Billionaire Says His Long-Delayed ‘Titanic II’ Ship Will Be Antidote to ‘Woke’ Politics Australian mining billionaire Clive Palmer has been trying to build 'Titanic II' for 12 years — but construction still hasn't started

I interviewed Australian mining billionaire Clive Palmer on his once-more-revived plan to build Titanic II, a functional and historically accurate replica of the original ship. He now says it will be a “vaccine-free environment.”

the private equity acquisition process where they take out huge loans to buy a company, put those loans on the company’s balance sheet and liquidate the company to pay them off (while looting the assets) should be made illegal

it is a purely destructive process and it’s absurd that we allow it

Thought the Gaza airdrop aid was a ridiculous publicity stunt but I at least assumed they could accomplish it without killing anyone

An aggressive man is accosting a nervous looking man. The aggressive man, only visible from the head up says "you wanna fuck with me? I am in a gang, motherfucker. We pull back to reveal that the aggressive man is in a Pokemon first gen team rocket costume. HIs midriff is exposed like Jesse in the anime. He retains an expresion of aggression.

my first day at the New York Times they told me to crawl around on the floor making pig noises while they threw sausages at me chanting “Boar on the floor”

Kazan was—sweet Christ—Kazan was a mewling syphilitic with the morals of a cat. He—“Carolina” reaper? North or South? No, don’t tell me. Leave me in suspense. He’d have fucked his mother if there’d been a fifty-cent piece in it for him. Mm. Oh yes a napkin is jut the thing.

“Capitalism isn’t that bad” But if you earned 30,000 a day from the time Jesus was born till now it still wouldn’t equal shell’s earnings this year

“techbro” is just the reemergence of thinking it’s cool to hate nerds, mixed in with a bunch of resentment from watching the last 20 years of nerds taking over the world

Nerds are the ones who warned you about cryptocurrency, and NFTs, and the internet of things. Nerds are the ones trying to explain to you that "AI" is just overhyped pattern recognition which we already had for years.

Techbros are not nerds. They're predators.

Palestinian Abdalhadi Alijla responds:

strive to be the pasta-garlanded yet unrepentant kitten ladled out of social media's cold leftover spaghetti

Did you know Matt Berry, of What We Do in the Shadows, has a prog rock about badgers where he does spoken word poetry about their ways?

You need to listen to it.

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It is deeply fucked up to act like fascism is not ascendent in the US. Brownshirts are beating people on national television, the president runs border concentration camps and wants to mass deport. We are IN IT. Stop strategizing ten steps behind the state of the world as it is.

Sorry I can’t work today, I’m obsessed with a Facebook page for an Indian restaurant in Australia and their increasingly unhinged memes.

Ian Miles Cheong First Recipient of Neuralink Thanks to Inherently Low Risk of Damaging Intellect FREMONT- Ian Miles Cheong was revealed to be the first recipient of Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain device implant thanks to the inherently low risk that…

Ian Miles Cheong First Recipient of Neuralink Thanks to Inherently Low Risk of Damaging Intellect
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And if I could offer an example around how that manifests: a seven-year-old had deep lacerations to his leg and needed some suturing. It wasn’t a life or death case—it was very simple—but the only pain relief we had was Motrin, which was frankly cruel, and a cruel undertaking. There was no ketamine. And so I tried to use one of my pediatric tools as a distraction. And so I had a light flasher, but he wasn’t interested in any of those designs that I put on the wall. So I tried to distract him from the pain. Usually what I would do is ask questions like, “So who’s your best friend?” I can’t ask that because what if his best friend’s dead? “What’s your favorite subject at school?” He hasn’t been to school in three months. “What’s your favorite food?” I don’t know when the last time he ate would be. Every single facet of their society has been ripped apart. ♦

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Bong Joon-ho speaking in an interview: "I tried to express a sentiment specific to the Korean culture, all the responses from different audiences were pretty much the same. Essentially, we all live in the same country called Capitalism."

The Gilbert guy thinks straight white men should all move to a floating island to fight DEI

‘Scuse me fellas but I’ll be busy fighting the homosexual agenda on a floating island inhabited entirely by virile white men, fashioning a new world for ourselves alone, free of any feminine decadence, our rippling forearms and muscled backs sweaty and gleaming shirtless beneath the tropical sun.

Economist finally got something right