The DOW being over 50,000 can mean one of two things:
1) the economy is rocketing to the moon
2) the dollar is going down the toilet
Have a guess which one it is.
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The DOW being over 50,000 can mean one of two things:
1) the economy is rocketing to the moon
2) the dollar is going down the toilet
Have a guess which one it is.
DNA isn't a blueprint, it is RNAs college notebook complete with doodles in the margins.
13.02.2026 14:47 โ ๐ 75 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The history of Africa and how it intertwines with Europe is not taught in western schools.
This, to those whose education curriculum comes by way of the British Empire, it is obscured.
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, weโll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate changeโall so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
12.02.2026 19:46 โ ๐ 26974 ๐ 11521 ๐ฌ 2057 ๐ 999Wow.
At this point it is like he is shouting his allegiance to Russia to the world.
Why do we spend so much money on rockets to launch satellites when Trump could just repeal the law of gravity?
13.02.2026 08:19 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The foods I listed are all cultural cuisine of the countries he said are the ones he represents.
And yeah, I doubt he would eat any of them and probably hasn't heard of them either.
I guess there is always fried chicken? Though that is the local cultural cuisine of every culture that has fire.
Half. If given the choice I won't eat eggplant. It depends on how it is prepared.
I won't eat live grubs, but they aren't on the list so no points there.
Sauteed grubs, though...
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Proper English? Beef Wellington and Cornish Pasties and Spotted Dick?
Or maybe Scottish food? Haggis and neeps?
Oh wait. Italian food.
Or is it Italian style haggis with Yorkshire pudding and a tiramisu spotted dick?
Trump knows money. He knows so much about money he actually invented money.
What does Switzerland know about money that Trump doesn't?
(Sarcasm. Obviously)
As a young schoolgirl my sister refused to eat anything that wasn't white. I would happily try anything.
My son was picky like my sister. Her daughter will try anything.
Trump makes Nixon look like a saint.
Nixon was not a saint.
I pick both!
Early versions will likely be overpriced and niche.
Later versions will blow diesel out of the water.
Quite literally, once the technology is robust enough for military use.
Melania is probably happy when someone else does the gross parts of her job.
12.02.2026 22:19 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0From my perspective outside the USA that is blindingly obvious.
You need two things in USA:
1) much better media
2) more Mamdani
As a token Australian, I admit our media is also shit. I would also like to apologise for exporting our shit media to you.
If you throw it away we won't be offended.
That is a spectacular geography fail.
You might also want to inform your writers that:
+ New Zealand is not in Australia.
+ Scotland, Ireland and Wales are not actually in England.
+ Canada is not a US state.
+ The Gulf of Mexico.
And that is before we get into more obscure stuff like Africa.
If I am watching a film or a show with a friend of mine and this happens, he will say
"Oh, and here is the plot again for the hard of thinking.*
At which point does it stop being free speech and start being incitement to violence?
Free speech should not extend to hate speech. Calling for the imprisonment or subjugation of a whole population of citizens is a direct threat to public safety.
Colorado was featured in Fallout: Tactics, which is not exactly canon but many of the events in it get referenced
BoS airships, the schism between east and west coast BoS, etc. all came from Fallout: Tactics.
As did Vault 0: Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado Springs.
Such heady heights of knowledge and learning.
Imagine: a leader that sort-of knows the difference between a deficit and a debt!
Not for the reasons you think.
The energy cost is insane.
The outputs are less human than they appear.
Our failure won't be AI turning against us, but big business and govt demanding AI do things it isn't capable of doing.
AI isn't smart enough to go 'sorry, I can't do that.'
The illusion that liberals are the party of economic sense is being shattered.
Without that, all they have is 'low taxes!'
But low taxes don't offset the cost of living crisis brought about by low taxes.
Liberals don't have anything else to offer.
Steam is a marketing and user acquisition accelerator.
If you aren't looking to explode your user base, Steam isn't what you want.
If you don't have a marketing and user acquisition strategy that you want to accelerate, Steam isn't what you want.
It will still be there if you change your mind.
I think it is pretty obvious what they are hiding.
They know we know.
This is now about them trying to avoid justice.
I have taken to calling this illusion economics. It can pretend it is soaring, but like a stage magician's levitation it isn't real.
11.02.2026 21:43 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I was very nearly James.
I wasn't because James was one of the most used names and my parents didn't want me to be the third Jim in the classroom.
Happy with my name, though I wish a certain asshole would stop dragging it through the mud.
Step one: tax the rich.
USA can have it all with economic dominance and a freedom for all by reinstating progressive taxation with a top rate of over 90%
No need to add in a million other rules and guidelines on CEO pay or whatever. Let the tax do its job.
Why can't they?
11.02.2026 21:24 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0She acts in the way she did because she desperately wants you to believe she is untouchable.
You can hear it in her voice and see it in her body language: she is terrified.
She wants you to panic and over-react.
Remain calm and roll your eyes. Let her know you see through her.
The rules are vital for ensuring they don't spiral out for days.
Contempt should result in stiff penalties, though. Unfortunately many of the existing rules depend upon government officials being vaguely human.