2026-10-27T11:12:09Z https://nostr.now Nathaniel Swigger https://nostr.now/npub15z9fje7nhrsej4z374cx63cjc08az75w2mer0zk7yjd80c0a9fastxv5a8 https://files.mstdn.party/accounts/avatars/109/395/057/349/792/662/original/2134eef8e1dbb148.png https://files.mstdn.party/accounts/avatars/109/395/057/349/792/662/original/2134eef8e1dbb148.png https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszm2lnny2wtz7mkys66uxqhgvjc37a5ahzmqajxj872qmc90zsmkgzyzsg4xt86wuwrx25286hqm28ztpul5t63et0ydu2mcjf5alpl548kfxdzd7 Why? Why? Why would you do this? Why would you ever think this was a good idea? Why?<br/><br/><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/26/california-sunlight-space-mirrors-satellites">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/26/california-sunlight-space-mirrors-satellites</a> 2026-10-27T00:02:24Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9nc88f8cv9277c0yqjvpjfvrew98f4m5ls8g4paesl3mafa4hkkszyzsg4xt86wuwrx25286hqm28ztpul5t63et0ydu2mcjf5alpl548k9aazlj Student: “So Elon Musk is a trillionaire?”<br/>Me: “Yup.”<br/>Student: “How did he get that much money?”<br/>Me: “Well, he doesn’t really have a trillion dollars cash. He just owns a lot of stock in companies that are valued at a trillion dollars.”<br/>Student: “So those companies make huge profits?”<br/>Me: “Oh gosh no. They all lose billions of dollars a year. All of them. Huge losses.”<br/><br/>The Economist headline: “Gen Z Mysteriously Hates Capitalism and No One Can Figure Out Why.” 2026-06-05T11:30:26Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsv6vq4cugu8gfat3n7mzf79wsjaxm593dfgz3wl8m9mvydhmfqa0szyzsg4xt86wuwrx25286hqm28ztpul5t63et0ydu2mcjf5alpl548kygnw73 When everyone hates you: <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-kennedy-center-closing-renovations-c6dba4a46e71b0d0e48d46501195366c">https://apnews.com/article/trump-kennedy-center-closing-renovations-c6dba4a46e71b0d0e48d46501195366c</a> 2026-02-02T00:27:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszl2jd2a7kvzkfhpch0fkxr9zsvu83r06wzc82xf8l2jg2mnjra6qzyzsg4xt86wuwrx25286hqm28ztpul5t63et0ydu2mcjf5alpl548kdyqtkz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswfvwqydt6mlfx3xnrc0g9pt0q3pc6yfafjenvea9382c3vmxmn9chzxlxf'>nevent1q…xlxf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And, holy shit, how bad does a government have to be if FIFA, no seriously fucking FIFA, is like, “yeah we’re out.” 2025-05-06T21:19:10Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswfvwqydt6mlfx3xnrc0g9pt0q3pc6yfafjenvea9382c3vmxmn9czyzsg4xt86wuwrx25286hqm28ztpul5t63et0ydu2mcjf5alpl548k0vcd52 So…it sounds crazy…or would have sounded crazy 6 months ago…<br/><br/>But does FIFA decide to just do the World Cup in Canada and Mexico? Like, is the US now more hostile to tourism than Qatar? 2025-05-06T21:18:09Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsrgcm7a8mf9fj250q69s0e56qgmfr5hrh9jlgrrf7tcwa4xstl9xczyzsg4xt86wuwrx25286hqm28ztpul5t63et0ydu2mcjf5alpl548khw4y66 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstxn8wknhzz4dm7a4g2ejj89j9pczjlu0kgx7ysxaeyvfp69x4mkszxgyq4'>nevent1q…gyq4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I wonder how many people out there are like that. I wonder how many of them are, right now, refusing to admit they made a mistake or did something WRONG<br/><br/>…because it’s all just politics, right? 2025-05-05T16:28:35Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqstxn8wknhzz4dm7a4g2ejj89j9pczjlu0kgx7ysxaeyvfp69x4mkszyzsg4xt86wuwrx25286hqm28ztpul5t63et0ydu2mcjf5alpl548k9n376v In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9k02n5uu2t29v227kcdjs6u74u57zyhglj8e4lgl48s5a0s4ua9sz7puzq'>nevent1q…puzq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And I suspect it will never occur to this guy that he might’ve done something, you know, WRONG. 2025-05-05T16:27:28Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9k02n5uu2t29v227kcdjs6u74u57zyhglj8e4lgl48s5a0s4ua9szyzsg4xt86wuwrx25286hqm28ztpul5t63et0ydu2mcjf5alpl548kfhd794 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszgh6myq503086km3vyll4utfns26a4e2tq5rpntsvwxe698pgzrgwj9lm4'>nevent1q…9lm4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And dad probably is convinced that nothing truly bad can happen to his daughter. That’s not how it works, right? 2025-05-05T16:26:18Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqszgh6myq503086km3vyll4utfns26a4e2tq5rpntsvwxe698pgzrgzyzsg4xt86wuwrx25286hqm28ztpul5t63et0ydu2mcjf5alpl548kynx8ve In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvx5grf0qhxdp8rmkz5md8kshlvjhuu0cf2378usk6gpgt7stkx4q9zyadz'>nevent1q…yadz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Of course, this is a young white woman from the suburbs. I would guess her family is comfortable but not wealthy. For a family like that, they will have a lot of resources. 2025-05-05T16:25:50Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvx5grf0qhxdp8rmkz5md8kshlvjhuu0cf2378usk6gpgt7stkx4qzyzsg4xt86wuwrx25286hqm28ztpul5t63et0ydu2mcjf5alpl548kxsxgxf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxupz94hjj9964l2cvc7n3ed2wty5djv3sq28zghu6dpkpgpwsjcqpx2cv7'>nevent1q…2cv7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And she was frustrated because she kept trying to explain why she was scared and he would insist that nothing bad or serious was going to happen and that she was being overdramatic. 2025-05-05T16:24:58Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsxupz94hjj9964l2cvc7n3ed2wty5djv3sq28zghu6dpkpgpwsjcqzyzsg4xt86wuwrx25286hqm28ztpul5t63et0ydu2mcjf5alpl548kyf60dl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs08kg325q29n8dl7t8ww9akpmlq3una8jqgmmgwrwv2xe9up5lxyqg8pk9q'>nevent1q…pk9q</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>See, her dad was a Trump voter. I got the impression he was not a flag-waving, rally going type. But he was a Trump voter. The normie Republican, probably a Republican because he’s just kind of been that way his whole life and never thinks about politics type. 2025-05-05T16:24:13Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs08kg325q29n8dl7t8ww9akpmlq3una8jqgmmgwrwv2xe9up5lxyqzyzsg4xt86wuwrx25286hqm28ztpul5t63et0ydu2mcjf5alpl548kfyuzx2 Story time: This semester I had a student who asked to meet with me to talk about the state of the world. She was anxious about things, to put it mildly.<br/><br/>But she was also really pissed off at her dad. 2025-05-05T16:22:41Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsx3qnqwr7lvqkd0e73yzkvsjp5kcx3g4akdqh7p4u3y95svmssjjgzyzsg4xt86wuwrx25286hqm28ztpul5t63et0ydu2mcjf5alpl548kh63vzh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfe6ze7g5d3wemk6g9sn04yhmhjg4jhw3z3p5z3g64379mzh2me6gzkaaqx'>nevent1q…aaqx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>They’re mad that they will never get to be Batman, never get a Die Hard moment, never get to kill zombies, etc.<br/><br/>They’re mad that no one, absolutely fucking no one, is impressed with their steely man gaze. 2025-01-17T13:27:47Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfe6ze7g5d3wemk6g9sn04yhmhjg4jhw3z3p5z3g64379mzh2me6gzyzsg4xt86wuwrx25286hqm28ztpul5t63et0ydu2mcjf5alpl548kpnz4gc The “masculinity crisis” is just a bunch of dudes who can’t get over the fact that life isnt an action movie. 2025-01-17T13:26:29Z