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Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

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Trump has now halted the aid to Ukraine, he has stopped the taskforce responsible for seizing Russian assets, he has stopped the work to keep Ukraine's energy grid going, and he has closed down US offensive cyber operations against Russia. Washington has fallen.

submitted 11 hours ago • 12 comments

The smart people at DOGE did the math and we don’t have to use our tax dollars to fund the federal government when Vladimir Putin is willing to run it for free.

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My wife was out of town yesterday so I cut down a dead, leaning tree in our yard before it fell on someone. I don’t have a chainsaw so it was a lot of work with a hand saw and an axe. When my wife got home her first words were “You’re not getting a chainsaw.”

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Just remembered that Barry Loudermilk wasted $250K to host January 6 videos that were already available on Rumble, which looks even sketchier now that 5% Rumble owner Dan Bongino got picked to be FBI Deputy Director. www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/07/r...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

“Ukraine can probably hang on long enough, even with a total cutoff of US aid, for Europe to come to its rescue. So it really comes down to political will.” https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-up-to-europe-now

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This is the most important comment I have heard this week — Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk: “500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians […] Europe, if there is something we lack today, it is not economic or demographic power, but […]

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Very good thread on Frontotemporal Dementia in Covid, from a Clinical Neurologist.

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Of course. Not only was the story about Hunter Biden in Ukraine made up, it was made up by someone with contacts with the Russians. Then it was pushed by Fox News and it made it all the way up to impeachment proceedings. And here we are […]

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The U.S. Fed has the dual mission of keeping inflation low and maximizing employment. The European Central Bank is only focused on inflation. So the U.S. will throw money from a helicopter if demand gets too low. Europe won't. Since 2008, the U.S. has injected more than five times as much […]

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I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

submitted 15 days ago • 188 comments

Denver https://www.reddit.com/r/boulder/comments/1izuv0i/upsidedown_flag_on_the_2nd_flatiron/?rdt=63277 #protest #flag #colorado

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Sometimes you need a double espresso with whipped cream.

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Wow, the daily ski report for Sugarbush VT, where a certain member of the WH planned to take their family.

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BREAKING NEWS 🚨 After yesterday's events in the White House, Haltbakk Bunkers, one of Norway's largest marine fuel companies, appears to have announced that it will no longer refuel American Navy vessels. Haltbakk has called on other European companies to […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

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The U.S. promised to defend Ukraine. "Three decades ago, the newly independent country of Ukraine was briefly the third-largest nuclear power in the world. Thousands of nuclear arms had been left on Ukrainian soil by Moscow after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. But in the years that […]

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I think I'm going to need Teen Vogue to weigh in on that interview.

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We are barely a month into the second presidential term of Donald Trump and he has made his top priorities clear: the destruction of America’s government and influence and the preservation of Russia’s. Unleashing Elon Musk and his DOGE cadres on the federal government, menacing Canada and […]

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We used to do "vibecoding" by just pitching our ideas to the genius at the office who might just code it up in his spare time if he liked the idea. Our boss would ask if we'd made any progress on whatever and we'd say "Well I'm first trying to write it in AndyScript. If that doesn't work I'll […]

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New: Microsoft is shutting down Skype, the iconic internet calling and chat service it bought almost 14 years ago - Bloomberg […]

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I read this, but also yesterday in the AI group chat at my work they were complaining about the AI assistant suggesting code that doesn't even compile. Zuckerberg says AI race is heating up and the days of coding as a high-paying, safe job might be numbered […]

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“Event driven” is a siren song for software architects to go wreck projects on the rocks of premature optimization.

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Nice overview of the economic realities of the U.S. Canadian relationship. 🇨🇦 #canada https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/1233894751/a-polite-message-from-canada-to-the-us

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We are living in a golden age of N/A beer

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Not mentioned in article either corporate raiding or 2018 fabric tariffs. https://www.npr.org/2025/02/25/nx-s1-5307907/joann-closing-stores-bankruptcy

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is a unifier- now Europe is unifying against Trump and Putin. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/europe-is-the-force-awakening

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

That's just nuts- expect pistachio ads to double in the next decade, as the supply of nuts will nearly double in that time. It takes an orchard ten years to become profitable so farmers plant first, then advertise. "There are a lot of young trees that are going to come into production over the […]

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Rudy Giuliani pays Fulton election workers, ending defamation case. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has “fully satisfied” a $148 million judgment awarded to two Fulton County election workers whom he falsely accused of ballot fraud in the aftermath of Georgia’s 2020 election […]

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Just listened to this story from Embedded- an amazing story of the family of a conspiracy theorist who clings to his theories and loses his family. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/embedded/id1091709555?i=1000694434096

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I got very annoyed this week and said something along the lines of “I’m going to fix ONE thing that annoys me!” and the first thing I saw was my ten year old wheelbarrow whose tire doesn’t hold air so I have to pump it up every time I need it. I said, that’s […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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So after a month of chaos, DOGE has cut $8.5 billion from a $6.752 trillion budget, or about .1% So if the annual budget were $100,000, they've found $125 to save. So about the equivalent of renegotiating your internet contract […]

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Not only will companies replace customer service with robots, they won’t pay to adequately scale the robot clusters. So hold times won’t decrease.

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ECONOMY ALARM BELLS🚨 Economist Warns That Elon Musk Is About to Cause a "Deep, Deep Recession" "This is going to be very, very bad." #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol https://futurism.com/economist-elon-musk-recession

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

I get why conspiracy theories take root; sometimes the best science can offer is "We don't know." People will choose a wrong explanation over no explanation.

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“everyone” won’t be motivated for change til gas prices materially affect 5-15% of Karens of the HOA™ There is a reason revolutions typically occur in the summer. After the crops fail in the spring, the peasants go hungry. Angry, hungry peasants with […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Yesterday evening my dog ate a weeks worth of kitten food that my daughter left open (half a 3.5 pound bag) and then waddled around acting like she was about to be sick and this morning she's looking at me wondering why I'm not giving her breakfast.

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Starting in 2025 U.S. citizens traveling to the EU now need to register with the European Travel Information and Authorization System (ETIAS). It's automated, so the expected wait time is 10-20 minutes but the maximum is 2-3 days so don't wait till you're at the airport […]

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Alienating my already tiny comics audience still further with a cartoon poking fun at one of the most unpleasant people on the planet via the medium of an extremely niche hobby, I present Elon Musk Teaches Chess: https://comic.conniptions.org/comics/795.html #chess #uspol #musk

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