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say it in native german though ron

submitted 2 hours ago • 74 comments

Not Japan-related, but since we all need a distraction from The Horrors, Takaya Suzuki points out a study that examined 408 sleeping cats and found the majority (65%) curl leftwards. I'm not sure how useful this information is, but...it's yours now.

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

wait w h a t

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

So, it WAS a kidnapping.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

"the ambient sounds of the world were wrong, sir"

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...

submitted 1 day ago • 147 comments

I've found it again, one of my favorite posts on the internet

submitted 14 hours ago • 16 comments

Everything I see from Brad Lander makes me respect him more and more.

submitted 13 hours ago • 6 comments

Selfishness, boredom, and the complacency that, no matter what, there will always be a roof and food on the table.

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

The physical abuse of children is as central to *and inherent in* right-wing politics as tax breaks for billionaires and racism.

submitted 15 hours ago • 16 comments

This is an excellent thread that illustrates the "... to be left alone" concept of liberty is incompatible with our complex, media saturated, inequitable world. If embraced, prevents us from from the liberty of "... acting meaningfully."

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

Interesting offer at the sushi bar.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

We went to Mashiko's, one of Seattle's better, and more adventurous sushi restaurants, for dinner. The waiter asked, "Have you been here before?" "We still have sushiwhore magnets on our fridge." "I guess I don't have to warn you about anything, then."

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Murder rates could hit record lows this year, but killings by police are rising. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 17 hours ago • 8 comments

This is strangely moving

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

I would absolutely spend my entire meal gawping at this magnificent lunacy

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

the way calling for the deportation of any visible non-white person is rapidly becoming normalized is a huge cause for concern.

submitted 20 hours ago • 132 comments

I still stand by this.

submitted 203 days ago • 36 comments

Another of the upcoming Pride YCHs!

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Truly the end of a Seattle era. Even the ghost of the Lusty Lady sign has gone.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Ha. Ha.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Sullivan's whole argument is that the 200 LGBT kids who commit suicide every year or who are murdered by their own family, is a small price to pay compared to the horrifying alternative of a state with the state capacity to prevent that.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Walking through Pike Place Market, and I passed by someone playing an accordion, and the tune sounded familiar. It was "Eclipse," the last track on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

I had lunch at a little café with a TV on over the counter. An ad showed a woman typing into some AI product, "Make an basic business plan I can use as a classroom example." How is that any different from just buying (or stealing) the work of someone who, you know, did the work?

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

This: "If AI makes you three times as productive, that's three times as much output you have to read, to think about deeply, and ultimately be responsible for." And if you're not? Well, that's just irresponsible.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

I loathe linking to the Badsite, but this is a worthwhile article. White supremacists will tell you that the stagnation of African civilization is proof of African inferiority. A new economics paper reveals a singular source of Africa's woes: the Tsetse fly. x.com/captgouda24/...

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

Rep. Andy Ogles, a Republican from Tennessee, has sent a letter to Pam Bondi calling for Zohran Mamdani to be stripped of his citizenship and deported.

submitted 20 hours ago • 640 comments

There are only two rocket builders experimenting with the aerospike: Pangea and India's OmSpace. I'll believe in the aerospike when someone makes it into orbit with one. www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/12...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

In Puerto Rico, towns with solar-based "microgrids" avoided many of the blackouts the island had recently experienced. The US Department of Energy has now told towns to stop putting in solar, join the state-wide grid instead. spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

I hope those $50, oh, now it's $4, wait, it's $400 but only for a second, now it's $6 again... whatever... I hope the lattes and whiskey that can buy doesn't soothe the guilt that you probably destroyed a family and sent a human being to torture and death. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/ic...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Once again, I'm asking what a "cryptocurrency" represents: a coin backed by the full faith and credit of a nation, an investment in a productive industry, or an insurance against calamity? There aren't any other forms of wealth. This will end badly. www.investopedia.com/federal-regu...

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

The Global Vaccination Initiative has extended vaccinations to 1 bunion of the world's most impoverished children. RFK Jr. announced the US is withdrawing from the program. apnews.com/article/us-v...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments