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This seems to be fueling everyone's confirmation bias. The Gallup poll[1] shows a four year decline since 2020. I mean, I don't know what would have happened in 2020 to precipitate…

The Times Square performance: https://youtu.be/iFaKhtlBU7A ...and recently at Coachella: https://youtu.be/sDoNJSvByN4

This may be the wrong take-away, but the Air Force shooting your balloon down would be a massive source of pride for the science clubs I remember from my youth. We would have had t…

What? Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie wasn't enough for you? I kid. Every 40K fan wants this, but it almost feels like hubris to hope it actually happens. I have to wonder i…

I was a tabletop gamer for 25 years before I played my first sit-down D&D session. GURPS, Paranoia, Cyberpunk 2020, WHFRP, TOON, Amber, World of Darkness...you name it. To say, "Wi…

How so? Do you mean the caricature has been co-opted by far-right activists and provocateurs[1] to promote antisemitism while hiding behind a flimsy defense of ironic trolling? Or …

I feel like stupid is at least quantifiable. We just tolerate a lot of stupid.

This tweet is in reply to Musk's revelation that Apple has stopped advertising on Twitter[1] while making an assertion that it must be because "they hate free speech in America". T…

Jalopnik had an article supposing Musk’s Hyperloop was just a ploy to subvert California's high-speed rail project.[1] Hanlon's razor seems applicable here, but that's not necessar…

The timing makes this look like a reaction to Musk firing Twitter engineers for criticizing him on social media[1]. It seems like a thinly veiled loyalty test instead of a marshali…

In contrast to what, the impartial journalism of the past[1]? It doesn't serve well to surrender your worldview to the journalistic authority over truth any more today than it did …

The Elon-Twitter saga is fascinating in quasi r/ABoringDystopia meets, well, Twitter sort of way. The stage is set with a billionaire doubling down on a meme and then stumbling int…

The FTC decree isn't related to free speech. It was a part of a settlement the FTC reached with Twitter regarding their mishandling of customer data[1]. The original article is ant…

I have to imagine Facebook and Uber had a few lawyers and one paid $4.9B in fines and the other's former-CSO is now awaiting sentencing on an obstruction of justice conviction. The…

Eighteen-percenter here. Made the decision the next car was going to be all-electric. Ended up going with a Chevrolet Bolt EUV. Prices are already competing with gas (compare 2023 …

The more interesting story is RH combining high-end home decor and...restaurants? (And jets, and yachts?)[1] As for the death of San Francisco, The Ramp is in spitting distance, so…

I dunno. 600 grand feels like such an obviously unrealistic amount to spend I automatically assume there's no in-game expectation that a player should _actually_ hit that goal. Wou…

The "player" spending this money is the content creator Jtisallbusiness. Self professed as "THE NUMBER ONE YOUTUBER FOR CASTLE CLASH & OTHER MOBILE GAMING CONTENT!", this looks lik…

2021? https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/233/

"The software programmer with the $100,000 loan said that his options were about to vest, which left him with two choices: He could sell the options back to Bolt, or go through wit…

Hard to say, their job listings[1] don't include the salary. Their listings do say "All salaries are transparent within the company and are set above local market rates," so maybe …

Politics makes strange bedfellows, indeed.

Following the author's "How many men have exposed themselves this year?" logic, if nobody's called the police on your kids, why are you worried about it? I know you want to roll yo…

I got the metaphor; it's a dumb metaphor. Ignoring the r/thathappened premise of the article, what, specifically, is the wall were tearing down here? We should let adults watch chi…