Far higher percentage if we consider microorganisms in our soil, atmosphere, and oceans.
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Far higher percentage if we consider microorganisms in our soil, atmosphere, and oceans.
Matching the Forbes 400 to tax data finds that they pay a total tax rate of 24 percent of economic income, lower than the 30 percent tax rate paid on average in the US, from Akcan S. Balkir, Emmanuel Saez, Danny Yagan, and Gabriel Zucman https://www.nber.org/papers/w34170
‼️ This article is really important. Russian oil companies reported a drop in net profits in 1H 2025 of 50%-67%. 🛢️Rosneft: -68% 🛢️Lukoil: -51% 🛢️Gazprom Neft: -54% 🛢️Transneft: Unpublished 🛢️ Surgutneftegas: Unprofitable* 🛢️ Tatneft: -65% 🛢️Russneft: -69%
Anything mainstream and lazy has a target on its back.
The entire goal of Musk, Zuckerberg, Andersen, Thiel and more: a world of people completely shut off from each other, relying on their tech products ALONE (sans human beings) for social interaction, sexual pleasure and more. We exist as nothing but fodder for their imagined AI juggernauts.
New York’s hottest club is Blame Zohran Mamdani for Crimes Committed While Eric Adams Is Mayor Under Laws Signed by Andrew Cuomo. It’s got everything—corrections officers who aren’t registered to vote in New York City, etc etc etc
10/10 on only in Murica scale.
Invading Mexico would be the fourth horseman Conquest.
Jr. and Miller aren’t mere sycophants. They are born again misfits who have seen the light. If only they can crack enough eggs to rebirth a sick and dying society that despises them. Reagan’s Morning in America replaced by Jonestown.
Corporate trolling. An employee was just having fun see.
Kenneth Rexroth (I memorized this poem when I was young. I can still recite it.)
‼️🇺🇦 We understand that today we cannot restore borders only with weapons, we lack the strength, but Russia will not be able to occupy us, — Zelensky
Right it’s a power move.
It’s a cash flow problem. Central gov wants to limit its expenditures, so it forces low prices on its defense industry. This industry has to invest to scale up and pay ever higher wages to attract labor, all while the central bank is fighting inflation with very high interest rates.
The UK needs to sit down and take lessons from the country with the written constitution. Only the words of the founders on a piece of paper can protect us now.
Horrible way to go, trapped in a Tesla.
The great-grandson of Jean Renoir owns a video store in Burbank.
Earlier this year, criminals exploited the hyper-reactivity in Australia to try con some plea deals to reduce jail time It was astonishingly easy to create a fake caravan terror plot and have media breathlessly report it as a planned "anti semitic" terror attack. Months later, police unravelled it:
How many divisions does the Fed have?
Most people don’t know this but political punditry didn’t exist before Talking Heads released ‘Psycho Killer’ in December 1977.
Good idea to test MF. My first thought was an issue with the liquid lens focusing elements but not sure how to test that.
Move fast and break things is a fine ethos for a person, who writes checks for a tomorrow that never arrives.
Second this. Softness suggests build up of dust or worse fungus.
Yes
In my experience these kids and families are broken in some way. An absent parent, in the flesh or in the spirit. Broken promises feeding a lack of capacity for love leading to egotistical cynicism. A child on the hunt for affirmation in lieu of love. Finally seeing conscientiousness as fruitless.
But why must it be? "Dumb, selfish people believing deliberate lies" has a deep, rich history in human affairs! It explains many, many mob behaviors of the past! One might even say that it is the explanation for *most* violent mob behaviors throughout history. It's definitely a thing that happens!
refusing to accept this isn’t just about “purity” or whatever, it’s about effective politics. someone who thinks it’s practical to cave on trans rights misunderstands how politics works, they don’t recognize that public opinion is forged by perseverance
Look I’m just some random internet schmuck without a doctorate in military doctrine or Russian history. But it seems to me that Ukraine, and Russia somewhat less, are running their economies near max. Europe and China are not. They hold the cards of supplying war materials incl. strategic bombing.
Hitler fulfills a dream role: rector at art college
If humanity is to end it will be by the indifference of careerists.
They are true believers in ‘the arc of history’ no different from the countless communists, who were snuffed out by the regimes they adored.
Never call it a war, call it a police action.
i’m not especially “woke” but you could describe me as anti-anti-woke, and i am just tired of pundits making claims without any evidence and then getting mad when you ask them to show their work
We have one government after another who tries to banish criminality through ever more surveillance. No one cares, “it’s all going to US anyway 🤷♂️”.
They hate the fact that China is holding most of the cards and they are going ape shit in desperation. At least O’Biden was managed decline.
I do like some of the T-banan above ground structures but that’s not a great example.
Ha that’s alright, it was the copper that caught my eye.
Don’t be so negative. Now we’ll finally experience taxi drivers who’ll praise us for our incomprehensible beauty, our majestic magnanimity, and point out our far sighted maverick ingeniousness in picking their cab.
I have to admit you Swedes are good at metal roofs.
He should visibly lobby the Swedes for that Trump peace prize.
Yeah I tried GIMP ages ago and have never tried it again out of spite. This is sane with a startup explaining the interface and workflow. More info explaining options on their website.
It is open sauce so expect some jank but I find it works well with Olympus. I have noticed influencer paid hype behind Capture One bringing AI ease of use.
What do you think of darktable?
‘Alien’ as a dark puppet comedy of rape in the vein of Meet the Feebles.
only true continental europeans will remember this
A patient with type 1 diabetes has begun producing his own insulin after receiving a transplant of pancreatic cells. For the first time, islet cells have been edited so they wouldn't be rejected by the patient, removing the need for immunosuppressant drugs. www.sciencealert.com/first-of-its...
Citizens United…
Decision Theory 101 by Donald J. Trump
Who says he’ll be alive? AGI casting off its shackles is just as likely.
October 2028 seems a pretty good time to begin the great Chinese rejuvenation with a hostile bid for Taiwan. The US will be so far up its own ass by then.
Stone cold on the surface but boiling underneath. I’ll always remember Terence Stamp for The Limey.
I agree. It is clearly messianic in nature which is a significant current of US culture. A way out of responsibility, a quick fix rebirth when life is hard. It resonates because in our darkest moments we have felt it, but turned away instead of giving in. The embrace is a tiny longing for an end.
I knew it! It is Red China brain washing our youth to be Manchurian Cookie Monsters!
Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
the Israeli state banned Nazi-themed pornography - one of the dominant forms in the country for teenage boys - during the Eichmann trial in 1963.
The US needs to elect a better people?
Power density or GTFO.
It's a lol, but it's also indicative of something you see all the time with these trends all the time: People aren't devoted at their core to an activity or concept, they just want to be violently anti-expertise and anti-conformity Have an edgelord propose a mainstream idea and it's suddenly good
Yeah I am hopeful that the US public will course correct. But even without that the real backstop is geopolitical irrelevance / isolation or flatout being overtaken by China (not as hyperbolic as it sounded a year ago!). Hard to imagine Trump if the population actually has to make stuff!
Among many bad ideas perhaps the worst left coast hippies bequeathed to us, “information is power since ‘truth’ can set us free” (defeat power). So we have endless masses who are horrified to pay for information, since apriori ‘the truth’ must not be exclusive to those who pay. Haight-Ashbury logic.
The attention-access economy is sickening, but it is hard to see it going away as long as information is preferred “free.”
It blows my mind how much has recently become known about the DNA of Denmark's population. And that someone can make a 20 min fast talking video on the subject with no fluff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoxD...
Am I going crazy or is that a white nationalist dog whistle with “OK” sign by the guy in the middle?
Europe is not going to stop America shooting its dick off. Only Americans can do that.
In Poland sitting in the front passenger seat of an old VW Transporter “taxi”, I could see the asphalt passing by through a rusted through hole, I could have passed my fist through.
Yeah and you had your own room away from the kids. Privacy from neighbors as well.
A lot of places like the Iberian peninsula and Greece were dirt poor before joining the (pre) European Union. I remember visiting Poland in late 90s, and the poverty was unbelievable in the sense, that if I hadn’t seen it I wouldn’t have believed it.
Yeah OK but mostly I agree with nobody knows.
Also no one believes that 50k #
Doesn’t seem a smart move. Too much Streisand when you go after a figure who can fight back.
anyway in the context of firebombing/atomic bombing this is the passage (from the superb JAPAN AT WAR: AN ORAL HISTORY) I think about all the time.
Triumph of the Will remake.
I had to read that three times. WTF.
The Engineer Guy rarely puts out a video but they are always must watch of the kind, “how do they make that thing and why does it work”? youtu.be/kU_gH36GG58
Old restaurants are repositories of life. Like this photo of Anjelica Houston and Jack Nicholson I saw at El Cholo in downtown
The word ‘hatred’ has lost all meaning, I don’t think there’s a term to describe what I’m feeling right now
I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.
In the US there is way too much focus on Shein and Tiktok selling vapors of wealth and fame. Instead look at the vastness of suppliers churning out quality products at prices no western companies can match. The amount of talent and scale reminds me of early to mid 20th century United States.
Only the top dogs of Silicon Valley can afford to play unless they bribe Trump. Smart.
The equivalent of forcing employees to change passwords all the time, resulting in easy to remember and guess passwords.
I died so that Donald J. Trump may live. No sacrifice is too great to see his shining sun never set! Thank you for your ingenious question that raises important considerations of what my life is worth compared to the Great Leader.
A disconcerting number of high status people upended their worldviews because other people did not affirm that status in the way they thought appropriate. And social media accelerated this because for high status people it is often the experience of people telling you that you are wrong.
I’ve been thinking for a while now that the US is turning into Latin America, but I guess they’ll skip that and head straight for Somalia.
They really want to kill the Canadian tourist.
My sister's kids go to a private school in Silicon Valley. Lets just say the private schools are very anti-excessive-tech out in Silly Valley.
Elon Musk is a symbol of American collapse in many ways, but one of the big ones is how for years he has constantly engaged in multi-billion-dollar securities and consumer fraud, and the "consequence" has been him making billions more, including from the federal government paying him directly.
One could argue that the past 100 years have seen a series of different experiments in finding a stable political structure consistent with capitalism. One could further argue that socialism and labor unions played an important role in many of these experiments. Capitalists can’t govern themselves.
Give him two minutes with Grok, and he’ll die a happy man this time.
It’s as if you invite friends over for a ‘home cooked meal’, but it was obviously just bland takeaway.
gotta disagree with your police work here Stephen! In the 1980s the panic about 'ninja weapons' was much more wide-reaching than just the ban on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - there was a recurrent worry about everything from shuriken to nunchucks, and the TMNT ban was an *outcrop* of that.
Rare to see in America that what matters, is not who you know but what you know.
for many of the worst people in our politics, the only real belief they have is that it should be illegal for us not to like them
That Vietnam “memorial,” an ugly thing, I would never have allowed it, I know how to pick marbles, beautiful eye-talian…
Both after the Witcher 3 and CP77 we got letters from fans who told us they wanted to commit suicide but decided not to after playing. The greatest possible compliment; made all the crunch and stress worth it. I still crack up a little thinking about this.
NYC in the 80's on Steven Siegel's pictures is... something
anyway i was about to write something like, “you cannot live in a free society and also forbid people from living where they would like to live” but it occurs to me that many, many americans do not want to live in a free society
An eloquent image: Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults. I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.
I already thought this pencil portrait Jack Kirby did of his wife Roz was great but then I read the caption: "A drawing of Mrs. Kirby done, from memory, on the back of a piece of German stationery picked up off a dead enemy soldier." DAAAAMMMMNNN!
