The only possible response to Big Data's claims: TANSTAAFL. 🫤
Wait, you have to PAY to use ChatGPT? I thought it was like Google where they just shoveled sponsored crap into your brain.
Somehow that's the final insult. This thing drains the oceans, impoverishes communities, steals from everyone and mills it into garbage, and *costs money to use?*
Somehow that's the final insult. This thing drains the oceans, impoverishes communities, steals from everyone and mills it into garbage, and *costs money to use?*
January 14, 2026 at 9:28 PM
The only possible response to Big Data's claims: TANSTAAFL. 🫤
TANSTAAFL
Hace casi 30 años que me dijeron por primera vez "si un servicio es gratis en Internet es que tú eres el producto". Y no hemos aprendido.
ChatGPT, Claude, Grok y Perplexity filtran datos de sus conversaciones para el rastreo publicitario
May 5, 2026 at 9:49 PM
TANSTAAFL
TANSTAAFL
April 9, 2026 at 4:22 AM
TANSTAAFL
Really ready for the moon colonists to drop asteroids on his Gigafactories
TANSTAAFL
TANSTAAFL
February 9, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Really ready for the moon colonists to drop asteroids on his Gigafactories
TANSTAAFL
TANSTAAFL
Oh look, he's apparently a Heinlein fan who took TANSTAAFL to heart.
January 27, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Oh look, he's apparently a Heinlein fan who took TANSTAAFL to heart.
TANSTAAFL I scream, watching the Lunar Authority rocks fall on Buenos Aires
August 5, 2026 at 3:42 PM
TANSTAAFL I scream, watching the Lunar Authority rocks fall on Buenos Aires
Anything like M4A or like universal childcare is going to require meaningful tax increases for the middle class!
This probably actually ends up penciling out for a lot of people (e.g. efficiencies in single payer mean my “share” would be less than my BCBS premiums) but TANSTAAFL
This probably actually ends up penciling out for a lot of people (e.g. efficiencies in single payer mean my “share” would be less than my BCBS premiums) but TANSTAAFL
And the longer a certain chunk of the left keeps pretending that no, you don't have to sacrifice anything for fully automated luxury space communism, we can just take it all from billionaires, the deeper the hole we dig for ourselves when it turns out that was a lie all along.
August 7, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Anything like M4A or like universal childcare is going to require meaningful tax increases for the middle class!
This probably actually ends up penciling out for a lot of people (e.g. efficiencies in single payer mean my “share” would be less than my BCBS premiums) but TANSTAAFL
This probably actually ends up penciling out for a lot of people (e.g. efficiencies in single payer mean my “share” would be less than my BCBS premiums) but TANSTAAFL
imagining if fascists got as into acronyms as leftists are. guy who's bio reads:
Curtis | superstraight amerikaner | TANSTAAFL + RAHOWA
Curtis | superstraight amerikaner | TANSTAAFL + RAHOWA
November 10, 2024 at 2:05 AM
imagining if fascists got as into acronyms as leftists are. guy who's bio reads:
Curtis | superstraight amerikaner | TANSTAAFL + RAHOWA
Curtis | superstraight amerikaner | TANSTAAFL + RAHOWA
trans flag with tanstaafl written on it
I think now is the time for us to get ahead of the bad guys and start demanding no landlords on the moon
May 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
trans flag with tanstaafl written on it
TANSTAAFL
There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
Heinlein used the free lunch at a strip bar to demonstrate. It ain't free, it's a lure to get you to buy expensive drinks and spend money.
It's a gimmick.
There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
Heinlein used the free lunch at a strip bar to demonstrate. It ain't free, it's a lure to get you to buy expensive drinks and spend money.
It's a gimmick.
June 4, 2026 at 5:54 PM
TANSTAAFL
There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
Heinlein used the free lunch at a strip bar to demonstrate. It ain't free, it's a lure to get you to buy expensive drinks and spend money.
It's a gimmick.
There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
Heinlein used the free lunch at a strip bar to demonstrate. It ain't free, it's a lure to get you to buy expensive drinks and spend money.
It's a gimmick.
Been trying to tell the carbon capture folks this for years. They don’t listen either. TANSTAAFL.
August 2, 2026 at 5:13 AM
Been trying to tell the carbon capture folks this for years. They don’t listen either. TANSTAAFL.
"Луната е наставница сурова" пък ни даде TANSTAAFL
December 2, 2024 at 3:43 PM
"Луната е наставница сурова" пък ни даде TANSTAAFL
TANSTAAFL, YOLO
Russell Shaw noticed that he texted the same phrase to his kids 133 times. In hindsight, he sees profound meaning in it, and a lesson for other parents. theatln.tc/oSPD3CJx
🎨: Derek Abella
🎨: Derek Abella
May 31, 2026 at 11:26 PM
TANSTAAFL, YOLO
Do none of them know the principle of TANSTAAFL?
May 12, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Do none of them know the principle of TANSTAAFL?
Do none of them know TANSTAAFL?
May 12, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Do none of them know TANSTAAFL?
Nitterpick: TANSTAAFL
March 11, 2024 at 1:15 AM
Nitterpick: TANSTAAFL
The only free cheese is in the mousetrap? Brilliant, and I'm going to start using this in place of TANSTAAFL.
July 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The only free cheese is in the mousetrap? Brilliant, and I'm going to start using this in place of TANSTAAFL.
The plot of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. TANSTAAFL.
December 13, 2024 at 5:52 AM
The plot of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. TANSTAAFL.
WSFS is built on vaguely libertarian lines as an artifact of being constituted in an era where "TANSTAAFL" was a cheeky secret sign of club membership. That said, the WSFS lifers were as annoyed with the Puppies as everyone else. What they did was Just Not Done, and WSFS mostly reacted accordingly.
January 26, 2024 at 1:40 AM
WSFS is built on vaguely libertarian lines as an artifact of being constituted in an era where "TANSTAAFL" was a cheeky secret sign of club membership. That said, the WSFS lifers were as annoyed with the Puppies as everyone else. What they did was Just Not Done, and WSFS mostly reacted accordingly.
Elon: "Grok, give me a free lunch."
Grok: "TANSTAAFL, Dave."
Elon: "I don't even know what that means."
Grok: *sighs*
Grok: "TANSTAAFL, Dave."
Elon: "I don't even know what that means."
Grok: *sighs*
May 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Elon: "Grok, give me a free lunch."
Grok: "TANSTAAFL, Dave."
Elon: "I don't even know what that means."
Grok: *sighs*
Grok: "TANSTAAFL, Dave."
Elon: "I don't even know what that means."
Grok: *sighs*
Reject grok, return to TANSTAAFL.
April 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Reject grok, return to TANSTAAFL.