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> We've elected a president who couldn't care less about the country, Worse: from day one, he enacted a playbook designed to sabotage the country within and abroad. This administra…

For additional context, the CEO's blog post can be found at the following address: https://www.zillow.com/news/the-housing-market-has-stood-sti...

The new US policy under Trump is to burn everything down while extracting as much wealth for himself and his cronies as possible.

Surely "Melt ICE" would be a catchier slogan.

There's no need to fight. The proper solution is to end the war on drugs, allowing people to do what they will with their own bodies. Once people can legally buy their drugs, the c…

> Tariffs and citizenship has been ruled on the Supreme court. I wouldn't breathe easy about birthright citizenship yet. Trump v. Barbara was a relatively narrow 6-3 ruling, with K…

> does not inspire confidence that the current administration's FDA is doing its job properly or has the problem under control. Given DOGE wiped out the teams responsible for track…

The US and Brazil have eaten a lot of beef for a significant amount of time, so that had already been priced into the market. A sudden spike in price requires a change in the marke…

My experience has been that this isn't limited to engineers. I'm sure most people here have had people from other departments tell them how they need to do their jobs in one way or…

> The point is that the heroes in the MCU stories didn't have to outgrow their nerd phase through virtues like courage, responsibility, duty - instead science made them into men. P…

To me, far more than it being about skyrocketing inequality and concern about where people will land in the future (though this is certainly part of it), the much larger social pro…

> We already know some programming languages attract certain types of personalities/attitudes ... to say nothing of the monsters that use spaces instead of tabs ;)

Maybe certain Kentucky Senators shouldn't be exempt from work requirements, then.

This is currently down-voted to gray for me, but it's a pretty well-documented phenomenon. To anyone unfamiliar with the concept of warrior cops, it may behoove you to start with t…

Real justice when it comes to swatting is multi-faceted. Sure, the person making the bogus call to police should suffer some consequences vis a vis jail time. However, swatting onl…

That's because the Supreme Court has ruled that police have no constitutional duty to protect citizens. Special note: that includes cases where protective orders like restraining o…

Strictly speaking, we cannot say for sure they didn't predict the corruption -- merely that they didn't warn about it. For all we know, they're participating in the corruption, whi…

This is a good point, so I'd like to provide some additional context. There were 2,977 victims in the 9/11 attacks. This doesn't come close to cracking the top 10 leading causes of…

You have to appreciate the level of audacity required for a catholic organization to claim they are protecting children from harms regarding sexuality.

No interpretation was made. That's literally a direct quote from the article, which is itself a direct quote from a DOT spokesperson.

> Algorithmic micro-trading is investing, despite looking like gambling. It's skimming.

The truth is that there was a lot more available in the early days of Netflix than there is now, which with some rose-tinted glasses may very well make it seem like Netflix had eve…

One option is to drop "against Hugging Face". The "that happened" term seems a supremely important part of the title given the "is science fiction" term before it, as it clarifies …

Under Obama's deal with them, Iran was quite content to not have nukes. Had the deal not been torn up, they'd likely never acquire nuclear capability in our lifetimes. Trump's unpr…

It's a pretty well-established fact that children of two-parent families have significantly better outcomes than those of single-parent families. However, I'll concede its juxtapos…