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The Wealthy In This Country Would Poison Us For The Sake Of Profit!!!

submitted 26 days ago • 529 comments

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I think people reeeeealllly overestimate the role of trade and industrial policy in US dominance of heavy industry in the 1950s and really underestimate the importance of having dropped high explosives on every facility in Japan or Germany capable of manufacturing a ball bearing

submitted 37 days ago • 181 comments

It feels ridiculous to be a SF writer and rail so much against this sort of thing but, like GenAI, the existence of this kind of misdirection is actively going to set back real research because it will hoover up the support and funding with large promises, and deliver nothing of value.

submitted 37 days ago • 20 comments

This includes: Panic of 1873 and Long Depression 1873-1879 Depression of 1882-1885 Recession of 1887-1888 Recession of 1890-1891 Panic of 1893 (-1894) Panic of 1896 (1895-1897) Recession of 1899-1900 Recession of 1902-1904 Panic of 1907 (-1908) Panic of 1910-1911 and Recession of 1913-1914

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Conflating being smart and being rich has been one our biggest mistakes and the US will never live it down

submitted 38 days ago • 40 comments

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

submitted 38 days ago • 1115 comments

ACTUALLY LEAVE ME OUT OF YOUR NEFARIOUS PLOTS, CHEERS.

submitted 64 days ago • 2 comments

shitposting 𝘪𝘴 resistance

submitted 57 days ago • 15 comments

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

every day my brain is just "goddamn these stupid goddamn motherfucking fucks"

submitted 57 days ago • 44 comments

Today a co-worker told me I'd be a great life coach. Which only confirms my previous judgment that he had very poor observational skills.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

I've lost track of time. Every couple of days someone likes a reply I posted and I think "That was a year ago." No, that was 46 days ago. Everything moves so fast now.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Yep. My feed has more people complaining about Democrats than about Trump. It’s ridiculous.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

"I just don't understand how our country is like this now, this has never been who we are." 1/x

submitted 75 days ago • 42 comments

And if that ever changes, we're shooting Matthew McConaughey into a black hole.

submitted 74 days ago • 4 comments

"The truth is out there, I tell you h'whut." The X-Files meets King of the Hill, two of my favorite Fox shows. #KingOfTheHill #XFiles #Art #DigitalArt

submitted 93 days ago • 2 comments

"Aliens" meets "The Jetsons" - part three of the three-part series. #TheJetsons #Alien #xenomorph #Facehugger #lv426 #Aliens #art #DigitalArt #popculture

submitted 93 days ago • 3 comments

"Aliens" meets "The Jetsons" - part two of the three-part series. #TheJetsons #Alien #xenomorph #Facehugger #lv426 #Aliens #art #DigitalArt #popculture

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

"In post-impressionist France, no one can hear you scream." Van Gogh meets "Alien" in another one of my pop-culture inspired classic works of art. #facehugger #alien #xenomorph #Art #VanGogh #lv426 #aliens #PopCulture #horror

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

An epic romantic disaster story told in three parts. 🧊🚢 #Titanic #HeMan #Skeletor #MastersOfTheUniverse #DigitalArt #Popculture

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

Your watchdog group has zero dogs. Lame.

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment