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To be fair some of those CEOs will have trouble finding golf buddies for a few months.

Also if you have a few hundred million bucks you will still have your mansion if you get it wrong.

The world has gotten more political. Everything is going to shit and we have not even really started the climate change.

I read a book once about doctors who went into the slums to treat cholera in the 19th century- noblesse oblige. We are now WORSE than the Victorians.

I remember this came up during COVID. The government was worried that homeless people and illegals would be afraid to report symptoms. GPs are specifically free and don't have to a…

Tammany Hall did not happen because they were immigrants it happened because someone thought it was a good idea to have people who could not even write their own name vote. Democra…

Yes I too was downloading anime in the early 2000s. As someone living in a small provincial town there was effectively no real way to watch Naruto or GitS. Piracy made the world a …

If everyone wears a smartglass it becomes easier for the creeps to hide. A tree in the forest.

When a minor gets online it is only a matter of when not if before they get questions about their underwear.

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America does not want friends only vassals. Which arguably is what Canada became after the British left.

I am starting to notice a pattern here: all these datacenters are located in places with cheap land and lots of poor people. Odd for something that I am assured is the bright futur…

Most people do not have money to invest. There should be a law that forces the rich to go on an annual safari to see how poor people live because we are literally entering "let the…

The Netherlands prides itself on its coastline and dunes but by the time mass tourism arrived the country was already rich. The secret ingredient is always money. Spain looks the w…

LLM is just math. Which is why I do not like AI- it is nothing like in Deus Ex or those Japanese anime were computers are cute little girls who want to blow up the planet. Reality …

Most soccer players tend to retire in their late 30s so they are better off pursuing an education after their pro athlete career. Of course the best are multi millionaires who neve…

The thing is you cannot just switch sports. When we are talking about the really TOP elite of football those kids get into it at age 5. From that age on every day consists of hours…

The only good use case for a credit card is if you are buying something from someone you do not trust. I have a CC and it use it a few times a year. But using them to pay for groce…

You too can have no healthcare, no pension and no job security! Sign up to America today.

European powers had taken over shipping in that region since the 17th century because their sailing ships were superior to anything the locals built.

The US can't limit anything beyond their borders. We ae living in the twilight of the white man.

This is why I have two separate browsers. If you want to do official stuff like paying for things you need to get through cloudflare.

You are supposed to take every threat as real. Which is also why calling in a fake threat is considered a big federal crime to deter clowns.

If this means universal basic income the GOP will kill themselves in apoplectic rage!

The people ponying up the cash expect a return on their investment- they are not in it for the religious experience.