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Keep 'em guessing.
This post feels like meta-inquiry
November 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
July 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Breaking News: José Mujica, the leftist former president of Uruguay known for his humility, has died at 89. Known as Pepe, he had a reputation as a savvy leader of the country's progressive coalition, his informal governing style baffled the establishment. nyti.ms/45cnutZ
May 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The majority of new energy generation for the past couple of years in the US has been PV Solar. This has created thousands of new, good paying jobs. Now they slap a 1300% tariff on PV panels, which is roughly 1/3 of system costs. How incredibly destructive.
April 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.

We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
April 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Politics is more clear when you remember that the "waste" in "government waste" is the profit that some rich asshole isn't making off labor in the public sector whose only purpose is the common good.
April 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
What if was turtles all the way up?
April 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Channel 7 News in Australia posted this clip as if it was perfectly normal
April 22, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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I have an inception joke, but parts of it might be confusing.
April 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Massachusetts should support Harvard to the degree of lost Federal funding. Harvard should reciprocate by sharing resultant patent ownership with the state. Maybe the model catches on.
April 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Import Chinese battery: 145% tariff
Import Chinese battery inside Chinese laptop: 20% tariff
Import Chinese battery inside Vietnamese laptop: 0% tariff

Fuckin brilliant. A+ work here team. I am so glad there are such smart people working on our trade policy.
April 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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It's not just fear of being randomly detained. It is principled. We don't want anything to do with you anymore after this. America is lost to us.
April 12, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Trump has perfected the art of Pareto Worsening, a change in allocation making at least one person worse off without making a single person better off.

Trade war, Medicaid cuts, science cuts, there are no winners here, only losers.
April 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Insights into this moment of crisis in the hegemonic order.
youtu.be/eDTFzP-VCRI
Terminal Crisis: The Economic World War Has Begun
YouTube video by Integral Life
youtu.be
April 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Any sort of flattery will get you muted or blocked. If playing a game, your game better be deep.
April 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.: “Chaos is its own form of tariff. Who invests in a nation that can't have a set of dependable laws that people can count on?”
April 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
In repeated games, taking a "bold" action and then having to reverse course reveals information to one's adversaries.
April 10, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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seems like someone might be panican
April 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Wall Street living the 'Scorpion-Frog' thing in real time.
April 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The world should be guided by people who can face tragedy and still find compassion. That is what true greatness is.
The mum of a toddler who died of heatstroke after he was forgotten in a nursery van has said she "loves" the daycare owner who left him there.
Boy, 2, dies of heat stroke in van - but mum says she 'loves' woman who left him
www.mirror.co.uk
April 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Mark my words, this post by Trump is going to turn out to be the most economically damaging post in the history of social media.
April 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Sure looks like the start of a carbon tax to me (with domestic production exemption).
April 6, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Girlfriend: "Our monster paper products order has been placed."
April 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM