The Picketty equation r>g

When capital gains outpace economic growth, substantially, long-term, there's going to be problems.

Eat shit, Vlad. A good way to not be a target of NATO is to not be a threat against Europe.

Imagine living in a shithole country where they control women, persecute minorities and kidnap people off the streets?

They keep saying that the Trump regime wants Venzuela's oil, but it's also very much about rare earth minerals. Possibly moreso.

“Censorship” is a thought-terminating cliché. These people want you to believe that:

- labeling is censorship
- fact-checking is censorship
- transparency is censorship
- research is censorship

What they’re doing is redefining anything that might inconvenience a hard-right populist as censorship.

For years, Donald Trump has spewed hate speech in an effort to gin up contempt against me.

He reaches for the same playbook of racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and division again and again.
At one 2019 rally, he egged on his crowd until it chanted “send her back” when he said my name.
Trump […]

Notable absence of hemming and hawing and “critics say” bullshit here. The NYT is getting closer and closer to calling t murder. Good on ya. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/us/politics/trump-boat-attacks-killings.html

Just realized that quote toots are available. But I don't like it, so I probably won't use it.

This is really interesting. The prevalent thinking is you put #solar panels on set-aside land not being used for anything else (or rooftops, of course). But actually creating a partial canopy of solar panels over crops can *improve* yields without losing farmland, the same sort of win win […]

Each and every action taken against Republican Fascism, no matter how small, matters. Grain by grain, we build the avalanche that will bury it. 6/6

I loathe Nvidia as a company, but the software I use requires Cuda.

So I finally bit the bullet when I saw a card that dropped below the price threshold of ludicrous down to basic rip-off.

Give me fuel, give me fire, give me that which I desire, but especially give me a dude a who can “hack” the Windows 98 boot registry and we’re off to never-never land downloading more DMX and Tim McGraw.

#napster

Elise Stefanik just humiliated Mike Johnson so hard his son’s phone got an alert

This is no different than refusing to allow Obama to appoint Garland to the Supreme Court because a new president would take office in ten months, and then confirming Barrett eight days before the 2020 election. There are no laws, no rules, no norms, only Calvinball.

I’m not sure I’ve ever identified with any character in fiction more than I do right now with Carol in Pluribus. 😄

She is my everlasting hero! 🙌

There is nothing law-like or court-like about the latest shadow docket decision from the Roberts Court, which stays a district court decision throwing out Texas’s mid-decade gerrymander due to racial basis.

The majority simply ignored: the lower court, its own precedents re deference to lower […]

Worf: Do not hug me.
🤦‍♂️😆

#AllStarTrek #startrek #startrekds9 #lethewhoiswithoutsin

ICE operations targeting Somali immigrants underway in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/live-updates/ice-somali-immigrants-minneapolis-st-paul/

Stupid is deadly, as our current circumstances demonstrate.

Hegseth must resign or be impeached.

When there are no consequences, murderers just keep killing

#us strikes another boat in the Eastern #pacific, killing 4, amid escalating questions about its purported “counter-drug” offensive <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/supremacy" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">#oil acquisition / US [#supremacy of the Americas]

#trump #hegseth #law #criminal #murder #warcrimes […]

NewsGuard - Pro-China sources are spreading manipulated videos purportedly showing residents of the Japanese Ryukyu Islands saying they’re Chinese, not Japanese, in an apparent effort to bolster Beijing’s territorial claims over the islands amid rising tensions between China and Japan […]

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/04/robocop-statute-detroit

What the ever loving FUCK is this?!

With all of my computer shit show today, which came not from the OS but from overly aggressive DRM and skeevy developers, something broke inside me. It will probably take awhile to figure out what it is.