Reminds me of this.

Hey, almost-same boat here! I’m guessing in your late 20s/early 30s, you were likely surrounded by people who were in the same environment (higher ed), or who were sussing out your potential. But when you’re out of the ivory tower, it doesn’t mean shit.

Humanities degrees are critical thinking in a way that people generally don’t want to engage in. There’s no neat solution, and it will eventually make you confront your own ideology, or the one you’ve been in the grip of, and people really don’t want to think about that. Even more simply, higher ed is a stand in for “liberalism,” and in the last couple years, a thing to outright and wholly reject.

I don’t tell people that my English Ph.D. primary list straight up said “communist theory” at the top. I’m happy to let everyone think I just proofread stuff after 16 years of school, and I’ll say I should’ve been an electrician every time. I think a rich inner life and infinitely more nuanced understanding of the world is better than whatever my neighbor’s got going on.

“God help us all. Dentists on trampolines.”

move intended to limit the use of visas to undercut wages that would otherwise be paid to American workers

Meanwhile: “AI will mean a 3-day workweek! …at the cost of entry-level jobs. The ones we fill with these visas.”

Yeah, it’s like 1 good item + 2 bullshit items and a drink for $9 in the deluxe box.

Ok so I know it’s supposed to be derogatory and such but “TRANTIFA” does have a certain swagger.

Don’t know offhand if a documentary, but a film set in a similar area (Kowloon-adjacent, same vibe) is Chungking Express.

“You’re not a human ‘til you’re in my phone book.”

—Bill Hicks

Gonna give it three bags of popcorn and two sodas.

The JOI you must have felt

I suspect the meme has likely been pulled from elsewhere else (looking at you, Meta) and posted as-is with specific words remaining partially censored because of the Zucc. It’s stupid, but the meme might not exist in another format.

His sodium levels are 10% less than a lethal dose. I bet his ankles are as big as cats.

Going this hard over basically a YouTuber was not on my 2025 bingo card

The way I spit out my drink

Well kids, there was a lot of beautiful bigly space, some fucking hippie named John Muir, and NOTHING BAD HAPPENED.

Omensetter’s Luck by William H. Gass. It was described as a tie for the “all-time best U.S. book about human loneliness” with Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress by David Foster Wallace, so I look forward to it on that endorsement.

This myth needs to die hard. Inheriting off daddy’s blood emerald mine allows you to start businesses and buy people to make them work. This takes zero intelligence — it takes capital which was not earned. It continues to make money through the labor of shady accountants who know how to keep you from paying taxes, the labor of H1-B visa holder slaves, non-unionized assembly line workers, etc. who you crush and exploit for more capital to keep repeating the same unethical and dumb shit.

Keep tossing leaves in the pool, Nancy.