Dan Bongard

Seems bot-like to me.

Incredible font matching here

Forcing people or companies to pay higher taxes for engaging in speech you don't like is likely a first amendment violation, and certainly a terrible idea.

I don't think you read the article.

Also, if I can to sign up for a free service I know recommends content to me and then sue them if I don't like the results, it seems like a tiny step from there to suing search engines for displaying results I don't like.

He was pressured to resign or be impeached, which is a consequence (albeit not the prison sentence he deserved).

I don't know the answer to the question "what is culturally normal?".

But I can take a pretty good guess at how many voters will respond "let's ask a politician from San Francisco", and it isn't good news for Newsom and his little alt-right-lite PR campaign.

I refuse to watch unless you're both in those inflatable sumo suits.

There was a lot of deference, especially on "national security" issues, starting with FDR and WW2. It was Vietnam that started the pushback; the fact that Nixon was a crook was just further justification.

Republican Senators and Representatives have no actual motive to impeach Trump. He remains extremely popular among the Republican base. They can stick with Trump and possibly get voted out in 2026, or oppose him and *definitely* get voted out in 2026.

Musk and his stupid truck are horrible. But the original author counted a suicide bomber as a CyberTruck accident to inflate the death count from 4 to 5.

The statistical analysis also seems suspect, since they count "4 deaths out of 34k cars", not "2 exploding cars out of 34k cars".

15 years ago, sure. But it has been normal for 10 years now.

It would have been newsworthy and surprising if Trump had said something like "I accept the result even though I disagree with it". His actual response was exactly as expected.

Proving financial crimes is a lot easier than proving SA, especially when years have passed.

You don't need to be on X to see what people are saying on X. You can read tweets without ever posting there.

There are ego-related reasons for a journalist to be on X, but they don't need to tweet to do their jobs.

I would like to thank 1990s Democrats for normalizing the idea that Presidents can get away with breaking the law as long as their base still likes them.

Good thing there were no long-term negative effects to that.

They are also one of the highest in calories.

Apart from the conspiracy-theorying and scarcely-veiled antisemitism -- I saw "release the Epstein files" banners and signs at the No Kings rally I attended. So people were protesting it.

I don't understand the phrasing. Is this saying that if Jeffries becomes speaker, do everything possible to help him succeed as speaker?

Or is it saying "do everything possible to help Jeffries become speaker"? If its the latter -- fuck that noise, IMO. He's a mediocrity.

You can tab over to other cancer types, and Norway is below the USA in those as well. Like I said, there are better single-payer industrialized nations.

The idea that it is an accurate measure is, but that is still what it is meant to do. There's really no other reason to care if a person got an A or and F in a course, except inasmuch as it measures how successfully the person learned the material.

Cancer Survival Rates by Country 2026 Comprehensive analysis of cancer survival rates by country, offering valuable insights into the variations in cancer care and outcomes among different countries.

I was going by this:

worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...

It is easy to forget given Trump's behavior, but Greenland IS a NATO ally, and the US Navy normally helps protect it. Plus we have a base there.

I assume it used to be normal to have ships in their waters, although I wouldn't be surprised Denmark was rethinking that.

But, I'm guessing, not particularly patriotic with regard to 4th of July fireworks celebrations. 😜

The problem with the "my cancer treatments are paid for" argument, with regard to Norway, is that its cancer *outcomes* are worse. 5-year survival rates are 33.1% for the US and 26.5% for Norway. A better model to emulate would be Germany (33.5%).

The letter grade is supposed to represent command of the material. This makes me curious how much of "grade inflation" at top-tier schools is just due to the quality of undergrads improving as the applicant pool increased and legacies were de-emphasized.

Nuclear submarines routinely patrol the north Atlantic (cuz Russia), so one being near Greenland doesn't seem weird to me.

Who besides Palantir is doing this, I wonder? The reference link goes to a paywalled WSJ story.

I should clarify that the above numbers are from 2024. Trump is above Biden by now, if you add his terms together.

The reason is presidents from both parties have been doing it since Reagan, and since 2000 each has been worse than his predecessor.

Biden $8.45t
Trump $7.8t
Obama $7.66t
GW Bush $4.22t
Reagan $1.6t
Clinton $1.26t
GHW Bush $1.2t

The news tends to dismiss bipartisan misdeeds as not newsworthy.

Rough calculation -- 800 MwH of food/energy usage from birth to age 72. So 54 years of adult intelligence for 800MwH.

That's roughly what ChatGPT used every day last year, without ever producing an original thought or idea.