This is so depressing. I know that politics is cyclical, eras of progressive politics are always followed by periods of conservative regression. But, this is such a whiplash response, I don’t understand how so many people are being duped by this insanity around the world.
StumbleUpon started out being completely random, so it wasn’t driven by mining your cookies and feeding the data into an algorithm. I don’t know if it eventually became a nefarious advertising front, but I recall it being pretty innocent. Anyway, I really enjoyed that website before link aggregators rose to such dominance.
I didn’t mean to imply otherwise, so I apologize if that was the interpretation. There are tens of thousands of commercial flights every day around the world (a quick search suggests around 100,000+ per day), so a couple of crashes is a fraction of a drop in the ocean.
I think the news highlighting the other non-commercial airline crashes lately is due to the US charter flight/helicopter crash, so it’s got higher attention traction. I also wouldn’t doubt it’s somewhat politically motivated, as the charter plane crash was attributed to underfunded, understaffed Air Traffic Control, while President Edolph Musk and First Lady Trump continue gutting agencies like the FAA.
Yeah I know, but it originated from Minneapolis and landed in Toronto Pearson Airport, which is very close to the US border (it’s literally across the lake from New York). Different country, but really not that different since the airplane is also from a US airline with a US pilot.
Anyway, it’s just uncanny how many planes have been crashing lately in a relatively short span of time.
Haven’t there been 4?
I just looked it up and yeah, there have been 4 in just a few weeks: https://www.fox4news.com/news/deadly-plane-crashes-2025-timeline
Right?? Even at my peak fitness, my fastest mile was about 4:10 and I literally puked after just doing one mile (and I definitely didn’t keep running afterwards). Here’s this dude maintaining that speed for 13 miles.
That’s simply insane. ~13.1 miles (~21.1 km) at <57 minutes is such an incredible pace. That averages out to about 4:20 minutes per mile, or 2:42 minutes per kilometer.
Amazing.
Yes. They’ve likely already downloaded everything. But the main concern from my perspective was them having continued access and essentially being able to hold our government hostage, so this order at least pulls their access from the live system.
Sometimes this one place gives me $20 of food before closing when I only intended to spend $5 so the upsell kinda hurts
But that upsell is strictly self-inflicted. If it’s before closing, I can almost guarantee the staff are just hooking you up because a large amount of that food is just going to go to waste since most restaurants require things to get thrown away (e.g. if it’s a deli, some of the meats may have hit their shelf life limit).
I’d just tip what you can comfortably afford and what you feel isn’t insulting (e.g. tipping someone like $0.50 on a $20+ order). I always follow the 15-20% rule, and possibly higher in some circumstances. But I don’t know, I haven’t worked food in 20 years, so maybe the manners/expectations have changed nowadays. Also depends where you live.
HDR in movies/TV shows that support it look phenomenal on a good monitor/TV, especially if you have OLED. Games, on the other hand, I have yet to see any that actually look improved with it.
I don’t understand this legitimization of Elon. He has no formal US government appointment in any capacity. It’s all just been Trump informally saying he’ll head the Dept of Government Efficiency, which isn’t even a real government agency (only Congress has the power to create new agencies). So why care what Elon thinks? I guarantee that either, A) the Trump admin will throw him out eventually when he’s no longer useful, or B) he “quits” when he’s gotten whatever governmental protections for his companies that he’s inevitably seeking. Ugh, I hate billionaires.
People are disgruntled enough to the point that they just want to burn it all down. And these far right radicals/Nazis are often promising that (even though they have zero plans of carrying through and will instead just further enrich themselves at the cost of everything else). This is what happens when you let extreme inequality continue unchecked for decades.
Not because the stock is grossly overvalued to begin with? Or even because its CEO is fully diving into being a Nazi?
This is meant to be a joke about Aragorn. His girlfriend really is that old.
They’re not entirely wrong about it increasing the value of debt and that being undesirable to some governments, though. I agree with you as well.
Oh sure, the parent company totally didn’t know this was going on… Glad Brazil discovered this and shut it down. Hope that all of the culprits face severe criminal penalties.
That’s the circlejerk effect for ya. It’s also hard to discern people’s tone online, so some people may interpret a genuine question as something insincere. Not like it really matters though, points aren’t worth anything haha
Anyway, I wouldn’t be so sure he’d fold and backtrack on unpopular policy. He rarely did during his first term, and there were many very unpopular things he did.
Personally, I’m of the view that if Trump is implementing any economic policies like this, it’s going to be making him money directly and/or indirectly. So if that’s his ulterior motive in this context, he won’t care how unpopular it is until he extracts whatever amount of money he wanted out of it. Then, once he or his allies have made their money, they’ll roll back the policy and play it off like he had a change of heart and his bullshit PR outlets will spin it as him having some grand plan all along…
Yes, tariffs are much easier for him to implement than building 1000+ miles of wall.
Childhood trauma is the typical root cause 99% of the time.
Source: My wife is a therapist specializing in treating traumatized children.
This law is disgusting and a 10-year-old’s brain is barely developed. Putting the same degree of responsibility on them as an adult is abhorrent.
It also strongly correlates to women’s rights and access to education. The more educated women are, the less likely they are to have a lot of kids.
https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/health/female-education-and-childbearing-closer-look-data
It’s why you see a renewed attack on women in some developed countries, especially in the US.