Until a few decades ago, we enjoyed a near-complete freedom to transact when, where and with whom we pleased. Centralized control over the ability to buy and sell was impossible, as was centralized surveillance of individual transactions.
the internet archive got hacked? that’s crazy bro. the thing that has old news articles and old social posts and videos that contradict the blatant lies of the state-controlled media? that’s nuts my guy. right befor the election? that’s bonkers dude
JUST IN - Internet Archive hacked. A popup claims there was a "catastrophic security breach" and now the site is down with a "temporarily offline" notice — The Verge
> import 100000000000 pakistanis
> let them rape little girls
> no really. at an industrial scale, for years. torture them too
> no really just let them. the police know and do nothing
> no i’m not kidding
> people are angry
> they post online
> censor them “to protect children”
> agree to pay cleaner X $/hr
> cleaner works 3.5 hrs, asks for < 3.5 * X
> "no, here's 3.5 * X"
> cleaner happy, grateful
> next month
> cleaner works 3.5h
> "here's 3.5 * X"
> "no you pay me 3.5 * X + Y"
> why?
> "gas is expensive"
> i am gaining the courage to hate the poor
i was trying to sum up the boomer question irl and got a little lost. how’s this, am i missing anything? they:
- had fewer children than their parents by a full child per woman
- celebrated and expanded the welfare state (they were too young for new deal, great society …
mamdani prediction thread:
- he wins
- he makes cops' jobs substantially harder and emboldens gay race communist "prosecutors"/judges
- crime trends to pre-giuliani levels
- the park slope demo (anglo/secular jewish/asian tech-adjacent yuppies w/ young kids) leaves
An actual mountain on Jupiter’s moon Io
by NASA Juno during a flyby
Readers added context
This is an artist's visualization based on Juno data with highly exaggerated vertical scale. A revised visualization shows the mountain as much more normal: missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/proces…
english has a cool built-in heuristic for detecting bullshit
are most of the nouns and verbs being used latin/greek or germanic in origin?
if germanic, the things being discussed are probably real physical actions and things: tree, walk, cow, shit, fall, wood, buy, leg, go