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submitted 1 day ago • 472 comments

There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.

submitted 1 day ago • 261 comments

3rd world country dictator shit. This state is completely fucked.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

If you need help coming up with a 'hypotheses' you shouldn't be a scientist. Every scientist I know has 100 project ideas and lack time to get to them. No on is sitting around twiddling thumbs without an interesting question to ask. We are in the dumbest timeline.

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments

Mod makers rejoice: The Team Fortress 2 SDK has arrived! We've updated the Source SDK with all of TF2's client and server game code. Change, extend, or rewrite TF2, and publish them as mods on Steam. www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=...

submitted 4 days ago • 77 comments

It Almost Weirder That Grown Man On Roblox Isn’t Grooming Children theonion.com/it-almo...

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

They’re probably equally evil but it’s tremendously fucked up that Elon (worst poster in the history of the medium) might be tweeting for Trump (naturally gifted at posting)

submitted 7 days ago • 27 comments

Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

submitted 7 days ago • 302 comments

The Big Balls I Knew How did the meek, video game-loving Imagine Dragons fan I roomed with last semester become the heartless DOGE bro who tried to cut off funding to our university?

submitted 10 days ago • 143 comments

stewart: you guys got anything other than platitudes? jeffries: nope, in fact here’s one of my favorite platitudes

submitted 10 days ago • 27 comments

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 10 days ago • 310 comments

I think I've found a way to articulate what bothers me about the trajectory of the modern tech industry (and to some extent... society). We are on this Earth to provide for each other. That's the "mission" of humanity as I see it. This is incompatible with what the tech industry seeks to do.

submitted 10 days ago • 534 comments

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

The left complains that we are losing our democracy. But this has never been a democracy. It's a republic.

submitted 17 days ago • 65 comments

"[A] democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - FDR (1938)

submitted 27 days ago • 65 comments

The resist Lib wine moms were right about pretty much everything. But they’re still cringe.

submitted 28 days ago • 36 comments

While I have a $5 million house and a much younger wife, my columns stress that a solid moral grounding is the most important thing in life. But in my hip-hop heart, I know that to a kid looking up at me, life ain’t nothing but bitches and money. by David Brooks

submitted 29 days ago • 37 comments

Okay, without trying to pass any judgement on the merits or who did what or why re: tiktok, I think it's notable that the rationale for enforcing the law seems to be a tacit rejection of corporate personhood by the government.

submitted 34 days ago • 356 comments

I voted for Trump. When he said he wanted to deport undocumented workers, I didn't know he meant people like my gardener.

submitted 36 days ago • 46 comments

This piece is worth reading - about what CA contributes to our country. Most don’t know that CA literally subsidizes most of the US states $$. Insist that the next administration not use this tragedy for politics. Be there for CA. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugma…open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...iu

submitted 40 days ago • 8 comments

I don't often do posts like this but I just finished interviewing a game dev who got laid off last Friday and 2 days later his health care was cut off and it was bad timing his wife had to go to the doctor and got hit with a massive bill.☹️The U.S.A needs free healthcare!

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

American workers are more than 400% more productive than they were in the 1940s. But all of the economic gains are going straight to the top. Workers deserve more. It’s time for a 32-hour work week with no loss in pay.

submitted 41 days ago • 52 comments

some of you could fall in love with this

submitted 42 days ago • 33 comments

one of the most depressing realizations in politics is the day you understand that a lot of people would legitimately prefer to spend more money to make sure nobody “undeserving” gets a benefit than to make it accessible to everyone

submitted 48 days ago • 178 comments

I think about this quote a lot

submitted 56 days ago • 105 comments

For Elon Musk, $250 million is the equivalent of $26.21 for someone who makes $50k a year in salary.

submitted 65 days ago • 100 comments

Internet Archive should be protected at all costs.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

It's so dumb how in an era when people have understandably stopped answering calls from random numbers, people calling with legit reasons have also stopped leaving voicemails

submitted 70 days ago • 15 comments