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I was going to say feng shui, but the handful of times I've seen it brought up in the context of food plating the whole point was harmony and balance . . . Having food askew is pro…

What sort of issues are you thinking? Plenty of defense contractors with classified projects are already publicly listed, so this is not uncharted territory. Lockhead Martin for ex…

I suspect that too, and the US is not the only country to be having issues with some of the citizenship by investment countries. Norway for example, appears to have de-facto banned…

Boil them, mash them, stick'em in a stew.

n = 1, but if we get UBI, I will immediately start a precious metals brokerage business.

The Executive Order has now been published: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/rest... If you don't want to read the pre-amble, you can skip straight to the se…

Also worth thinking about inflation with this one. The $10,000 figure originated with the 1970 Bank Secrecy Act[1]. Back then, that was a lot of money. If it had kept up with plain…

It does, but almost all the major platforms/companies are members of NetChoice, a trade organization that fights this sort of thing. This presser from Bluesky doesn't mention it, b…

What method are you using to predict what future governments won't find offensive/illegal? Short of time travel, this seems impossible.

Polls were also showing the Liberals would be wiped out - possibly not even the opposition party - and Conservatives would form a super majority. Which is why it's important to rem…

Yes, it's very much anathema to put ketchup on a hot dog, at least among Chicago hot dog enthusiasts. For those unfamiliar, Chicago is also one of those American cities with its ow…

It's also quite telling that this gets attention and rampant cries about the oligarchy and cronyism, but not a peep about: > New York state lawmakers have launched an effort to shu…

Just the participant, a tall deck of blank IBM punch cards, and a punch. None of that fancy punch card machinery either. Return to tradition[1]. [1] https://www.ibm.com/history/pun…

Don't forget the third option: false flag. The objective may not have been to obtain access or any useful data. The objective may have been to get the scary headlines about Russian…

Also for anyone interested, some of Flight Director Gene Kranz's recordings are available online. Here's the first part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWfnY9cRXO4 The comments ha…

I enjoyed reading your post on Startup News. ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News#History

This is the interview this article references. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6DiMIJIvYw I've watched it. I think this is a somewhat dishonest characterization, but you can liste…

What do you make of something like Reddit (RDDT, down -15% at this moment)? It's unaffected by tariffs, but its insane valuation is driven by the narrative that Reddit posts can be…

That's certainly one take, but I suspect historians will actually link the beginning of this trend to the European/Western reactions to Russia in February of 2022. It could be fram…

The American Sunlight Project which coined the term "AI grooming" and is the reference for this article should be familiar to many: > The American Sunlight Project is a left-of-cen…

> The Appointments Clause of the constitution says that Officers of the United States must be appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate. Wasn't that the …

You probably don't need the "in the future" part. We know that CIA was looking into infiltrating the embedded systems in vehicles since as early as 2014, thanks to Wikileak: https:…