Website immediately triggered an “ad” that brought up a fake full screen broken screen plus a “Oh no your phone has a virus” obvious malware prompt for me. The electric car in the thumbnail looks like highly probable slop to me. I think we all know how this comparison goes without needing to click on dodgy websites
Because you are sticking the other half of the cylinders in a motorcycle
Silver slab reminds me of the meat slices that Aldi sells in their frozen gyro kits, probably the same thing, a slice of homogenized mystery meat. Not sure about the blob
They do say measured in present value dollars, so technically this isn’t inflation. But it is effectively interest. The idea that social security taxes should be a 0% interest bank account is absurd. Nobody would reasonably put their retirement savings in a 0% interest bank account, even one that is inflation protected, and expect to have a successful retirement. They also fudge the numbers by looking at the median retiree and not the average retiree. Social Security is a progressive payout system, meaning those who put in the most get the least back proportionally (it could be more harshly progressive IMO, but that is a separate conversation). Meaning that in a wealth-concentrated environment like ours, social security is effectively a transfer of wealth from the richest boomers to the other boomers, but Fortune pretends that isn’t happening and chalks it all up as a transfer of wealth from millennials to boomers, which is quite disingenuous
I was guessing either it has fewer digits or the tens digit is less than 4 would be the desired answers depending on what the selected number was, that kind of question feels like it would predate negative numbers on the learning curve
Lol, they can’t afford to operate at the current state of zero regulatory burden. But they could use regulation as an excuse to effectively outlaw Chinese or open source AI
Yeah, call me a Russian bot for complaining that the Democratic party is not as democratic as I wish it was. You’re helping.
I’m sorry, let me correct my statement then. At no point did I have a vote in the selection of any of those democratic candidates, my rubber stamp vote for Biden did not select Kamala. There was no alternative for Spanberger, and my city just straight up cancelled their Dem primaries this year. There is a uncomfortably wide and long-running pattern of the field clearing for the party candidate before the question is put to the voters. But you got me on a technicality, I’m spouting misinformation
Every state had no democratic primary for president in 2024. Virginia had no Democratic primary for governor in 2025. Also had no democratic primary for senate in 2026. I’m sure you could narrow it down from there with a bit of research, but that’s as close as I feel comfortable coming to doxxing myself
Haha, jokes on you my state democratic party decided it knows best and didn’t bother to have a primary for any of my elected offices. Counting 2026, I haven’t had a primary to vote in for my last House election, my last US Senate election, my last Governor election, my last presidential election, my last school board election, or my last city council election. I feel soo represented
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism_II
Checkmate atheists
They’ve been caught before, which would make getting caught a second time even more embarrassing
One of those women, Adorno said, is “paralyzed and using a wheelchair.”
Reminder that ICE’s excuse for their behavior is that they are keeping the “dangerous criminals” off our streets by, apparently, replacing women in wheelchairs with armed thugs who are whisked out of state to avoid legal consequences if they murder you in broad daylight
I maintain that the correlation between those two factors is not nearly as strong as people make it out to be when trying to explain away the violence that American sunbelt cities impose on their residents. -20 vs 80 is an extreme example (Minneapolis probably has as many of those days as Memphis has days above 100, which surely has its own negative impacts on the appeal of active transportation), but yes I suspect that you could find more people walking about in below freezing temperatures in a city that is built with pedestrians and their safety in mind than you will find out and about in balmy temperature in a city that is built to put the car above all other forms of transportation. I don’t even think it’s particularly counterintuitive if you think about it for a bit. Think about a snowy Christmas market, and then think about a 4’ wide, unevenly paved sidewalk flanked by a steep ditch on the side of a 6 lane highway in the most beautiful weather you can imagine. Which of those scenes would you be more surprised to see someone walking through?
Well, that and the fact that this website is largely dominated by US, Anglo sphere, and Western countries, which generally have a higher degree of direct complicity in the Palestinian genocide than in the Sahel
In 2019, Minneapolis reported 16% of all trips into or out of the city were made on foot. In the same year, the Memphis Metropolitan Planning Organization reported 1.02% of commutes were done either walking or biking in Shelby County (the county containing Memphis). Commutes vs. all trips and 150 km2 city vs 2000km2 county, so it’s not a perfect comparison by any means, but I don’t think that data is indicative of a massive bias towards pedestrian activity in Memphis vs Minneapolis. Weather is not a strong indicator for pedestrian activity, infrastructure is. But infrastructure has a correlation with safety, so we don’t see high pedestrian modal share cities like New York, Chicago, or Boston on this list, but it has nothing to do with how cold their winters are
Carrying water for incandescent bulbs on the basis of their reliability is wild. Yeah, several companies have taken advantage of the conception of lightbulbs as a disposable good to cheap out on LED bulb construction until they are also disposable, but they did that so successfully because changing incandescent bulbs was such a common occurrence, it was the template for a proto-meme joke. Not everything in the past was better than things today
I mean, occam’s razor says they just started at the international date line because that is the far left of most commonly used map projections and went left to right, I wouldn’t be too confident reading any intent into this placement