I think the non-native US population has some unique characteristics due to having been settled by immigrants. No matter how desperate the situation was back home, you still have to be a certain kind of person to leave behind most or all of the poeople you knew, and set out across the ocean. On the positivie side, I think this makes for a resilient and adaptible population. But I think it also makes for a population that is self-centered and lacks empathy for those worse off.

We can probably thank Lina Khan, chair of FTC for this. It’s amazing to finally have someone back in the FTC that cares about protecting consumers.

I bet De Niro is devastated – just devastated, I tell you.

If cats could talk, they wouldn’t be cats. So it’s not really possible to answer this question :)

Full Self Demolition

Biden COULD have just not said anything on this one. Instead he doubles down on his support for the genocidal maniac, Netanyahu, that is dragging him down in the polls.

Cruel and unusual punishment.

So wholesome :)

Amazing how bad those panels look after what, a few months?

In this case the screw was at the bottom of a narrow slot, and they only found it after breaking things.

You lost me on the seatbelt thing. What’s going on there?

If we were to burn another 500 billion barrels of oil, it would be game over for the planet.

Just wondering why the names of the original authors have been censored?

I think what changed was that he started using ketamine.

The founders went for a “winner takes all” system, and the two party system emerged from that, as an unforseen (but natural) consequence.

I had heard of diploma mills before, but not award mills.

Religion is just so insidious in how it turns people against each other.