Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I wish we had even attempted to make the point that most Americans should like some transient inflation. Inflation makes existing debt cheaper. Americans carry lots of debt. You can ask for a raise. You can't ask for $50k off your mortgage. But you can get it with inflation. 1200
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Repetitive tasks that can be easily replaced with automation don't need AI; automation has been replacing them for 50 years. Unfortunately, the repetitive tasks that are left can't easily be replaced with AI. Robots pick oranges verrrrrrrrry slowly. Orange picking is in; HR is out. 000
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026There is no instruction from the court that once you say the magic words there are no take-backsies. It's not fun in those jury rooms. It's a debate in the best of cases. One dude didn't buy what the other 11 did, and he was willing to waste his time and their to stand by it. That's normal. 060
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It's actually pretty normal for people in a jury room to experience a range of thoughts and emotions. "Yeah, I guess. But still...." Is probably the most quoted meme of contested jury deliberations, ever. So the fact that this guy said the magic words really doesn't mean much. 151
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I feel like there has to be a deeper layer to this. After all, Rogan, Walsh, Carlson, Watters, et al. have been the attention bomb and it's really hard to say whether any or all of them have helped, hurt or done nothing to the Republican cause. Could we, perhaps, need more of this to inoculate us? 000
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026No. The Kingdom of Kong is nighstatic.klipy.comDonkey Kong's Roar in Super Smash Bros BrawlALT: Donkey Kong's Roar in Super Smash Bros Brawl 040
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 04/08/2026"And then the team had to get all uppity about it, TIMOTHY!" 000
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 04/08/2026"And after the forms were received by TIM, the team failed to timely process them. And when requests for updates were sent to TIMOTHY, the team failed to provide timely responses." 100
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 09/07/2026"Aww cute cat. What's his name?" "Aww, thanks! His name is Dick-Jones-Death-Scene-In-Robocop." ". . . Wha-" "We call him Doo-Doo for short."static.klipy.comRobocop FallALT: Robocop Fall 000
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 07/07/2026We would be a better society if we applied hearsay rules in social situations more. Is this news reliable because my mom saw, heard or experienced the event herself? Or is my mom just telling me about a Facebook post she saw? The difference matters. And that's the heart of hearsay. 010
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 12/05/2026It's that famous paradox: Can Trump manufacture a crisis so large that even he cannot TACO? 001
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 28/04/2026So ChatGPT is getting the same sort of instructions my buddy gave me before my first blind date. We truly are approaching Singularity. 020
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Pharma conspiracies are real, but not in the way you think. They don't put the cure in some vault somewhere to keep selling less effective treatments. We've got lots of disease cures on the market. But pharma priced them so that the cost to erradicate the disease is more money than exists. 010
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 09/04/2026I wouldn't call it revisionist if only because they, or at least the bad faith actors pushing anti-Biden youth protests, used this excuse back then. 000
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 23/03/2026"I wasn't sure how we were going to do this justice," Lol. If you read Project Hail Mary, it feels like it was written to be a movie. It has a movie-like pacing. Some of the gags feel like they'd work better on screen. The protag., Ryland Grace, feels like a Ryan Gosling stand-in. 240
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Perhaps less globally consequential, but probably just as dumb, the "Punitive Expedition," aka the "Pancho Villa Expedition" or just Pershing's Invasion of Mexico. Accomplished nothing, refocused enemy anger on the US, reframed as a victory, and quietly forgotten. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancho_...en.wikipedia.orgPancho Villa Expedition - Wikipedia 010
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Sure, but what do you do when your mortgage broker, your real estate agent, and your bank tell you can afford a $1m house on a $50k salary, and not to worry b/c this is just how house buying works these days? And you might say, don't listen to scammers. But what if the scammer is WaMu? 010
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Here's the thing: I know folks with a lot of years in science and a few years in the ring who are pretty good at science and are killers in the ring. Hank's pretty good at science. 120
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 11/03/2026I wish more people appreciated Trump's unique ability to just hand his opponents all of his cards. Any time he declares some international incident to be forever solved, the 'solved' parties get to decide how much it's worth to play along. 020
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 04/03/2026I eated a whole clove before too. It's helpful to understand and appreciate when you get that raw flavor in a poorly cooked dish. 010
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Institutions are not self-enforcing, but in an age where most electeds justify their position by today denying yesterday's truth, SCOTUS is more concretely rooted in justifying what we're doing today in what we did yesterday. They're not immune to capture, but 6/9 are not giving up the job yet. 000
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 20/02/2026As the buried lede notes, Cali only objected to the branding, not auto-steer. The reason was already known. Autopilot (adaptive-cruise + auto-steer) is just better than FSD. FSD makes erratic choices and still struggles on local roads. Autopilot made highway driving easy. No reason to upgrade 000
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 07/02/2026'Political' just means things for which reasonable minds could disagree. So things that are just true to a moral certainty can't be political. We're just learning what the world's richest man regards as moral truths. 020
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 05/02/2026If Bluey was a conservative show, the Daily Wire wouldn't have made a knock-off of it. 040
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Shuffling playthings lets Musk off too easily. Look at Twitter. It burned cash. He likely couldn't get new cash without doing so at a grossly lower valuation. He won't do that. So he had a capital sink he controls buy it at a wash. xAI burns cash like a rocket. He used to get huge valuations... 020
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 02/02/2026One thing that should not be lost is how fixated these supposed innovators are on rent seeking - i.e., not making money off creating something new and valuable, but by exploiting the opportunities created by policy changes that they themselves are pushing. 090
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 18/12/2025One of the best solutions for affordability is inflation. Housing, health care and higher ed prices can't realistically go down. Ppl who paid $1m for a house just can't sell it for less. Doctors won't take a pay cut. But if a loaf of bread is $200, a $1m home works just fine. 010
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 13/12/2025I'm barely seeing anyone talking about some pretty big red flags. The reason is that Musk needs $30 bn that he doesn't have now. Full stop. That's bad for a co. that promised to already be on Mars by now. The amount of ownership he's selling is pathetic, and for NFT prices. He's selling an NFT.share.googleAfter years of resisting it, SpaceX now plans to go public. Why?“Much of the AI race comes down to amassing and deploying assets.”… 000
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Can we at least acknowledge a certain amount of rhetorical hyperbole when saying Clinton or Harris were 'rigged' or 'stolen'? Folks get 'rigged' mostly means 'feels unfair.' But Trump's crusade is not rhetorical hyperbole. Folks died and went to jail for it. He still believes it. It's not the same 000
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Hmm. He's 28-4, but his 4 all came in the last 10, including his most recent fight, which was over a year ago. Now he's taking gimmick fights. Paul targets has-beens with so he can market their once-great record and fight the has-been. So this is on brand. It could go to Paul! 020
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 18/11/2025You just gotta do it right. There's videos on this stuff. You just gotta pre-heat the oil. At least, I'm pretty sure. Cold oil is going to seep into the skin. So, yeah. Preheat. And make sure that bird is COLD. Like, right out of the fridge. That's gonna cool the oil so it doesn't flash over. 010
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 15/11/2025This is pre-AI. This is New New Testament, Book of Face chapter 35,917, verses 1-2, circa 2009. 000
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 14/11/2025The bars next to Wall Street are always filled at 6:00 PM with Bros talking about working 16 hours a day. 000
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Clinton can't help but make me admire his gumption. We've seen how Trump lusts after the salacious secrecy of his special friendship with Epstein. Clinton is a professional. He talks about charity and civic engagement. Did he diddle? Pro'lly. But he respects your patriotism, not your headgame. 000
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 13/11/2025They need wedge issues that resonate with the genpop. But they can't make ppl hope for better than they have b/c they're gonna cut everything. So they do like evening news and want to tell you about one common household item that's A TICKING TIME BOMB for your family - after this commercial break 000
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 13/11/2025And granted, we're beyond institutional norms right now, which is the only reason this could be ok. But in Merrick Garland world, you would never do this. Because if the government can smear them in the press it can charge them in court. And if it can't do the latter, it doesn't do the former. 010
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Who releases it matters, though. If the government can get dirt on you using subpoena powers of a criminal investigation, and then not charge you, and then have partisan actors release that dirt to the press as allegedly in the public interest, why not always do that to all enemies of the people? 120
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Being real: the thing that kept Epstein documents a secret before was norms. The US gov should not release damaging Intel it has on people that it's not willing to charge with an actual crime. See Abrego-Garcia. These releases are showing things that are clear, but not chargeable. 3111
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 06/11/2025They couldn't smell the onions and mustard. It was jury anosmication. 040
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Oh shit, that's what that is. I've been seeing pictures of that spot from that angle for, like, 30 years and I've always been, like, "where is that? Morocco? It looks like Morocco." Learn something every day. Thank you Mr. President. 000
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Don't count yourself out. Folks have short memories in politics. With a bit of a ground game, and a bit of luck, good people might just forget you ever had that K. 000
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Hot take: keep it. Let this be the one thing in the White House that keeps the Trump style and name. The ballroom goes; the Trump Bathroom stays forever. Put it on the tour, and include every Trump quote and photo about it. Chart the whole history of it. And make Trump the hero, of the bathroom. 000
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 27/10/2025What are the odds this guy spends about 2 weeks as an elected D before switching to MAGA while claiming, "I didn't leave the Party, the Party left me." 170
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 23/10/2025That bit was one of the coolest and most innovative things Star Wars has done in a decade or more. Shame it was like fishing Swiss chocolate out of a wet turd. 010
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Well, when you find yourself at the head of a Ponzi Scheme, there are only two ways out: 1) bankruptcy and prison, or 2) unlocking the secret to infinite exponential growth. 020
Mega-Carnie @mega-carnie.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Yes, but I would vote for a meathead. I'd vote for a guy with a Duke Football tattoo. I'd vote for a guy with a "No Fear" tattoo. I'd vote for a guy with a tribal, barbed wire bicep tattoo. I'd vote for a guy with a Fred Durst neck tat. I won't vote for this 020
