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Behold the effects of American "Imperialism". You have to love an ideology which blames its own failures on its enemies' not successfully preventing them.
I just want the money we put into Social Security to be put in the same investments that members of Congress put their own money:
morningstar.com/funds/2-etfs…
Then we wouldn't be arguing about raising taxes or cutting benefits.
xkcd.com/3272/
Somehow only slightly less sensible than the Sunlight Protection Act.
Old Hippies learn that you're not allowed to simultaneously be a sellout and a fraud.
apnews.com/article/ben-jerry…
Remember in November of 2016 when opinion polls said Hillary Clinton was going to be the next President, and then people were crying on live TV? Yeah, don't pick blue.
xitter.cf/waitbutwhy/status/2047…
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
42%Red
58%Blue
98,539 votes • Final resultsI've been listening to the Lex Fridman interview of Jeff Kaplan, and this percolated up into my Youtube feed. Dead-on accurate:
youtube.com/shorts/c7pgqYbsJ…
bbc.com/news/articles/cy8ppn…
Okay, so Spotify pays the rights-holders of a song beteen $0.003 and $0.005 per stream. Bonnie Tyler's 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' has been played over 1 billion times. That means the song has earned between 3 and 5 *MILLION* in gross revenue.
Now I don't know the details of Bonnie's contract, and maybe she doesn't take all that money home. But the fact that the BBC quotes her like it's fact, without doing the ten seconds and Google to report what Spotify actually pays for music is bordering on criminal.
Economists discover after 30 years that labor is not a commodity:
npr.org/2025/12/29/nx-s1-566…
Run your own DNS, people. This not that complicated.
theregister.com/2025/11/27/a…
cnn.com/2025/10/20/tech/aws-…
No. The Internet did not have a global outage. Companies using a service had an outage. But self-provisioned companies have outages too. They just don't line up with other companies' outages.
I want you to consider the possibility that when 15 consecutive Presidents have continued to support Israel, it's not because they're all on the make. It's because they know what they're doing.
Please stop trying to make people impressed by Nikola Jokić and Tim Duncan. Yes, they're very good at basketball. They are also very, very unathletic and boring to watch.
Instead of trying to fix my perception of them as players, try fixing basketball so it's less dull.