The Hall of Fire

Bloomberg : "Biden to Offer $1.5 Billion Loan to Restart Michigan Nuclear Power Plant." That plant is in my backyard; or maybe I should say that I'm in its fallout zone (technically its "plume exposure pathway zone"). There were actually two nuclear plants in my backyard until t...

And it's not good when they do. c.f. the price of oil going negative during the worst moments of 2020.

By coincidence, my "recently visited" tiles put X (X-Twitter) and xfinity (X-Comcast) right next to each other... Just think of what a better world we could have if each entity sued the other into oblivion.

N.E. Brigand wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2023 9:23 pmor supporting the Confederacy.

Hey; is that still expulsion worthy? Because if so, we should be able to get rid of M "we need a national divorce" TG too at minimum.

It's well-known that public figures become corruption risks when they don't have enough money. What the X-Twitter fiasco is demonstrating is that it's almost as bad when they have so much money they don't need to care about wasting it.

RoseMorninStar wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 8:37 pm How is this 'conservative'? (rhetorical question).

Good point--*real* conservatives would take us back to the hunter-gather stage, not like these RINOs who only want to return to medieval times.

Santos's corruption is A story, but in my opinion, THE story is how someone like him wound up running for and winning office in the first place. There's some reporting today that his campaign was largely funded by the ex-wife of a Florida billionaire, but that is only the beginning of what should be...

Whether you're talking about Israel vs. Hamas, Ukraine vs. Russia, or Democrats vs. Republicans, it's very clear the baseline is that the good guys must scrupulously obey every jot and tittle of the letter of the law even if it literally kills them, while the bad guys can do whatever the hell they w...

I spent the morning tearing my hair out trying to get my kids to school with their delayed start and work at the same time. Do I get to tell my boss it's an undue hardship having to work during the school week, or is that just for the filthy rich?

Well, we all know that MAGA believes losing an election just means you need to try seizing power by other means

Or, with a full year to cool off and react to the many additional black/gray swans that are sure to show up, these events will not be as much of a factor as it feels like right now. For what it's worth, although I would not bet on this outcome, I think it's perfectly, non-negligibly likely that neit...

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No, it is available for other browsers too. There are links to several different versions (maybe all of them?) in this article:
https://www.minitool.com/news/control-p ... itter.html

Garry Kasparov writes in the WSJ that Biden should put all his energy into defeating Russia and Hamas for the remainder of his term, then step aside and endorse LLoyd Austin for '24. I'm not sure what I think about that, but I have a lot of respect for Kasparov's opinions in general.

This browser extension can make X-Twitter look like Twitter again, from functional fixes like putting the headlines back on links to purely aesthetic ones like replacing all those Xs with birds. I linked to the Firefox version, but it's available for the other major browsers too.

Someone on Twitter said, you know we are in WWIII, right? And I can't make a convincing argument that we are not. WWII was called WWII because there was a direct line between it and the unfinished business of WWI, and because the the sides and players were largely the same. That isn't the case with...

Dave_LF wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 6:14 pm Didn’t anyone tell him that only Republican Congressmen are allowed to be openly corrupt?

Didn’t anyone tell him that only Republican Congressmen are allowed to serve openly as foreign agents?

So close! Now let's hear you say "no one has the right to 'rule' in this country, period, because we're still a democracy."

N.E. Brigand wrote: ↑Fri Oct 06, 2023 10:42 pmJust in case you're wondering: yes, that says ten dollars.

I'm sort of curious about what kind of advertising you can buy for $10

As is so often the case with the new right, I'm torn between two nonexclusive explanations: "this is an effort to hobble competitors" and "this is an effort to force people to click the links so X-Twitter gets paid."