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WSJ gets into all the gory details of the Cybertruck flop, including the fact that apparently Tesla tried to make it amphibious because Elon tweeted that it would be, and they simply had to give up and redesign the whole thing when it didn't work www.wsj.com/business/aut...

The most bizarre thing about the COVID School Closure Discourse is how commentators take it for granted that closing schools had no effect on transmission or deaths but that's not at all what the evidence says.

What if we Americanized Disney? www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG0q...

i miss frieren fridays #Frieren #FrierenBeyondJourneysEnd

In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

The aim is to allow illness to spread, claiming some, with only the strong surviving. Act now: masks, fever reducers, gloves, medicines- add to your medicine chest as finances and space allow. Act before shelves are empty and the hospitals incapacitated.

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Another Kusuriya episode where you realize how much better Shisui would be with Maomao under different circumstances. Jinshi is an annoying harassing boss, but those two would be such good gf's to each other and could match each other's odd obsessions, bugs, or poison.

Some thoughts on The Line. mindstalk.dreamwidth.org/2025/05/23/l...

Claude LLM will narc on users venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic...

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