Maybe I'm being a spoil sport but this seems like a cover to me. Like maybe it was "a burgler" but that person was someone's older brother who knew what they were going to find.

I just don't see the circumstances for a random burglar to be snooping through folders close enough to find the presumably relatively hidden items they'd need to find, let alone that happening alongside the low odds an actual burglar would risk their own security to do the right thing.

"Have more kids to save the culture" seems 100% at odds with saving the planet, as does expending 51 tons of CO2 to make the statement.

If everyone lived like Elon the planet would be ruined and the only hope would be colonizing Mars...but there's no way to get everyone off the planet, especially if we have 11 kids each.

I just don't see a coherent ideology except "save the planet long enough for me to off it."

My first big corporate job had internal salary ranges posted for when you're looking at a new job within the same company, and I had to reckon with this as a new employee. I'd see basically my job posted with my salary on the far low end of the possible range and when I discussed it with folks I learned that the posted median salary is the median for everybody in that job, including people with 10 years of experience etc. So even if I'm impressing as a kid fresh out of college, the median isn't the right metric to judge myself against.

The Australian billionaire who leaked the nuclear sub info he got from Trump bragged about doing that. Called it a cost of doing business.

They actually trended "CLEARED" on Twitter because the one lady in the lawsuit was asked if she personally was raped by Trump and she said no.

Nobody pondered why his name would specifically come up in a deposition about people getting raped by Epstein's friends...

I thought 35%ish in the US was bad. 56% in Russia is one of the more shocking stats I've seen about their inequality.

Trump appeared on Epstein's flight logs at least 7 times confirmed in a court of law it's not even conjecture to say he is on there.

There is literally no evidence or reason to believe Biden is on the list.

But BoTh sIdEs

Direct Drive tech reduced the number of moving parts so low that it put Big Washer Repair out of business and they had to develop other ways to monetize your laundry.

There's a famous example of the poverty trap that uses boots that fall apart every season vs quality boots that last, and I think there is a quality level that is so bad it's more expensive in the long run. So I do buy shoes that cost money. But I'm not buying fashion shoes or luxury brand shoes which I think is what you're saying too.

It's not for doing nothing, it's for doing things he already did. He got the stock as part of his compensation plan at Microsoft.

And a dividend of $0.75 per share is 0.2% interest at the current share price, he could get more in a savings account and 20x that in a CD or something. The dividend isn't crazy high. He just had a shitload of their stock.

Executive compensation as a whole is a story, but Steve Ballmer is not doing anything particularly noteworthy.

You know it's a good grinder because its name is incomprehensible combinations of letters and numbers.

Making fun of the people who didn't like the political statement is fine, and there were plenty of high profile people to dunk on for that, but this is literally some rando this person searched up, the original tweet had basically no interactions. This could even be satire for all we know.

Effectively, if not possibly literally, nobody really said this.

In India. US number is 35%, here are some numbers for Europe: https://i.redd.it/d8udyq9edyhc1.png

Homelessness is a housing affordability issue. Build more housing, fix ya zoning, make unemployment and Medicaid easier to get.

There's a population with long term homelessness due to mental health issues and we should be trying to help them too, but to the extent the issue is increasing it's due to marginal situations like someone losing their job or having a medical emergency.

Michigan GOP is in shambles because they elected the "outsider" MAGA candidates who had no fundraising experience, they immediately failed to fundraise enough, it got so bad that their flagship annual fundraiser was a fraction of its normal size.

Instead of pulling together to right the ship they...immediately turned to conspiracy theories, declared each other to be Deep State plants, and demanded the party leaders "open the books" to show how much money there really was, but party leaders refuse because it would prove how bad at fundraising they have been.

Detailed in a recent This American Life.

The problem is people are talking past each other. People prioritize different metrics and they don't all move the same direction or for the same reasons.

GDP is increasing, unemployment is low, child poverty is back up after a temporary decrease, homelessness is increasing, people reporting as "paycheck to paycheck" is down since 2019 but clearly OP thinks the overall level is still too high. Those are all reasonable things to look at, but they have to be looked at in totality. You can't just cherry pick some factoids and indignantly declare "don't TELL me you disagree with me"

Well, I read.the article statistics, then asked two relatives who are both cops Republicans

If you ever tried to burn way too many songs to a CD and got frustrated that it didn't work... it's time to stretch your back.

Sue or shut up about it. You think Zuck's gonna take down his booming new app from this?

RIP 'Night Sky' with JK Simmons. What could have been.