> the over 50% of Americans who voted in favour of their current situation Small nitpick: while Trump won the popular vote, he did not earn over 50% of the votes. There were enough third-party votes that he won with…
Perhaps the insurer should defer to the doctor, who is not only generally an expert at treating cancer but also much more familiar with the details of the patient. It baffles me why people are OK with insurers dictating…
Rather than worrying about major world powers killing a large portion of the global population in a nuclear war, I'd worry more about the ultra-wealthy - i.e., the people with enough wealth where they can call up a…
It's wild that it still works to this day. I just checked it the other day via PuTTY. I first ran across it over 30 years ago while I was still in school, and I'm sure it's been up longer than that.
No. He literally says he'll cut a check for $5,000 for every adult american if the Republicans win both the House and Senate in the midterms. You don't have to take my word for it:…
It's even worse: Trump literally just promised during his midterm convention to pay everyone $5,000 should the Republicans win the midterms. Note that this promise is itself illegal. It is a violation of 18 USC 597.…
I feel it worth pointing out an important distinction between censorship coming from "the left" vs. that coming from "the right". On the left, when someone uses a racial or sexist epithet, for example, the reaction is…
Yet paradoxically, being old is nearly a requirement for political office. Biden was the oldest president in history, and with his re-election, Trump will become the oldest president in history should he live out his…
For some quick and easy evidence, you could look at the history of the Post Office. USPS has always been the poster child for efficient and effective government agencies. Despite claims otherwise, the agency still…
A significant fraction are non-whites. Many who were born before segregation ended in the mid-1960s were not granted birth certificates, as their mothers were forced to use midwives during birth because local hospitals…
The primary motivation for Rupert Murdoch's creation of Fox News was to prevent the Republican party from ever suffering an embarrassing resignation like Nixon again. Present the Republican base with an alternate…
That's because the Democrats are controlled rather than true opposition. It still makes the party a better option than Republicans often times, in that they won't intentionally (but will sometimes accidentally) break…
> Are there positive aspects to laziness? Hard work often pays off in the future, but laziness always pays off now.
Another way to close the loophole would be to amend the tax code to realize the gains for any stock used as collateral, since the person obtaining the loan is already de facto realizing the gains for the sake of the…
There was a time not so long ago when it was common for chemistry teachers to show off pools of mercury in their bare hands. By the time I first took chemistry classes, though, that practice had stopped, less out of…
Back in my day, we had nine planets.
> it looks to me like both sides are weakening US hegemony in entirely different ways and have been for a while now. That's a pretty bold claim, especially insofar as it (perhaps unintentionally) sounds like you're…
> All the while voter turnout is a complete joke. To be fair, the US electoral system is designed to discourage or outright disenfranchise most voters: * First-past-the-post, winner-take-all elections ensure that anyone…
Because many of the wealthiest individuals de facto realize their gains in the form of collateral for loans that allow them to live without ever realizing their gains from the perspective of the tax code. If you do well…
It gets easier with an electoral system other than FPTP (e.g., ranked choice, instant runoff), whereby more than 2 parties appear. You can then mix and match multiple parties that support policies you want in a way that…
> They’re smart enough I worked at a small company that had a policy of putting devs on front-line support in a rotation, both because it was too small to have dedicated support staff and because the owners wanted devs…
So only slightly less dangerous than a standard salad, with the cyclospora lettuce and killer tomatoes: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080391/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8...
That's almost like disbanding the CDC's pandemic response team mere months before a once in a lifetime global pandemic. And then he was re-elected. Unfortunately, it would seem that stupid, unnecessary, self-own changes…
Maybe grandparent meant fruit salad.
I'm not so sure about that. See: https://www.independent.org/article/2026/01/14/flock-condor-... However, what Jordan found was a free-for-all, with less security than even what a standard Netflix account would require…
> the over 50% of Americans who voted in favour of their current situation Small nitpick: while Trump won the popular vote, he did not earn over 50% of the votes. There were enough third-party votes that he won with…
Perhaps the insurer should defer to the doctor, who is not only generally an expert at treating cancer but also much more familiar with the details of the patient. It baffles me why people are OK with insurers dictating…
Rather than worrying about major world powers killing a large portion of the global population in a nuclear war, I'd worry more about the ultra-wealthy - i.e., the people with enough wealth where they can call up a…
It's wild that it still works to this day. I just checked it the other day via PuTTY. I first ran across it over 30 years ago while I was still in school, and I'm sure it's been up longer than that.
No. He literally says he'll cut a check for $5,000 for every adult american if the Republicans win both the House and Senate in the midterms. You don't have to take my word for it:…
It's even worse: Trump literally just promised during his midterm convention to pay everyone $5,000 should the Republicans win the midterms. Note that this promise is itself illegal. It is a violation of 18 USC 597.…
I feel it worth pointing out an important distinction between censorship coming from "the left" vs. that coming from "the right". On the left, when someone uses a racial or sexist epithet, for example, the reaction is…
Yet paradoxically, being old is nearly a requirement for political office. Biden was the oldest president in history, and with his re-election, Trump will become the oldest president in history should he live out his…
For some quick and easy evidence, you could look at the history of the Post Office. USPS has always been the poster child for efficient and effective government agencies. Despite claims otherwise, the agency still…
A significant fraction are non-whites. Many who were born before segregation ended in the mid-1960s were not granted birth certificates, as their mothers were forced to use midwives during birth because local hospitals…
The primary motivation for Rupert Murdoch's creation of Fox News was to prevent the Republican party from ever suffering an embarrassing resignation like Nixon again. Present the Republican base with an alternate…
That's because the Democrats are controlled rather than true opposition. It still makes the party a better option than Republicans often times, in that they won't intentionally (but will sometimes accidentally) break…
> Are there positive aspects to laziness? Hard work often pays off in the future, but laziness always pays off now.
Another way to close the loophole would be to amend the tax code to realize the gains for any stock used as collateral, since the person obtaining the loan is already de facto realizing the gains for the sake of the…
There was a time not so long ago when it was common for chemistry teachers to show off pools of mercury in their bare hands. By the time I first took chemistry classes, though, that practice had stopped, less out of…
Back in my day, we had nine planets.
> it looks to me like both sides are weakening US hegemony in entirely different ways and have been for a while now. That's a pretty bold claim, especially insofar as it (perhaps unintentionally) sounds like you're…
> All the while voter turnout is a complete joke. To be fair, the US electoral system is designed to discourage or outright disenfranchise most voters: * First-past-the-post, winner-take-all elections ensure that anyone…
Because many of the wealthiest individuals de facto realize their gains in the form of collateral for loans that allow them to live without ever realizing their gains from the perspective of the tax code. If you do well…
It gets easier with an electoral system other than FPTP (e.g., ranked choice, instant runoff), whereby more than 2 parties appear. You can then mix and match multiple parties that support policies you want in a way that…
> They’re smart enough I worked at a small company that had a policy of putting devs on front-line support in a rotation, both because it was too small to have dedicated support staff and because the owners wanted devs…
So only slightly less dangerous than a standard salad, with the cyclospora lettuce and killer tomatoes: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080391/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8...
That's almost like disbanding the CDC's pandemic response team mere months before a once in a lifetime global pandemic. And then he was re-elected. Unfortunately, it would seem that stupid, unnecessary, self-own changes…
Maybe grandparent meant fruit salad.
I'm not so sure about that. See: https://www.independent.org/article/2026/01/14/flock-condor-... However, what Jordan found was a free-for-all, with less security than even what a standard Netflix account would require…