Damn, imagine if you went to every game

If I was a fan I’d be sat wondering why they’d been happily talking a 75+% profit margin from me after I’d already bought a ticket to be there.

If they could just not, when they feel like it

Not for everyone but political activism is a good outlet, be it protests or volunteering to help the election campaign of the opposition when it comes round again. Make sure everyone you know lays the blame in the correct place when shit inevitably hits the fan.

Other than that, get off corporate social media, rage bait is the most effective content for driving interaction, corporate social media algorithms are designed to maximise interaction. You will always be shown the worst of everything on social media.

Similarly identify where your news is coming from and if it’s coming from somewhere with a tendency to sensationalise. Cut anything like that out too.

It’s important to be informed yes, but it’s not essential to be aware of absolutely everything for most people, and if that’s better for your mental health, you should prioritise reduction in consumption.

Ur-Fascism was published in 1995 partly to document the modern fascist and draw lines to the originals.

Yes the term was first used a century ago, but unfortunately it hasn’t stayed in the past.

3 hard problems in computer science

1. Cache invalidation
2. Naming things 4. Concur
3. Off by one errors

rency

I genuinely find that surprising given the corpses that have been haunting that place over the past decade or so

Interesting he’s had the idea to force the world to become less dependent on trade with the US

Kinda thought of all things he wouldn’t want to risk reducing the value of the dollar like that

Edit: won’t this also make the prospect of moving more global businesses abroad more appealing?

I was gonna just respond with “entertainment”, but yours is probably better

No

Tin foil is basically self wrapping paper

Genuinely know someone that did this years ago

It sucks, but in a world where some flavour of liberal is the opposition party to the right in most countries:

Vote in the more left option in a two party choice, and things may improve for your average person.

Vote the right-wing option in, you guarantee they won’t

Also not a yank but I can definitely tell the difference IMO

Root beer tastes like medicine, Jaeger tastes like if Coca-Cola made an aniseed & mint version and you drank the syrup straight

There’s a joke there somewhere in your instance name and this comment featuring an additional bodily fluid

It’s hola all over again

Fascists need enforcement, if they actually kill it, something much worse will replace it

I feel like I’d even trust Zuckerberg over Musk with my email

And I’d never trust Zuckerberg with my email

SkiFree flashbacks

I miss when rich guys just bought sports teams

He’s been shitty on Gaza

I’m over the Atlantic from the US, it would be truly unusual if someone actually blew up at service staff like that, let alone that being a common enough occurrence to trigger PTSD-adjacent responses from them.

Do you not need to put your CCV in on most purchases? I’d say it’s more often than not that it asks