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3.9% APR
There are like 50k people who looked at the Cybertruck and thought: "I want to spend $100k on that!"
We shouldn't be judging the past here.
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3.9% APR
There are like 50k people who looked at the Cybertruck and thought: "I want to spend $100k on that!"
We shouldn't be judging the past here.
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Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys
Silicon Valley has become a cancer on the world. There are too many companies run by greedy, unhinged psychopaths who do not care how their products and services affect the world. It's not just Thiel's companies. It's Meta and Google and Apple and Amazon and Uber and OpenAI.
The only thing Silicon Valley is missing is a series of volcano lairs for their founders and CEOs.
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Streamer 'Troll' Johnny Somali Found Guilty on All Counts, Sentenced to South Korean Prison Labor Camp For Public Nuisance Crimes
I didn't know that this guy kissed the Statue of Peace aka the Comfort Woman Statue in Korea for clicks. That's pretty foul. That statue is dedicated to all of the women who were used as sex slaves by the Japanese in WW2. They have one in the DMZ. The tour guide told us how it depicts women who fought their whole lives for justice for what was done to them. It's a striking piece of art.
Enjoy prison, you clown.
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FBI director Kash Patel files $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic
He's trying to be like his boss. But he doesn't have the pull to intimidate news outlets and discovery will be the end of this lawsuit.
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Tucker Carlson apologizes for 'misleading' people on Trump: 'We're implicated in this for sure'
Carlson also spent last week ranting about how the "civic religion" of elites is Israelism (whatever the hell that means). And he backed up that conclusion with the old "If you want to know who rules over you, just look for who you are not allowed to criticize", which is a quote from a Neo Nazi.
He's a bad actor who launders white nationalist talking points. He goes where he thinks his audience wants him to go. Don't give him credit for finally changing his rhetoric against Trump. It won't last.
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The Short and Ridiculous Trial of a Protester Arrested in an Inflatable Penis Costume
When you graduate dead last at a third tier law school, you end up as a prosecutor in HeeHaw, Alabama.
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Salmon exposed to cocaine swim further: Study
The worst part is that the coked up fish now spend all of their time trying to convince the other fish to invest in their new hedge fund.
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Judge tosses Kash Patel's defamation suit against former MSNBC contributor
Dude's out there filing frivolous lawsuits like he's buying lotto tickets. I guess the other chuds in the cabinet don't give him the insider stock tips.
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Progressive Democrat Wins Special Election in Huge Rejection of AIPAC
What the article fails to mention is that for many people, the bigger issue is how lobbyist groups can throw dark money behind candidates and get them elected. People want money out of politics.
AIPAC is the most egregious because they are working to funnel tax dollars to a wealthy apartheid state engaging in genocide, but they are just the a part of the problem. People know the Dems are bought and paid for by corporate lobbyists and mega donors and they are sick of it.
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SHOCK POLL: Trump Approval Craters to 33% in New AP Poll, Whopping 67% Disapprove
The Muppet Line is 25%. Those are the people who are either so partisan, so misinformed or so dumb that there is no helping them.
We should be closer to the Muppet Line.
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Erika Kirk event booted off high school campus after backlash from students and parents
College Republicans are insufferable losers. Can you imagine the kind of kids who show up for a high school level TPUSA event?
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Do you feel a kinship with people who drive the same make/model car as you?
I had an old BMW. I park in the back of retail parking lots because I don't see the point in circling lots to find a space that is 40ft closer and you can pull through the spaces. Lots of times I would come out of the store and another BMW would be parked next to mine, like there was some automotive kinship or something. There would be five open spaces, some guy and my car. It was always weird.
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Ukraine said it captured a Russian position using only ground robots and drones, no infantry, for the first time
Russian soldiers have been recorded surrendering to both aerial drones and ground robots in this war, including by writing messages of surrender that they presented to the operator via the onboard camera and surrendering after notes telling them to do so were dropped by drones.
Surrendering to a machine sounds humiliating but still a better option than going back to the Russian military.
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TIL that Turkey asks gay people to provide explicit photos of them to be exempt from military service
The 301st Power Bottom Division was a decorated outfit before the Turkish military instituted this policy.
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Trump media company replaces CEO, ex-congressman Nunes after stock plunge that wiped out billions
A bot filled social media hellscape, where the only advertisers are MAGA branded products and services, gold scams, homeopathic junk and the Pillow crackhead, isn't worth billions?
I, for one, need to lie down.
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Vance says pope should ‘be careful’ when talking about theology
Of the 50 people in that audience, half were shocked by what he said. The other half were trying to remember the lyrics to the Baby Shark song.
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China Poised to Become Top Tourism Economy as Foreigners Skip US
I'm kind of surprised by this. They gave me a 10yr multiple-entry visa when I applied for a single-entry visa, which made me think they really wanted tourists after COVID. I must have gone off-season, because the sites I visited in Beijing and Xi'an were overwhelmingly populated by domestic tourists.
If you are thinking of going. China is very cool and relatively cheap, especially food and lodging. It's a little challenging to get around because a lot of the travel apps are blocked in China. Like the best map app is in Chinese, so you have to use it with a translator app, but that's part of the fun.
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Strait of Hormuz closed again by Iran which blames Trump blockade
The dipshits on Fox last night were making hilarious claims. This is the greatest military victory ever. Iran will never be able to rebuild their military.
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Mike Johnson Says Pope Was Asking for It
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I thought they were reactionaries in the "bring back the 1950's" sense, but they really want to bring back the 1500's. Mike is going to post his theses on supply side economics and neocon warfare on the front door of the St Louis Cathedral in NOLA.
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David Draiman Claims He Has "Compassion" for Palestinians Despite the Bombs He Signed
I have compassion for anyone who has ever paid to see one of his shows.