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slot-loading combo player compatible with all disc media (vinyl, LD, mini-CD, CD, DVD, HD-DVD, BD, UHD BD)
November 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
slot-loading combo player compatible with all disc media (vinyl, LD, mini-CD, CD, DVD, HD-DVD, BD, UHD BD)
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I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
OH: "traditional japanese key ceremony"
November 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
OH: "traditional japanese key ceremony"
for a trailer for "The Super Mario Galaxy Movie", that sure had a lot of Sunshine and Odyssey
November 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
for a trailer for "The Super Mario Galaxy Movie", that sure had a lot of Sunshine and Odyssey
Virgin Punk ep1 review: Umetsu made Kite again, except with *slightly* less sexual violence, and with all the modern production value Shaft was able to throw at it
if you liked Kite, you'll love this; if not, it's a tossup
ep2 eventually hopefully™
if you liked Kite, you'll love this; if not, it's a tossup
ep2 eventually hopefully™
November 12, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Virgin Punk ep1 review: Umetsu made Kite again, except with *slightly* less sexual violence, and with all the modern production value Shaft was able to throw at it
if you liked Kite, you'll love this; if not, it's a tossup
ep2 eventually hopefully™
if you liked Kite, you'll love this; if not, it's a tossup
ep2 eventually hopefully™
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The basic problem of health insurance: if you want sick people to be able to get insurance, then the insurance product ceases to be traditional insurance, bc the insurer cannot price risk. Once you accept that sick people should get insurance, you must accept some variety of a socialized system.
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 AM
The basic problem of health insurance: if you want sick people to be able to get insurance, then the insurance product ceases to be traditional insurance, bc the insurer cannot price risk. Once you accept that sick people should get insurance, you must accept some variety of a socialized system.
there are a bunch of great memes about softbank selling their Nvidia stake, but nobody seems to have actually read the article, where they explicitly say "we're doing this to raise cash to dump into OpenAI"
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
there are a bunch of great memes about softbank selling their Nvidia stake, but nobody seems to have actually read the article, where they explicitly say "we're doing this to raise cash to dump into OpenAI"
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the minute flights got canceled, Dems folded like a house of cards, leaving me to wonder why the fuck this post made some of you so angry
not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 AM
the minute flights got canceled, Dems folded like a house of cards, leaving me to wonder why the fuck this post made some of you so angry
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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!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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!
daily reminder that if a financial instrument increases the prices that buyers are able to pay, that just means sellers can charge more
30-year mortgages do this already and are toxic to the economy; 50-year mortgages would be a worse version of that
30-year mortgages do this already and are toxic to the economy; 50-year mortgages would be a worse version of that
November 9, 2025 at 4:26 AM
daily reminder that if a financial instrument increases the prices that buyers are able to pay, that just means sellers can charge more
30-year mortgages do this already and are toxic to the economy; 50-year mortgages would be a worse version of that
30-year mortgages do this already and are toxic to the economy; 50-year mortgages would be a worse version of that
can I get a GLP-1 *ant*agonist, I want to eat more
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
can I get a GLP-1 *ant*agonist, I want to eat more
am I still the only one who uses this siding design in my factorio rail system
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 AM
am I still the only one who uses this siding design in my factorio rail system
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this btw is the framing that's getting a lot of traction with my normie friends. The house GOP is trying to repeal Obamacare, dems are saying no and so the GOP shut the government down to try and get the dems to cave; trump is too busy caring about the ballroom.
Trump is checked out and the GOP in Congress has ideological commitments to fucking healthcare
October 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM
this btw is the framing that's getting a lot of traction with my normie friends. The house GOP is trying to repeal Obamacare, dems are saying no and so the GOP shut the government down to try and get the dems to cave; trump is too busy caring about the ballroom.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
what are you all up to, I'm about to collect 100 coins in Shifting Sand Land by only pressing the B button
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October 27, 2025 at 3:40 AM
what are you all up to, I'm about to collect 100 coins in Shifting Sand Land by only pressing the B button
okay real question, not a joke, not a euphemism: does anyone know anywhere in san francisco where I can take an actual decent shower with decent water pressure, I am willing to pay an irresponsible amount of money
October 26, 2025 at 7:24 AM
okay real question, not a joke, not a euphemism: does anyone know anywhere in san francisco where I can take an actual decent shower with decent water pressure, I am willing to pay an irresponsible amount of money
anybody missing a car key
October 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
anybody missing a car key
I briefly thought I'd discovered the first ever case where translating 告白 (romantic) as "confession" without further qualification was grudgingly acceptable, but no, this is a *novel*, you have plenty of flexibility to adjust this gag in whatever way is necessary to make it actually work in english!
October 25, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I briefly thought I'd discovered the first ever case where translating 告白 (romantic) as "confession" without further qualification was grudgingly acceptable, but no, this is a *novel*, you have plenty of flexibility to adjust this gag in whatever way is necessary to make it actually work in english!
okay I love to see the euphemism treadmill called out in a novel afterword
October 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
okay I love to see the euphemism treadmill called out in a novel afterword
. o O (anime student council election attack ads)
October 25, 2025 at 4:13 AM
. o O (anime student council election attack ads)
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Elon Musk couldn’t figure out how to make a pop tart without hurting himself
one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it
October 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Elon Musk couldn’t figure out how to make a pop tart without hurting himself
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robotgirl’s favorite position call that hydraulic mating press
October 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
robotgirl’s favorite position call that hydraulic mating press
"I'm sorry for being scared of you. I should've been scared of you in a different way."
October 23, 2025 at 7:42 AM
"I'm sorry for being scared of you. I should've been scared of you in a different way."
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Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.
October 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.