columns built American independence!
Factory jobs built Michigan. Opinion columns built nothing.
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I want to know what Dario thinks of drone striking a terrorist camp that is running thousands of locally operated Claudes.
finding the source of foreign adversarial hacker swarms and droning their GPUs seems like something worth doing. I don't think kinetic is an overstep vs. this level of threat.
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Yes, this is still happening in 2026, shamelessly, openly. Writers' rooms opening submissions to only women and POC. Yes, this true of the MAJORITY of hiring notices that go out for TV. Yes, still repugnant.
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Sensing a lot of overlap between people who think The Devils is an all-timer right now, and people who thought A Matter of Life and Death was an all-timer a couple years ago, and people who thought Uncut Gems was an all-timer a couple years before that, and on and on and on...
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This is just everything now. Every culture argument on here goes like this.
Replying to @RepJoshG
Shylock is a loan shark. If you hear that and think Jew. That’s your own issue
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The new canto of the Fallujiad has some Islamist e-mail and some Edgar Allan Poe. Out now.
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Similar to a pdoom of 10% this is a very easy and somewhat rhetorically dead-ended thing to assert when it's unfalsifiable.
We did figure it out. We were working on a great game. Just saying.
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Just for fun. Imagining how they would have titled a biopic of Empress Theodora in each decade: 1890s: The Empress of Byzantium 1900s: L’impératrice de Byzance 1910s: Theodora: The Queen Who Ruled 1920s: Theodora Gets Her Man 1930s: Constantinople's Glory 1940s: The Blades of Anatolia 1950s: Theodora 1960s: Byzantium 1970s: Theodora 1980s: Blues and Greens 1990s: Queen Theodora 2000: Constantinople 2010s: The Empress 2020s: The Woman on the Throne Unfortunately none of these are very good, but that's showbiz.
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