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mjmsmith··on Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email
"Iran, if you're listening..."
mjmsmith··on Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD
Students in the 90s had also lived their entire lives under the counter-productive and utterly racist War on Drugs. That might have colored their attitude more than the leftist indoctrination bogeyman.
mjmsmith··on Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars
Come to New York, we still have freedom-loving individuals who reject collectivist ideology.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/21/drunk-driver-arrested...

mjmsmith··on Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down
Why does the very existence of bluesky make so many people angry? You're free to stay at the Nazi bar if that's where you're comfortable.
mjmsmith··on Oracle may slash up to 30k jobs to fund AI data-centers as US banks retreat
The inflation that Biden reduced to its current level in his last year was caused by Trump's stimulus checks? Citation please.
mjmsmith··on iPhone 17e
> while I was out to dinner that night, my wife and I were planning a trip

Were you out to dinner with your wife?

mjmsmith··on Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown
I suspect this kind of nuance is lost on the sort of people who think having qualms about the use of violence is the same thing as pretending to be saintly pacifists.
mjmsmith··on Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown
"Sadly" means "it's unfortunate that it got to the state where violence is necessary".
mjmsmith··on US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
Finally, a resource for oppressed people in backward countries to find information about abortion.
mjmsmith··on US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
TikTok.
mjmsmith··on DOGE Track
What percentage of the $36T debt did those 1,500 grants make up?
mjmsmith··on The Oklahoma Architect Who Turned Kitsch into Art
Trailer looks interesting, doesn't seem to be available anywhere unfortunately.
mjmsmith··on How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post
People definitely don't need a subscription service that pivots to reinforcing the owner's beliefs. Even that is probably giving Bezos too much credit, since it falsely suggests principles beyond "what will make me richer."
mjmsmith··on Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning
Also still angry about George Floyd.
mjmsmith··on 'Askers' vs. 'Guessers' (2010)
Why is it "guesser" rather than, say, "hinter"?
mjmsmith··on Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland
But would you trust the bat shit crazy US to protect you from Russia?
mjmsmith··on Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
In 2026, if you're genuinely unaware of his white supremacist opinions, perhaps you need to be more absorbed into [sic] political news.
mjmsmith··on Scott Adams has died
Famously hard-hitting People magazine goes with "Scott Adams, Disgraced Dilbert Creator, Dies at 68".
mjmsmith··on Presidential Immunity in the United States
Future generations watching the Frost/Nixon interview and wondering why Nixon even has to point out that "When the President does it, that means it's not illegal."
mjmsmith··on ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree
"Look what you made me do", the motto of voters with no agency.
mjmsmith··on Texas A&M bans part of Plato's Symposium
Do you think that racial slurs will lose their power if people stop objecting to their use?
mjmsmith··on 2025 Letter
The only problem with Silicon Valley is they just have no taste.
mjmsmith··on Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts
Trump Grotesque.
mjmsmith··on At least $9B billed across 14 Medicaid services in Minnesota may be fraudulent
Yes.
mjmsmith··on At least $9B billed across 14 Medicaid services in Minnesota may be fraudulent
"Up to 100% of immigrants may be criminals."
mjmsmith··on In New York City, congestion pricing leads to marked drop in pollution
They could just park right in front of the restaurant if it wasn't for those damn bike lanes.
mjmsmith··on In New York City, congestion pricing leads to marked drop in pollution
There was also an endless parade of NY Post stories about how Manhattan restaurants would suffer because their customers couldn't just drive in from Long Island and New Jersey.
mjmsmith··on What the heck is going on at Apple?
> And given the change in the political environment you've seen tons of > changes in roles like these at many companies in the past 11 months.

Foolishly, some of us still hoped Apple was better than that. And definitely better than this:

"Apple is bringing in Meta chief legal officer Jennifer Newstead to lead government affairs after Adams retires and serve as its new general counsel."

mjmsmith··on The end of naked locker rooms
Where did gay men get changed before the new social norms?
mjmsmith··on Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race
Ackman, Bloomberg, ...
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