“Waiter? I’ll take the B.”

Having run newsrooms, this is not news.

My former boss, a complete red-pilled dude I met in detox, got into an argument with me a few days ago over text that ended in civil discourse while we ate breakfast together after he picked me up.

There is still space to interact with those who don’t share your beliefs. The idea that there’s no ground is itself part of the problem.

That’s why Reagan gutted education. To get us here.

It is very weird to me to have hit the point in life where I just talk like a competent, middle-aged journalist. There was such a gulf to start, and it was still the Gulf of Mexico.

In case anyone didn’t realize the actual motivations behind the 2008 crash. These people want a return to feudalism, and they’ll do it any any cost to us.

Structurally, this is oddly similar to Budde’s sermon, which I still watch nearly daily to have some faith in humanity.

It’s likely time to switch from calling this “late-stage capitalism” to “endgame.” I guess we have to do this shit every hundred years or so. It just sounds better in the original German.

I don’t think anyone expected this to go well.

God, let’s not bring Disney into this.

There are larger issues at play.

But it was … Gilded. How bad can that possibly be? More after the break.

This junta is fucking so many people. Like, this is a speedrun for the ages that I can only hope makes its own base realize the face of evil.

In fairness, he was a good steward for a decade and removed the need to pacify shareholders on account of purchasing it from the Grahams. The bullshit only started last year.

(when I said my opening post on U.S. News was a classic Powderhorn, thrown together in 45 minutes, this is what I mean)

I was running a paper at 24 without a degree. You couldn’t do that now.

That’s their fucking problem.

I’m not going to dive into what happened to me as a child, as this is an inappropriate space. Let’s just say it was still a problem in the '80s.

That’s generally the theme of the Ars comment thread.

My 20s were the pinnacle of my life. Career was taking off, met my first wife … then the layoffs started in journalism.