“You must mean Base 22”

Wait for the bankruptcies

Literally a punchline

deleting my account

When the 25lb bag is mostly weavels?

90% of Spotify is trash. Much like Audible, it’s just choking on AI generated content and similar worthless vanity projects

Really depends on the college and the program. During the '08 crash, my wife left her job in insurance sales to pursue a law degree, effectively doubling her salary over three years and getting into a career she actually enjoyed.

I’ve seen people chase certifications that genuinely transformed their careers. EPIC certification for health care IT is a popular one right now and in high demand. Microsoft Certs have never hurt anyone career wise.

They’re difficult to pursue when you’re employed because they can be time consuming and mentally exhausting. So a downturn is the perfect opportunity to retrain.

And there’s often big hiring waves that follow downturns, as businesses try to catch back up to normal staffing levels. We’ve been in a historically very low unemployment period precisely because of the sloppy COVID era layoffs revealing how critical skilled staff can be for a company’s core functions

I absolutely will not get legally married, nor have children

I know a couple like this. They’ve been living together for nearly twenty years, but the husband insists his wife pay him rent to live together. She makes more than him, so he nickle and dime’s her constantly, insisting she pay for vacations, for eating out, whatever.

It’s really worn her down, but she’s terrified of being alone in her forties, so she just puts up with it. Really bleak.

I don’t envy anyone in this kind of long term relationship.

level-up your career

Cursed turn of phase

Knowing HTTP status codes is a prerequisite for transitioning

The Onion: Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?

That’s apparently apocryphal. The rate of pullover tracks with the most common car color (currently white). Driver behavior (speeding, illegal turning, etc) and other outstanding features (lapsed registration, broken tail light) are the most common proximate causes for a pull over.

Collapsing industry so houses can’t continue to be built

Data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Monday showed that nationwide residential housing starts fell 19.9% year-on-year in the first 11 months of 2025 to 392 million square meters, while new home sales dropped 8.1% to 658 million square meters.

So demand is off it’s peak, but they’re still building about half a Cleveland’s worth of homes this year.

I wouldn’t consider that an economy which has forgotten how to build housing.

Violating other countries sea borders isn’t undefined.

Whose borders?

Yes, monsters when they kidnap dissidents and call them terrorists.

Does murdering your pregnant girlfriend make you a dissident?

That’s… debatable. Unless you’re holding hundreds of billions of dollars worth, nobody is really going to complain when you feed a valuable commodity to the secondary market at a discount.

The real pain the US has felt comes from the crimps in the Supply Chain. Yemen shutting the Suez Canal has done incalculable harm to US trade. If we saw similar pressure in Panama and Singapore?

Even beyond that, climate change is going to hit North America extra hard over the next few years. Probably the meanest thing a foreign country could do right now is whisper in the ears of every Great Lakes resident “They’re coming for your water”.

The obsession with a Navy that can fight three different wars on opposite sides of the planet is outdated and the product of paranoid, reactionary, imperialist foreign policy.

Our biggest trading partners are increasingly our biggest geopolitical rivals. At some point, we either need to reconcile these contradictions or surrender intentional trade as a possibility into the next century

Success

Why China’s property crash must be kept top secret

Cheap Housing… Bad?

Peaceful?

This analysis contends that China’s aggressive actions represent a deliberate violation of international maritime law and the South China Sea Code of Conduct.

A South China Sea code of conduct has been under discussion for over two decades.

You broke a set of rules we haven’t even defined yet!

Not doing terrible things to their citizens?

China signs police patrol agreements with nations

In 2016, an Italian police official told NPR that joint policing would “lead to a wider international cooperation, exchange of information and sharing resources to combat the criminal and terrorist groups that afflict our countries.”

Those monsters.

Slammed

slammed

Wait till you find out about Cam girls

Reason from 2001 to 2025 has been a wild ride. I gotta wonder what changed?

If the NSA fires all it’s Transgender staffers, we’ll be lucky if the agency knows what Linux is by 2030

Excited for a Pokemon with more explicit advocacy of Eugenics