Sitten olen kolumnistin kanssa vähän eri mieltä onko nykyään edelleenkään kovin tärkeää olla oikeassa. Orpohan on esimerkiksi tykittänyt 100 000 laskennallista lisätyöllistä samaan aikaan kun työllisyys kyykkää suurin piirtein yhtä paljon toiseen suuntaan. Ei vaikuta tärkeältä olla oikeassa.

Eli tiedettä on liikaa siinä mielessä, ettei yleisöä kiinnosta ja liian vähän siinä mielessä, ettei koneisto edes käy läpi oleellisia vaihtoehtoja.

While Russia continues to shamelessly claim it never strikes civilian targets, this week it used a precision-guided Iskander ballistic missile worth several million dollars to hit a World Food Programme warehouse in Dnipro, destroying food stocks intended to feed 130,000 people.

Go beyond the AI encyclical and discover other papal wisdom, like the 1567 bull “De salute gregis dominici” (“on the welfare of the lord’s flock”) which sounds like an extended metaphor but is literally about how people should stop mauling and getting mauled by wild animals for entertainment.

A Mr. Reinhold, who was detained in several camps, here describes his daily meals given in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Three meals a day! ‘Food: early ¼ coffee, midday ½ water gruel, evenings 200 grams bread with 20 grams margarine, or a slice of sausage’

I don't enter into these kinds of debates either. Nothing in my scientific training equips me to argue with a conspiracy theory.

Tämä muistuttaa minua elävästi siitä kauhusta, mitä koettiin alasaksilaisessa Unteroberdurchdorfin kaupungissa vuonna 1632, kun ruotsit rynnivät kylään hakkapeliittoineen ja veivät kirkosta Maria Magdalenan veistoksen (kauniisti väritetty). Ruotsit vetivät toki virsisession tekojensa kunniaksi.

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

Even the planned circus show at the White House is a pump and dump scheme

That would be -30°C...

Drivers ignored a farmer's no parking sign, so he sprayed their fancy cars with what the English politely call "cow slurry."

Insectivores. This is canon.

Being attacked by one of the top five most unpopular people in Britain is the best thing to happen to Starmer, who is only in the top twenty.

They’re turning the entire federal internet apparatus into a galaxy of phishing sites that are controlled by the president and do not adhere to any federal privacy or disclosure rules.

Three, this also means that Magyar now has far less immediate pressure to enact these reforms - with money locked and an August deadline to prevent some of them from evaporating, there was a sense of urgency in Budapest to move fast and break things. Not so much anymore. 6/

Two, this means the Commission has no zero leverage against Hungary if the reforms stall or if Magyar proves to be something else than a firebrand reformer. At least with Tusk, one could argue that the Commission knew very well whom they are dealing with. Not so much here. 5/

One, this reinforces the narrative that actually doing anything about the rule of law and fundamental rights is less important than political alignment between the HU/PL govt and the Commission, feeding the argument about politicisation of values. Orban's key narrative just got a big boost. 4/

VdL is consistent; you have to grant her - once again, her key EPP ally gets everything in exchange for promises and stern commitments. This is extremely damaging for the EU, the rule of law, human rights and Hungary, in a twisted way, for three reasons. 3/

No one respects JD Vance because he is a fraud who works for Peter Thiel

Insane password requirements and then not letting an old password be used again.

Why do my stove and dishwasher both need (separate) apps to “unlock” features? It’s a stove! Just make things hot!

Also when I try to click on a headline, but the page is still loading, so I accidentally click an ad instead

This is tiny, but drives me crazy every time. Mobile sites that have autocapitalize in email fields. Please just stop that.

requiring a wifi connection and/or monthly subscription for a product that should not require a wifi connection or monthly subscription to work

Physical retail products no longer including physical assembly/operation manuals, instead including QR codes or printed links to websites(???) Like, we know that when a company goes down, those online-only manuals will be dead and those products will become relics way too fast

reading a news article on my phone and the ads are loading in sporadically so the text keeps jumping around and I keep losing my spot and eventually enough ads load that the site crashes entirely

This. I actually use the Close Door button on elevators all the time because if there’s no one near, there’s no reason to wait and it will speed things up. But the Trust Device cookies are actual bullshit. Even more so if you know you‘ll clear your cookies right after that browser session.

2037: “Cook-O-Tron has acquired Flametronics. We will cease supporting Flametronics legacy apps in 4 business days. This is definitely for security reasons. If you wish to continue having hot meals and a functioning refrigerator, please purchase a new set of appliances immediately.”

I'm sorry this is late but: I had to download an app and connect my oven to wifi if I wanted to use the air fry or convection settings

I thought I'd get maybe 25 replies to this request and use two or three of them. We're now at 1400. The column, which is 4600 words long (blame yourselves), is finished, but this thread should be studied by future historians. No era has ever been as utterly annoyed, as molecularly fed up, as we are

"I don't wanna vote Democrat because being smart is for nerds and they don't talk enough about how amazing I am for having a penis" go stand in the corner and feel bad, treating this as a non-embarrassing opinion is how we got to this hell dimension

Professor O’Brien: “All the extra money lavished on the Russian military (2011-2022) created what was arguably the most over-rated and poorly performing military in modern history.” Trump: “Hold my beer”

The bottom line is that there will never be any meaningful congressional oversight or investigations into the blatant corruption of the Trump family enriching themselves as long as Republicans are in control. www.propublica.org/article/dona...

“The United States did not join a joint statement by nearly 50 UN member states condemning Russia’s new threats to strike Kyiv and calls to evacuate foreign embassies.“ Evil Russian bootlickers.

They will need to appropriate minimum several hundred million dollars just to get the white house back to some kind of normality and sweep it for hidden cameras and listening devices and the media will cover the expense as their first scandal

Trump said 'I don't effing care that they have weapons. They're not here to hurt me' as an armed mob avoided metal detectors at his January 6 speech. www.businessinsider.com/trump-weapon...

A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.

Let's prioritize installing solar panels on structures like car parks and building rooftops instead of agricultural land, as this approach embodies sustainable development.

Blaming voters alone ignores the system they’re forced to operate within. People make choices under conditions shaped by propaganda, media narratives, economic pressure, gerrymandering, voter suppression, money in politics, and parties that often narrow what’s considered “acceptable” debate.

It’s wild to watch Republicans demand the world just give Trump whatever he wants when he’s literally the least popular President in US history

Data centers are just the current blight put upon us by a shortsighted greed-obsessed ruling class.

lmao

Does E. Jean Carroll need any assistance in filing her slam-dunk claim against her rapist's $1.8 billion slush fund for being a victim of the weaponization of the judiciary? I'd be glad to help!

Does Hollywood realize yet that the premise for all the movies that depict the FBI and federal agencies saving US citizens from utter destruction by corrupt and evil forces are gone and all those streaming shows and movies are now ALL crap?

Perhaps we should have thought about this before mindlessly withdrawing from the WHO & dismantling of USAID, in the wake of a years-long raging global pandemic from which not a single country in the world was able to isolate itself.

The State Department supposedly sent $1.5 billion tax dollars to the Board of Peace slush fund, which is now empty.

I for one love the idea that to get a man to eat you must bounce and dangle his chicken nuggets in front of him like he’s a cute widdle kitten

A threat to your way of life is just what the world needs right now, mate.