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You can't get blood from a stone. Maybe the landlords should've saved up six months of income for an emergency. Isn't that the usual advice?

Maybe instead we should ask ourselves why the rent is so high instead of blaming people who just want to minimize the time they take out of their short lives to spend commuting to …

Maybe the landlords should've been more responsible and saved for a rainy day. Isn't that what the less-well-off are always told to do? Poor planning on their part shouldn't be the…

Someone should do this with: 1. Landlords who insist on raising rent. 2. Instacart shoppers who promise huge tips only to revoke them at the last minute. If people can't be decent …

Corporations and governments use ad campaigns effectively all the time. I'm convinced that if you took a fraction of that fusion money and bombarded people with "nuclear is fine" a…

Non-US readers should know that Tucker Carlson is a Fox News pundit, and to say that he has credibility issues would be an incredibly charitable interpretation of things.

Bioweapons are crappy precisely because of what's happening now. A good weapon discriminates, and lets you kill exactly who you want. By that measure, a virus is about as hamfisted…

When will Papa be redistributing the Catholic church's vast wealth then?

I can't find the blog post, but I read one once that said, basically: you don't need labels or folders. You need your inbox, the archive, and trash. Once you've tended to an email,…

Presumably the cars crammed together in a field is supposed to be fun, whereas an interstate is supposed to be soul-crushing.

This is 100% a rightwing talking point, pushed by the likes of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Ann Coulter, and I wish it would go away. Look... if we all want to get along, then we…

They're going to make the service fail during a known period so people will know they haven't migrated.

What's that Upton Sinclair quote everyone here loves? "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." It's hard to adm…

I'm consistently amazed by HN's ability to take the most meaningless, inconsequential part of an article (the scroll behavior, the whitespace, the usage of the word "bricked"), and…