Look, we know they’re a Chinese-speaking hacker, what else do you need to know? /s

This sounds like a good way to end up the final boss of an RPG

Ed should have called that bluff instead of giving in

That is going to have to be doubly true for all the collaborators in the Democratic party who got us here or the problem will never be truly solved

Either choose to participate in capitalism or they stick you in a box and commodify your imprisonment

I do method acting, like “in this next scene I am going to play an extrovert who enjoys making small talk at professional conferences with potential customers and employers”

We’re living in inevitable consequence of lazy thinking moderates throwing money hand over fist at militaries and police forces for decades which this fuckin shit rag of a magazine was happy to cheer on

Heartbreaking, the worst account I know just made a great joke

RIP to a legend, I’ll be toasting her to this one, “A Better Place to Live”

She wasn’t just one of the greatest musicians of all time, she was one of the greatest human beings, period

That’s probably a factor (insurers make enough payments to hospitals they can demand lower prices and get them while out of pocket people usually don’t have much power to negotiate), but also this article makes it sound like $1400 is just the base price,

The report estimates the average ambulance ride in the United States costs $1,383.44, more than double Australia’s $622 average. The gap widens further with mileage fees: Americans pay about $19.49 per mile, while most other countries charge little to nothing based on distance traveled.

Meanwhile if any of these people try to escape this oppression by migrating anywhere they’ll get treated like terrorists

The problem is the lack of debate. This team think that makes every idea from the other side stupid by default. A parliamentary system will fail when people stop talking to each other.

Somewhat agreed, but there are a few things that really need to be behind debate (human caused climate change, the need for universal healthcare and universal human rights, the efficacy of vaccines, etc.). Some political organization is a good thing.

It’s a great century to bring back https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanism?wprov=sfla1

Except in the current disorganized world we always just end up with one or two superpowers bullying the little governments and crushing all kinds of diversity anyway.

Also,

You can move to a country with less oppressive laws

That might work for the crafty and well-resourced individual who has a go bag and good OpSec and can actually hop borders and keep their heads down, but that sort of thing is nearly impossible for, like, a single parent working for a crap hourly wage, or an unhoused person dealing with an extended mental health crisis, or other more vulnerable people. Justice shouldn’t depend on geography.

A true and important point, but the message I takeaway from this one is

Failure: you will wonder if there was more you could have done

Success: you will wonder if there was more you could have done

French newspaper Le Figaro reported Kavinsky had been complaining of headaches for several days, and authorities think he may have had a stroke.

No suspicious items were discovered at the scene by the first responders and Paris prosecutors have now opened an investigation to determine the cause of death, the outlet said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c204n74xyv3o (arc)

Also, https://www.lesoir.be/762002/article/2026-07-29/le-dj-francais-kavinsky-retrouve-mort-son-domicile (arc)

Fuck misogynistic twerps and assholes who give flight attendants and other kinds of service workers a hard time, but this story would not be getting signal boosted by rags like the Daily Mail and New York Post if it wasn’t a Muslim immigrant being accused

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_anarchism?wprov=sfla1

My hypothesis is that the rise in distracted driving was just as bad in European countries but they have safer infrastructure that limits cars’ speed and otherwise protects pedestrians, and I think that could be tested by looking at the rates of car crashes overall in Europe (if those went up at the same time as the US without a corresponding rise in dead pedestrians I think that’d suggest their infrastructure is the difference)