I unironically want Hillary to run again. And lose.

Not my picture just an image that the kitty and old school icons made me think of.

Also I don’t think it would be safe to go online on a win XP computer today unless Microsoft are still doing security patches, which I doubt they are.

I use private browsing for nearly everything so cookies are deleted upon closing session

Orange juice wins, because apple juice isn’t apple coloured

Will this be the first news mega to not have a single comment over 1 hour after being posted? No it won’t.

First.

imagine having a casual interaction with a stranger and then getting like 100 stalkers a week later. Very healthy society

That’s still wealth, though. Just because you need to go through the inconvenience of moving to make it a liquid asset doesn’t mean it’s not worth a lot, and it’s in the owner’s material interest that it goes up in value.

It’s not like you have to buy another house when you sell it; you could move to a rental, or move in with a SO/family.

People who live in a cutthroat society where precarity is just one unlucky event away will hold on to what wealth they have for dear life.

the billion dollar killdozer

that’s sage advice

At this point I have accepted the fact that all smartphones suck ass, and we will never have good ones under capitalism

We came, we saw, we came

There’s probably some booze aboard that yuou can take to steel your nerves. I find that it helps me tune out the noise from overreacting passengers. But if it’s an emirates flight you’ll have no such luck.

Maybe he just ordered chickpeas for room service and with the language barrier they got it wrong

April 2025:

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed that the company now uses Artificial Intelligence to write between 20% and 30% of the code powering its software.

$1 USD dollar at ikea (though they sell them at a loss)

It’s crazy how the narrative has shifted in Europe.

I’ve never been to that zoo but I’ve heard and smelled it (my hotel was next door)

I very much enjoyed The Elder Joes V

An NYT 1922 classic:

But several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler’s anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda as a bait to catch masses of followers and keep them aroused, enthusiastic, and in line for the time when his organization is perfected and sufficiently powerful to be employed effectively for political purposes.

A sophisticated politician credited Hitler with peculiar political cleverness for laying emphasis and over-emphasis on anti-Semitism, saying: “You can’t expect the masses to understand or appreciate your finer real aims. You must feed the masses with cruder morsels and ideas like anti-Semitism. It would be politically all wrong to tell them the truth about where you really are leading them.”