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These two articles remind me of the old Point/Counterpoint from the Onion[0]. I feel like someone wrote the first article so they could write the second as a bit of absurdity. [0] …

I'm not saying Jason Gibson is or isn't a real peron, but a quick sleuthing turns up this: - Alcorn State History major within Department of Social Sciences[0] - Jason Gibson Linke…

In the flag examples given, I agree they are almost all uniformly uninspired. The six- and eight-pointed stars must be clip art, and the flat, solid colors and geometric abstractio…

> I feel like we could have like a >95% income tax when you are worth more than like $20 million and it wouldnt actually matter too much to the people who would cap it out? It woul…

In my school, I was part of a group of students who hand-programmed games on TI-81 or TI-82 calculators using TI-BASIC. No cable transfers. Games included: Hangman, Missile Command…

I subscribe to handful of investment-related YouTube channels. This pattern has been common for years. A bot will reply with a comment loosely related to the video and about how so…

If the problem with being a car company is that they'd have to compete with China, then I have some bad news about being a robot company. China is already farther ahead in both tec…

Yes, people expect SCOTUS to rebuff Trump on the tariffs. [0] Lately SCOTUS has been providing stricter textual interpretations of Constitutional questions. Many of these have alig…

> Archive vs. Delete is another question but not as important. Over time I've found that I'm probably deleting too much (e.g. where did I buy that 5 years ago? want it again, can't…

> What was the test for citizenship before the 14th amendment? Basically, the same. Inglis v. Trustees of Sailor's Snug Harbor (1830) established: The rule commonly laid down in th…

This is not what's happening in these schools. Many children have no outside-of-school work -- at all. My two children have had many classes with no homework up through 8th grade. …

You are wrong. The fuel shutoff switches are directly beneath the throttle levers, and they move down to cutoff, which is exactly the direction a hand beneath the throttle would mo…

Bitcoin and Ethereum don't have "insiders", and the ownership pool is sizeable and diverse enough to make pump and dump difficult to perform with them. It's important to recognize …

> What control do they need beyond normal copyright? Money. Content partners pay to have NFL content on their platforms, NFL content is highly valuable, so the NFL doesn't want any…

I accept that /other/ people are idiots, so please, don't restrict /my/ access to guns. /s

Planet Money did an episode[1] on People Express, a low-cost airline that sprung up right after deregulation in the 80s. The history of People Express as told in that episode mirro…

Yes, workers are required to pay taxes on that income. Whether they do or not is another question. When tips used to be mostly cash, workers would often just pocket the cash. The g…

Note that of the two states currently splitting electors, neither do it in proportion of votes. They award an elector to the winner of the vote in each of the state's congressional…

More meetings: both the cause of and solution to our problems!

What we do know is that SpaceX was able to deliver the requirements 4 years (and counting) earlier than Boeing. And they continue to deliver. Yeah, they could be losing money hand …

Underground

It was supposed to be 830 persons per dollar.

Here's a fun thought experiment. How much should National Public Data have to pay the people affected by this breach? The article says there are 2.9 billion people impacted. Let's …

I agree that the governor's efforts to remove homeless encampments is a good thing. But the worst part about homelessness is the quality of life for homeless people -- full stop. F…