Flashback to when I met Weird Al Yankovic. Turns out the guy’s a total fraud: I asked him, and he told me that “Weird” isn't really his first name. I was crushed. Also, I didn’t like the way he looked at my wife. Just kidding. Weird Al is a genius. Here are a few reasons why. 🧵
@eyeslasho
I was a journalism student in 2016 and watched this first hand. NPR was always bad but it has basically turned into an organization dedicated to one single premise: “We hate America and you should too.” The fact that it receives a single penny of tax dollars is scandalous.
@WWUTTguy
I've done this before... when evangelizing, this is usually the first and biggest complaint people throw out there.
So I'll say "Let's totally remove that. Are you saying that, except for the Ark, you would follow Christ?" The answer is always "Well, no, there are a lot of…
@WholeMarsBlog
I have no idea what “Freedom Discount” means, but the words “+$10,000 Market Adjustment” written on a page with “Protecting the Consumer®” at the top is top-tier ironic and insulting.
@engineers_feed
I went from knowing absolutely zero to running my own business in less than a year. In terms of becoming hireable, I could have gotten a junior front end dev job in that same amount of time but chose entrepreneurship instead.
@thehill
When the CDC makes these announcements, it pretty much tells me “you know that conclusion you came to a long time ago? You were right, so just keep doing what you’ve already been doing.”
@elonmusk
I can't believe I just watched an ad-free interview for two whole hours on a breaking international news story in HD. This is amazing. Thank you.
@engineers_feed
We already know how to cure cancer and many other diseases but choose not to because it's much more profitable to keep people sick and addicted to medicine for their entire lives.
@JeremyTate41
These books are the blueprints to rebuild our civilization from the ashes, and the people who read them will be the architects. I dream of studying at St. John’s someday when my kids leave home.
@gunpolicy
Now, all of a sudden, the government cares about getting parental consent for minors? Wow, we found the ONE single issue where they care about that. Amazing.
@JDVance1
Can you make an amendment that says anybody who votes for funding more wars has to enlist in the military and be on the front lines to fight those wars?
@AGHamilton29
Churchill: “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”
Eisenhower: “We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.”
Biden: “Don’t.”
@WomnOfValor
Solid take. I gave my two daughters rings, but not “purity rings.” There are no strings attached. I told them it just represents my love for them and has no conditions.
@KVOA
Serious question: can’t people make like 1,000 times more money on OnlyFans than they can being a public school teacher? Why was she doing both? That doesn’t make sense.
@TheRabbitHole84
@eyeslasho
He’s clearly speaking from a position of not having been a job seeker. Those of us who have actually tried to get a job in the past decade or two know better. It’s easy for him to make proclamations from his ivory tower because it doesn’t affect him (but makes him “look good”).
@bethanyshondark
The most shocking thing is that some people seem to take the position “It’s not surprising,” or “They had it coming.” As though anything in the past could possibly justify what we saw on October 7th. Unbelievable.
@uncledoomer
Imagine a society so weird and broken that just a normal man doing normal man things like getting married, having a baby and going to work each day is noteworthy.
@BasedMikeLee
You're saying our government's policy for spying on Americans is basically "Oops, sorry, bro, we accidentally spied on you but we're totally going to use it now. No hard feelings?"
@engineers_feed
I find it fascinating (but not surprising at all) that 3 out of 6 of these involve avoiding or shortening meetings. I'll never understand why corporate America is so obsessed with meetings. Clearly, they don't work.
@DavidSacks
The hypocrisy is astonishing, especially since other platforms have the same issues, or worse, but there’s no coordinated boycott for Instagram or TikTok. This is a directed attack against X. Why? Because they can’t influence the platform. You love to see it.
@damintoell
You put the RINO in, you take the RINO out, you put the RINO in and you shake it all about, you do the Hokey Pokey and you turn yourself around…
@realchrisrufo
Unfortunately, the ACLU jumped the shark a long time ago and now has become a terrible and dangerous parody of itself. It's almost completely unrecognizable from its supposed founding principles.
@cremieuxrecueil
My family (and many we know) left California for greener pastures. We ended up in Colorado, Arizona, Texas, and Florida. That was in 1999. It’s really something that it only took 25 years for “Morocco” to be added to the list of “locations more business-friendly than California.”
@gunpolicy
Can you create a separate account called “ELI5 Gun Policy” or something? I’m following very closely but I can’t understand what these mean. At least a thumbs up/down, green light/red light rating system? Serious question from a genuine fan that is not a lawyer and gets confused.
@MorosKostas
Arizona especially. Having to share the same court system with California is like being forced to live with your angry, alcoholic, abusive stepfather against your will, even though you’re an adult.
@roddreher
In cases like this, and the case of Alfie Evans, I am shocked at the disdain for human life by the UK, yet thankful and heartened by the respect for life shown by Italy.
@john_mcguirk
You mean the girl in Israel who simply wandered off from her parents during a Sunday afternoon walk in the park? Sounds like she was found safe and sound a few days later. Happy ending for all involved, I heard. Right?
@xDaily
I laughed out loud so hard when I read this in the book. The man spends $44 billion on one of the most-used services on earth, then, ON A HOLIDAY, literally pulls the plug on the tech infrastructure and says: “Let’s see what happens when when I do this.” Absolutely hilarious.
@engineers_feed
Wireless electricity. I'm glad though: because that's my retirement plan. I'll invent electricity that flows through the air and powers your lightbulbs, TVs, and everything else wirelessly, and then I'll be a billionaire. You heard it here first. Nobody steal my idea, please.
@AlecStapp
I met a man who helped invent and implement GPS years ago. He was a retired military contractor, and I asked him “What did you work on, specifically?” He said “GPS.” I said “Okay, cool. Doing what with GPS, specifically?” He said “Uhh, creating it.” I felt like an idiot.
@rohindhar
I believe it. Have you been to Vail? It's a town that seems intentionally designed to prevent all except the richest of the rich from living there. They have a MASSIVE workforce issue: nobody who works there can afford to live there. They have to commute insanely far distances.
@uncledoomer
I didn’t think it was possible, but she actually found a way to make potatoes look and taste disgusting. That’s really, really hard to do. It’s almost an impressive amount of effort.
@Protestia
I simply cannot understand Baptists' obsession with alcohol. I grew up in a Mennonite home and never heard people ranting and raving about alcohol until I attended a Baptist church for a time. Just imagine the social drinking at the wedding in Cana in John 2. Also, see Luke 7:34.
@cremieuxrecueil
That’s impossible: when I worked in tech in Boulder, everybody said: “Diversity makes us a better company. It makes us work better as a team. It’s a proven fact.” I heard this over, and over, and over, and over, and over again. “The science is settled™” they said.
Wow, it's really sad to see Brian Barczyk make a final "goodbye" video. I really appreciated what he's done over the years, and I bought a few different reptiles from him over the years (a Brazilian Rainbow Boa, an Apricot Pueblan Milksnake, and a pair of Rhino Rat Snakes).
@unusual_whales
Reddit is the largest, most fetid cesspool of user-generated content on the entire internet. Any AI trained on Reddit content would be x-rated, nihilistic, intolerably sarcastic and biting, and ultimately unusable. It would be far worse than Grok in full-blown vulgar “fun mode.”
@TheRabbitHole84
@elonmusk
That is amazing that it spiked in 2016 for democrats. Donald Trump being elected all of a sudden made them dramatically trust the mass media? Super weird.
@KenGWiebe
I know this isn’t ideal but I say this with no guile: a lot of Americans wonder why our friends above the border don’t migrate south for… forever. Bazillions are flooding our southern border illegally. You’re very welcome to come here legally. We’d give you welcoming parties.
@mcuban
@mcuban
, EEOC Commissioner here. Unfortunately you’re dead wrong on black-letter Title VII law. As a general rule, race/sex can’t even be a “motivating factor”—nor a plus factor, tie-breaker, or tipping point. It’s important employers understand the ground rules here.