What if you get to Heaven and find out the way to get in was to donate to Wikipedia

while haiti is in the news so much this week maybe we should all take a moment to discuss the fact that their economic destitution is entirely due to being forced to spend ~80% of their federal budget every year for 150 years on reparations to france for freeing the slaves

If you like getting Listeria from the Boar's Head lunch meat sandwich you ate, you are going to love Project 2025, which eliminates much of what little regulation of the food industry that still exists.

honestly a wild move to brag about a new transit line that you just unilaterally defunded (by suspending congestion pricing) and hope nobody will notice

Unfortunately, immigrant street vendors in NYC can't afford to bribe Eric Adams & his corrupt NYPD buddies.

This post about a Delorean raises an important point. The move to huge cars blunts pretty much all the senses (sound, sight lines, road vibrations) and with them, the experience of driving. The perception of speed is significantly blunted, so people are incentivized to go faster.

I would give up access to AI forever in return for absolutely nothing

You cannot comprehend the RAGE that rushed through me as I saw that the first google result for googling Hieronymus Bosch is incestuous AI sloop. What are we even doing here...?

I'm not often compelled to speak out about things like this - but are companies like Google and OpenAI aware of the serious, permanent damage they've done? Not just to this - an admin can change this. But to *images on the internet as a whole*. You see Google Images lately?

It’s difficult to overstate how bad an economic policy this would be

Gerald Ford faced two assassination attempts in 17 days in 1975.

There is a big difference between deserving something and being capable of it.

of course i’ll listen to that song you sent me i love you

There is literally no justification for this psychopath to keep his government contracts. A national security threat should not also be a national security contractor.

Raiders of the Lost Ark is set in 1936, while what’s now Israel and Palestine was still under British occupation and called Palestine.

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It’s “so sci-fi” because the entire genre is infused with Islamic influences, not the other way around lol

Oh helll yes

The EU is capitalist