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And it's $500 million you stole from a children's cancer charity -- what's the downside?

"Valtion budjetin näkökulmasta nykyinen hallitus on ollut melko samanlainen hallitus kuin muidenkin isojen puolueiden johtamat hallitukset olisivat olleet, lukuun ottamatta köyhien kyykyttämistä ja työttömien armeijaa."

It’s a strange situation when we’ve established the POTUS is a criminal, we’re just trying to find a crime his party wouldn’t be okay with.

Trump to the American people: your anxiety over $ is fake news.

Comme s’il n’y avait pas d’images sur la première Guerre Mondiale en plus…

in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said

V good - as Tom points out, much of living in the UK today is built around either believing, or tolerating, being lied to directly to your face. Pointing out the lie will get you yelled at, castigated and publicly shamed, and underneath it all, a fear of what happens once the lie unravels

No single US news source is consumed by more than 25% of Americans, whereas 60% of Brits regularly watch/read/listen to the BBC. A single shared source of truth makes it harder for partisan echo chambers to form, or for divisive narratives to dominate. It’s good for social cohesion and compromise.

Queen Ghislaine even has a puppy at Club Fed. This is how convicted sex traffickers are coddled by the Trump admin. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...

Petit rappel parce que c'est important.

15 years later, & they're still doing the same nonsense about health economics and health insurance.

The key weakness in AI agents is that they're a lie. They don't work. They just don't fuckin' work. You can't set a hallucination engine to work doing tasks. It's pants on head stupid. The hype pretends this isn't the case and hypothesises a fabulous future where they work *at all*. This is a lie.

This is a perfect definition: “An LLM is a text-based ML system initially trained on effectively all the text the LLM company can download or pirate. These systems require a massive amount of resources to initially train & operate, but do produce a highly convincing obsequious chat bot.” 🙏🏼

for values of any minority group at all really, you can sub in "social justice discourse" for "BBC reporting" and "the kids must be wrong" for "the BBC must be biased/lying" and you have the same mechanism of ressentiment underlying the cancel culture moral panic too

#Ukraine #UkrainianView

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

I cannot believe truly... the cyberjunk didn't end a career. Apparently that inventor is worth a trillion. Look at them all siiting there collecting dust and rust

didn't really expect to get more mileage out of this again so soon

Just utter abject failure. Unbelievable.

Rikas: "Hyvinvointia lisätään laskemalla veroja." Köyhä: Tutkimusten mukaan ei... Rikas: "On leikattava julkista sektoria, jotta on varaa yhteiskunnan ylläpitoon." Köyhä: [kirjoitus jätettiin julkaisematta] Rikas: "Leikkaukset ovat ainoa vaihtoehto, ei ole esitetty muita mahdollisuuksia."

I‘m afraid police state/fascism is going to be the default response to the #polycrisis. Jailing and muzzling those who try to warn about the problem and do something is so deeply human. Sigh. But police states are unsustainable, and what is unsustainable cannot be sustained.

Not sure what's more embarrassing: admitting you're afraid of a sandwich or admitting you believe MAGA will revisit their promise to vote on anything other than blow jobs for billionaires.

“Toad,” said Frog, “you never know when someone may send you a letter.” “No, no,” said Toad. “I do not think anyone will ever send me a letter.”

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Husbands with Grindr profiles?

50 year mortgage is so crazy. to put it in perspective, 2016 was 50 years ago

one thing i find crazy-making is the idea that getting rid of the filibuster would make congress a purely majoritarian institution. bicameralism itself is counter-majoritarian! equal state representation is counter-majoritarian! the fact that senate elections are staggered is counter-majoritarian!

incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries

We live in the dumbest of times.

The ability to convince capital markets to hand you a trillion dollars on the strength of obvious bullshit paired with the inability to get a single human to sincerely and spontaneously say they love you is some real punishment of the gods shit.

Why there is a Highway to Hell but only a Stairway to Heaven

If I am shopping, and I'm not seeking you out for help, leave me alone. Just fuck off. I don't want conversation, I don't want a warm welcome and I damn sure don't want you to slide in for an upsell or trying to get me to sign up for a credit card or what the fuck ever. This is why I shop online.

I think this bag is fake. Hermes's flagship products are handsewn using a saddle stitch. A worker marks the leather using an awl and then threads two needles through from both sides. This results in a tight stitch with no holes between the stitches. The holes here suggest the bag was machine sewn.

Trump’s new attack against health insurance companies will all go away after they buy some Trump crypto and donate to the ballroom.

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

He has no idea what Obamacare is. Absolutely no idea. We are ruled by the dumbest monarch ever.

If your annual income is $100,000 (a good salary by European standards), then you'd earn a million dollars in ten years. But to earn a trillion dollars, you'd need to work for ten million years--which is about 30 times longer than our species has existed.

It is fascinating to watch governments turn to their populations and say, 'This is it, lads. Yees are not getting anything better ever. Now continue to vote for and support us', as a strategy.

C'est pas comme si c'était le château d'eau d'un quart du globe...

🧵👉 1/ “Nettoveronmaksaja” on nykypäivän koomisin itsepetos – kirjanpidollinen harha, jossa rikkaimmat väittävät elättävänsä yhteiskuntaa, vaikka heidän vaurautensa nojaa sen yhteisiin rakenteisiin. Reaalitalouden ylijäämä on aina syntynyt työn tekijöiden käsissä.

"Seizing Brexit opportunities to deregulate" was mostly unspecified magic fairy pixie bullshit then, and it's not going to get any more realistic in the hands of a bunch of Reform clowns who don't know how anything works, don't care to learn and disdain anyone that might.

Have you heard of “The Populist Playbook?” A few years ago, I posted what I still consider one of my most important messages. It was about “The Populist Playbook” that I’ve watched play out often over my 33+ years of city planning. Since then, it’s only gotten worse. Do the steps sound familiar?

Nyt puolestaan Kokoomus tuo toivoa koteihin kertomalla Pauli Aalto-Setälän naamalla, että vienti on piristynyt. Samaan aikaan Tullin sivut:

This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“In many ways the experience of being sucked into these delusions is a lot like being drawn into a personalized cult tailored to your particular interests.”

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